Jul 1, 2021 | Climate, Electric Vehicles, Environment, Featured
The electric-car transition is here. Car maker after car maker is committing to selling electric vehicles. General Motors will go all-electric by 2035. Volkswagen has said it will increase its proportion of electric vehicles to 70% by 2030. Audi will stop designing...
May 27, 2021 | Climate, Oceanography, Robots
Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic smaller than five millimeters across—are everywhere, from snow in the Arctic and rain in the Rocky Mountains to bottled water and beer. On the ocean floor, there may be nearly 16 million metric tons of it. In the top 200 meters of...
May 19, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate
Optimistic predictions expect reliable autonomous vehicles to be commercially available by 2030, at a time when mobility is undergoing a profound shift away from traditional modes of transportation and towards door-to-door services. Previous analysis suggested that...
May 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment
Gov. Tony Evers on April 22 — Earth Day — pledged that the state would plant 75 million new trees by Dec. 31, 2030, in addition to conserving 125,000 acres across the state. Evers said he believes trees are important not only to the economy and...
Apr 7, 2021 | Climate, Drones
Hungry polar bears are increasingly foraging on seabird eggs as climate change shrinks their Arctic hunting grounds, but research published Wednesday on the phenomenon highlights the struggle these apex predators have to adapt to their rapidly changing environment....
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