Decades ago, road sharing platforms Uber and Lyft, entering the market, claimed that their business would help reduce personal travel by car, unload city streets and even increase the use of public transport. But a new study by American scientists proves the opposite, according to Bloomberg CityLab. The researchers decided to study externalities, or “external […]
Today we will devote our review to three movies with a common theme – how far is a person protesting against a consumer society ready to go? This topic has been exciting the minds for many years, and one of its most striking manifestos is the book “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” by Henry […]
Locals and environmental groups staged a protest in connection with the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory on the outskirts of the city of Grünheide in Berlin. They are sure that the plant will pollute drinking water because it was built in a water protection zone. In addition, many trees were cut down during construction, which […]
A large-scale oil spill occurred off the coast of Southern California. Because of this, local authorities declared an environmental disaster, Reuters reports. It is known that on the territory of 33.7 square km, there was a leak of more than 572 thousand liters of oil. The local authorities call the Amplify Energy Corporation oil pipe […]
The ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species will be declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Government scientists have exhausted efforts to find these 23 species and warned that climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common, the Associated Press […]
The first thing that catches your eye is the paradox between the declared environmental friendliness and the very idea of building a city from scratch, even in the middle of the desert. In September, 50-year-old billionaire Mark Laurie, founder of Diapers.com and Jet.com, announced the construction of a futuristic metropolis called Telos. The city will be […]
Hundreds of migratory birds collided with glass skyscrapers in flight were reported dead in New York last week, Dezeen reports. During the day, birds are confused by the sky’s reflection in the glass facades of skyscrapers, and at night they are disoriented by a bright light in the windows. On the morning of September 14, […]
Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland. The buses – made by El Dorado National and owned by the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority – look like any others. Yet […]
Most of California in the US experience extreme drought. May and June have been the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new all-time low in October. For example, the Putah Creek River fell victim to drought and now looks like a puddle […]
Scientists are learning more about fire tornadoes, the spinning funnels of flame, NPR reports. A fire tornado has been captured on video at the Tennant fire in northern California, BBC states. It is one of the latest signs of extreme weather threatening the US west, facing severe drought and record high temperatures. Thought rare, similar […]
