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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Air Pollution Linked to Greater Risk of Mouth Cancer, Finds Study
Research in Taiwan has show a link between very high levels of air pollution and oral cancer.
High levels of air pollution are linked to an increased risk of mouth cancer, new research...
UN Climate Panel: Emissions Must Fall Rapidly by 2030 to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its highly anticipated report Sunday on what needs to be done to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The answer: social and technological change...
Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics to a duo for their work on how the world can achieve sustainable growth.
The prize was divided equally to...
We Have 12 years to Limit Climate Change Catastrophe, Warns UN
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly...
Planting More Trees Won’t Be Enough to Save the Planet
One way of mitigating the adverse effects of man-made climate change is to plant trees. The more trees there are, the more CO2 they absorb from the atmosphere, thereby alleviating the greenhouse...
Lego Says It Will Eliminate Plastic by 2030
In children’s playrooms and family living room floors around the world, small plastic blocks are a staple. In today’s world, Lego is synonymous with plastic. For this reason, the recent news from...
A New Phone Battery Could One Day Recharge Itself on CO2
Ah, those lithium batteries in our phones. They tend to go flat just when we need them most. Then again, that’s Murphy’s law for you, isn’t it? Encouragingly, lithium-ion batteries are getting...
UK MPs Demand Fashion Brand Bosses to Disclose Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Audit Committee has written to 10 retailers to find out how they are mitigating themThey include Marks and Spencer, Primark, Next, Arcadia, Asda, TK Maxx and Homesense, Tesco, JD...
London ‘Among Cities Sinking into the Sea’
Christian Aid says climate change means coastal cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding.
London is among the cities sinking into the oceans as climate change raises global sea levels.
That’s according to a new report from...
