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Is it a boy? is it a girl? – No it’s a wildfire California first responders are battling an inferno cause caused by a pyrotechnics device used for a gender reveal party. Over 13,500 acres of land is up in a blaze due to the rising popularity of these gender reveal parties. […]
Seaweed’s making a splash in the food and textile industries Source: BBC News A seaweed cultivation rig in the Faroe island (Danish territory) has been growing seaweed in it’s deep, nutrient-rich waters for a while now. Olavur Gregarsen, the managing directo of Ocean Rainforest, a seaweed producer, explain that seaweeds […]
Aliens in the Arctic: how the earthworm is altering the North Presence of geoengineering earthworms in the ArcticSource: Nature Communications According to a recent study the gardener’s best friend, the earthworm, is making Arctic soil too fertile. Earthworms are not usually regarded as an invasive species because they typically help […]
Eco-friendly construction – 3D printing buildings from local soil 3D printed building in DubaiSource: The Guardian citing Satish Kumar/Reuters Scientists have developed a method to 3D-print greener buildings using local soil. You’re probably wondering how that’s even possible. The eco-friendly technology could potentially replace concrete and revolutionize the construction sector. […]
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Megan Hertz Jansen started her refill station and zero waste shop ECO Logical in Orange County, California after graduating from Chapman University. She freelances in video editing outside of her plastic free business and hopes to one day combine her contrasting jobs into one.
Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Right Source: The Guardian// Photograph: Yvette Cardozo/Alamy
Summer Vacation in Siberia? Source: A World to Travel
In the race to remove the trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, the treatments we choose for this problem ought to at least be slightly better than the problem itself. We have proposed solutions on the table, but the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) landscape is complex, risky, […]
The Recap is part of our Student Summer Takeover series which aims to amplify the voices of young people in environmental media. New episodes will be released at the beginning of every week, don’t miss out! *** Follow up: Sources: News this week
