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Showing posts with label environmental pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmental pollution. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Anti-avian ingenuity: the numerous ways to minimise airport bird strikes

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The widespread installation of wind turbines over the past three decades has generated a new ecologically unfriendly phenomenon, namely wild...
Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Lift to the stars: sci-fi hype and the space elevator

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As an avid science-fiction reader during my childhood, one of the most outstanding extrapolations for future technology was that of the spac...
Saturday, 26 January 2019

Concrete: a material of construction & destruction - and how to fix it

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How often is it that we fail to consider what is under our noses? One of the most ubiquitous of man-made artifices - at least to the 55% of ...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

Sonic booms and algal blooms: a smart approach to detoxifying waterways

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A recent report here in New Zealand has raised some interesting issues around data interpretation and the need for independent analysis to m...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Amphibian Armageddon and killed-off kauri: the worldwide battle against fighting fungi

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I recently wanted to visit the Ark in the Park, an open sanctuary in the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland that uses constant predator contr...
Friday, 22 December 2017

PET projects: can nature destroy plastic pollution?

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One of key markers of the Anthropocene - the as yet unofficial term for a human-impacted global environment - is the deposition of manmade p...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Water, water, everywhere: the hidden holism of H2O

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Like other northern regions of New Zealand, the summer of 2017 saw Auckland residents facing City Council requests to conserve water, as wel...
Monday, 26 September 2016

Mopping up spilt milk: pollution in the New Zealand dairy sector

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It's been slow to dawn on New Zealanders, but for a country that prides itself on a '100% Pure' image our environmental pollutio...
Saturday, 26 December 2015

Beetlemania: can eating insects help save the environment?

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Christmas - along with Thanksgiving for Americans - has probably got to be the most obvious time of the year when Westerners over-indulge in...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Nanosilver: the future may be tiny and shiny, but is it safe?

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A few years' ago I bought some socks containing nanosilver in the hope of reducing foot odour - or more specifically a lingering smell i...