Earth Wise

Plastics are pretty much everywhere in the modern world including places we want them to be and places where we don’t.  Conventional plastics are not biodegradable and instead cause increasing problems wherever they end up after their useful life.  As a result, there are global efforts to find environmentally friendly replacements for petroleum-based plastics. An […]

The White House is considering an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and allow mining companies to bypass a United Nations-backed review process. Deep sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean.  Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic […]

Last year was the hottest year on record and the ten hottest years on record have in fact been the last ten years.  Ocean heat reached a record high last year and, along with it, global sea levels.  Those are rising twice as fast as they did in the 1990s. The World Meteorological Organization reports […]

Early March saw more than 200 wildfires break out in the southeastern U.S. – a busy start to the region’s annual fire season.  One fire in the Carolina Forest near Myrtle Beach scorched over 2,000 acres over a two-week period and firefighters were busy containing it and many other blazes. Strong winds and an unusually […]

Solar and wind farms are spreading rapidly around the world.  Many economists believe that solar power has crossed the threshold where it is generally cheaper than other ways to make electricity and will become the dominant energy source in the next couple of decades.  As a result, both solar and wind farms are gobbling up […]