This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline
We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies. Nineteen-seventy was a simpler time. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.) Simpler because our environmental troubles could be easily seen. The air above our cities was filthy, and the water in our lakes and streams was […]
Rooftop Wind Power Might Take Off by Using Key Principle of Flight
A new device could open more areas to wind production by using stationary airfoils instead of twirling turbines. Solar panels perched on the roofs of houses and other buildings are an increasingly common sight in the U.S., but rooftop wind systems have never caught on. Past efforts to scale down the towering turbines that generate […]
3 New Documentaries to Watch While Quarantined This Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, but this year’s celebration will be a little different from Earth Days past as coronavirus social distancing measures make outdoor gatherings impossible. Luckily, several networks are premiering documentaries in the U.S. Wednesday that you can watch from the safety of your couch. Here are three new films to watch on Earth Day’s 50th anniversary to keep […]
Sanctuary Farms Offer a Model for Future Food System
A handful of farms across North America are blurring ethical lines by incorporating rescued farm animals into plant production. Is this the solution to our broken food system, or part of the problem? Amidst the outbreak of the zoonotic COVID19 virus, the practice of closely confining animals bound to be food has come under increased […]
Releasing Herds of Animals Into the Arctic Could Help Fight Climate Change, Study Finds
Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores can slow down the pace of thawing permafrost in the Arctic. The study — a computerized simulation based on real-life, on-the ground […]
Climate Change is Not Our Children’s Problem to Solve — It’s up to us, the Adults
Parents discuss how they are talking to their children about climate change when they are anxious about it themselves, with journalist Alexa Phillips. “How many animals gone extinct?” When Antonia Godber opened her laptop and saw this question typed into Google she knew immediately who had asked it: her 11-year-old son, Will. As a mum […]
Halve the Farmland, Save Nature, Feed the World
Forget about organic farming: get the best out of the best cropland, return the rest to nature and still feed the world. It could work, say researchers. Once again, scientists have demonstrated that humans could restore roughly half the planet as a natural home for all the other wild things, while at the same time feeding […]
The Corona Connection: Forest Loss Drives Viruses As Well As Climate Change
The same forest destruction that accelerates climate change can also encourage the emergence of diseases such as the coronavirus, Indigenous Peoples’ leaders said March 13 in New York, as they criticized Cargill and other multinational companies for replacing forests with soy, palm and cattle plantations. “The coronavirus is now telling the world what we have […]
Why Don’t We Treat the Climate Crisis With the Same Urgency as Coronavirus?
No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches from No 10, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic. It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more to early graves. As its effects spread, it could destabilize entire economies and overwhelm poorer countries lacking resources […]
How Climate Change Influenced Australia’s Unprecedented Fires
The climate factors contributing to Australia’s bushfires are strikingly similar to those at play in California. Australia’s frightening bushfires, which kicked off an early fire season in September 2019, have already had cataclysmic effects, and the continent is still just in the early months of the southern hemisphere’s summer. The New South Wales Rural Fire […]
