The real winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (slrpnk.net)
MVP Protester Locks Himself To Construction Equipment, Highlights Connection Between Appalachia and Palestine (itsgoingdown.org)
More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total (apnews.com)
A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modelling shows, researcher says (theconversation.com)
An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a target to cut the weight of primary plastics produced worldwide by 40% by 2040, compared with 2025....
Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power (www.zmescience.com)
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price. (fullerproject.org)
Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force is grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change. Women picking cotton in India’s sun-baked fields are toiling in temperatures of roughly 113 degrees Fahrenheit, while workers in Ghana’s Kantamanto — one of the...
How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction (www.theguardian.com)
geothermal heat pumps work for big buildings! Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
David Roberts interviews a representative from the company that is making effective ground source heat pumps for large buildings. How they do it, ensure efficiency, and look to scale up the operation
We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized (www.vox.com)
Forest Defenders Declare Victory After 22-Day Tree Sit (unicornriot.ninja)
Staggering amounts of valuable metals are ending up in the trash (qz.com)
“We Can’t Just Stand By And Let Them Do This” — MVP Pipeline Protester Locks Herself To Excavator (itsgoingdown.org)
Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining (www.nytimes.com)
UN plastics treaty: don’t let lobbyists drown out researchers (www.nature.com)
Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field | Sierra Solter [Guardian, opinion] (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11636550...
Why EPA Efforts to Clean Up Kentucky Town Haven’t Worked — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
Article includes an interactive & searchable map of commercial air pollution hot spots
EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint (news.berkeley.edu)
these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get
Roads of destruction: vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest (theconversation.com)
Here is the study: Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests...
US map shows how states may be submerged by rising sea levels in 2100 (www.newsweek.com)
The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13070792...
How much can urban land use policy do for the climate? (www.volts.wtf)
15 minute cities are great for a number of reasons, but are they really a good climate policy? David Roberts discusses with researchers Heather House and Rushad Nanavatty