sustainability
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This New Plastic Disappears in the Ocean—And That’s a Big Deal
A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike conventional plastics that persist for decades You know how plastic trash just… never goes away? Bottles, bags, and wrappers stick around for centuries, piling up in landfills and floating in the ocean. It’s depressing. Continue reading
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Freshwater is vanishing at an alarming pace, a new global study reveals. Since 2002, Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented losses of freshwater, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater extraction and extreme droughts — which are now contributing to sea level rise.
The World’s Freshwater Is Disappearing – Here’s What That Means for You I turned on the tap this morning to brush my teeth, and water came out like it always does. It’s easy to take that for granted. But what if one day, it didn’t? A new global study just dropped some alarming news: Freshwater Continue reading
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