BY: RHIANN MOORE For decades most of the world has been reliant on coal for the production of electricity, and despite widespread knowledge of the damage that coal does to the air it is still in use today. Countries like…
This company turned a decrepit 1970s building into a green oasis that is sustainable and accessible
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE Photos via WOHA. WOHA is a Singapore-based architectural organization that focuses heavily on environmentally-friendly practices. They pride themselves on concentrating on the integrity of nature, the intermingling of natural resources into the final result, and having a major reliance on…
The Netherlands now has the world’s first completely wind powered trains
BY: RHIANN MOORE As of January 1, 2017, 600,000 daily commuters in the Netherlands have been traveling in complete carbon neutrality. This is because the Dutch NS trains now run on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy as a result…
Ancient clams have been holding the secrets of climate change for 1,000 years
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS What’s the lifespan of the longest-living animal? Humans can live for over a hundred years if we receive adequate care. Other mammals, such as the bowhead whale, can live for two hundred years; reptiles like the…
This Japanese airline is planning on using old clothing to fuel their planes
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP While animal activists and environmentalists alike are still reeling from the news that Japan closed its last fur farm, Japan is working on another project that is sure to have the same positive reaction from environmentalists and…
Scientists are hiding climate change data from Trump to protect it from a digital book burning
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI As far as cabinet picks go, future-President Donald Trump deserves the award for most awkward choices in recent memory. In a recent post, Senator Bernie Sanders effectively summed those choices up by saying, “Donald Trump has nominated…
This man recycled over 1 million bottles and is using them to build the world’s first plastic bottle village
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Isla Colon in Bocas Del Toro, Panama, has a trash problem. When Robert Bezeau moved from Montreal to Panama in 2009 to escape the cold and live in an everyday paradise, the trash quickly caught his attention.…
Save Our Snowmen campaign addresses climate change in the best way possible
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Winter, in my humble (yet not so popular) opinion, is the greatest season. Despite all of its shortcomings – the days are shorter, the trees have lost their leaves, it’s cold as fuck – it’s still the…
Studies show that Earth will face mass extinction in the next 50 years
If you thought there was no way 2017 could be worse than 2016, unfortunately you are probably wrong. That is unless the new US government actually starts making strides to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While the recently signed Paris Agreement…
Paris bans cars and makes public transportation free in a fight against the worst air pollution in a decade
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Free public transportation would be a dream come true for commuters who spend hundreds of dollars on transportation per year. For Parisians, they are on their third consecutive day of free public transportation. Unfortunately, it’s not an…
Seaweed-eating cattle may be our best weapon to fight climate change
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The biggest nuisance on the beach, seaweed, may be our next environmental saviour. New research in Australia discovered that if we were to add dried seaweed to two per cent of sheep and cattle feed, we could…
Stephen Hawking says humans only have 1,000 years left on earth and here’s why
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP In about 1,000 years, we’re all screwed, unless we can get the hell off planet Earth and colonize other planets. This is what renowned theoretical physicist and astronomer Stephen Hawking said in a speech at Oxford University…
The world’s poorest countries are going 100% green in the next 4 years
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP We all know global warming is an international issue; we all got scared when Al Gore threw the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ at us in 2006; we’ve seen Leonardo DiCaprio try to persuade the world away from…
France gives the middle finger to climate change by shutting down all of its coal power plants by 2023
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s that time of year again; the annual climate gathering run by the UN saw experts, lawmakers and organizations gathering in Morocco this week to discuss the current state of the planet, and the current uphill battle…
The Southern Woodlands are being taken over by Ghost Forests
BY: RHIANN MOORE Although ghost forests may possess a cool goth name, in reality they are far scarier than they sound. As a direct result of climate change, sea levels are rising at an increasingly dangerous rate and destroying once…
India ditches $3 billion diamond deal to save tigers
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The Indian government is being praised as they recently decided to ditch a diamond-mining project worth more than $3 billion USD. The land where the surface mining would take place is home to a large portion of…
The cost of pollution isn’t just the environment, it’s our health and wallets too
In an effort to increase awareness (and instigate action) of ways pollution is infiltrating and affecting human lives, a recent study was conducted by The World Bank in conjunction with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), entitled Air Pollution: Strengthening the Economic…
New micro-winery continuously makes wine and saves it from the effects of climate change
By: Jocelyn Schwalm “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W.C. Fields The prestige of wine has always been within the elaborate process it takes to get the fermentation just right.The process of winemaking has been perfected…
You can marvel in the beauty of these glaciers before they melt away forever.
By: Lauren Ali ALL IMAGES BY CAMILLE SEAMAN We’ve all heard the same stories about climate change: “Everything is melting;” “Polar bears have no homes and are drowning;” “Sea levels are rising but it’s not a good thing.” Honestly, we…
Artist fights climate sensationalism by depicting the world’s beauty instead of destruction
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Tackling climate change or documenting our environmental destruction can be a challenging endeavor for any passionate person, but for Brooklyn creative Zaria Forman, she made it her life mission to convey the urgency of climate change through…