Earth Wise
A look at our changing environment.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2025
The UK is heating up
June and July have both seen multiple days with temperatures in the 90s in London, England. This is almost unheard of, but according to British scientists, record-breaking extreme weather has become…
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Tue 05 Aug 2025
Geothermal energy may be safe
The Trump Administration is outwardly hostile to renewable energy, especially solar and wind power. Federal support for these energy sources that are by far the most rapidly growing energy sources a…
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Mon 04 Aug 2025
How much nanoplastic is in the oceans?
It is unfortunately well-known that microplastics are pretty much everywhere on Earth. They are also increasingly found in living things like birds and dolphins as well as in human brains and placen…
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Fri 01 Aug 2025
Solar power in Europe
In June, solar power was the largest source of electricity in the European Union for the first time. Solar supplied a record 22% of the power for the 27-country bloc. At least 13 of the countries p…
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Thu 31 Jul 2025
Forest-based agroforestry
Tree plantings have become a go-to climate solution for governments and conservation groups due to the carbon-storing potential of trees. While planting new trees on open farmland would help capture…
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Wed 30 Jul 2025
The world is warming and it’s happening faster
This summer has already seen unprecedented heat in many places. It started with a record-breaking heat dome in June in the United States. Alaska had its first-ever heat advisory that month. Europe…
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Tue 29 Jul 2025
AI and greener cement
Cement pretty much holds the modern world together. The amount of cement required to create our infrastructure is almost incomprehensible. By weight, humanity consumes more cement than food, about…
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Mon 28 Jul 2025
Raccoons in Europe
Tens of thousands of raccoons live in Kassel, a city of 200,000 people in central Germany known for its art scene. Overall, there are an estimated 1.5 million raccoons in Germany. The omnivorous ma…
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Fri 25 Jul 2025
Deconstructing buildings
An estimated 30 million tons of wood waste from construction and demolition in the U.S. ends up in landfills each year. A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood instead…
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Thu 24 Jul 2025
Biochar and poultry farm pollution
Poultry farms are a significant source of air and water pollution. In the US, they are the largest source of ammonia emissions, followed by dairy and non-dairy cattle farms. Poultry farms emit over …
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
More efficient cooling for data centers
Increasing reliance on digital technologies in general and artificial intelligence in particular are dramatically increasing the energy consumption of data centers. Data centers consume far more ene…
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Tue 22 Jul 2025
Marine heatwaves are spreading
Sea surface temperatures broke records in 2024 and a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heatwave. A marine heatwave is a prolonged period during whi…
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Mon 21 Jul 2025
A recycling lottery
Getting people to recycle isn’t always easy. The bottled beverages we buy at the supermarket often require a small deposit that we can get back by recycling the bottle, but often, we just don’t. Res…
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
Wasting less wastewater
Ultra-pure water is essential for multiple industries, for example semiconductors, batteries, and pharmaceuticals, as well as food and beverage companies. Such water is produced by various processes…
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
Planting trees to cool the planet
Planting lots of trees is one of many strategies being pursued to combat climate change. Forests absorb carbon dioxide, provide shade, and help regulate temperatures. They also support biodiversity a…
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Wed 16 Jul 2025
Hidden hydrogen
The idea of using hydrogen as a fuel or an energy source has been around for a long time. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, but most of it is locked up in various chemical compoun…
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
Climate change and hunger
Worldwide, people are producing more food than ever, but most of that production is concentrated into only a handful of places. For example, fully one third of the world’s wheat and barley exports c…
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Mon 14 Jul 2025
Indoor air and outdoor pollution
The majority of us spend about 80% of our time indoors. The quality of the air that we breathe depends on the age and type of building we occupy along with any sources of indoor pollution that may …
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Fri 11 Jul 2025
Extending the shelf life of produce
More than 30% of the world’s food is lost after it has been harvested. That’s enough to feed more than a billion people. Much of that loss is fruits and vegetables that go bad before they can be ea…
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Thu 10 Jul 2025
New nuclear power for New York
Nuclear power has been around since the 1950s, but it has fallen out of favor in recent decades, in part due to a couple of traumatic disasters at nuclear power plants. In fact, only two new nuclear…
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Wed 09 Jul 2025
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