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
A Tidal Wetland Restoration of Epic Proportions: Salt ponds form a vast mosaic spanning thousands of acres in California’s South Bay. But a 50-year transformation is underway. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 (www.theguardian.com)
Yes, beavers can help stop wildfires. And more places in California are embracing them (www.latimes.com)
In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Government officials blamed the floods on heavy rainfall, but environmental groups have cited the disaster as the latest example of deforestation and environmental degradation intensifying the effects of severe weather across Indonesia.
Tree Sit Launched to Defend Old Growth from Logging in Southern Oregon (itsgoingdown.org)
Researchers Develop New Material That Converts CO2 into Methanol Using Sunlight (scitechdaily.com)
“Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol,” reports SciTechDaily, “by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new green fuels.”...
