As countries continue to innovate ways to battle climate change, there is a new, related “slimy arms race” afoot. (Credit to The New York Times for the “slimy arms race” phrasing.) It seems that seaweed, in all its slippery glory, is a multifaceted, under-tapped, and potentially powerful weapon that can be used a number of ways in the ongoing fight to slow or stop global warming.

Khambampati Rama Devi mixes cow dung, cow urine, soil, and jaggery, creating a mixture called jeevamrutam. She then sprays the brown concoction on her cotton crop.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, countless numbers have been forcibly taken to Russia, and nearly 1,600 Ukrainian cultural sites and churches have been purposefully destroyed. But there is another potentially catastrophic fallout from the war that is less talked about.

Dr. Robert Bullard, one of the founders of the environmental justice movement in this country, wrote in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie, that “white racism … has made it easier for Black residential areas to become the dumping grounds for all types of life-threatening toxins and industrial pollution.”

Global warming is melting the world’s glaciers. We’ve been hearing about this for a while. But what we haven’t been hearing about is the human cost of the dissolving of glaciers. A study out this week in the journal Nature Communications says that 15 million people are under threat globally from flooding caused by overflowing glacial lakes.