Doctors Raise Alarm on Dropping Global Fertility Rate, Environmental Pollutants Cited
A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
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Fixing the Panama Canal
The impact of the reduction in Panama Canal capacity illustrates choices we will have to make. Some are more pro-survival than others
Read more...Monsanto’s ‘Cancer Index’, an Alleged Conspiracy, and New PCB-Related Complaints
Monsanto is targeted for cancer liability via an alleged collusion with GE over indemnification for PCBs, including the use of a cancer index
Read more...Smoke and Mirrors in Serbia?
Protests since December elections have the government and some observers claiming the West is attempting another color revolution, but behind the scenes Serbian elites and the West enjoy an increasingly intertwined and beneficial relationship
Read more...Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
Read more...Permafrost, Methane and Climate Change
Yet another climate change accelerant not getting remotely the attention warranted: permafrost melt.
Read more...Huge Capital Investment Required for U.S. Electric Industry’s Decarbonization
Electric utilities face massive costs to end their use of fossil fuels in power generation. What does that mean for consumers and the public?
Read more...Five Christmas Fashion Trends We Should Bring Back – And May Be Found in Your Wardrobe Already
A lecturer in design and cultural theory provides environmentally friendly fashion advice for the holidays.
Read more...How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
Chemists are manipulating carbon dioxide to make plastics for clothing, mattresses, shoes, and more.
Read more...This Generation’s Problem: Climate Chaos
Climate-change-induced extreme events look more and more imminent.
Read more...Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Keep Capitalism Out of Conservation
Trying to use capitalsm to justify environmental protection: not a happy mix.
Read more...Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28
Big Ag fights back at COP28
Read more...Plastic Is Here to Stay. Can It Be Made More Sustainably?
Redesigning plastic requires making trade-offs between cost, scalability, emissions, toxicity, and more. But how about using less?
Read more...‘A Sick Joke’: Six Ways of Looking at a COP
Making sense of this COP means looking at optics and interests, and sadly not outcomes.
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