Solar panels are seen on houses inAlmere Noorderplassen, The Netherlands. Credit: Unsplash / Daria NepriakhinaSince the start of the war early this year, a new report discovers that approximately a quarter of the European Union's electricity has originated from wind and solar. A record-setting number and the development in wind and solar has saved...
Mixed plastics are difficult to recycle, but a new process shows how it can be done.Credit: China Photos/GettyMixtures of plastics, normally a headache to recycle, have been broken down into helpful, smaller chemical ingredients in one two-step process, reported in Science on 13th October.The plastics problem facing the globe is exacerbated by the difficulty...
Plastic bottles A new technique has been developed by researchers that changes polyethylene (PE), the most widely generated plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastics.Upcycling plastic efficiently to remove wasteThe purpose of this process is to decrease greenhouse emissions. "The world needs more and better options for extracting the power and molecular value...
Melting glacier. credit: iStock/ fredtamashiroThe Thwaites Glacier is holding onto Antarctica's ice sheet by its fingernails, and the globe might see significant changes over the next year or two, researchers have alerted in a recently released study, CNN reported.As the world warms, giant sheets of ice near the poles have been melting off. Previously...
Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on August 31, 2022.According to official data launched Thursday, the Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst month of August for forest fires since 2010, with an...
The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia CommonsClosure of the Neo-Tethys Sea and the subsequent formation...
Credit: UnsplashPollution warnings were put in place on dozens of beaches in England and Wales after untreated sewage was released into the sea around the coast.Official data reveals a range of discharges on the 15th of this month, which Southern Water claims are to protect residences and companies.The contamination follows a phase of heavy...
Credit: UnsplashSpecialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops.Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected.Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...
Thousands of mysterious holes have been discovered on the ocean floor not far from the Californian coast.Thousands of secret holes have been found on the seafloor after deep-sea surveys.The Earth's oceans are anything, however, explored. According to reports, humans have managed to explore regarding 5% of the ocean floor. The remaining 95% of the...
According to new research, food production is already one of the biggest stressors to our planet, but it has made substantially more challenging by the interaction of Earth system processes.Earth system procedures refer to the natural activities that maintain the planet in a habitable and also useful state. This includes procedures occurring in the...
