On April 22 we celebrate Earth Day! A day that we demonstrate our support to environmental protection. Is the day that we show our discontent in how planet earth is being treated by humans. It is a day of fight and protest. Is the day that we acknowledge that this is our planet, our home and it has been mistreated enough and for too long.
Microplastics in humans has been found for the first time. A new scientific article published on March 2022 in the journal Environmental International found microplastics in blood.
Biomass is a renewable energy resource that can be used to produce heat or electricity. Although burning biomass releases carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a greenhouse gas, it is renewable.
Solar energy or solar power is energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy. Solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available, and the U.S. has some of the richest solar resources in the world. Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology converts sunlight into electricity, and it can be …
Hydroelectricity, hydroelectric power or hydroelectric energy is the use of moving water to generate electricity. It is one of the oldest and most widely used forms of renewable energy.
The Anthropocene is a period of time during which human activities have impacted the environment enough to constitute a distinct geological change. This includes, but is not limited to climate change.
Do you know your water footprint? Do you know what is the water footprint? Many of us never ever heard about this concept.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN) released a report on April 2022 with the new scenarios for the future. Participating in this panel were 276 scientists from 76 countries where they recognize the interdependence of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies.
Climate change mitigation is the process of reducing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in order to prevent further climate change. Methods of climate change mitigation often include the reduction in an entity’s carbon footprint.
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions before they enter the atmosphere, and storing them for centuries or millennia. Usually the CO2 is captured from large point sources, such as coal-fired power plants, a chemical plant or biomass power plants.
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