Environmental Sciences News The Earth’s Lungs are on Fire! It would have been normal to assume that the Amazon was ablaze due to the increased hot temperatures this summer, but here’s the thing: the Amazon is a rainforest; dry weather, wind, and heat, cannot possibly cause result in such great fires in the forest’s tropical ecosystem. Experts say that most of the area burned […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-09-022021-09-06 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences Global Warming: Resurrection of the Dead Imagine a Dashner dystopia filled with ancient viral diseases that we once thought were gone. Imagine a world full of uncertainty with the virus-inflicted mob mentality where viruses play a crucial role in determining the behavioral changes that no one thought had qualitative or quantitative evidence to, where being a Frankenstein is no more a […] Written by Rubaa Yawar 2019-08-212021-03-25 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Forests Can Curb Global Warming Better Than We Think Planting trees to save the environment has been chanted like a mantra for decades now, but the extent to which trees could actually make a difference was still not clear until recently when Tom Crowther, a professor of global ecosystem ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, published a study in Science […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-272021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Technology AI Has a Carbon Footprint – and It’s Massive! Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that energy required to train a common AI model was equivalent to nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car, including its manufacture! The paper specifically focused on determining carbon emissions for the subfield of AI called NLP (Natural-Language Processing). The researchers looked at […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-042021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Speed Breeding Crops for World’s Ever-Growing Population With the world population estimated to reach a stunning 10 billion by 2050, 60 to 80 percent more food will be needed to feed everybody. This challenge will become even more formidable due to climate change and diseases that affect our crops over time. Plant breeding, however, is a painstakingly slow process and it takes […] Written by Farheen Fawad 2019-06-262021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Four Times as Much Microplastic is Found Under Water Than on the Surface of an Ocean Microscopic pieces of plastic pollution were discovered on sea surfaces years ago. However, now, when an attempt was made to search a section of ocean thoroughly, researchers were appalled to find that deep water harbored a greater density of these microplastics than the surface. Shockingly, more microplastic is found in the depths of the seemingly […] Written by Farheen Fawad 2019-06-172021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News It’s Raining Microplastics in France! A study in France found about 11,400 pieces of microplastic per square meters of air per month in Pyrenees, a mountain range between Spain and France. The study was carried out in a remote place roughly 75 miles away from the nearest city, Toulouse. The researchers found that 365 pieces of microplastic per square meter […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-04-302021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
