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Huge numbers of climate activists are being forced to courts amid pandemic
https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/51657/1/extinction-rebellion-climate-activists-on-trials-during-covid-19-pandemic #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology #UK
Demanding Immediate Action Over 'Empty Promises,' Youth Climate Movement Announces Next Global Strikes
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/13/demanding-immediate-action-over-empty-promises-youth-climate-movement-announces-next #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology #climatestrike
20 Images From NASA That Show How Real Climate Change Really Is
#2 Shrinking Aral Sea, Central Asia
#3 Muir Glacier Melt, Alaska
#4 Drought In Lake Powell, Arizona And Utah
#5 Drying Lake Poopó, Bolivia
#17 Record Pools Of Meltwater On George Vi Ice Shelf, Antarctica
https://www.hiptoro.com/p/20-images-from-nasa-that-show-how-real-climate-change-really-is/ #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology
20 Images From NASA That Show How Real Climate Change Really Is
#2 Shrinking Aral Sea, Central Asia
#3 Muir Glacier Melt, Alaska
#4 Drought In Lake Powell, Arizona And Utah
#5 Drying Lake Poopó, Bolivia
#17 Record Pools Of Meltwater On George Vi Ice Shelf, Antarctica
https://www.hiptoro.com/p/20-images-from-nasa-that-show-how-real-climate-change-really-is/ #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology
Happy 18th Birthday, Greta!
~ January 03, 2003 ~
"Thank you so much for all the well-wishes on my 18th birthday! Tonight you will find me down at the local pub exposing all the dark secrets behind the climate and school strike conspiracy and my evil handlers who can no longer control me! I am free at last!!"
#quote #gretathunberg #greta #birthday #03jan2003 #activism #climatechange #environment #protest #sweden
Happy 18th Birthday, Greta!
~ January 03, 2003 ~
"Thank you so much for all the well-wishes on my 18th birthday! Tonight you will find me down at the local pub exposing all the dark secrets behind the climate and school strike conspiracy and my evil handlers who can no longer control me! I am free at last!!"
#quote #gretathunberg #greta #birthday #03jan2003 #activism #climatechange #environment #protest #sweden
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientistswww.theguardian.com
Das Corona-Jahr 2020 war nicht einfach zu verkraften. Doch in der Nachrichtenflut gab es auch gute Meldungen. Wir haben sie gesammelt – für einen Jahresrückblick mit Hoffnungsschimmer.krautreporter.de
Windfarms in Great Britain break record for clean power generation
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather
Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation, which made up more than 40% of its electricity on Friday.
Wind turbines generated 17.3GW on Friday afternoon, according to figures from the electricity system operator, narrowly beating the previous record set in early January this year.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/19/windfarms-in-great-britain-break-record-for-clear-power-generation
#news, #Environment, #UK, #power, #energy, #Renewable, #Wind, #Business, #EnergyWindfarms in Great Britain break record for clean power generation
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weatherwww.theguardian.com
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather
Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation, which made up more than 40% of its electricity on Friday.
Wind turbines generated 17.3GW on Friday afternoon, according to figures from the electricity system operator, narrowly beating the previous record set in early January this year.
Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/19/windfarms-in-great-britain-break-record-for-clear-power-generation
#news, #Environment, #UK, #power, #energy, #Renewable, #Wind, #Business, #Energy
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weatherwww.theguardian.com
A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests | BBC News
There's an ugly truth to the beauty products we slap on our faces and an unsavoury truth to the foods we eat: many are made with palm oil, which is responsible for the rapid deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino.#science #environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #PalmOil
But now the biotech industry says it has come up with a solution - a synthetic alternative that doesn't involve burning down or clearing any rainforest. It says this could eventually replace natural palm oil in everything from shampoos, soaps, detergents and lipsticks, to food products like packaged bread, biscuits, margarine, ice cream and chocolate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55016453?xtor=ES-208-[39158_NEWS_NLB_+WK52_Tue_15_Dec]-20201215-
[bbcnews_palmoil_newsbusiness_palmoil]A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
Plantations for palm oil are blamed for rainforest destruction, but an artificial palm oil is close.www.bbc.co.uk
There's an ugly truth to the beauty products we slap on our faces and an unsavoury truth to the foods we eat: many are made with palm oil, which is responsible for the rapid deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino.#science #environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #PalmOil
But now the biotech industry says it has come up with a solution - a synthetic alternative that doesn't involve burning down or clearing any rainforest. It says this could eventually replace natural palm oil in everything from shampoos, soaps, detergents and lipsticks, to food products like packaged bread, biscuits, margarine, ice cream and chocolate.
