Ecology
Study: Orangutans Are Facing a Form of Eco-Genocide
If people had been doing this to other people, we’d call it genocide. Yet that’s what people have been doing to Borneo’s orangutans: perpetrating a form of eco-genocide against them. In this new century alone as many as 100,000 of…
Taxing Carbon May Sound Like a Good Idea But Does It Work?
Exxon Mobil is backing a proposal to tax oil, gas and coal companies for the carbon they emit and redistribute the money raised that way to all Americans. It’s also giving a group urging Washington to enact a tax on…
UK Scientists Turn Coffee Industry Waste into Electricity
Fuel cell could help Colombian farmers by using microbes to eat waste and develop energy. Scientists have turned coffee waste into electricity for the first time, in research that could help farmers and curb pollution in the developing world. The…
6 Things You Can Do to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
We’ve already warmed the world about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times—with disastrous effects. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying, species are going extinct and extreme weather is on the increase. A new report by the…
Low-Emission Cows: Farming Responds to Climate Warning
Farmers are ‘up for radical thought’ following bad harvests due to extreme weather, NFU says. From low-emission cows to robotic soil management, the farming industry will have to explore new approaches in the wake of a UN warning that the world needs…
EU Invests in Two Additional Car Emissions Testing Facilities
They will monitor and check compliance of vehicles with the type-approval regulation and the new emissions limits. Two additional facilities that will carry out vehicle emissions testing before they are rolled out on the roads are to be built in Italy. The European…
Historic Climate Ruling Upheld by Dutch Appeals Court
A Dutch appeals court upheld a historic climate liability ruling Tuesday, affirming that the Dutch government has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, The Associated Press reported. The original ruling, decided in June…