SA Blogs Page
This page includes content from the Climate Cirisis Blog which is maintained daily by Gail McCormick, and content from our old SA blog archives.
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PROMISING PLANT USAGE
Our Fragile Earth May 17, 2021 | 12:25 pmPartial photo:Roberto Carlos Roman Don Leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition, but turning agricultural waste[...]
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GROWING GRIEF
Our Fragile Earth May 15, 2021 | 12:26 pmSunflower photo: Nataly Alhimova Wildfires are bigger (starting earlier in the year); heat waves are more frequent; seas are warmer;[...]
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CREATING CLOTHING FROM ALGAE
Our Fragile Earth May 13, 2021 | 12:20 pmPartial photo: Junko Nakase 3D printing can be used to make a tough, sustainable material from algae that could be[...]
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MORE FREQUENT FLOODING
Our Fragile Earth May 11, 2021 | 13:22 pmPartial photo: Willian Justen de Vasconcellos The “Third Pole” of the Earth,the high mountain ranges of Asia,bears the largest number[...]
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DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2
Our Fragile Earth May 9, 2021 | 14:53 pmUse of zeolites (minerals containing mainly aluminum and silicon oxides) could help diminish the CO2 problem. Scientists have designed an[...]
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GLACIERS: GOING, GOING, GONE
Our Fragile Earth May 7, 2021 | 12:11 pmPartial photo: Chirag Saini Almost all the world’s glaciers (around 220,000 in total) are becoming thinner and losing mass, and[...]
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RADIANT COOLING
Our Fragile Earth May 5, 2021 | 13:00 pmImage: Based on a photo by Preconscious Eye via Flickr A new radiant cooling system, consisting of tubes embedded in[...]
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FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY INFLUENCE
Our Fragile Earth May 3, 2021 | 12:10 pmEmails show that fossil fuel trade groups in Louisiana and New Mexico rallied Democratic governors in opposition to Biden’s executive[...]
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CUTTING EDGE TRANSFORMATION OF ABANDONED OIL WELLS
Our Fragile Earth May 1, 2021 | 13:16 pmThe U.S, has roughly 3 million abandoned oil and gas wells. One plan is to convert them into conduits for[...]
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INACTIVE OIL WELLS ACTIVATING METHANE
Our Fragile Earth Apr 29, 2021 | 12:30 pmAnnual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the US have been greatly underestimated –[...]
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