Sustainability

It’s official: Reusables are safe during COVID-19 By Joseph Winters on Jun 26, 2020 (Grist.org) Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fossil fuel and plastic industry groups have said that reusable grocery bags and food containers spread the coronavirus. To stay healthy, they’ve encouraged consumers to double down on supposedly safer single-use plastic — things like disposable cups, […]

Climate Change

Sea Level 101: What Determines the Level of the Sea? By Alan Buis,NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lots of forces are at work on the world’s ocean, and NASA studies them all. When it comes to sea level, NASA does much more than just measure it; they also seek to understand it. But for non-scientists, fathoming the forces […]