Environment

Wireless for wildlife – how technology could help reduce deforestation

Electronics Weekly: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Thanks to the emergence of innovative wireless conservation…

Krakatoa is still active, and we are not ready for the tsunamis another eruption would generate

The Conversation: The August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was one of the deadliest volcanic explosions in modern history. The volcano, found in the middle of the Sunda Strait in between…

Four reasons why restoring nature is the most important endeavour of our time

The Conversation: Ecosystem degradation is a global phenomenon. It is expected that by 2050, 95% of Earth’s land will be degraded. A whopping 24 billion tons of soil have already…

CERN’s emissions equal to a large cruise liner, says report

Physics World: Greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva in 2018 were 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent – similar to the emissions from a large cruise liner. That is according to the lab’s first public Environment Report…