By Terran Fielder, April 3, 2025Eating a balanced diet can be difficult; all of us try our best to get in the right levels of proteins, veggies, and carbs. But there’s one thing we don’t account for in our diet and which we often have no idea we are eating – plastics. Yep you heard that right – we are all pretty much eating plastics too. In the form of microplastics, the size of grain of rice, or even smaller, nano-plastics, that are invisible
Those who stand to lose out from the transition need to be involved in decision making, write two professors of communication. By Jia Hepeng, Pan Yeheng, April 8, 2025A worker loads coal onto a truck at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi province (Image: Guangxi An / Panda Eye / Alamy)Wherever you are in the world, successful action on climate change requires support from the public. In China’s case, this support has been strong since
While they bet big on AI and product carbon-footprint tracking, more action is needed to drive greener consumption, experts say. By Niu Yuhan, Cui Qiwen, April 4, 2025Onshore wind turbine blades at a zero-carbon smart industrial park in Inner Mongolia. In 2024, 26% of China’s GDP growth came from the clean-energy industry, but it is not yet clear if current measures to encourage “green consumption” will be enough to promote the low-carbon
Crude oil was Brazil’s top export in 2024, with China its main buyer. As it aims to show leadership ahead of COP30, its government also hopes to explore a controversial Amazon field. By André Duchiade, April 4, 2025Rodrigo Avelino, project manager at Petrobras’ Abreu e Lima refinery in Pernambuco state, on a technical visit at the plant’s facilities. The Brazilian company has been playing a key role in boosting oil exports over the last
