The open burning of waste poses grave health risks to millions
We’re generating more waste than at any other time in history what with a greatly increased global population, rampant consumerism and the wanton use of…
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Thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides shipped to poorer countries from British and European factories
Permit for Controversial $9 Billion Plastics Plant in “Chemical Alley” to Be Put on Hold
Of hemp’s many uses, one of the most promising could be in construction
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Scientists honing new ways to measure a city’s carbon footprint
Boston may be emerging as a model for how scientists and the public can better quantify and understand their city’s carbon dioxide emissions. Millions of…
Without ‘Transformative Change’ to Global Economic Systems, Humans Risk Causing More Deadly Pandemics
“There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic—us,” write the authors, who have previously published planetary status reports from IPBES. “As…
Climate change forces virus migration
“All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.” This quote is from The Scarlet Plague written by Jack London…
As sea level rise threatens their ancestral village, a Louisiana tribe fights to stay put
Ten years ago, as news of the BP oil disaster reached Louisiana’s Grand Bayou Indian Village, Rosina Philippe dispatched her brother Maurice Phillips on a…
The soil solution
On a steely November morning, Dorn Cox tours me around the dairy farm where he works in Freeport, Maine. The hummocky coastal landscape has begun…
Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years
Data show coronavirus countermeasures have resulted in a record drop in fossil-fuel demand and created an opening for a clean-energy transition. The early months of 2020…
‘The World Must Act Boldly’: 23 Former Diplomats Urge Global Leaders to Adopt Paris-Style Agreement to Protect Biodiversity
“Humanity sits on the precipice of irreversible loss of biodiversity and a climate crisis that imperils the future for our grandchildren and generations to come.”…