climate change
The inhabitants consider them sacred; thousands of tourists have been awed by them. But now it seems inevitable that the rising sea will swallow them, plunging these fascinating artifacts of a mysterious ancient culture deep into its waters. The Moai statues on Easter Island— as iconic as Stonehenge in England— … Read More
With plans to legalize marijuana before this July in Canada, there have been recent discussions about what cannabis production will look like and how it will affect the environment. Because marijuana plants require a lot of water and artificial light when grown indoors, they consume a lot of energy. Naturally, there … Read More
Fisherman Karissa Lindstrand was banding lobster claws off Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, in November when she spotted something unusual on one of the crustacean’s claws—a popular blue and red logo. Upon closer inspection, she discovered it was a Pepsi logo. “I can’t say how he got it on,” Lindstrand … Read More
Remember the thrill of eating that chalky astronaut ice cream as a child? There’s something futuristic about dehydrated food made in a factory. But according to experts, the food of the future depends on something less engineered and more elemental: the soil. As Will Ortman, an organic farmer in South … Read More
When Dr. Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist (and the icon of the wildly popular TV show “Big Bang Theory”) pronounced earlier in November at a summit in China that the human species had 600 years to survive on planet Earth, his prediction was met with a collective head-scratching. It … Read More
