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Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars
Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars The Brussel Times reports that a new German study exposes how electric vehicles will hardly decrease CO2 emissions in Europe over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles won’t lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions from highway traffic. According […]
Toxic Arsenic Found In Major Bottled Water Brands
Toxic Arsenic Found In Major Bottled Water Brands Consumer Reports (CR) is now warning the public about a serious issue, where 11 brands of bottled water, out of 130 had detectable levels of highly toxic, arsenic, and six of those brands had levels above 3 parts per billion (ppb) — the maximum level allowed by CR. […]
What’s Your Carbon Budget? You Probably Don’t Want to Know
What’s Your Carbon Budget? You Probably Don’t Want to Know But if politicians ran governments on them, the planet might have a fighting chance. Conservative politicians are happily fighting carbon taxes and generally ignoring the issue of global warming. At the same time, an uneasy feeling is rippling through the climate-science community these days. After […]
Wild Bee Population Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns
Wild Bee Population Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns Researchers from the University of New Hampshire conducted a study to document declines in about 100 wild bee species critical to pollinating crops throughout New England. What they discovered, according to the study, was a collapse in the wild bee population across the state, reported AP. Researchers analyzed […]
‘Finally!’: Court Orders EPA to Stop Stalling Potential Ban on Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Kids
‘Finally!’: Court Orders EPA to Stop Stalling Potential Ban on Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Kids “We hope Trump’s EPA finally decides to protect the future of countless children and the health of millions of farmworkers.” American farmers use chlorpyrifos, a pesticide tied to brain and nervous system issues, on crops such as apples, […]
Solar Storm Alert: Earth to be Bombarded by Solar Particles in a Few Days
SOLAR STORM ALERT: EARTH TO BE BOMBARDED BY SOLAR PARTICLES IN A FEW DAYS There is an upcoming solar storm expected this weekend. Researchers have noticed a sunspot that will bombard the Earth with solar particles on Monday. Sunspots are patches of darkness on the Sun which are caused by an underlying magnetism beneath the […]
“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out
“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they’ll stay in […]
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator […]
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems Photograph by P J Hansen – CC BY-SA 2.0 Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event. Surely, the world is not prepared for the […]
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change
Image: Shutterstock Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as well be. This is, […]
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction and petrochemical industry development near the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Why should […]
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides ILSI-Europe Headquarters, Brussels. Photo: PAN Europe Current EU regulations forbid human exposure to pesticides that are classified as mutagenic, carcinogenic, reprotoxic (toxic for reproduction), persistent or capable of disrupting endocrine systems. By virtue of these and other protective measures EU regulations are considered the gold standard in […]
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands In what seemed like an episode of the Norwegian television drama Occupied, Norway’s largest political party joined smaller ones in the nation’s parliament to prevent oil exploration in the scenic Lofoten archipelago. The Labor Party’s environmental wing made climate change and scenic beauty big issues. Unlike another […]
Hydropower dams and the ways they destroy the environment
Hydropower dams and the ways they destroy the environment Preface. Hydropower comprises 71% of renewable energy worldwide. Nations like the U.S. and Europe have dams that have reached the end of their lifespan, so more are being torn down than built. In the U.S. 546 dams were removed between 2006 and 2014. This contains excerpts […]
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding While the influential development bank has scaled up clean energy finance, fossil fuels are still getting a larger share of support, campaigners found The World Bank is supporting the controversial Trans Anatolian Pipeline gas project (Pic: Tanap) The World Bank Group faces criticism for continuing to […]
