An aerial piping system in Nairobi is providing clean, affordable water to a poverty-stricken neighborhood where waterborne illness is common. Diarrheal illnesses have been cut by more than 30 percent. In Kenya, One Solution to Contaminated Water Comes From Above https://undark.org/2024/08/13/kenya-clean-water-aerial-piping-system/ Related Reading
Organic waste such as wood, food waste, agricultural waste and, perhaps most important of all, coffee grounds, usually ends up in landfills where it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, including methane and carbon dioxide, that contribute to climate change. However, Australian scientists have found a way to use the waste instead of sand to…
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A new study of President-elect Trump’s tax plan shows it would drain money from 95 percent of households and funnel it to the top 5 percent. People in the lower and middle economic classes would face annual tax increases ranging from $600 to $1,800, while the top 1 per cent of earners would enjoy an…
Linhares, Brazil, is a world-renowned surfing destination, so when local surfers complained that the waves were changing, the city listened — and did something that has never been done before. It granted the waves legal personhood, complete with all the protections that infers. For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal…
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The United States has one of the highest death rates of any wealthy nation for infants and new mothers both, so Oregon is rolling out a new program to change that. The program offers any family with a new baby a no-cost home visit with a trained nurse. Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come…
People use lithium batteries for a virtually endless number of reasons, but one key component of lithium batteries is graphite, and therein lies a problem. Graphite is largely supplied by China, which gets almost 60 percent of its electricity from burning coal, which creates toxic pollution that can cause extreme weather events and harm plants, animals, the economy and our…
Maritime shipping, which uses 300 million tons of fuel every year, causes 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. To combat that, a state-owned company in China has built a 10,000-ton containership that is fully electric, and it recently put the ship into service. A fully-electric 10,000 ton container ship has begun service equipped with…
In 1954, 45 percent of Americans said they had smoked a cigarette within the last week. Today, 70 years later, 11 percent say they have. And the numbers continue to drop. Cigarette Smoking Rate in U.S. Ties 80-Year Low https://news.gallup.com/poll/648521/cigarette-smoking-rate-ties-year-low.aspx Related Reading
The United States and 174 other countries have been negotiating a binding agreement to reduce plastic pollution around the globe, and the Biden administration just released the United States’ first plan for doing its part. US has its first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution − here are 3 strong points and a key issue…
