Walking On Thin Ice – Growing Concern Of Public Health As Ice Holding Back Diseases Melts Rapidly
As glaciers melt globally, they release massive amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane held within the ice for millenia. However, even more worrying are the diseases which are released as the ice melts. Because these diseases are held back by the ice alone, as the ice melts, dormant diseases are released into the world, wreaking havoc. How far can glaciers retreat before a deadly pandemic is unleashed?
Sonic… Silence? How Climate Change is Making The Ocean Go Deathly Quiet – And Why That’s A Problem
Climate change is increasing industrial traffic in the ocean, making it difficult for whales, dolphins, and other marine life to hunt, communicate, and generally survive. As more and more industrial traffic harms marine life, this little-known issue is causing more and more deaths everywhere.
Hiding in Plain Site: Is There More To AI Than We’ve Been Led To Belive?
AI is a double edged sword. On the one hand, the data centers needed to power AI are taking an enormous toll on resources and the planet, draining weather and electricity while speeding up greenhouse gas emmissions. On the other hand, however, AI could be incredibly useful to determining and implementing climate solutions. We discuss the pros and cons of AI in this article.
Hidden Shapeshifters: The Warning Right in Front of Us that We’re All Ignoring
As the climate warms, warm-blooded animals which depend on regulating body temperature are struggling more and more not to overheat. Animals rely on body parts like beaks, legs, and tails without fur or feathers to release heat. As temperatures rise in their habitats, animals are developing larger uncovered body parts in order to survive. However, this can make it harder to do normal functions, like foraging with a too-large beak. The sizes of these appendages, normally cultivated over centuries of evolutions, are now taking just a few decades. Eventually, should the planet continue to warm, these animals will hit a hard physiological limit. This is yet another tribute to the warnings being given by our planet as it continues to degrade.
Bringing Earth Back to Life: How Vicunas Are Creating Ecosystems in Just Decades
As glaciers recede, they leave behind a rocky, unusable landscape known as the “Proglacial Zone”. This land can take centuries to fertilize — but a little-known wild ancestor of the llama, the Vicuna– is speeding this process up by over a hundred years. Learn how these unlikely saviors are building thriving ecosystems high in the tropical slopes of the Andeas!
Climate Change: Fact Or Fiction?
The Truth Behind the Headlines: Fact, Fiction, and the Future of Our Planet
Trump recently claimed that climate change is a hoax to raise taxes. Is the climate really warming? What really is happening to the climate — and is it good or bad? What do people mean when they say “Climate Change”? We’ll answer all these questions in this article!
Reptive Vs. Rodent: The Eerie Predator Secretly Protecting Our Ecosystems
The African Rock Python is capable of reaching over 20 ft. As an Apex Predator, they play a crucial role in keeping rodent populations at manageable sizes. However, these pythons are rapidly becoming endangered in local ecosystems and communities. This causes spikes in rodent populations, destroying crops and spreading dangerous diseases from zoonotic hosts.
Living History: How Shellfish Are Predicting The Future
As Climate Change becomes a bigger issue, researchers grapple for reliable data showcasing repeating climate patterns. Among the tools researchers have begun to employ is the use of shellfish. Sclerochronology is a cost-effective way to understand past environmental data, and is becoming increasingly popular in the scientific industry. Understand the tools researchers use to form new data with this post!
How AI is helping us solve climate change
AlphaEarth, Google Deepmind’s newest project, is solving countless researching issues. By joining massive amounts of data together, then using AI to clean up the excess, AlphaEarth has created the biggest collection of data in the world, containing almost if not all data researchers may need. With over eight years worth of research, and more than a trillion embeddings per year, AlphaEarth can solve many issues – including one important controversy.
Saving Coffee One Gene At A Time
Maybe you hang out in the local coffeeshop on weekends, or brew a quick cup in the morning. Maybe your friends or family drink coffee every day. If so, it may worry you to realize that coffee is going extinct – and it’s our fault. By 2050, coffee won’t be a daily ritual anymore. Unless we act now. There are plenty of wild coffee species with helpful genes we could genetically engineer into our domestic crops. With initiative, we can save our coffee, one gene at a time.
Pollinators In Need: The Endangered Giant Panda
The Giant Panda, a majestic creature iconic throughout the world, is endangered. Pandas are incredibly important in ecosystems. As a top pollinator and vegetation-controlling animal, without these creatures, farming in China would be nearly impossible. But for those of us not living in China, why should we care that it’s going extinct? Read this post to find out!
🚨 The Plastic Problem 🚨
This blog post focuses on plastic in oceans, in particularly in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Unfortunately, the plastic problem runs much deeper, and this blog post only highlights a small portion of this issue. Check out the links to other sites like ours! Click here to view the whole post!