Ever felt like your mood changes with the weather? That’s true, with one caveat–your mood changes with the climate as well. According to several climate change studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2022 report, climate change has severe impacts on mental health. This may seem a bit
In 2020, scientists developed organic, biocompatible robots that independently moved and interacted with other objects. This breakthrough design revolutionized approaches to environmental care, drug delivery, along with countless other applications. Think of a robot. Did you imagine R2-D2? Maybe even a Roomba? We often think of robots as chunks of
“Nants ingonyama bagithi baba” As the sun rises off the horizon in the African savannah, the anthropomorphized animals in the iconic movie, The Lion King, head towards Pride Rock, home of the lions. “Sithi uhm ingonyama” Rafiki, the wise baboon, raises the newborn Simba to the sky in a ritual
As warm places like Texas and Oklahoma reached record low temperatures in February, the long lasting impacts of climate change has become a serious topic of discussion. The snowstorm that hit many southern states earlier this year left people in freezing cold temperatures -without power and water for days- and
Agriculture is an industry that is facing multiple crises converging upon it at once. A serious drive to increase its sustainability and efficiency is underway, and it involves re-examining every resource and method used today. The ongoing population explosion has resulted in the agriculture industry attempting to ramp up production.
As nations across the globe race to strengthen their industrial and technological sectors, it is inevitable that the environmental responsibilities become neglected, evident in the largest liquid diesel spill occurring just last May 2020 in the Arctic waters of northern Russia. While the local ecosystem has played a large role
Study: Cramer, Katie, Mary Donovan, Jeremy Jackson, Benjamin Greenstein, Chelsea Korpanty, Geoffrey Cook, and John Pandolfi. “The Transformation of Caribbean Coral Communities since Humans.” Preprint. Preprints, January 12, 2021. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.161048962.21724991/v1. Coral Reefs in the West For years now every so often we see another headline about the decline of the
Today, as many as two thirds of food consumers in the UK may regularly buy one or more organic products. Popularity and demand of organic food has been increasing since the 1970s as people became more and more conscious of their own health and the health of their environment.