Today is a Earth Day Like No Other: After more than a year of lockdown, we’ve seen what happens to the planet when all of its humans suddenly hide inside. Emissions tumbled (at least temporarily), wildlife has returned to the cities (although not all species enjoyed the new-found freedom), and we learned what nature does when the planet is just a little quieter. We got a glimpse of a better world – now it’s just a matter of making it happen.
To that end, we are celebrating this year with five surprising solutions to the world’s environmental problems. In the video below, you’ve really joined WIRED’s creative engagement producer Paul Sarconi to talk about how electronic eggs can help protect sea turtles and how solar panels could save california water. We explore burgeoning technology that sucks carbon right out of the atmosphere, and we tell the story of the priceless seed escaped civil war in Syria being frozen and brought back to life thanks to the genebank And because the news is so hot right now, we are talking about President Joe Biden’s plan to enlist Americans in Civilian climate body and make them work transform the landscape.
After a year of pandemic, how is this the good news?
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