A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries (www.reuters.com)
Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the lending nations, a Reuters data analysis found....
North Carolina allows manure mounds ‘as big as a house’ on factory farms (www.theguardian.com)
Zero-carbon recycled cement (newatlas.com)
Climate activists arrested in Germany after completely halting Munich airport activity (www.jurist.org)
This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Protester Blockades the Mountain Valley Pipeline Access Road to Poor Mountain, Asks “Which Side Are You On?” (itsgoingdown.org)
Petition launched to save Dartmoor ponies from ‘extinction’ after DEFRA further restricts commoners (tlio.org.uk)
There’s Little Science Behind 'No Mow May': Ecologists don’t agree on what makes for the healthiest lawn. And restoring biodiversity requires more than doing less. (undark.org)
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar (www.theguardian.com)
Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving (reasonstobecheerful.world)
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