Environment

The new wood is very dense and has a strength of around 404 megapascals, which makes it almost 9 times stronger than natural wood.

A team of engineers at the University of San Diego has developed a wearable "patch" that provides personal 'air conditioning' by heating or cooling the body and keeping it at a constant temperature in all weather conditions.

The human race has just broken a new record in its great race for ecological collapse.

The "micro-fragmentation" would allow corals to restore the habitat of the underwater fauna.

“I try to take precautions. I don't turn on too many lights, I take shorter showers, or whatever. I do what I can. But in my profession it is a very easy gesture that can have a gigantic impact ".

New research published in Energy and Environmental Science, a group at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Madison, Wisconsin has described an efficient and cost-effective process for producing HMF, Hydroxymethylfurfural, a plant-derived compound considered crucial in the development of a renewable economy.

For a flying wash while traveling or camping, just insert the essential clothes in this polyester and nylon "basket", add water and detergent and then roll up.

The report, compiled by 145 scientists from 50 countries, investigated humanity's impact on the environment and concluded that of the 8 million known species on the planet, one million are on the verge of extinction solely due to humans. .

BioCarbon Engineering proposes to combat CO2 emissions and climate change by accelerating the sowing and growth of trees up to 100 times, thanks to the use of special "farmers" drones.

The word "plantation" usually evokes bucolic visions of green fields, waves of ears and animals, but the agriculture of the future has more to do with the now familiar environments in which we live: a parking lot, a pizza, a crowded city ​​street.

On 23 June last year, the Sentinel 2A satellite flew among the stars, a device that will monitor the health of our planet using colors. That's right, as the satellite is equipped with a special camera connected to the Sentinel 1A radar, which can ...

Always protagonists in the argumentative repertoire of onlookers, independent analysts, scholars, conspiracy theorists and free thinkers, the famous "Chemtrails" could come out of the counter-information literature to become part of tangible reality. No longer a borderline theme, therefore, but a conscious human activity. What is it about? The scientific journal PNAS ...

Although the mass focuses on poisonous carbon dioxide emissions, other dangers lurk behind (it must be said) our cars: nitrogen oxides, for example. deadly because they react to sunlight and form nitric acid, directly involved in the formation of ozone, smog and ...

I make this premise for all those, including myself, who have turned up their noses at handling such news: the existence of hamburgers is not my fault, and the slaughtering processes in the world take place independently of us. We can and must ask for more just conditions for the breeding and treatment of ...

The future of man is threatened by his own activities: if consumption habits, compulsiveness and illicit activities are not curbed, the near future will be full of unknowns and threats for the entire human species. In the meantime, it is mainly the animal species that pay the costs. The ...

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study has just released a comprehensive report on the analysis of global warming, which shows "remarkable evidence of a significant increase, over one degree since the 50s". These are the first results that show strong evidence that even skeptics will be forced to accept. Why the...

A chilling prophecy comes to us from James Hansen, 68, almost 30 of which spent at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: he almost never misses an observation. In 1981 he wrote that the next decade would mark a peak of heat and the forecast came true. In the early XNUMXs he said that ...