The Case for a Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System (GrIOOS)
Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is affecting sea level and, through increased freshwater discharge, ocean circulation, sea-ice, biogeochemistry, and marine ecosystems around Greenland. Key to interpreting ongoing and projecting future ice loss, and its impact on the ocean, is understanding exchanges of heat, freshwater, and nutrients that occur at Greenland's marine margins.
Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System
U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in Heat as the Climate Warms
U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms
The medics loaded Sgt. Sylvester Cline into an ambulance with the air conditioning running at full blast. It was 4:20 p.m., 20 minutes after he'd been helped off a live-fire training range at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, where the heat index had reached 103.
The Science of Cleaning Water
Membrane Mindfulness
Humans have been filtering liquids for centuries. But as anyone in the water industry knows, the science of clean water is anything but static. New technologies continue to push the boundaries of what membranes can achieve in separating liquids from contaminants. At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)
Oleo Sponge Named a Finalist for the (International) INDEX AWARD
Argonne National Laboratory on LinkedIn: "Oleo Sponge named an Index Project Finalist - http://bit.ly/2JUHYMO"
July 25, 2019: Argonne National Laboratory posted images on LinkedIn
The Index Project, formerly INDEX: Design to Improve Life, is a Danish nonprofit organisation that promotes designs aimed at the improvement of life worldwide, both in developed and developing countries. The organisation is behind the biennial Index Award, the world's biggest design award.
Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Fights Back
The Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Fights Back
This OZY original series takes you to the New Frontiers of Climate Change, where some of the most vulnerable nations are coming up with the most innovative solutions. Think of movies about climate change, and you likely imagine giant waves sweeping coastal metropolises from New York to Shanghai.
Diagnosing the Health and Mental Toll of Climate Change
Tomorrow's Doctors Will Diagnose the Mental Toll of Climate Change
First-year medical student Anna Goshua was interviewing an emergency room physician in March to learn more about the job when she heard about a patient who had come all the way from Puerto Rico to that ER in Massachusetts for health care. Hurricane Maria had wiped out all prospects of the patient seeking care at home.
New Frontiers of Climate Change
Special Briefing: The New Frontiers of Climate Change
This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and vault you ahead.
Just How Hot Will Climate Change Make Your City
Visualizing Just How Much Hotter Climate Change Will Make Your City
The world is getting hotter. July is off to a extremely warm start, while June was the hottest June on record: While the change might seem small (about 1 degree Celsius over the last century), the day-to-day effects will be felt in summer heat, with hotter days and hotter nights.
How the Lawn Took Over American Life and Created An Environmental Nightmare
American Green
Ted Steinberg | American Green | W. W. Norton & Company | March 2006 | 43 minutes (7,070 words) Although there are plenty of irrational aspects to life in modern America, few rival the odd fixation on lawns. Fertilizing, mowing, watering - these are all-American activities that, on their face, seem reasonable enough.
Could Mussels Teach Us How to Clean Up Oil Spills?
Featuring research by Dr. Seth Darling at Argonne National Labs.Could Mussels Teach Us How To Clean Up Oil Spills?
Mussels may be popular among seafood lovers, but many boaters consider them pests. They colonize ship bottoms, clog water pipes and stick to motors. To chemical engineers, though, those very same properties make mussels marvelous. They can stick to just about any surface, and underwater, no less.
Building People Power for Energy & Climate Justice
Home | NC WARN
It is already devastating millions of people, especially low-wealth communities who are least responsible for causing it. NC WARN tackles this crisis by vigorously pressing Duke Energy to join - or at least stop impeding - the clean energy revolution. Because North Carolina deserves better than pollution and cronyism.
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels & Nuclear
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear
Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.
Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming
Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming
We have heard for years that planting trees can help save the world from global warming. That mantra was mostly a statement of faith, however. Now the data finally exist to show that if the right species of trees are planted in the right soil types across the planet, the emerging forests could capture 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide in the next 40 to 100 years.
A Growing Campaign of Huge investment Portfolios Divesting From Fossil Fuels
National Trust to divest £1bn portfolio from fossil fuels
The National Trust is divesting its £1bn portfolio from fossil fuels in an attempt to help tackle the escalating climate crisis. The organisation, which looks after 780 miles (1,250km) of coastline, 248,000 hectares (612,000 acres) of land and more than 500 historic houses, castles, monuments and parks, said it would withdraw the vast majority of its investments from fossil fuels within 12 months, and the entirety within three years.
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
The World is Running Out of Sand and Why it Matters
The World is running out for sand
What links the building you live in, the glass you drink from and the computer you work on? Sand. It is a key ingredient of modern life and yet, astonishingly, no-one knows how much sand there is or how much is being mined.
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