Summary The following article was submitted by Nick from Iowa City, who provided an effective “prompt” (phrasing of a question) to get an answer from Microsoft Copilot regarding plastic water bottle safety. This is the first instance of using an AI generated article as content on this website. This article has the tag “AI Generated”… Continue reading Plastic Water Bottle Safety 2024
Category: Environment
Water Scarcity Report 2024
Summary This document provides news and information about water scarcity. For additional news and background read Water Scarcity News 2022. News Bloomberg (3 Oct 2024) “The Surprising Solutions to the World’s Water Crisis” — Our survival depends on water, yet global reserves are rapidly shrinking. It’s now replaced oil as the most likely cause of… Continue reading Water Scarcity Report 2024
Farming Report 2024
Summary This page provides information and news about innovations in farming such as regenerative agriculture. More information will be added as it becomes available. For more information see the following resources: Broad Support for Regenerative Farming Among the reports provided below, one is produced by and for conservative religious people (see CBN from 30 Jul… Continue reading Farming Report 2024
Eco News 2024
Summary This document contains some news highlights for current environmental news. More information will be added over time as it becomes available. For additional context and background, read the Eco News 2023 report. News Washington Post (10 Sep 2024) “One of the most potent greenhouse gases is rising faster than ever” — About a third… Continue reading Eco News 2024
Recycling Report 2024
Summary This document provides information about recycling benefits, options, and challenges. Some recent investigative news reports about recycling reveal some inefficiencies and failures of our current recycling efforts. Most of those news stories focus on plastics. A person could get discouraged by these reports and stop recycling completely. Despite some discouraging news about recycling, we… Continue reading Recycling Report 2024
EV Eco Impact Report 2024
Summary This document highlights some of the concerns about the environmental and human impact of electric vehicle production. Closed Loop Lifecycle As much as possible, a closed loop lifecycle should be the goal for EV manufacturing. While materials will be brought into the manufacturing process, reuse and recycling of those materials going forward would reduce… Continue reading EV Eco Impact Report 2024
Future Report 2024
Summary This document is intended to offer news and information about innovations and technologies that can serve future generations and improve quality of life. Initially there are some videos from a PBS series that present realistic and positive future outcomes. A Brief History of the Future The videos below are from the six part series… Continue reading Future Report 2024
Climate Impact on Mental Health 2023
Summary Climate extremes and severe events have resulted in anxiety for young people concerned about their future. Young people may have a feeling of doom when considering social unrest, political unrest, and extreme environmental events. In addition to these concerns, there are additional stresses for climate migrants who have been displaced from their homes dues… Continue reading Climate Impact on Mental Health 2023
Population Report 2023
Summary Population topics and issues are regularly in the news. This page offers news and reports for 2023. For more, read Population Report 2022 and also the Population Resources page. Gardening The gardening image at the top of this page shows quality of life that’s made possible by clean air, quality soil, flourishing pollinators, food… Continue reading Population Report 2023
Eco News 2023
Summary This document provides environmental news and information including news of droughts, flooding, rising oceans, and more. Entries are listed in chronological order with source and date in the heading. For further reading, see the Eco News 2024 report. For information on flooding, read “Flooding News 2023.” Last year’s eco reports include: 2023 News CNBC… Continue reading Eco News 2023
Flooding News 2023
Summary This page has news and reports relating to flooding events in the U.S. and other areas. For more background, read “Global Flooding News 2022.” [View] On 13 Apr 2023, Fort Lauderdale received 26 inches of rain in 8 hours. That is seven months of rain in just over seven hours — a once in… Continue reading Flooding News 2023
Fusion Energy News 2022
Summary This document provides current information about fusion energy. News stories are in chronological order below with source and date as the heading for each entry. “We were able to reach pressures more than two times the center of the sun and about 150 million degrees [Celsius].” This is about 10 times hotter than the… Continue reading Fusion Energy News 2022