Ethereum’s ‘Merge’ Is a Big Deal for Crypto—and the Planet
[ad_1] Cryptocurrencies are often criticized for being bad for the planet. Every year, bitcoin mining consumes more energy than Belgium, according to the University of Cambridge’s Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.…
Is Coal Mining Increasing East Kentucky’s Flood Risk?
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an extractive…
Plant-Based Burgers Aren’t Denting People’s Beef Addiction
[ad_1] Another way to figure out the impact plant-based meats are having is to look at how price changes impact the demand for various kinds of meat. A study of…
Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
[ad_1] When record temperatures wracked the UK in late July, Google Cloud’s data centers in London went offline for a day, due to cooling failures. The impact wasn’t limited to…
The Case for Making Public Transit Free Everywhere
[ad_1] But the rush for free or heavily-discounted tickets can have the opposite effect. In Germany, the first long weekend of the 9-euro-a-month tickets led to overcrowding, service disruptions, and…
How to Prevent Another European Transport Meltdown
[ad_1] As if the cancellation of flights and trains due to strikes and staff shortages weren’t upsetting travelers enough this summer, the European heat wave arrived to exacerbate the travel…
After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance
[ad_1] Yet when I talked to other folks who’d put solar on their roofs, most had precisely the same epiphany I’d had: They realized they had way more juice than…
Carbon Offsets Alone Won’t Make Flying Climate-Friendly
[ad_1] Jet A-1, a straw-colored, kerosene-based fuel used in most big airplanes, is a difficult substance to replace. It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times…
Your Final Resting Place Could Be a Coffin Made of Mushrooms
[ad_1] If we can use mycelium composites to build structures that change how we live on this planet, Hendrikx began to think we could also change how we leave it.…
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
[ad_1] The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the…
A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert
[ad_1] And there are undoubtedly many more bacteria out there that could give us useful new antibiotics to use. But if you find what appears to be a promising one,…
The UK Is Reintroducing Bison to Supercharge Biodiversity
[ad_1] The Wilder Blean project, like many of its ilk, is inspired largely by the work of Dutch ecologist Frans Vera. In his influential book Grazing Ecology and Forest History,…
How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep
[ad_1] Getting less than seven hours of sleep a night regularly, the minimum benchmark for adults, has also been associated with heart problems, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, among other…