20 episodes

A look at our changing environment.

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A look at our changing environment.

    Car tires in your salad

    Car tires in your salad

    There seems to be no end to the types of pollution we have introduced into the environment.  One that has only recently started to gain attention is pollution caused by vehicle tires.  Through normal wear and tear, as vehicles drive along roadways, their tires cast off countless bits of rubber.  These particles can linger in […]

    • 2 min
    Record carbon dioxide levels

    Record carbon dioxide levels

    Despite the increasing concern about the warming climate, the period between March of last year and March of this year has set a new record for the largest 12-month gain in atmospheric CO2 concentration ever observed.  The new level, measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory was nearly 5 parts per million higher than last year’s […]

    • 2 min
    Glaciers in Venezuela

    Glaciers in Venezuela

    There are nearly 200,000 glaciers in the world.  About 91% of them are in Antarctica and 8% in Greenland.  The rest are scattered across nearly 50 countries.  The non-polar country with the most glaciers is actually Pakistan, which has over 7,200 of them.  But as the world continues to warm, glaciers are shrinking back, and […]

    • 2 min
    Recycling cement

    Recycling cement

    Concrete is the second-most-used material on the planet.  Only water is used more.  Producing concrete is responsible for 7.5% of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions.  So, finding a cost-effective way to reduce these emissions is a major challenge in the face of ever-growing global demand for concrete. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that used cement […]

    • 2 min
    Beware of the blob

    Beware of the blob

    For the past 10 years, there have been several occurrences of a vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California in which water temperatures are as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal.  Known jocularly as “the Blob,” the phenomenon can last for several years and decimates fish stocks, starves seabirds, creates blooms […]

    • 2 min
    A month of extra-hot days

    A month of extra-hot days

    The past 12 months have been the hottest ever measured across the globe.  This may not be everyone’s experience in every location, but the average person on Earth experienced 26 more days of abnormally high temperatures than they would have in the absence of climate change. Researchers considered a given day’s temperature to be abnormally […]

    • 2 min

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