McDonald's claims 99.6% of its paper packaging sourced from sustainable fiber

Aug 21, 2021 14:19 pm UTC| Nature Economy

McDonalds Corp claims that it has sourced 99.6 percent of its paper food packaging in restaurants from recycled or sustainable fiber in 2020, up from 92 percent in 2019. In its annual sustainability report, the global...

3 lessons for forest towns as wildfire destroys historic Greenville, California

Aug 07, 2021 01:28 am UTC| Nature

A wildfire burning in dry mountain forest swept through the Gold Rush town of Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, reducing neighborhoods and the historic downtown to charred rubble. Hours earlier, the sheriff had warned...

S. Korea's carbon reduction planners criticized for 'poor skills'

Aug 06, 2021 23:40 pm UTC| Nature Economy

Environmental groups criticized the Presidential Committee on Carbon Neutrality for its poor skills in coming up with carbon neutrality plans that still emit greenhouse gas. Only one of the three options unveiled by the...

Climate Change Series

Earth's energy budget is out of balance – here's how it's warming the climate

Aug 06, 2021 10:20 am UTC| Nature

You probably remember your grade school science teachers explaining that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Thats a fundamental property of the universe. Energy can be transformed, however. When the Suns rays...

UAE's plan to burn 2/3 of trash seen negating carbon neutrality goals

Jul 31, 2021 23:55 pm UTC| Nature Economy

The UAE is constructing a $1.1 billion waste-to-energy facility in Dubai that will help burn up to two-thirds of the countrys trash to deal with a growing refuse problem. The facility is part of a series of waste...

'Cyborg soil' reveals the secret microbial metropolis beneath our feet

Jul 24, 2021 05:58 am UTC| Nature Science

Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what youll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies that analyse samples of earth scooped from the...

Why are water companies dumping raw sewage in Britain's rivers and coastal seas?

Jul 18, 2021 10:38 am UTC| Nature

There were more than 400,000 discharges of raw sewage in 2020, together lasting more than three million hours, from water companies into rivers in England and Wales. One company, Southern Water, was recently fined a record...