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Digi-Key Electronics Utilizes New Tech to Keep Employees Safe
A group of engineers from Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor based in northern Minnesota, have invented new tech to...
New Study Shows Global Warming Increasing Frequency of the Most-Destructive Tropical Storms
New warnings of a global warming-driven increase in the most deadly and destructive tropical storms are especially scary in regions already hit hard, ...
‘Extreme’ Effect: Global Emissions Plummet 17 Percent During Lockdown
First peer-reviewed study predicts global emissions could fall seven per cent this year, but warns such savings are required every year for decades to...
Climate Change: Future Floods Will Delay Emergency Response
Researchers say that flood conditions could see just 9% of some rural populations reached by an ambulance within the 7-15 minute mandatory timeframe....
PFAS-Free Firefighting Foams: Are They Safer?
In the 1960s, researchers from the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory began testing a new class of firefighting foam that could rapidly extinguish fuel fir...
Santé: Pernod Ricard Pulls Forward Date for Phase-Out of Single Use Point-of-Sale Plastics
Owner of Absolut Vodka and Jameson has delivered sustainable materials guidance to its 90 affiliates in order to ensure that single-use plastic is eli...
The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly Thin Ice
In March 2019, at a crowded happy hour in Boulder, Colorado, I sat listening to Matt Shupe, an atmospheric scientist, describing his decades-long drea...
California’s Budget Cuts Threaten Environmental Spending
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget cuts include canceling billions of dollars in climate change spending, a blow to environment...
Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens to Undo Progress on Plastic Pollution
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the plastic bag was in retreat. Single-use plastics had become the subject of aggressive — and increasingly success...
Don’t Waste Time: How to Implement a Recycling Program at Your Facility
According to the EPA, manufacturers in the U.S. generate 7.6 billion tons of waste every year. Sustainability has become a buzzword in almost every in...
Thousands of Tonnes of Ocean Microplastics Could be Blowing Ashore Every Year with Sea Breeze, Study Finds
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of ocean plastic pollution could be blowing back to shore with the sea breeze every year, according to a new study. Re...
AIHA and NSC Provide Reopening Resources for Employers
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and National Safety Council (NSC) both released guidelines and resources for employers reopening wo...