Environment
Analysis and insight on the future of our environment. Stay updated as Singularity Hub discusses the most important trends impacting our environment.
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...
10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year…Here’s a Look At One
Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across the world's oceans. And about every hour, on average, one is falling overboard never...
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,...
