Waste Watch: Russia, UK Adopt Single Use Plastics Bans
Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.
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Northeast Pummeled with Colossal Flooding, Destructive Tornadoes
Ida’s epic flooding is likely to become part of an extreme weather new normal.
Read more...The Cost of Corporate America: Checking Your Conscience at the Door
Reflections on the moral cost of being a corporate citizen.
Read more...‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...The Fragility of the New York City Subway System
What if Hurricane Sandy was only the beginning?
Read more...Global Weather Disruptions, Food Commodity Prices, and Economic Activity: A Global Warning For Advanced Countries
Examines the macroeconomic effects of global food commodity price increases that are caused by global harvest and weather disruptions, and finds that the decline in economic activity is substantial and greater in advanced than in low-income countries.
Read more...Ida’s Landfall Imminent, Disaster Expert General Russel Honoré Says Time to Declare Climate Emergency
Gulf Coast communities face added pollution as Hurricane Ida nears amid the build-out of gas export and plastic-manufacturing plants.
Read more...Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author
The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.
Read more...Here’s What Makes a New Amazon Carbon Study So Unnerving
Walking through yet more troubling information about the state of the Amazon.
Read more...“All-Electric Future Comes At A Huge Cost”
Tempering some of the enthuiasm for “all-electric” schemes.
Read more...Waste Watch: UK Enacts Right to Repair Rules
UK enacts right to repair rules, which should make spare parts for some electrical devices and large household appliances more widely available.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts
Commemorating a desructive anniversary, that of the Powell memo that set forth how big business would wage war against ordinary citizens.
Read more...Amazon: Regrowing Forests Have Offset Less Than 10% of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation
Unless drastic changes are made to halt deforestation and encourage forests to regrow, the Amazon cannot fulfil its potential to mitigate climate change.
Read more...Report: Fashion Kills Africa’s Rivers
Water Waste report discusses how textile production pollutes Africa’s rivers – and what must be done to correct this fashion problem.
Read more...Is Western U.S. Experiencing a ‘Megadrought’?
The U.S. West may be in a climate-fueled megadrought, but willingness to admit that, let alone address it, is awfully slow in coming.
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