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The Guardian, Sunday 23 August 2020
Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
“To put that in context, every centimetre of sea level rise means about a million people will be displaced from their low-lying homelands,” said Professor Andy Shepherd, director of Leeds University’s Centre for Polar Observation...
LiveKindly, Sunday 16 August 2020
This banana tree relative could cut COVID-19 plastic waste
What is abaca? The banana tree relative could replace single-use plastic in masks and PPE to help tackle COVID-19 plastic waste pollution.
BBC, Wednesday 12 August 2020
Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious
The amount of oil spilled from the Japanese-owned ship nearby the lagoons and coastal areas of south-east Mauritius is relatively low compared to the big oil spills the world has seen in the past, but the damage it will do is going to be huge and ...
The Guardian, Tuesday 11 August 2020
Powerhouses: nanotechnology turns bricks into batteries
Research could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energy
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