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Our Fragile Earth Blog
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IMPERILED INFRASTRUCTURE
Our Fragile Earth Oct 16, 2021 | 12:14 pmPartial photo: Kelly Sikkema Nearly a quarter of U.S. critical infrastructure—utilities, airports, police stations and more—is at risk of being[...]
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SOLAR SAIL!
Our Fragile Earth Oct 14, 2021 | 14:32 pmImage: Solbian Solar A yacht with 60 square meters of solar panels produces 30-50 kWh of energy per day, enough[...]
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KUROSHIO CURRENT WARMING, A WARNING?
Our Fragile Earth Oct 12, 2021 | 13:30 pmFocus has been on the Gulf Stream slowdown, but other parts of the ocean could be problematic. The Kuroshio Current[...]
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COMPRESSED AIR SOLUTION
Our Fragile Earth Oct 10, 2021 | 13:26 pmPhoto: Hydrostar Canadian location Compressed air energy storage (CAES) can store energy on a grid scale and is billed as[...]
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SURPRISE FOR THE NORTHEAST
Our Fragile Earth Oct 8, 2021 | 13:11 pmThe Northeastern US is a global warming hotspot; 2 degrees Celsius of summer warming has already occurred. Not only are[...]
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HFC-FREE FRIDGE HASSLE
Our Fragile Earth Oct 6, 2021 | 12:47 pmPound for pound hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) trap thousands of times more heat than CO2. Increasing global demand for cooling and[...]
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ACCELERATED ARCTIC ICE LOSS
Our Fragile Earth Oct 4, 2021 | 13:28 pmPartial photo: William Justen de Vasconcellos Arctic ice levels logged in the last two years have reached record lows,[...]
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AN IMPENDING CALAMITY
Our Fragile Earth Oct 4, 2021 | 13:01 pmCHAPTER TWONEXT DAYOFFICECENTER FOR CLIMATE SYSTEMS RESEARCHCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, EARTH INSTITUTEMANHATTANKYLE HARDIN WASN’T READY TO SPIT NAILS, BUT HE CERTAINLY WAS[...]
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WONDERFUL WHEATGRASS
Our Fragile Earth Oct 2, 2021 | 12:13 pmPhoto from Land Institute website Kernza, a wheatgrass, is a distant relative of regular wheat. It doesn’t produce nearly as[...]
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EMISSIONS FROM WATER BODIES
Our Fragile Earth Sep 30, 2021 | 15:12 pmPartial photo: Leon Ephraim Rivers and streams are a large source of greenhouse gases with water pollution making their emissions[...]
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