Environment
🏭 24 of 26 air pollutants have decreased in Sweden
Air pollution is exhaust gases and particles that occur in harmfully high concentrations, usually due to human activity. The negative health effects of air pollution became particularly evident after hundreds, in some cases thousands, of people died as a direct...
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Trees and agriculture can be combined
📉 What people thinkWe are used to associating agriculture with open fields. Everything from historical forms of swidden burning to the logging of the Amazon. There are many examples of how trees and forests have been removed to prepare land for the production...
🍁 Redwoods grow new leaves to adapt to drought
Humans aren’t the only ones changing with the climate. According to the American Journal of Botany California’s iconic redwood trees adjust their leaves’ capacity for water depending on their environment. Yahoo! Finance writes that the redwood...
👊 “If there is an opportunity to help save the world, you have to take it”
Jesper Johansson already started working with Mobility Management and behavioral measures in mobility at his first job, at the Swedish County Administrative Board, after university."It felt natural to work with that because there was such great potential when it...
