Building High-Rises Out of Wood Can Help Save the Planet
Concrete and steel come with massive emissions. So let's ditch them and build towers out of wood. Yes, wood.
27/01/2020 Wired
Despite the ongoing pandemic good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
Concrete and steel come with massive emissions. So let's ditch them and build towers out of wood. Yes, wood.
27/01/2020 Wired
Animals have 'unrivalled capacity to breathe new life into our rivers and wetlands', say authors of report, paving way for further reintroductions
17/02/2020 The Independent
In a bid to reduce our carbon footprint, confront greenwashing and increase our focus on the climate crisis, the Guardian this week announced it will no longer run ads from fossil fuel extractors alongside any of its content in print or online.
01/02/2020 The Guardian
Swapping out glass panels for transparent solar modules, and harnessing the energy from wavelengths of light not used during photosynthesis, could help turn greenhouses into self-sufficient solar power plants.
25/02/2020 Reset.org
Some were hailed in their lifetime, others died unrecognized, but all were amazing.
08/03/2020 LiveScience
Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are back in human trials to treat people with mental health conditions. It's a second revolution for a class of drugs shunned by 1960s society. But more research is needed. Here's why.
24/04/2020 Deutsche Welle
Growing Underground is a hydroponics farm below the streets of southwest London, which is powered by renewable energy
19/05/2020 Positive News
Two people with beta thalassaemia and one with sickle cell disease no longer need blood transfusions after their blood stem cells were gene edited and put back in their bodies
12/06/2020 NewScientist
Eren Orbey on how Harvard’s David Malan has worked to perfect online teaching, and what lessons his introductory course, CS50, might hold for the future of higher education, both during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
21/07/2020 The New Yorker
Spreading rock dust on farmland could pull enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to remove about half of the amount of that greenhouse gas currently produced by Europe, according to a major study published Thursday in the journal Nature. And if…
08/07/2020 Washington Post
Nobody will ever know the identity of the thousands of African children who were not killed or paralyzed by polio this year. They would have been hard to keep track of no matter what because in ordinary times, they would have followed thousands last…
25/08/2020 Time Magazine
Tobacco plants have been modified with a protein found in algae to improve their photosynthesis and increase growth, while using less water, in a new advance that could point the way to higher yielding crops in a drought-afflicted future.
10/08/2020 The Guardian
A teacher from a Lagos public school is helping students across the country, and internationally, learn math virtually during coronavirus restrictions that have prevented most children from returning to class in Nigeria
07/09/2020 Washington Post
A women-run solar station near the front line in Abs is empowering its owners and improving life in their community.
18/10/2020 Al Jazeera
Exclusive: Brighton has won the first gold Sustainable Food City award – with its pay-as-you-feel cafes, cooking classes for teenagers and a zero-waste community pub on a working-class estate
29/11/2020 The Independent
Can we harness natural and human-made carbon traps to help us slow climate change?
22/11/2020 LiveScience
Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off…
29/11/2020 The Guardian
As he faced jail, the life Niyah Smith had once dreamed of looked impossible. But then came a chance to turn his fortunes around.
13/12/2020 BBC