Environment
Analysis and insight on the future of our environment. Stay updated as Singularity Hub discusses the most important trends impacting our environment.
Half Of Great Barrier Reef Lost Over Past 27 Years, More To Come
The news ain’t so good from the Great Barrier Reef.
According to a new study, the massive reef has lost half of its coral cover over the last 27 years. Damage from storms, bleaching, and...
Andrew Hessel and Yasaman Sheri Discuss Design, Singularity University
Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Faculty member Andrew Hessel and Industrial Designer Yasaman Sheri discuss the evolution of design, biological design, and sustainability.
Lab-Grown Burger To Be Served In Six Months
A number of laboratories around the world are trying to grow meat in a Petri dish. So far we’ve heard about clumps of cells grown from stem cells with the hope that those cells...
Doomsday Clock Brings Us One Minute Closer To The Apocalypse
Did you know there was a Doomsday Clock? Well, it’s not a real clock that ticks down the remaining moments in hours and minutes and seconds, but a figurative clock that’s pushed towards armageddon...
What Is The Great Garbage Patch In The North Pacific? (video)
In the North Pacific swirls an enormous clockwise vortex generated by four converging currents from the north, south, east, and west. Like a slow and steady whirlpool, the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, as these...
NASA Launches Next Generation Weather And Climate Satellite (video)
In the early morning hours of Friday, October 28, the NPP satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. To the profound relief of the engineers that have witnessed continual project setbacks...
New Age of Exploration: Robots Swarm into Land, Sea, and Space
Has the age of human explorers come to an end? There are several projects underway that are sending robots where humans dare not tread. Scientists are ramping up to deploy hundreds of aquatic drones...
Thirsty Plants Can Now Send Text Messages
In an effort to become more trim and efficient, everything in life has been given a miniature electronic brain. The car knows when its is not burning at the perfect air to fuel ratio,...
