Tag: Climate

Meal planning, shopping lists, soup from shrivelled vegetables - all valid ways of lowering food waste. Scientists, meanwhile, are constantly thinking of ways to reduce methane generated by food waste dumped at landfill sites. Using vegetables for solar cells, for example, or bread for drinks. Now researchers have discovered that leftover food can be converted to sustainable aviation fuel...

Small animals can have a big impact. Mosquitos and snails are living proof. Now copepods have been found to be equally influential. Mini shrimps, as insignificant as a single grain of ground coffee. The nocturnal animals with an inner biological clock feed on phytoplankton. These swim on the ocean’s surface and, as we know, sequester CO2. Copepods cover unusually...

A shady place, thoughtful Mother’s Day gift, natural garden fences – plants, flowers and trees provide joy in many contexts. They are an important part of our delicate eco-system, absorbing CO2 and providing fresh oxygen. What’s more, with careful planning we can use specific plants to manage environmental issues. At least according to the latest research, which saw scientists...

2,500 people weigh around 190 tons – the same as a blue whale. But whales are more than just heavy. They bind vast amounts of CO2 in their bodies and take it down with them to the bottom of the ocean when they die. The high-iron content of their excrement, meanwhile, provides a rapid growth environment for phytoplankton, which...

It’s an ingredient that’s already been used to make vodka. Not potatoes – but the gas responsible for global warming. A Swiss-based start-up is using clean energy to extract CO2 from the air already. The aviation industry accounts for 3% of all CO2 emissions worldwide. Since battery-operated airplanes won’t take to the skies on the fly, the industry is...

Cabbage, potatoes and carrots – a sustainable diet involves eating vegetables, right? There’s more to it than that. An American female-led startup is bucking the trend and making food from seaweed, working with farms run exclusively by women. Seaweed, also known as kelp, is climate-positive as it sequesters carbon dioxide. It is also a ‘zero-input’ food, meaning it needs...