Plantations for palm oil are blamed for rainforest destruction, but an artificial palm oil is close.www.bbc.co.uk
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Canada Will Ban Plastic Bags, Straws, Cutlery, and Other Single-Use Plastics Starting in 2021
https://mymodernmet.com/canada-single-use-plastic-ban/
Interceptor Series Production to Start | The Ocean Cleanup
#environment #pollution
Science at work: they had an idea. They tested it. They deemed it not efficient enough, then science taught us that most plastic in the oceans comes from rivers. So they imagined a way to clean up rivers, and it works.
Great job. I'm happy to support Ocean Cleanup.Interceptor Series Production to Start | The Ocean Cleanup
To rapidly address the urgent problem of plastic pollution, we must deploy Interceptors on a large scale, but we cannot do this by ourselves. Today, we announced that we are partnering with Konecranes to handle manufacturing and series production of Interceptors in their MHE-Demag facilities in Malaysia.theoceancleanup.com
To rapidly address the urgent problem of plastic pollution, we must deploy Interceptors on a large scale, but we cannot do this by ourselves. Today, we announced that we are partnering with Konecranes to handle manufacturing and series production of Interceptors in their MHE-Demag facilities in Malaysia.theoceancleanup.com
Climate change: UK aim of 68% emissions cut a 'colossal challenge'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55179008 #environment #climatecrisis #pollution #ecology #UK
Climate change: Researchers warn Greenland approaching ‘critical point' in ice decline
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1368101/climate-change-research-greenland-ice-sheet-critical-point-ice-decline-evg #environment #climatecrisis #pollution #ecology
#environment
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55082645)The battle to save a biodiversity hotspot in India
Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.www.bbc.com
Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.www.bbc.com
Economic Globalization....
A fish served in a California restaurant was caught illegally on a Thai fishing vessel manned by slaves. A t-shirt bought in Germany was sewn in a Bangladeshi sweatshop, where workers labor in unsafe conditions for starvation wages. The rising consumption levels of India’s middle class are contributing to climate chaos thousands of miles away, while the hunger of Americans for consumer goods from China is exacerbating the Chinese air-pollution crisis...These are just a few of the many faces of the global economy.
Corporate-friendly think tanks and media outlets promote the idea that economic deregulation has made the world into one global village, defined by the free flow of ideas and technology, international collaboration, interdependence, and a worldwide sense of community.
But the reality falls far short of this ideal. Our global economic system is so large and complex – with producers and consumers, CEOs and workers, and cause and effect all far removed from each other – that ethical choices become almost impossible, and environmental and human rights disasters all but inevitable.
It can be challenging to make sense of the workings of a system that is so vast, out-of-control, and deeply ingrained into the fabric of our daily lives. But the global economy can be understood, by starting with its origins in European colonialism, moving through its key drivers and structural elements, and tracing its consequences for people and the planet.
#Economic #Globalization #media #deregulation #technology #CEO #environment #colonialism #corruption #conspiracy #fraud
World first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
#energy #environmentWorld first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process…newatlas.com
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process…newatlas.com
As many as half a million of these barrels could still be underwater right now, according to interviews and a Los Angeles Times review of historical records, manifests and undigitized research. From 1947 to 1982, the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT—a pesticide so powerful that it poisoned birds and fish—was based in Los Angeles#ddt #environment #LA
Not far from Santa Catalina Island, in an ocean shared by divers and fishermen, kelp forests and whales, David Valentine decoded unusual signals underwater that gave him chills.phys.org
