What Can We Do? The Amazon rainforest is burning, and it's upsetting. Large clearances are occurring to make way for cattle farming. There's a lot of hysteria regarding the burning in the Amazon, and for a good reason. The Amazon rainforest is rich with biodiversity and is a significant carbon sink. A study in 2014 … Continue reading The Burning Amazon
How Do Nuclear Power Stations Work? This is a surprisingly rarely asked question! Perhaps because "nuclear" is a word so often featured in the media, people tend to convince themselves that familiarity is equivalent to understanding. Uranium (and sometimes Plutonium) atoms split in a process called nuclear fission. Small particles called neutrons split the molecules, … Continue reading Nuclear Energy
What Impact Does Flying Have on Global Climate? Aviation is an incredibly polluting sector, contributing as much as 5% towards the current global CO2 emissions. [1] Besides, planes contrails release a cocktail of nitrous oxide, water vapour and soot. The release of these chemicals in the troposphere and stratosphere can be up to four times … Continue reading The Climate Cost of Flying
