Photo: Taylor Vick/Unsplash Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most policies concerning the installation, use and maintenance of data centres ignore an important aspect: their environmental impact. They are online 24/7 and require power back-up and a captiveContinue Reading
In Part 1, I discussed the more well-known environmental costs of warfare. Explaining the hidden costs to the environment is harder, though. Not only are there new methods of warfare, like cyberattacks, to account for, but there are also lingering environmental problems this particular conflict could lead to. To reallyContinue Reading
Plastic is among the top priorities for many corporate sustainability strategies. A growing number of companies have goals to reduce plastic use, working to ensure plastic packaging is recyclable and making claims about plastic-free products and packaging. A hidden challenge with these efforts is the lack of clarity about whatContinue Reading
· Awards recognize 15 mission-driven leaders tackling world’s toughest problems, from social inequality and youth unemployment, to malnutrition and accessible healthcare. · Awardees are part of a community of 400 trusted leaders in 190 countries that has benefited the lives of 722 million people across the world. · The SchwabContinue Reading
22 December 2021 By Robson G Santos Universidad Federal de Alagoa Plastic is everywhere, in the places we live, but also in our salt, seafood, fruits and vegetables, in the water we drink and even in the air we breathe. Not to mention the absurd amount of plastic which hasContinue Reading
Over the holidays, unsuspecting people all over the world became the hapless victim of well-intended clothing gifts, many of which unfortunately belong in the “wouldn’t be caught dead in it” pile, unaccompanied by a gift receipt. Is it any wonder UPS sees one in four Americans making a return followingContinue Reading
The street space occupied by parked cars may not seem like much, but it adds up. The US has an estimated 3.4 spaces for every car. In New York City, the amount of road space reserved for parking is roughly the size of 12 Central Parks, according to one estimate,Continue Reading
Being Silica, a performance by Andrés Jaque at Performa 2021. Photo: Walter-Wlodarczyk Looking northward from the Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center’s observation deck, the skyline is defined by three supertall pencil towers, from left to right: Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world at 98 stories;Continue Reading
Environmental disasters are increasingly a fact of life around the world. Each year, floods, droughts and landslides affect tens of millions of people, leaving vast human and economic destruction in their wake. The cost in human lives and livelihoods each year is enormous. Yet their labelling as “natural” disasters orContinue Reading
The near-Earth space is filled with charged particles that come from two sources, the solar wind and the Earth’s upper atmosphere. A new article published in Reviews of Geophysics investigates the relative importance of the two sources of charged particles and their effects on plasma dynamics, especially the process ofContinue Reading
