Dear Jon,The United Nations estimates that the equivalent of one soccer field of soil is lost to erosion every five seconds. By 2050, around 90% of the Earth's soil could be degraded. Landslides, a drastic decline in global food production, and desertification are some of the catastrophic results of allowing our topsoil to erode.But it doesn't have to be this way. During our two-part online event series, The Dirt on Soil, we'll hear
The Chancellor’s levy on energy companies will create more problems for the climate. By India Bourke, May 27, 2022Getty ImagesOnly the Tory party, with its love of unleashed big business, could have turned a solution to the climate crisis into an extension of the problem. For that is exactly what Chancellor Rishi Sunak‘s announcement yesterday (26 May) of a UK windfall tax on oil and gas companies appears to have done – breaking a
The trade association representing EU chocolate associations and leading brands such as Mars, Cadbury, Ferrero and Nestle signed a statement against a key measure in the regulations. By Zach Boren, May 24, 2022Trucks loaded with palm oil bunches drive through the haze on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti / GreenpeaceTrade groups representing the palm oil industry are urging the EU to postpone the commodity’s compliance
A sprawling society with pyramids, moats, and “forest islands” thrived from 500 to 1400 A.D. in the Bolivian Amazon. By Becky Ferreira, 27 May 2022SCREENSHOTS FROM A 3D ANIMATION OF THE COTOCA SITE. IMAGE: H. PRÜMERS / DAIThe ruins of a vast ancient civilization that has remained hidden under the densely forested landscape of the Bolivian Amazon for centuries has now been mapped out in unprecedented detail by lasers shot from a helicopter,
By Richard Heinberg, May 23, 2022Everyone who owns a gasoline-burning car has noticed that fuel prices have shot up in recent weeks. And most of us have read headlines about high energy prices driving inflation. But very few Americans have any inkling just how profound the current energy crisis already is, and is about to become.This lack of awareness is partly due to economists, and those who depend on economists’ readings of the tea leaves
Poor households headed by women spend a higher share of their budgets on protecting their families from worsening floods, storms and other impacts of global warming.By Md. Tahmid Zami, 18 May 2022A flood-affected woman uses liquid petroleum gas to cook a meal inside her flooded house in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, July 18, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainRural families in Bangladesh are using a large chunk of their budgets to protect themselves
About 195 countries were set to finalise an accord to safeguard plants, animals and ecosystems at the U.N. talks, known as COP15, which had been due to start late last month in the Chinese city of Kunming. By Michael Taylor, 20 May 2022Butterflies perch on flowers at the Bantimurung Nature Preservation, which houses more than 100 species of butterflies, in Maros district of Indonesia's South Sulawesi province June 14, 2007. Picture
