BPA’s evil cousin
Most people have heard of BPA — but researchers say its chemical cousin, BADGE, is leaving scores of workers, artisans and individuals at risk.
BADGE, short for bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether, BADGE, has gotten far less...
The Coral Restoration Consortium – 2023 Coral Bleaching Guidance
Bleaching is reaching severe levels throughout the tropics with more reports coming in daily. This extreme heat stress due to the predicted El Niño, is arriving a month earlier than expected. Corals can recover...
Global shipping can halve emissions without impacting trade, study finds ahead of key UN...
The global shipping industry can reduce emissions by nearly 50% by the end of the decade, according to a new study by CE Delft. These findings come as the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) is about...
U.S. Power Grid: Inadequate For Future Dominated By Renewables?
Our outdated power grid is indeed a significant hindrance to efforts to combat climate change. One of the key issues is the grid’s limited capacity to integrate renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.), a...
Lawsuit Launched Over Federal Failure to Protect Manatees
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper, and Frank S. González García sent a notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and...
Country Overshoot Days 2023
A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country.
Country overshoot days are published on January 1st of each year. In...
Hunting trophy trade still alive and well in Australia
More than 800 trophies from 40 different protected mammal species were imported into Australia during the five-year period up to 2018, including species such as giraffes, zebras, American black bears, chacma baboons, brown bears,...
Eight tonnes of ghost net retrieved from Queensland waters
Earlier this month, three large ghost nets were removed from Queensland waters between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Torres Strait, in a joint operation by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Parks...
Electric vehicle sales mandate critical to lowering emissions from transportation
TORONTO, ON — Adam Thorn, Transportation Director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s announcement on new zero-emission vehicles regulations, released today.
“We welcome the...
Bear Tracker Update: It’s Freeze-Up!
Each year the Polar Bears International Bear Tracker follows GPS-collared female polar bears from the Hudson Bay region, allowing us a glimpse into the secret world of polar bears on the sea ice. This...
‘We won’t let deep sea mining risk the ocean‘: Greenpeace confronts mining ship
Manzanillo, Mexico – Greenpeace activists from Mexico and Aotearoa (New Zealand) have peacefully confronted a deep sea mining ship off the coast of Manzanillo, México this afternoon as it returned to port from the...
Economic losses from hurricanes become too big to be offset by the US if...
Hurricane damages can increase due to increasing global temperatures, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Computer simulations of regional economic sectors and supply chains in the US now show that the resulting...
