In South Florida this summertime, one environmental scourge has made headlines like never before.
Author Archives: Our Planet
Blockchain Technology: The Future of Internet Innovation
First of all, let us begin by understanding what is blockchain? Satoshi Nakamoto in the year 2009 conceptualized the distributed blockchain. A blockchain is basically a database of digital transactions which is incorruptible. It is programmed in such a way so that it can record the value of everything.
Vision Care for Children in the Developing World
One of the biggest global health crises we face today impacts more than a billion people. It’s not HIV or heart disease. Malaria or mental health. It’s vision impairment. More than 253 million people are visually impaired and there are 1.1 billion people with near-vision impairment according to a paper published by the Vision Loss […]
Artificial grass vs Natural grass: Which is greener?
The world’s leaders (the vast majority of them anyway) have finally come to terms with the dire implications of global warming on the Earth’s climate. With every passing day, the polar ice caps shrink in size, rising sea levels subsume another low-lying island, and the incidence of adverse weather conditions continues to swell. The Paris […]
Can global warming be held culpable for wildfires?
In the wake of the devastating wildfires that tore through the Pedrógão Grande region of Portugal just over a year ago, a group of children (in association with British environmental lawyers and the NGO Global Legal Action Network) affected by the fires are crowdfunding with the eventual aim of levelling the blame for the wildfire […]
