Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have reported that the summer of 2022 was among the hottest recorded on Earth. It’s part of a pattern – the Earth’s 10 hottest summers all occurred in the last dozen years. In July and August of this year –Continue Reading
(This is the second of two stories on the continuing impact being made by fully online Western Governors University, a non-profit bachelor’s degree institution based in Salt Lake City.) “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated” – Maya Angelou Perhaps no field, no industry, no pursuitContinue Reading
A new paper from the Max Planck Institute and MIT has proposed a technique to obtain true disentanglement of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) content from the lighting that was present when the data was gathered, allowing ad hoc environment maps to completely switch out the illumination in a NeRF scene:Continue Reading
On ‘techglomerate’ rebirth Aboitiz recasts competitive playing fields By MYRNA M. VELASCO Businesses worldwide are all pacing for a very fragile post-pandemic recovery and they’re in that crossover while competitive playing fields of corporates are also undergoing tectonic shifts. By far, the turning points for businesses have been chaotic andContinue Reading
Plastics on soil surface Even though larger plastic debris, which can be described as macroplastics, is visible almost everywhere in the environment (e.g., roadsides, urban areas, streams, canals), to the best of the authors knowledge, there is only one published study which investigates surface plastic loads on agricultural soils. SinceContinue Reading
By Lev Neretin, Workstream Lead, Environment, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) We need to talk about agricultural plastics. You may not see it, but farms are full of plastic. Plastic greenhouse and mulching film work together with drip irrigation to help fruit and vegetable growers increase their yields,Continue Reading
There are many alternative agricultural practices not widely used, such as permaculture, that could replace environmentally-destructive agricultural plastics By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter In Taiwan’s rural lowlands, it’s a common sight at this time of year. Having cleared and plowed their fields, farmers intending to grow pineapples, strawberries orContinue Reading
Andy Gray stands beside an enormous hill of bare red earth and smiles with a hint of mischief. This is his best field, its soils known as Crediton red land. The region was once known for producing swedes prized by Covent Garden market. Now, every six metres, planted in rowsContinue Reading
When three 775-foot-tall smoke stacks at the Navajo Generating Station came tumbling down in December, sending plumes of dust into the sky and thundering reverberations off the mesas of the Arizona high desert, it marked the end of an era. The federal government was instrumental in engineering the rise ofContinue Reading
