Category: Global Brief

According to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the world’s oceans are being stripped of sand at a massive rate, with more than 6 billion tons extracted […]

Researchers have been exploring sustainable alternatives for electronic materials due to the increasing generation of electronic waste. In a recent study published in Science Advances, a team of scientists introduced […]

Ecuador’s Nacional cacao bean was a world-renowned delicacy until a blight and witches’ broom disease eradicated most trees in the early 1900s. After the discovery of nine 100-year-old Nacional trees […]

Air pollution is not only harmful to human health, but it can also contribute to antibiotic resistance. Using 18 years of data from 116 countries, researchers observed that exposure to […]

At their 2023 meeting\in India, the leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) countries responsible for approximately 80 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions have agreed to triple the […]

Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the concept of collecting solar energy during a space orbit and beaming it safely to a fixed point on Earth. Recently, the British government sponsored […]

Researchers from Japan and Germany are developing eco-friendly light devices that use a single layer of organic film mixed with light-emitting materials and an electrolyte. These light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC) […]

Every day, hummingbirds must drink nearly their body weight in nectar to survive. Most hover above their food by beating their wings up to 80 times a second and inserting […]