PowerFlip3 days ago'Nature-rinsing': How polluters use the beauty of nature to clean up their imagegrist.org - Kate YoderYou’ve been seeing commercials like this all your life: An SUV steers off-road into a lush forest. An airplane soars over a pristine coastline. In …
PowerFlip3 days agoNASA Warns Methane Is Being Belched From Newly Formed LakesNewsweek - Jess ThomsonBrand new lakes spewing out clouds of methane are appearing in Alaska. These so-called "thermokarst" lakes are formed when the permafrost ground …
PowerFlip4 days agoThe World's Largest Organism Is ‘Breaking Up,’ Study Warnsverified_publisherVICE - Lauren VinopalNew research reveals that the massive 106-acre colony of trees is being eaten up everyday. “The pando'' has become a casual way to refer to the COVID-19 pandemic, but deep in the woods of central Utah, the Pando is the name for what scientists regard as the largest living organism in the world:over …
PowerFlip4 days ago‘It’s the government’s job to protect people’: States are finally starting to ban ‘forever chemicals’verified_publisherFast Company - By Alex BrownPFAS are toxic and yet are in everything from packaging and cosmetics to clothing and carpet. Lawmakers are increasingly moving to regulate or ban them. “Forever chemicals” are everywhere. The thousands of chemicals in the group known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are …
PowerFlip6 days agoYou really don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this yearverified_publisherFortune - Tristan BoveAn energy crisis the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades is unfolding around the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this …
PowerFlip230 Whales Mysteriously Stranded on Beach Exactly 2 Years After Similar Eventverified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraA massive rescue operation is underway to save the whales still alive in Tasmania. Some 230 pilot whales were found stranded across a remote Tasmanian beach on Wednesday, about half of which have already died, prompting rescue efforts to save the remaining survivors, reports the BBC. The whales …
