In June last year, a series of devastating wildfires tore through the Canadian province of Quebec, sending huge plumes of acrid smoke drifting across North America. Three hundred miles away in Boston, dermatologist Shadi Kourosh noticed something strange. “We had an unusual spike in dermatology visits,” says Kourosh, who is director of community health in … Read more
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In addition to burying solid carbon or sprinkling it on fields, researchers are also turning waste biomass into liquid carbon—oil, essentially, that they pump back into the ground instead of pumping the fossil variety up. “What we do at the highest level is we make barbecue sauce—or liquid smoke for barbecue sauce—and then we inject … Read more
Alfieri | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images As around half of the world’s adult population heads to the polls in a bumper year of elections, concern over the role of artificial intelligence in disrupting outcomes has topped the list of the biggest risks for 2024, according to a new report. The World Economic Forum’s “Global … Read more
Image: Anker Charging is still one the biggest worries and hurdles to the EV transition. What if you could have something that could not only power your EV when you wanted it to and where you wanted it to, but also power your home in an emergency? I Need A New Car For My Job … Read more
The average litre of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever-so-tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their calculations, they never knew how … Read more
Cars stranded in a flash flood caused by a monsoonal thunderstorm on Sept. 1, 2023, in Thermal, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Destructive thunderstorms in North America and Europe and a series of devastating earthquakes last year cost the world around $250 billion in damages, according to a new report … Read more
One of the newest and fastest growing weapons in the fight against global warming is technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, known as direct air capture. Some liken it to sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere. However, it’s not a perfect science, and most methods require a lot of water. That is about … Read more
Photo: Marje (Getty Images) Several trees assembled as a well-regulated forest defended themselves against the driver of a Ford Crown Victoria in Union County, North Carolina in late December. The incident began when deputies from the local sheriff’s office tried to locate a wanted fugitive at a nearby address. Union County Sheriff’s Office stated in … Read more
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Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could become liabilities. Many of Ocobock’s study subjects have been overweight and obese with normal cholesterol and blood sugar. Being “fat but fit,” which has been beneficial … Read more
“I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would go, ‘OK, so you have a million dollars in hand, and you still need how many? How are you going to get there?’” “I don’t know,” Rentner told them in response. “We’re just gonna keep writing proposals, … Read more
