Reading time: 4 minutes Genome editing has an enormous potential, but it is a technology still in development, which could do anything from curing harmful diseases to making blind people see again, to creating [ … ]
Category: Environment
Black Friday, the tip of the melting iceberg
Reading time: 8 minutes Black Friday is much more than the discounts delivered to your inbox or the huge posters inviting you to take your window shopping to the next level. Black Friday is [ … ]
An Invisible Threat: Microplastics in Our Food
Reading time: 3 minutes According to a 2019 study, an average person could be ingesting as many as 1,900 microplastic particles a week, which is equivalent to eating a credit card. But how does [ … ]
Climate change hit 33 million people in Pakistan floods and the world is “sleepwalking”
Reading time: 4 minutes “Literally one third of the country is underwater” said the Climate Minister of Pakistan. “Millions are homeless, schools and health facilities have been destroyed, livelihoods are shattered, critical infrastructure wiped out, [ … ]
Fighting our battles: Can current green energy technologies save us from climate change?
Reading time: 4 minutes In 2015, the Paris Agreement was the first climate change treaty directly aimed at limiting the rise of global temperatures to between 1.5°C and 2°C (above pre-industrial levels). Ever since [ … ]