Climate clock reset shows the world is one year closer to 1.5 C warming threshold
Nov 06, 2021 08:22 am UTC| Nature
Global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to increase to almost 2019 levels this year, upending last years unprecedented drop caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. This means that emissions are trending upwards again, when they...
COP26: here's what it would take to end coal power worldwide
Nov 06, 2021 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
More than 40 countries have signed an agreement at COP26, the latest UN climate change summit in Glasgow, to phase out coal in electricity generation. The signatories include some of the worlds biggest coal burners:...
A 150-year-old note from Charles Darwin is inspiring a change in the way forests are planted
Nov 06, 2021 08:04 am UTC| Nature
More than 150 years ago Victorian biologist Charles Darwin made a powerful observation: that a mixture of species planted together often grow more strongly than species planted individually. It has taken a century and a...
Adidas CEO says environmental efforts won't work without involving largest emitter China
Nov 05, 2021 23:32 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted expressed doubts that the efforts by the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties in Glasgow would work without the involvement of China, the worlds largest emitter. Rorsted...
McDonald’s joins PepsiCo in efforts to reduce agricultural emissions
Nov 05, 2021 23:30 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
McDonalds will allocate $5 million over the next five years to help develop and implement emissions-reducing farming practices in an agreement that makes it a founding partner of AgMission, along with Pepsi. The...
Toyota, Stellantis rank as worst major automakers in emissions efforts
Nov 04, 2021 23:17 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
The worlds top-selling carmaker Toyota and US-European firm Stellantis ranked last among Greenpeaces list of 10 auto firms in terms of carbon emission efforts, published Thursday during the COP26 climate...
Hawaiian startup converts cashew waste to planet-friendly plant-based meat
Nov 04, 2021 23:15 pm UTC| Nature Life Economy
Hawaiian startup Cajú Love is transforming cashew apples, a byproduct of cashew nut, into a nutritious plant-based meat alternative with a texture similar to that of shredded chicken. The fleshy cashew apples...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects