By Daisy Luther What if something happens and you CAN’T evacuate before a hurricane? What if it’s too late to evacuate before the storm makes landfall? While it’s easy to say, “Oh, they should have left earlier” and run through the gamut of blame, the…
By Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University When it comes to problems caused by ticks, Lyme disease hogs a lot of the limelight. But various tick species carry and transmit a collection of other pathogens, some of which cause serious, even fatal, conditions. In fact, the…
By Renee Parsons It comes as no surprise that the American public remains oblivious to a not-so-slight glitch in the 5G Race with China as the US strives to be the first, the best and most technologically advanced country in the world with its guarantee…
By Mayukh Saha We all know how our oceans are choking from plastic. This is a menace which seems to have no end! Single-use plastic is one of the most time-consuming things to get rid of, yet their use doesn’t seem to slow down. So…
New research suggests that global trends in farming practices are undermining the pollinators crops depend on and putting agricultural productivity and stability at risk, particularly in some Asian and South American nations A multinational team of researchers has identified countries where agriculture’s increasing dependence on…
By Arjun Walia The Facts: A Dutch company has unveiled an electric car that charges itself via solar power. Reflect On: How long have solutions to our problems existed? Is finding the solutions the problem, or have they been here for a long time? If…
By Laura Pangallozzi, Binghamton University, State University of New York More than five years after Flint’s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its water. The most recently available testing, from the second half of 2018, puts…
By John Vibes A Canadian company called JD Composites has built a home that is resistant to hurricane-strength winds. It is said that the house can withstand winds with gusts of over 300 miles per hour. A working prototype of the building is located near…
By Elias Marat The Dutch city of Utrecht has taken a unique approach to managing its air quality by installing green roofs filled with flowers and plants on top of its bus stops. The move will not only help Utrecht achieve its ambition of becoming…
By Elias Marat The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended its annual surveys of the honeybee population as the federal agency increasingly turns toward representing big agricultural interests rather than regulating them. Citing the need for budget cuts, the Trump administration’s suspension of the…
Human waste might be an unpleasant public health burden, but scientists at the University of Illinois see sanitation as a valuable facet of global ecosystems and an overlooked source of nutrients, organic material and water. Their research, directed by civil and environmental engineering professor Jeremy…
By Elias Marat Not only did Southern California’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake rock the homes of millions of residents on Friday, but it also ripped a massive new crack into the landscape. Residents of the small desert town of Ridgecrest suffered the worst of the largest…
By Amanda Froelich The Golden Eagle might be classified as “stable,” but environmentalists are nonetheless celebrating the bird’s return to the Santa Monica mountains after a nearly 30-year hiatus. While conducting a survey on nearby private land, a consultant found a nest containing two chicks….
By Mayukh Saha With Armageddon creeping in closer and closer, experts are warning us of the possibilities of a total insect wipeout, that would emulate the dinosaurs’ extinction millions of years ago. According to a Global Scientific Review of research, already 40% of all insects…
By Daisy Luther Since Thursday, Southern California has been hit with a series of earthquakes and aftershocks all the way up to two that measured 6.4 and a whopping 7.1 magnitude. The epicenter of both quakes was near the town of Ridgecrest, with a population…
By Jessica Corbett Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union (EU) to fully ban the world’s most commonly used herbicide after the nation’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of the endocrine-disrupting…
By Elias Marat A humongous mass of heavy, stinking seaweed stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa has already become the biggest seaweed bloom in recorded history, according to the journal Science. And the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as it is now known,…
By Daisy Luther If you were caught up in the midst of a massive earthquake – the kind that takes down buildings and buckles roads – would you know what to do? I’m not talking about a minor temblor that shakes a glass off the…
By Mayukh Saha In true Scottish fashion of bringing something new to the world, Linkwood Steadings Housing development present in Elgin, Scotland has built a road using about 17000 bags of plastic. But how does one do that? Well, flexibility is an advantage, but that’s…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The “hurry up” 5G rollouts have been instituted in various cities around the United States within the last few months. These locales include, but may not be limited to, selected areas of: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Houston,…
