Before we can send humans to Mars, we’ll need to select people who can live and work together in an extreme and distant environment. So how do we figure that out? One way is to re-create Mars here on Earth. That’s where HI-SEAS comes in. It’s a fake interplanetary habitat located on an active volcano […]

The popular low-fare airline’s long-promised Hawaii flights should get off the ground within the next few months. In October 2017, Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) officially announced that it planned to start flying to Hawaii. At the time, the popular low-fare carrier indicated that it would begin selling tickets at some point in 2018 and potentially begin service before the end […]

At the start of January, people typically make resolutions about health, money, and relationships, with the mindset of “new year, new me.” In 2019, they need to add environmental goals to the list. Last year was one of the hottest years on record, and rising temperatures along with climate-related changes are affecting the Arctic, wildlife, and people across […]

Simple steps are the gateway to living a zero-waste lifestyle. You dutifully set out a full recycling bin each week brimming with plastic, paper and metal. It’s a good habit, but, unfortunately, recycling efforts aren’t working as well as they should. In the last few decades, for instance, the number of plastic products has exploded, […]

HONOLULU  – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is shooting back at critics who questioned why she was vacationing over the holidays in Hawaii amid a government shutdown. Pelosi told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that she observed Christmas in the islands, but that she and other Democrats in the U.S. House “stood ready” to reconvene if a […]

A controversial plan to capture trash in the Pacific isn’t panning out as planned Cleaning up ocean pollution is no simple task, as an effort to fish plastic out of the Pacific Ocean is revealing. In September, scientists launched a 600-meter-long boom meant to herd plastic debris from the great Pacific garbage patch into a net (SN […]

Today’s babies will live on a planet without an Arctic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently announced there is only a dozen years left before the Earth’s temperature rises a few degrees, after which the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people will significantly worsen. The range […]

While there is no silver-bullet solution to the toxic tide of plastic surging into our oceans, recycling must form part of the answer. The problem, many experts say, is that current processes are not fit for purpose. The world produces around 300 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. To date, only 9 per cent of the plastic […]

A thought need to be spared for the good old Christmas tree — a tree that is loved and decorated as the central feature of many households for almost a whole month … and come January it is  stripped of all the lights and decorations and dumped. But don’t feel too bad for the trees […]

A Dutch project to clear plastic waste out of the Pacific ocean has had a second setback in a month – this time, one of the end parts of the boom used to catch rubbish has broken off. This ‘structural malfunctioning of the cleanup system’ means the team is returning to port earlier than planned, […]