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
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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Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weatherwww.theguardian.com
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
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
Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.www.bbc.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