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Turning Wood into Plastic (25 MAR)
International Research (Yale University): A research team has created a high-quality bioplastic from wood byproducts that they hope can solve one of the world's most pressing environmental issues.
Should We Block the Sun? (25 MAR 2021)
US News (New York Times): The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away some sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming.
‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green (20 MAR 2021)
World News (TheGuardian): “Within a couple of decades, the Weather Makers believe, the Sinai could be transformed from a hot, dry, barren desert into a green haven teeming with life: forests, wetlands, farming land, wild flora and fauna”
New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency (17 FEB 2021)
World News (Academic Times): German chemists develop two sustainable plastic alternatives.
Warning World's Aging Dams Are 'Ticking Time Bombs' (FEB 10 2021)
India and China Cases (The Science Times): Mullaperiyar dam is a 53.6 meter-high aging dam in the Western Ghats, adjacent to the Periyar wildlife sanctuary in Kerala. This 126-year-old dam has dangerously outlived the 50 years life that the British engineers intended it for.
Court case in the Indian Supreme Court in 2006 involving the Mullaperiyar dam can be found here.
Forecasting coastal water quality (JAN 22 2021)
US News (Stanford University): Using water samples and environmental data gathered over 48 hours or less, engineers have developed a new predictive technique for forecasting coastal water quality, a critical step in protecting public health and the ocean economy.
Identifying Canada's key conservation hot spots highlights problem (JAN 5 2021)
CAN News (McGill University): First of its kind mapping of most important places for freshwater, recreation and carbon storage provides tool for conservation decisions.
Identifying where to reforest after wildfire (DEC 18 2020)
US News (University of California - Davis): Forest managers can now look to a newly enhanced, predictive mapping tool to learn where forests are likely to regenerate on their own and where replanting efforts may be beneficial. This study also indicates a not-so-evergreen future of fewer conifers.
