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Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says
Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says In general, food and beverage companies are the largest polluters in the world. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Coca-Cola is responsible for more than half of the plastic pollution across the globe, according to a new study. Researchers found that the Atlanta-based […]
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution Study confirms Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that, based on the findings of […]
The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We’re Not Ready
The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We’re Not Ready Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses Powerful outbursts from the sun—like this bright, flashing solar flare and the adjacent eruption of hot glowing gas—can wreak havoc with […]
‘Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth
‘Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth Analysts say impact on wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape harvests means price rises on beer, bread and biscuits and more food imported UK harvests of important crops could be down by nearly a fifth this year due to the […]
Notes from the edge of civilization: Apr. 28, 2024
Notes from the edge of civilization: Apr. 28, 2024 No one wants EVs, but governments keep subsidizing them; Canada’s economy is being zombified; Education — higher and otherwise — is still woke, but not awake; and, cursive as cure. TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: Even Ford’s own marketing materials admit that EVs are a product “drivers really want… but […]
Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds
Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds Evolution and strength of the 2021 PNW heat dome. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01346-2 As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered—and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across […]
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study Paris (AFP) – Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds’ attempts to adapt to the shrinking landscape. The study by the British Antarctic Survey found that record-low sea […]
2023 Was Even Hotter Than Predicted, Raising Fears We’re in Uncharted Territory
2023 Was Even Hotter Than Predicted, Raising Fears We’re in Uncharted Territory Sea surface temperature anomalies for 9 April 2024. (NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio) Last year Earth warmed around 0.2 °C more than climate models predicted. While that may not seem like much in isolation, when you consider it’s a measure across an entire planet it […]
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals A general view of a coal mine during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) – China’s coal consumption will fall by just one-third by 2040, according […]
China evacuates over 100,000 as heavy rain continues to lash south
China evacuates over 100,000 as heavy rain continues to lash south China is facing increasingly extreme weather events as climate change takes its toll. China has evacuated more than 100,000 people as heavy rain continues to lash the southern province of Guangdong. Authorities raised the highest level of alarm on Tuesday as the storms showed no […]
Science Snippets: Planting Trees in Some Locations Warms Earth
Science Snippets: Planting Trees in Some Locations Warms Earth Draft script: A paper in Phys.Org published 31 March 2024 is titled Planting trees in wrong places heats the planet: Study. The study referenced in the title appeared in Nature Communications on 26 March 2024. It was produced by 11 scholars. One of the study’s co-authors was quoted in the Phys.Org article: “There […]
Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding—the storm was far too big to be human-made
Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding—the storm was far too big to be human-made Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste—the […]
Accelerating Climage Change and Rising Global Conflict
ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISING GLOBAL CONFLICT. THE STORM IS RISING As the sun sets on another day in what could be called the Anthropocene epoch, we stand at the precipice, watching as the once-stable climate system of our planet lurches toward a cascade of ecological tipping points, accelerating “faster than expected.” Recent phenomena, such […]
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029. This is radar image of a near-Earth asteroid similar to Apophis. We actually know very little about what Apophis looks like, but its pending flyby in 2029 […]
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up Copyright AP Photo/Armando Solis After enduring years of drought and ‘invading’ fruit farmers in Mexico, these locals are taking matters into their own hands. Desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while […]
