Environment

Clean water shortage is one of the biggest problems facing humanity, one we don’t talk about often enough or with the correct perspective. It is inspiring when we hear stories about celebrities like Matt Damon going to great lengths to provide fresh water to communities that can’t otherwise access it.

Three caribou from soon-to-be-extinct herds in the southern Selkirk and Purcell mountains have been relocated to Revelstoke. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources conceived the plan, in August 2018, as a way of giving the animals a better chance of survival in a region with the larger Columbia North caribou herd.

Emperor penguins are the largest species of penguin. They are native to the Antarctic region and are seen as particularly vulnerable to climate change and habitat loss. Emperors are also possibly the best-known and most popular species of this bird type.

The temperature of the Earth’s oceans is increasing. Those are the findings of four separate studies based on heat recordings taken from these bodies of water.

The USDA has defined food insecurity as the lack of consistent access to food to sustain a healthy living. An estimated 1 in 8 Americans, including about 12 million children, were found to be ‘food insecure,’ in 2017, according to a recent paper published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Earlier in the year, the Australian scientific authority, CSIRO, announced the discovery of a new range of seamounts that could also be dormant volcanos. These intriguing features of the seabed were found to be valuable places for marine life to live, to meet and navigate. However, the Tasmanian sea floor also has other, more established seamounts.

Carbon-14 dating has revolutionized a number of scientific disciplines, most notably archeology and climatology. Stalagmites in a Chinese cave have given scientists all they need to reconstruct the historical record of atmospheric radiocarbon (carbon-14), back to the carbon dating limit of around 54,000 years ago. The stalagmites in China were found in Hulu Cave, and they offer a continuous record of atmospheric carbon ratios.

The British company Dyson, best known for its premium appliances, is moving ahead with its plans to build an electric car. The company plans to unveil its ‘radically different’ EV in 2021. As of October 23, the location for the manufacture of the electric vehicle has been in favor of Singapore.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an organization regarded as the authority in judging how close the world’s animals are to extinction, why, and how well are they are being protected from it. Accordingly, this organization maintains a rating system that determines the threat posed to individual species, where categories range from Least Concern (LC) to Extinct (EX).

Why is water so abundant on Earth, especially when it tends not to be so on other planets in our solar system?

Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Blockchains LLC, a lawyer and cryptocurrency millionaire bought 67,000 acres of desert land in northern Nevada, near Reno, for $170 million in 2018.

The worldwide population of mammals, birds, fish and aquatic creatures, amphibians, and reptiles have plunged by almost 60 percent, since 1970, as human activities are continuing to overwhelm the environment, said the WWF conservation group, last week.