280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.com)
Elephants have names for each other, just like humans (www.zmescience.com)
US reduces beef exports as cattle herd shrinks (www.reuters.com)
Band Walks 870 Miles on Tour to Promote More Sustainability in the Music Industry (www.ecowatch.com)
The Green Economy Is A Lie (fighttorepair.substack.com)
It’s all just show, but I suspect we all knew that
Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored | Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO (www.theguardian.com)
Clean Power Renewable Power Helped the United States Survive the Hottest Summer Ever (cleantechnica.com)
Halving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’ (www.carbonbrief.org)
Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake (blog.ecosia.org)
cross-posted from: ls.buckodr.ink/post/338745...
Environmentalists sue Utah for failing to protect the shrinking Great Salt Lake (grist.org)
Researchers warn that the lake may disappear in five years if water loss continues at current rates....
Carbon emissions found to cost the world's economies 4 times as much as they did 10 years ago (phys.org)
Why a carbon tax on investment income could make it less profitable to pollute (www.fastcompany.com)
Following up on an paper posted earlier this week on disproportionate carbon emissions based on income. This article, by one of the paper’s authors, proposes the possibility of imposing carbon tax on investment income as a more equitable means of influencing emissions....
Swiss Seniors Are Suing Over Climate Change’s Threat To Their Health (popularresistance.org)
The group of women argue that their government’s failure to cut fossil fuel emissions has violated their human rights.
‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/fj7IK...
Current Climate: A New Nuclear Reactor Goes Online In Georgia (www.forbes.com)
When do we get the next one?
Unchecked Poultry Farming in North Carolina Violates Civil Rights, Residents Say (civileats.com)
Conserve energy (lemmy.ml)
German supermarket trials charging true climate cost of foods (www.theguardian.com)
A leading discount supermarket in Germany has raised the prices of a selection of its products to reflect their real cost on people’s health and the environment....
The "Backlash" to Plant-Based Meat Has a Sneaky, if Not Surprising, Explanation (sentientmedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2674486...
Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants are Using British Influencers to go Viral (www.desmog.com)
Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts - Nature Food (www.nature.com)
the struggle between democracy and plutocracy (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese scientists create edible food packaging to replace plastic (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
By incorporating certain soy proteins into the structure, Chinese University of Hong Kong scientists successfully created edible food packaging.
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide (www.hsph.harvard.edu)
