At last year’s COP26 UN climate conference in Glasgow, the U.S. and the EU launched the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. Now, a U.S. official tells Reuters that around 40 of the 125 members of the pledge will unveil concrete methane reduction plans at the upcoming COP27 climate conference […]
Between May and August of this year, the EU set a record when it generated 12.2 percent of its electricity from solar power, according to energy think tank Ember, reported the World Economic Forum. A new study by Oslo-based energy research company Rystad Energy said extending Europe’s solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity would be 10 times […]
Nearly 70 people have been arrested in Egypt ahead of the COP27 UN climate conference, and Indian climate activist Ajit Rajagopal was briefly detained on his planned foot journey to the summit. COP27 is being held in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh from November 6 to 18. However, several human rights and […]
A new report, called the Land Gap Report, from researchers around the world has found that climate pledges from governments and corporations that rely heavily on tree planting are not realistic. That’s because there likely isn’t enough land on Earth to support all of these carbon offsetting pledges. Researchers calculated the land needed to fulfill […]
Do you ever peer into the compost bin after taking out your kitchen scraps? What do you see (besides your food waste creating rich, beautiful, natural fertilizer)? There are probably a lot of happy creepy-crawlers at work breaking down that green and brown matter, which is exactly what you want to see. But, there might […]
From July 1 to September 30 of this year, more than 500 citizen scientists recorded the litter they encountered at national parks and federal lands across the country as part of the Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz. Now, the results are in and they indicate that policy makers need to speed up their timeline for getting single-use […]
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