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6 Ways You Might Be Harming The Environment: And How To Stop!
Did you know that many people who are harming the environment don’t even realise they are doing it? Environmental damage isn’t only caused on a vast scale by large corporations, harmful emissions, or global pollution. It is also caused in small but significant ways right in our homes or workplaces.
By Alexander Belsey5 years ago in Futurism
The Crossing
It seemed to be a fact of life that any bout of good luck was sure to be followed by bad. At least, that was what Rhiannon had determined over many, many years. Graduating college had been followed by a massive recession, so no one was hiring full-time. Finally finding a full-time job was rewarded with her car giving up the ghost before any sort of savings could be built up. And so, when she got the notification a lottery ticket she’d purchased (alongside a singular bottle of wine and a bag of chips) at a gas station had won...well, she just started bracing herself.
By Kira Lempereur5 years ago in Futurism
To Taste an Extinct Cuisine
A chilly wind shook the makeshift rope harness holding him over the slowly collapsing cliff of the riverbank and made the sweat streaking down his forehead feel as cold as the frozen soil he was digging away at. Two other men were hanging next to him leaning into the mire of mud and ice and attacking the permafrost with sorely abused picks. The work was exhausting and filthy, but they had to move quickly to come away with their prize before their labor came to the attention of the authorities or other prospectors. Excavating for mammoths in Yakutia in the northeast of Russia is illegal without a permit, but rivers like the Kolyma cut deep into the permafrost and regularly expose paleontological treasures frozen for tens of thousands of years when the relative warmth of summer melts away their tombs. Global warming has helped to free ever more specimens, but the shifting of the melting permafrost has wrought havoc on those who live atop it by demolishing buildings and thawing underground larders. These sorts of difficulties have only made it all the more tempting for residents to engage in unauthorized excavations in search of valuable mammoth tusk ivory.
By Chance Jones5 years ago in Futurism
No Single Raindrop
It was almost here. I downed my final gulp of whiskey and tossed the bottle, which exploded on the sidewalk next to a middle-aged couple engaged in frantic lovemaking. Their writhing bodies, stark beneath an all-searing sky that bleached Los Angeles in tones of dazzling arctic white, were but one scene of thousands lifted straight from a Hieronymus Bosch canvas.
By J. M. Hemmings5 years ago in Futurism
What to Consider in Setting up a Geothermal Energy Plant?
Geothermal energy is heat generated beneath the earth's crust contained in rocks and fluids. Geothermal energy can be used for cooling, heating, and providing a clean source of energy. For electricity, medium or high temperature is needed, which can be found deep down the earth's surface, generally located near tectonically active regions.
By Lellith Garcia5 years ago in Futurism
THE RAT HOLE: An Intro to The Great Game for World Wild Domination
In the time before Big Spring, civilization had killed, enslaved, tamed, and or domesticated all of earth's wild creatures. Bison were herded into parks and other wilderness ghettos; wolves were tracked by Park Rangers and shot by ranchers; salmon learned to follow the new river rules with their damns and engineered channels; elk ran and hid from the sport hunters and bloody highways like the rest of the wilderness, and the insects, rats, and raccoons were diagnosed, labeled, and treated to death by the monthly culling of generic pest control companies. Nothing was wild. The land and soil with its rich culture of worms and microbes from sea to shining sea on every continent was owned by someone, or some inhuman govering body or character, who took an active interest in making sure The Action all flowed in accordance to Its grand fucking master plan.
By Jake Wasson5 years ago in Futurism
The impact of city life on your health
For most of my life, I lived with my family in an isolated mountain village on the border of Switzerland. I did grow up surrounded by mountains, happy cows and a lot of nature. We lived in an old house and I loved the smell of our old wooden furniture.
By Gracekelly5 years ago in Futurism
Western Chorus Frog Citizen Science Research
Western chorus frog populations of the Great Lakes/St.Lawrence/Canadian Shield are currently listed as a threatened species by COSEWIC however not much is known about the full range of the frogs. Blazing Star Environmental (BSE) is looking to learn more about this species through a three-year citizen science program in Southern Ontario. While it started last year in 2020, BSE is still looking for volunteers this season and next season. On February 6/2021, two members of BSE hosted an information webinar about the Western Chorus Frog Long-Term Monitoring Program, this article is an account of the webinar that took place.
By Kelsey Reich5 years ago in Futurism
Soil and Trouble
I had left my office job a couple of months earlier, and that's another story. There were a few bar shifts a week in a nearby town to begin with, and the first news reports from China of a new virus. Another thing to worry about. To save money, we moved in with my parents, a 3-acre plot of clay and tall grass near the County Antrim coast.
By Andy Warmington5 years ago in Futurism
How plastic-eating bacteria works to solve the pollution problem
Plastic-eating bacteria! Might it solve the pollution problem? Micro-plastics have shown that they are really becoming a massive problem for the environment and even invading our food chain. To put it simply, all types of plastic waste are impacting our ecosystem from the highest mountain to the depths of the ocean.
By Wayne Porteous5 years ago in Futurism
