UK Advertising Watchdog Bans Toyota SUV Ads on Environmental Grounds (www.desmog.com)
The impact of armed conflict on animal well-being and welfare, and analyzing damage assessment on the veterinary sector: The case of Ethiopia's Tigray region (www.cell.com)
Website Carbon Calculator v3 | What's your site's carbon footprint? (www.websitecarbon.com)
New law on more sustainable, circular and safe batteries enters into force (environment.ec.europa.eu)
EU, Germany and Denmark sued by oil firm over windfall tax (www.theguardian.com)
A Jersey-based oil-refining company is suing the EU, Germany and Denmark for at least €95m over a windfall tax introduced during the Ukraine war that it sees as a “pretext” for undermining fossil fuel firms, leaked documents show....
California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble (www.wired.com)
(More details, from the National Park Service : nps.gov/…/wildfires-kill-unprecedented-numbers-of… )
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)
EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries (www.theguardian.com)
The EU has struck a deal to stop ships of waste plastic landing in ports of poor countries....
EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’ (www.theguardian.com)
The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise widescale environmental damage “comparable to ecocide”....
‘We Are Severely Off Track’: Global Emissions Projected to Fall Only 2% by 2030, UN Says (www.ecowatch.com)
We the Guinea Pigs ⎜ WHY PLASTIC? ⎜ (Documentary) (www.youtube.com)
Really interesting documentary about how pervasive plastic has been in our lives and the health consequences!
Elephants have names for each other, just like humans (www.zmescience.com)
The collapse of insects (www.reuters.com)
Not only informative, but an amazing graphics presentation by Reuters.
NASA Global Climate Change - Interactives (climate.nasa.gov)
Forests with multiple tree species are 70% more effective as carbon sinks than monoculture forests, study finds (phys.org)
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)
Does anyone have opinions or experience with second-hand marketplace Sellpy?
Obviously, it’s better to buy less and buy local when you can....
Planet Earth III: how cookie cutter nature programming could fail to educate and inform audiences (theconversation.com)
Uplifting Green News?
A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.
Cattle grazing is ruining the habitat of 2 endangered bird species along Arizona river, lawsuit says (apnews.com)
It’s raining PFAS (www.eurekalert.org)
(See also www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8868)