• Energy

Solar Innovations Offer New Inroads to Renewable Energy

• Department of Energy
• electric road
• electric vehicles
• hydropower
• renewable energy
• science
• solar panels
• solar power
• sustainable

A new study by the Department of Energy provides an interesting new concept for blending solar and hydropower.  The study found that by placing solar panels on reservoirs and feeding the solar power generated into the same substation, both the hydropower and solar power generated could be more inexpensive, more efficient, and more reliable.

Why This Matters:  It may be obvious, but we will need innovations like these to make the transformations needed to have a sustainable and feasible renewable power system. 

• Ocean

Climate Change and the Ocean Century

• #30x30
• climate change
• exploration
• ocean
• ocean governance
• science
• sea level rise

By Monica Medina, Co-Founder and Co-Publisher, Our Daily Planet This op/ed was published in World War Zero Magazine and appears here with its permission. The ocean is our lifeblood on Earth. It covers 71% of the planet, provides us oxygen, regulates our climate and increasingly severe weather events by determining the strength of storms, droughts […]

• Sustainability

Watch This: Sir David Attenborough’s New Documentary and Insta Debut

• #30x30
• biodiversity
• conservation
• nature
• Netflix
• science
• Sir David Attenborough
• wildlife

By Julia Fine, ODP Contributing Writer This week, Sir David Attenborough put on a full-court press for biodiversity — he joined Instagram and he “called for a $500 billion per year global investment in nature,” as Kaelan Deese reported for The Hill. According to Deese, this exhortation for conservation “came during a one-day summit by […]

• Ocean

Study Shows Warming Ocean, Vicious Carbon Cycle

• carbon sink
• food web
• Hurricanes
• ocean
• science
• warming

A new study found that the ocean is showing signs of intensifying stratification, a phenomenon in which the layers of water in the ocean become more distinct and mix less.

Why This Matters: The mixing of ocean layers is crucial to sea life and human life.

• Health

EPA Dismisses Science on Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Citing Lack Of “Raw Data”

• children
• chlorpyrifos
• Earthjustice
• pesticides
• science
• transparency

The Trump Administration announced last week that it has rejected the settled scientific evidence linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to serious health problems, particularly in children. This pesticide, which is widely used on soybeans, almonds, grapes, and other crops, has been proven to harm children’s neurological development. 

Why this matters: Under the false flag of transparency, EPA is putting children at greater risk. 

• Energy

One Great Headline: “Renewables to Quench Pepsi’s Thirst for Power”

• #cleanenergy
• clean energy
• climate change
• PepsiCo
• renewable energy
• science

H/T to renews.biz, an energy news platform, for that headline, and to PepsiCo for making it possible.  PepsiCo, one of the largest companies in the world — with a global carbon footprint — announced plans this week to transition to 100% renewable electricity across all of its company-owned and controlled operations globally by 2030 and […]