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Melinda Murphy
Jul 25, 2020
Beyond Plastic
Winners of the 2020 BEYONDPLASTIC Awards, which looked for new designs to eliminate single-use plastic packaging in society, brought...
Melinda Murphy
Jul 6, 2020
First hurricane-proof island?
When a category 5 hurricane makes landfall, few things borne of our civilization can resist the power of the winds and surging, violent...
Melinda Murphy
Jun 24, 2020
Ugandan start up makes face shields out of bottles
Courtesy Reuters When the Ugandan government ordered all non-essential workplaces shut to contain the coronavirus pandemic in late March,...
Melinda Murphy
Jun 24, 2020
Turning emissions into fuel?
Courtesy Good News Network Making catalysts to convert waste carbon dioxide into useful industrial products has been expensive and...
Melinda Murphy
Jun 24, 2020
2300-year-old shoe found frozen
Courtesy Open Culture In the age of fast fashion, when planned obsolescence, cheap materials, and shoddy construction have become the...
Melinda Murphy
Jun 22, 2020
Law passed to protect nature
Courtesy Good News Network In a rare moment of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate voted 73-25 to...
Melinda Murphy
Jun 11, 2020
3D printed hemp houses
Courtesy ReturntoNow.net An Australian company is 3D-printing hemp bioplastic walls, floors and roofs to be used in the construction of...
Melinda Murphy
May 14, 2020
Want a job? Plant a tree
Courtesy My Modern Met Though this period of uncertainty and loss has been challenging for people around the world, we’ve been able to...
Melinda Murphy
May 11, 2020
Portugal's solution
Courtesy Good News Network Spared from the ravages of COVID-19 suffered by her neighbor Spain, Portugal is aiming to leap, rather than...
Melinda Murphy
May 11, 2020
New way to go to the park?
Courtesy Good News Network “There is a beauty in solitude and in connection to nature that people in the city often miss,” says Chris...
Melinda Murphy
May 11, 2020
A first: renewable energy outpaces coal for whole month
Courtesy ieefa.org In a first for any month, renewables generated more electricity than coal on every day in April, new data from the...
Melinda Murphy
May 2, 2020
Greenhouse gas largest drop in history
Courtesy Good News Network The COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global economy in more than seven decades, but new...
Melinda Murphy
Apr 24, 2020
Bald eagles nesting in Arizona cactus
Eagle nesting in Arizona cactus for first time in nearly a century.
Melinda Murphy
Apr 23, 2020
Environment making recovery
Animals are roaming streets and skies are clearing. What COVID means to the environment.
Melinda Murphy
Apr 23, 2020
The night skies are clearer
Night skies are clearer now - go outside and look up!
Melinda Murphy
Apr 18, 2020
Lazing Lions
Lions are hanging out in the open inside Kruger National Park.
Melinda Murphy
Apr 17, 2020
Ab Fab on Netflix
Courtesy Tyla Crack open the Bolly and throw on your best fash pack poncho, because the entire Ab Fab back catalogue has been added to...
Melinda Murphy
Apr 15, 2020
A rainbow over New York
Courtesy Gothamist On Monday night after a full day of dark skies and unrelenting rain, right as the nightly 7 o'clock cheer took place,...
Melinda Murphy
Apr 13, 2020
US pollution down
Courtesy Fox 5 NASA satellite data has shown a 30 percent reduction in atmospheric nitrogen dioxide pollution in the northeastern U.S....
Melinda Murphy
Apr 11, 2020
Himilayans visible for first time in 30 years
Courtesy Good News Network For the last 30 years, the tops of the Himalayan mountains have been obscured by air pollution and smog. Now...
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