climate-change

  • The Last Load

    There is something comforting about the sound of a washing machine filling. The rush through the pipes. The click of the valve. The first heavy slosh beneath the clothes. It is one of those ordinary household sounds we barely notice because we assume it will always be there. Water comes in. Dirty goes out. The…

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  • When the Sea Becomes the Sink: Gaza’s Water Crisis Continues In southern Gaza, families have been forced to wash clothes and dishes in seawater as clean water simply runs out. As of the original report in October 2024, the situation was already dire. Since then, it has only deepened — and widened. For weeks, residents…

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  • Microorganisms are everywhere. Forty million in a single gram of soil. One hundred trillion in the gut flora of the average human. Among this soup of single-celled, microscopic organisms are microbes such as bacteria, which, among other things, produce enzymes. Enter Novozymes. Headquartered in Bagsværd, just outside Copenhagen, this Danish biotech firm has been putting…

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