Miscellaneous
Hybrid aircraft takes flight
By 2050 air travel is expected to increase six fold, and greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise 50 percent. Planes are among the largest consumers of fossil fuels and emitters of greenhouse gases. So any way to save planes gas will surely impact greenhouse emissions. Cambridge University Read More...
Twitter predicts heart disease
Twitter has catalyzed revolutions, is regularly the first place news stories are broken, and if you’ve heard of the #hashtag it’s because of Twitter. Now Twitter is filtering tweets through an algorithm to predict the likelihood of developing heart disease in a given area, and surprisingly—or Read More...
Solar plane maps flight path for trip around the world
A Swiss team has constructed a plane the flies using only the sun’s energy. The plane’s pilots have plans to circumnavigate the globe, the first solar plane to do so, and have announced the stops they will make on their historic journey. Among the plane’s first stops are China, the US, and Read More...
India’s wild tiger population shows promise
India is home to about 70 percent of the world’s wild tigers. Once an impressive population of 45,000, because of pollution and hunting the Indian tiger population fell to 1706 in 2011. Now, just over three years later the population has jumped nearly a third and sits at about 2300. Protecting Read More...
Campaign to end Ebola in 60 days launches in Guinea
Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak began more than a year ago, are all reporting a decline in the number of new Ebola diagnosis in the past several weeks. Now government officials in Guinea have announced the launch of a campaign to end Ebola in Guinea in 60 days. Officials Read More...
Coral is remarkably resilient
As our oceans grow warmer, our corals die and turn white. The process is called coral bleaching and happens when the tiny plants that provide coral their food are expelled because the water is too warm. Once thought to be the death sentence of a reef, a new study has found that coral can bounce Read More...
Philippines could end poverty within a generation
Corruption and natural disasters have been driving forces behind the Philippine’s poverty level, among the highest in East Asia. But now thanks to sustainable economic growth and the creation of one million jobs between October 2013 and October 2014, the bottom 20 percent of incomes grew faster Read More...
Compostable clothing
Your clothes start out as organic material, but thanks to chemical dyes and plastic buttons by the time you’re done wearing them they have to go to the landfill. Swiss manufacturing company Freitag creates biodegradable clothing sourced from within 150 miles of their native Switzerland, Read More...
Off shore wind farms more lucrative than oil and gas drilling
A common argument used by the oil and gas companies to perpetuate their exploitation of nature of that they are more profitable, and provide more jobs than green sources of energy. A new report has proven that idea wrong, showing that wind farming is actually more lucrative, and would provide more Read More...
Plants used to power streetlights in Dutch city
Remember in middle school when you made a clock powered by a potato? Well now the city of Hamburg in the Netherlands has taken that idea and used it on a grand scale—powering streetlights with energy source from plant’s photosynthesis. The Dutch company Plant-e spearheaded the initiative; they Read More...