Global Temperatures & Sea Ice Levels 2016
Arctic sea ice is disappearingAccording to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2016 tied for the second-lowest annual Arctic sea ice mini
Art from Trash: Why Waste it?
LEO SEWELL
Just can't get enough of waste While most artists working with recycled materials get into the idea later on in life, Leo Sewell grew up in a dump and was assembling pieces of trash together even as a boy. Since then, he’s actually developed and mastered his own assemblage technique involving nuts, bolts, and screws, enabling his creations to bear striking likenesses to the creatures he models them after while still allowing the bits of trash inside to be easily s
Update on Climate Change: 2016 What's been achieved so far?
Global warming can sometimes feel like this big, hopelessly intractable problem that no one’s doing much about. But the first two weeks of October 2016 have seen a genuinely impressive barrage of climate action around the world. Consider what’s gone down so far: 1) Canada got a carbon tax. On October 4, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government would implement a nationwide carbon tax starting in 2018. The tax will start at $7.60 per ton of carbon dioxide
Cleaning Up the Ocean with Washed Ashore
Washed Ashore Art to Save the Sea:
A travelling exhibition from
stuff your chuck in the sea A sea turtle named Herman, an octopus called Octavia, and a seal named Lidia all spent this summer in the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
But unlike the zoo’s other residents, they are not real animals. These creatures are actually huge sculptures—and they’re made entirely out of plastic trash from the ocean. These giant artworks, along with 14 others, are part of a t
Power Up Our Roads
Are you a budding scientist? If so, perhaps you can help with this invention. We already have electric cars, so why not expand that idea to create electric roads? Plugging an electric car into a charging station could become old news as scientists are developing electric roads that can charge your car while waiting at a traffic light or even on the move.
The UK government is installing these devices under test roads and in vehicles, to determine if the charging could work on
