Letting Enchantment Lead the Way: Iceland’s Hidden Folk and Environmental Protection by Gísli Pálsson |January 19, 2023 Helgafell, the Holy Mountain, an ancient volcanic plug in west Iceland. Thorolf, the man who named the hill, believed that he would go into it when he died. (Courtesy of Nancy Marie Brown)Continue Reading
Bubbles stream furiously behind Frank Hurd as he gently parts the curtains of giant kelp. Green and gold ribbons reach upwards through the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean towards the sun. Hurd, a marine biologist with environmental organisation the Nature Conservancy, is diving in a kelp forest off AnacapaContinue Reading
The table is set. The decorations are up. The holidays are here, and it may be helpful to know how all that holiday cheer is affecting the environment and greenhouse gas emissions being released into the atmosphere. Household waste increases by more than 25% from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, accordingContinue Reading
Michael Vi As market volatility continues, don’t miss out on the opportunity to buy small-cap stocks that have been underwater all year long. Investors have taken a risk-off attitude and leaned into defensive large-caps, but this positioning has left many smaller growth stocks (especially U.S.-focused companies that have actually seenContinue Reading
Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets Cloud While DevOps practitioners use environment variables to regularly keep secrets in applications, these could be conveniently abused by cybercriminals for their malicious activities, as our analysis shows. By: David Fiser, Alfredo Oliveira August 17, 2022 Read time: ( words)Continue Reading
The Lands Between are huge. Elden Ring sets out a strange, grim, living world that it invites players to explore. While some parts of the history and story can be gleaned from NPCs, or from item descriptions, there are also stories woven into the landscape itself. Related: Hidden Areas InContinue Reading
To create a circular economy, it is obvious that we need innovative solutions, which are created by looking at ordinary processes from completely different viewpoints. By blending these solutions with circular designs, we can use them in many different areas of business value chains – from supply chain to production,Continue Reading
With sea level rise and ecological collapse threatening its environment and the very existence of its main coastal cities, Southeast Asia is one of the regions most at risk from the impacts of climate change. But while countries around the world step up efforts towards decarbonisation and reaching their sharedContinue Reading
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
