Environment

As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’

New York Times: If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store: The lake’s flies and brine shrimp would die off…

Plastic-eating worms offer solution to waste crisis

E&T Magazine: University of Queensland researchers discovered the common Zophobas morio ‘superworm’ can eat through polystyrene, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut. They fed superworms different diets over a three-week period, with some given polystyrene foam, some bran and…

The Vanishing Rio Grande: Warming Takes a Toll on a Legendary River

Yale Environment 360: Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero hour has arrived for the Rio Grande. Though the river this day is high…

In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life

Yale Environment 360: Deep in the Rift Valley of East Africa, close to some of the most ancient human remains ever unearthed, one of the continent’s last hunter-gatherer tribes is embracing 21st -century environmentalism. The Hadza people, often called “the last archers…