Desertification; land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It’s no secret that our beautiful planet is on its knees. Forests are burning, oceans are acidifying, ice caps are melting – we are currently experiencing a 6th major extinction event. As we hurtle towards... Continue Reading →
Key Points Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build the project in the Netherlands. The idea of deploying solar panels on farmland has been around for many years. Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build a project in the Netherlands that plans to combine solar power with... Continue Reading →
Farming and solar power set to combine in Netherlands-based pilot project
Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York. From his uptown Manhattan home in Morningside Heights, Samir Kumar can usually see skyscrapers downtown. But this week, as smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and Canada rode the jet... Continue Reading →
Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought
It is unlikely that you know how much carbon was produced by making your driveway. But if you did, you might think about ways to build it better. That is the concept behind the “Buy Clean Colorado” legislation signed into law July 6 by Colorado Governor Jared Polis. Under the new law, future public construction... Continue Reading →
Colorado Passes Embodied Carbon Legislation — The Most Important Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard of
Just 2% of the Covid-19 stimulus funding promised by nations has been spent on clean energy, meaning that global emissions are likely to hit a record high in 2023 and continue rising thereafter. That is the key finding of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Recovery Tracker. Published today (20 July), the Tracker analyses more... Continue Reading →
IEA: Global emissions to reach record high by 2023, with governments breaking green recovery promises
Even EVs that plug into dirty grids emit fewer greenhouse gases than gas-powered cars A new study lays to rest the tired argument that electric vehicles aren’t much cleaner than internal combustion vehicles. Over the life cycle of an EV — from digging up the materials needed to build it to eventually laying the car... Continue Reading →
One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study
(yes, this is Climate Emergency related as in regards to Circular Economy...) iFixit co-founder and CEO Kyle Wiens has exposed how companies including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft manipulate the design of their products and the supply chain to prevent consumers and third-party repairers from accessing necessary tools and parts to repair products such as smartphones... Continue Reading →
iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction
The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday 11 July, Branson ascended 80 km to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane. Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket is due to launch... Continue Reading →
Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry
Measurements over Canada's Mackenzie River Basin suggest that thawing permafrost is starting to free greenhouse gases long trapped in oil and gas deposits. Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth’s frozen crust thaws,... Continue Reading →
Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese
A crawl in several parts of Europe on Wednesday caused flooding caused by a gentle storm, with about six inches of rain falling in the region near Cologne and forests before the end began on Friday. There were also floods in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but the worst affected were Germany, where the official... Continue Reading →
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
How to Protect Workers Hurt By the Fight Against Climate Change In a dramatic move for global efforts to combat climate change, the European Union last week laid out an ambitious proposal to transition away from fossil fuels. Brussels’ announcement marks the latest step in a rapidly accelerating green revolution. Driven by a stunning reduction... Continue Reading →
