The press has been full of stories lately about how great space technology is because the U.S. had landed not only a “rover” on Mars, but also a small helicopter that has flown as humans’ first aircraft on another world. There’s no question that operating these robot...
Taiwan is currently experiencing its worst drought in 56 years. In 2020, no typhoons made landfall on Taiwan, and combined with a weak monsoon season, much of Taiwan is in a drought, particularly the central and southern areas. Taiwan normally experiences an average...
Andreas Malm’s recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency lays out the overlapping causes of both the global coronavirus crisis and impending ecological collapse. He intertwines these problems as stemming from the inherent nature of capitalism – a profit-driven...
The recognition of Earth Day in the U.S. began 51 years ago as people understood that we couldn’t continue to treat our home – planet Earth – in such a disrespectful way. For many of the 20 million people in the U.S. who demonstrated on that day, the choice seemed...
Japan announced on Tuesday, April 13, that it intends to release more than one million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. On March 11, 2011, three of the four nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant experienced...
