MONTEREY, California, September 30, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The aviation industry is moving briskly toward market takeoff for electric commercial aircraft, and many companies on the front lines of these new technologies are developing them cooperatively. From a battery-powered 186-seat commercial passenger jet to smaller hydrogen fuel cell regional planes, electric aircraft are arriving shortly. Have your boarding passes ready!
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Earth Day is no longer just one day, April 22. Its spilling over into a week of actions worldwide pressing for respect of the Earth; it has even begun to fill the entire month of April. This year is the 49th anniversary of Earth Day, and the whole Earth Day network is working up to a crescendo of activity for the 50th anniversary in 2020.
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It is estimated that hundreds of millions of pieces of space debris float through our area of the solar system. Many are as big as trucks, while some are smaller than a fleck of paint.
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In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and to determine why.
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At this moment, there are more than 20,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball are orbiting the Earth, traveling at speeds of 17,500 mph, fast enough to damage a spacecraft. Scientists have now designed a way to grab them based on the way geckos climb walls.
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Water scarcity is a real and present danger for the two-thirds of the global population – four billion people – who live without enough water for at least one month of each year. Half a billion face severe water scarcity all year round.
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The year 2015 was Earth’s hottest by widest margin on record, and in December 2015 the temperature was the highest for any month in the 136-year scientific record, according to scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA.
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