Open-Source Water Purification, Structures, and Sanitation (Off-Grid Communities) 📖💧🏠🚾🌱 (www.eco-libre.org)
Happy 2024! The Eco-Libre project published our 2023 Annual Report for last year....
Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk (www.theguardian.com)
Africa's dangerous air pollution levels are a global problem, says new research (phys.org)
Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again. (www.technologyreview.com)
The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say (news.mongabay.com)
Warm weather keeps migratory cranes in Hungary longer (www.reuters.com)
Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten (news.mongabay.com)
China's smog-covered north on highest pollution alert as visibility drops (www.reuters.com)
Windfall taxes on European energy firms 'weakened' by lobbying: NGOs (www.euronews.com)
Scientists call out rogue emissions from China at global ozone summit (www.nature.com)
UK farmers warn of rotting crops after Storm Babet flooding (www.theguardian.com)
Refrigeration chemicals are a nightmare for the climate. Experts say alternatives must spread fast (apnews.com)
Recycling used wood can make a big contribution to net zero, but needs much better coordination (phys.org)
Transition to clean energy is now ‘unstoppable’, IEA says (www.euronews.com)
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse May Now Be Unavoidable, Scientists Warn (www.sciencealert.com)
Germany Fires Up Extra Coal Unit to Help in Cold Snap (finance.yahoo.com)
This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. (www.vox.com)
As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing? (news.mongabay.com)
Electrifying your home is about to get a lot cheaper. (grist.org)
'Eco-friendly' straws contain potentially toxic chemicals – posing a threat to people and wildlife. (theconversation.com)
Heatwave and Wildfires Ravage Europe, Prompting Evacuations and Health Warnings. (newsnotfound.com)
Long-lost Greenland ice core suggests potential for disastrous sea level rise (edition.cnn.com)
Discovered in Collections, Many New Species are Already Gone (undark.org)
Species discoveries can be joyous occasions, but not in this case. Eastern African forests have nearly disappeared in the past century, and neither bee species has been spotted in surveys conducted in the area since the 1990s, noted coauthor and entomologist Michael Engel, who recently moved from a position at the University of...