The European Fund for the Balkans has started a new campaign called “Balkans United for Clean Air” to call upon governments and citizens to prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths caused by pollution every year. Most of the cases of health issues and mortality are caused by exposure to particulate matter which is caused... Continue Reading →
Iceland Is Sucking Carbon Dioxide From the Air and Turning It Into Rock OSLO, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone deep below ground, in a radical — but expensive — way... Continue Reading →
Iceland Is Sucking Carbon Dioxide From the Air and Turning It Into Rock
For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallized parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what we’re feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max St John, 41, had experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past. After reading the global... Continue Reading →
Manage Climate Change Anxiety With These Cold-War Coping Techniques
There’s a new nature conservation strategy in town – and it means business. During the 1970s, 80s and 90s the main tactic to protect wildlife was to highlight the plight of charismatic “flagship” species (remember the WWF Save the Panda campaign?). Since the millennium, however, a new strategy backed by major conservation organisations such as... Continue Reading →
Nature: how do you put a price on something that has infinite worth?
Market Statistic, LLP has recently published a study report on the global Waste to Energy Market. The report illustrates the market thoroughly and has offer a structural evaluation analysis of the market. This research report showcases the graphical representations of the Waste to Energy industry. ‘Global WTE Market comprises of basic market dynamics like the... Continue Reading →
Waste to Energy (WTE) Market Statistics…
After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit. “It was very, very heavy,” said Dr. Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School... Continue Reading →
Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It
There has been much controversy surrounding the COVID-19 mask requirements for the past year. Particularly given that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization (WHO) originally stated masks were not only unnecessary but potentially unhealthy, only to reverse course. This would be one of many examples of Dr. Fauci contradicting himself, a more recent... Continue Reading →
Is Carbon Dioxide Trapped By Masks Hazardous To Your Health?
A strategy for supporting and listening to others
As a police officer, Jeremy Brewer interacts with individuals experiencing trauma and loss on a daily basis. Giving us a peek into this little-discussed aspect of the job, Brewer shares thoughtful insights on why respecting people's space is sometimes more important than trying to fix an unfixable moment -- and explains how you can use... Continue Reading →
6 essential lessons for women leaders
In a rich conversation full of practical insights, former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard and former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reflect on their experiences as women leaders in positions of global power -- and share six standout lessons on what it takes to lead and build solidarity in the face of gender... Continue Reading →
Today we’re operating off hundreds of millions of years of accumulated plant and animal-based carbon. We are rapidly exhausting these fossil fuels while simultaneously changing the composition of our atmosphere. If the planet is to continue to sustain life and enchant future generations, we have to change. To build the kind of future our kids... Continue Reading →
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Coronavirus: What has Covid done for climate crisis? – BBC News
When Covid-19 sparked lockdowns around the world, emissions of one of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, atmospheric carbon dioxide, plummeted. But is this record drop a short-term effect of the 2020 pandemic or a 'new normal'? BBC Weather's Ben Rich explores the impact of coronavirus on the global climate. Continued at source...