Climate
Climate Change and Its Effect on Health in India
As of now, the impression of climate change can be found in every corner of the planet. Erratic weather conditions, rising ocean levels, and melting ice sheets because of climate change are reshaping societies across the globe. In India, climate change is now influencing human health, wildlife, food production, clean water access, and the economy. However, on account of India, these weaknesses accompany a remarkable potential for change.
By Rachel Caspari3 years ago in Earth
THE RATIONAL MORAL STATUS OF NON
The survival of the human being, which is known as a being of consciousness depends in the healthy interaction and interrelation of variety of living and non-living organisms, empirical and supra-empirical realities in the Universe. These interactions calls for a unified coexistence of these realities. Hence, in some degree, the human person feels he has no direct moral obligations to non-rational, non-human nature, only rational beings are worth of moral considerability as Kant affirms. This will be argued as an excessively anthropocentric, and excludes the non-human natural world from the sphere of moral considerability. Conceding to the fact that non- human nature is instrumentally valuable to some extent, to some inevitable existential, ontological consideration.
By Rachel Caspari3 years ago in Earth
The genetic power of ancient trees
In 2005, several of the centuries-old ponderosa pine trees on my 15 acres (0.06 sq km) of forest in the northern Rocky Mountains in Montana suddenly died. I soon discovered they were being brought down by mountain pine beetles, pernicious killers the size of the eraser on a pencil that burrow into the tree.
By Gu Wei Di Qi3 years ago in Earth
The promise and danger of Scotland's bog
As I watch the predator, its flaming orange-red tendril outstretched, it makes a catch. Its prey writhes, working itself deeper into a smothering grip. The flagrant sunset-coloured carnivore has made little effort to conceal itself, but its prey was unable to resist the allure of its sticky trap.
By Turnell Feliu3 years ago in Earth
How limitless green energy would change the world
What would we do with an abundant, cheap, inexhaustible supply of renewables? Perhaps the desalination of seawater, suddenly cost-efficient, would relieve Earth's water shortages. Rubbish might be recycled on a massive scale, allowing for the extraction of precious trace elements such as rare earth metals, while carbon dioxide (CO2) could be vacuumed out of the atmosphere to slow climate change. People could live comfortably in Earth's polar regions or travel far and wide in battery-powered vehicles. Goods and services that require electricity might become cheaper, even free. Our emissions footprint could soon be undetectable.
By Gu Wei Di Qi3 years ago in Earth
The alien shrub that can't be stopped
"After sending a friend several hampers of plants season after season, all without satisfactory results… I sent him some of this," explained the botanist John Wood in 1884. He was writing a gardening manual, and heaped gushing praise on a sensational, newish shrub that that even the most hapless horticulturalist would be able to handle. It was an import from the Far East, and would make a "capital" addition to the small town garden – with pleasing red shoots, handsome heart-shaped foliage, and gracefully arching stems.
By Vranes Samaha3 years ago in Earth
The outrageous plan to haul icebergs to Africa
If towing icebergs to hot, water-stressed regions sounds totally crazy to you, then consider this: the volume of water that breaks off Antarctica as icebergs each year is greater than the total global consumption of freshwater. And that stat doesn’t even include Arctic ice. This is pure freshwater, effectively wasted as it melts into the sea and contributes to rising sea levels. Does it sound less crazy now?
By Fortis Rakow3 years ago in Earth
What Is Shaping Energy and Natural Resources in 2022?
In 2021, the global economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as various supply chain disruptions and extreme weather events. However, it suffered from a prolonged energy supply crunch caused by rising power and fuel prices. As 2022 comes to a close, here is what has shaped energy and natural resources this year.
By Nikolas Perrault3 years ago in Earth
