Sugarcane by the Sea for Ketone Biofuel Production
A very large area in Brazil is covered with sugarcane that is used to make biofuel. The sugary juice of the cane gets fermented, something…
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Why it’s time to say goodbye to the polluting recycling model
Every year, 10 million tons of plastic packaging reach the oceans, which is equivalent to 23,000 Boeing 747 planes landing in the seas and oceans…
Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories
The search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as incentives from Jair Bolsonaro’s…
Poisoned city: the story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster
Hundreds of tons of carcinogenic agrochemicals, including DDT, were abandoned by the Brazilian government at a factory near an orphanage on the outskirts or Rio…
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…
Thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides shipped to poorer countries from British and European factories
Year long investigation reveals full scale of Europe’s ‘abhorrent’ trade in pesticides banned from its own farms – and the UK’s leading role The United…
Biden’s election is good news for the climate. But what comes next?
Few images captured the mood of climate activists last week more vividly than a video posted to Twitter of Christiana Figueres, one of the architects…
Partying with CO2
Do you fall for fall celebrations? Do they evoke fond memories? Do you look forward to goblins and other Halloween trick-or-treaters and even gobbling up…
Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation
Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to…
Rising demand for air conditioning could make climate change even worse
But a new $1 million prize could boost climate-friendly AC technology. Between 1992 and 2016, more than 22,000 people in India died as a result…
If Carbon Offsets Require Forests to Stay Standing, What Happens When the Amazon Is on Fire?
The emergency threatening part of the world’s largest rainforest is proof that offsets are too risky to count on to cancel out corporate pollution, and…
Climate change ‘could slash Brazil’s maize yields’
Changes in temperature and rainfall could drastically reduce maize yields by the end of the century in northeast Brazil, one of the country’s poorest and…
Dumb & Dumber: The global assault on environmental laws
Without environmental laws we’d all be breathing polluted air, drinking foul water, and living in a perpetual silent spring — where nature and wildlife had…