Environment

In August 2022, torrential rainfall in Mississippi led to floodwaters spilling into the suburbs of Jackson, leaving tens of thousands of residents without clean drinking water for weeks. This event serves as a warning for America’s aging and crumbling water infrastructure, which is not equipped to handle the challenges of rising sea levels, hotter summers, […]

Tropical forests are now facing a serious threat. Recent research reveals that these forests are nearing critical temperature thresholds due to global climate change. Scientists are concerned that the escalating temperatures could transform dense forests into landscapes resembling savannas. A study published in a prestigious scientific journal shows that temperatures within tropical forests are consistently

New research by colleagues and the author suggests that coral reefs in the Pacific have increased their resistance to high ocean temperatures, potentially improving their long-term futures if global action on reducing carbon emissions is taken. Corals are sensitive to even small increases in temperature, but their “thermal tolerance” can’t keep pace with ocean warming. 

Southeast Asia’s geophysics agency stated that El Niño weather patterns reported might dry the season in the countries located in southeast Asia. The drying effect of El Niño weather patterns might cause the melting of two of the world’s few tropical glaciers in Indonesia, and predicted to vanish by the year of 2026. The geophysics

Seawater tests near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant found no radiation, the environment ministry said on August 27, days after authorities began dumping treated water used to cool damaged reactors into the sea. On Thursday, Japan began dumping water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, provoking complaints in Japan and

Antarctica is experiencing shattered temperature records and an increase in the size and number of extreme weather events, according to a new paper in Frontiers in Environmental Science. The southernmost continent is not isolated from the extreme weather associated with human-caused climate change, as its western end and peninsula have seen dramatic ice sheet melt

Antarctic sea ice reached a record low in February, according to a study in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The cause of this great damage is rising global temperatures. The study’s co-author, Anna Hogg, warns that it will take decades or centuries for the ice to recover, as melting icebergs and shelves are not

Fast fashion can be categorized as a business model, where the company replicates recent fashion or catwalk trends and produces them in mass quantities with low cost. Fast fashion started to develop in late 1990s and early 2000s as young generations started to innovate new fashion trends. This business model is considered high in profit

There’s less plastic littering the oceans than scientists previously thought, but what’s there can last a long time, says a new study. Modeling studies estimate that pieces of plastic larger than 25 millimeters make up more than 95% of the plastic floating in the oceans. While most of the plastic particles in the oceans are

Swiss air quality technology company, IQAir recorded that Jakarta occupies the top position as the world’s most polluted city or the most polluted city in the world on Wednesday, 9 August 2023 after consistently ranking among the 10 most polluted cities globally since May. Residents of Jakarta are known to have long complained of the