The “World’s Highest” 5G Tower Has Been Installed At The Summit of Mount Everest
China Mobile and the Huawei corporation have installed the 5G network on Mount Everest.
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What Is Humanity Capable Of? This Man Got 152 Million Mangrove Trees Planted In 10 Years
Haidar el Ali, who once served as Senegal's Minister of Environment, has led one of the largest reforestation projects the world has ever seen.
How Plants Defend Themselves
the role that the hormone jasmonic acid plays in the defense response of plants, an understanding of which could lead to more resilient plants in the era of climate change
Engineers Develop A Device That ‘Literally Generates Electricity Out of Thin Air’
Electrical engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a device that literally generates energy out of thin air.
BT Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
This month, India’s Supreme Court will hold a lengthy hearing on the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) mustard, which would be the country’s first GM food crop.
Can GM crops really “feed the world”? Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture
A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to feed an ever-growing global population.
GM in India: Faking it on the Astroturf
According to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line, India’s intelligence agencies are investigating the role of a global investment company and international seed companies in supporting farmers organisation Shetkari Sanghatana (SS) in the distribution of illegally procured genetically modified (GM) herbicide tolerant (HT) cotton seeds.
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Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, construction of which is intended to transport 55 billion cubic metres of Russian gas to Germany per year under the Baltic Sea, is a ragbag of options and promises. The fruit of a deal between Berlin and Moscow, it has troubled those within Russia,
Connecting the Dots
“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
Lenin – Letters from Afar
Many on the left seem to have forgotten that capitalism is actually bad. That the reason the planet sinks under the weight of pollution and militarism
Mushrooms, The New Plastic
Mushrooms can easily be viewed as natures recycling system. They have been around for billions of years and they greatly help to improve soil quality. They are effective as natures recycling system
IKEA Plans To Switch From Styrofoam Packaging To A Mushroom-Based Alternative
Styrofoam is harmful to our planet, which is why it's great to see IKEA switching all styrofoam packaging products to a compostable mushroom-based alternative.
Important Points To Ponder About Greta Thunberg’s Protestations
Greta Thunberg has become the face of the Climate Change movement, being given every opportunity to make speeches of growing intensity rebuking world leaders about their inaction on adopting CO2 reduction schemes. Why are certain people given the loudest microphone on the world stage while others have no chance to
Copenhagen: Life in the Slow Lane
Indian cities are in crisis.
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
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In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state:
As the science against glyphosate safety mounts
Materials that can revolutionize how light is harnessed for solar energy: Researchers develop new design rule for generating excitons will help advance next-generation devices
In a study published this month in Nature Chemistry, the team details the design of organic molecules that are capable of generating two excitons per photon of light, a process called singlet fission.
The excitons are produced rapidly and can live for much longer than those generated from their inorganic