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Who Watchdogs BC’s Ship Breakers? | The Tyee
[Editor’s note: This piece is a followup to a Tyee special report called “Where Do Ships Go When They Die,”…
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Amazon emissions increased 18% last year as Covid drove online shopping surge
Amazon vans line up at a distribution center to pick up packages for delivery on Amazon Prime Day in Orlando,…
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EPA says it is looking for “super-emitters” of methane gas in Texas’ Permian Basin
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Will BC Let Mount Polley Mine Keep Pumping Waste into Quesnel Lake? | The Tyee
Eight years after a mine’s tailings dam collapsed and sent a torrent of toxic wastewater into a central B.C. lake,…
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Nigeria: Illegal oil refineries thrive despite government crackdown | DW | 03.08.2022
“I want to give my family the best I can afford. We cannot just stay and survive. We really want…
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Climate Change Is Coming for Kits Pool | The Tyee
In summer, Vancouver’s Kitsilano Pool is a cool oasis, a light blue lozenge on the edge of the ocean. Swimming…
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Euro zone economy grows 0.7% in the second quarter despite gas crisis and inflation surge
Growth in the euro zone economy accelerated in the second quarter of the year, but the region’s prospects get hit…
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What Is All The Fuss About ESG Ratings?
Investors are demanding ESG ratings for companies. Should ratings be applied to governments, too? getty The recent growth of ESG…
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Why tech workers are quitting great jobs at companies like Google to fight climate change
Sandy Anuras, the chief technology officer of Sunrun. Photo courtesy Sandy Anuras, the chief technology officer of Sunrun Tech workers…
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Rolls-Royce and easyJet to test hydrogen combustion engine tech for airplanes
easyJet aircraft photographed at Southend Airport in July 2020. There is excitement in some quarters about hydrogen planes and their…
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Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in east Asia
Global heating is leading dozens of bat species to migrate to southern China and southeast Asian countries, amid growing concerns…
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Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Economy And The Environment
Pittsburgh in 1940 and Today. Source: (Top) Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901–2002, AIS.1971.05, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. Public…
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Burlington-Area Bike-Share Suspended as Vendor Goes Dark
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Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry
The problem with powering any form of transport with electricity is it requires heavy batteries. That’s a particular problem for…
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Turkey Probably Hasn’t Found the Rare Earth Metals It Says It Has
The official press release about Turkey’s “discovery” is scant on details. But Goodenough suggests that it is likely to be…
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The Climate Anxiety Discussion Has a Whiteness Problem
Sarah Jaquette Ray has spent her career etching out an academic niche at the intersection of environmental issues and social…
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Living on Earth: Getting Plastics Out of the Parks
Air Date: Week of July 8, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file Plastic fork with seaweed. Single-use plastic…
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The Odessa water outage underscores a growing problem: Aging pipes in Texas cities are getting more fragile
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That Weird Smell in Your House Might Be Mold. Here’s How to Check
As climate change leads to increased flooding and more severe freezes, added moisture and humidity means that more homes and…
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Escooter Rentals Aren’t as Green as You Think
Early fleets lasted just a few months, even in the best cases. And with their aluminum frames and lithium-ion batteries,…
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‘Carbon Capture’ Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades | The Tyee
In late June, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney flew to Washington, D.C., with the heads of major oilsands producers to make…
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Eileen Fisher And Pentatonic Come Together To Help Fashion Clean Up Its Waste Problem
Environmental pollution on the river banks surrounding some of the textile industry buildings of … [+] Savar Upazila on 30th…
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New training builds local capacity for beluga sampling in Tuk
Last week, Tuktoyaktuk resident Hazel Nuyaviak packed her bags to spend almost a month doing specialized beluga sampling on an…
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The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization’s Collapse
What creates a little bit of frustration is that in the scientific domain, there was not enough controversy, because somehow…
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In study, Biscayne Bay oysters come out on top—for toxic ‘forever chemicals’
MIAMI – A Florida International University study looking at the presence of toxic “forever chemicals” in Florida oysters found that…
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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines
Air Date: Week of June 24, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file The EPA has been ordered to…
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Indian Right Livelihood winner: ‘Blurred lines between ecology and human rights’ | DW | 29.09.2021
Ritwick Dutta, a founding lawyer of the Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), which works with communities through a…
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Meet The Furniture Brand Making Office Chairs With Recycled Fishing Nets
Humanscale’s new Liberty Ocean chair includes fishing nets. Humanscale Humanscale is not a new furniture startup. In fact, they’ve been…
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Oregon Is Burning Trees in Order to Save Them
“It is the most drastic prescription that we have,” says Sarah Navarro, a sudden oak death pathologist for the Forest…
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Minnesota DNR launches new hearing process for PolyMet mine
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators on Friday launched a court-ordered process for assessing the risks to clean water…
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Climate psychologist says neither gloom-and-doom nor extreme solution-obsessed optimism is the best way to discuss climate change productively
Renée Lertzman, climate psychologist Communicating about climate change effectively is critical to get people to engage with it productively, according…
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Heavy artificial rains are caused in the United Arab Emirates
A heat wave of almost 50 degrees is controlled with a new technology that causes artificial rain. Grow Your Business,…
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