Tag: Climate
Our Taste for Flesh Has Exhausted the Earth Are we ready for the future of meat? By Somini Sengupta from NYT (New York Times) Climate Read more.
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth. At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to …
The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of exposing …
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant …
Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to …
5 Takeaways From Our Reporting on Toxic Sludge Fertilizer The Times dug into the widespread use of sewage sludge as fertilizer, which is sometimes heavily contaminated by “forever chemicals.” …
Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain …
Turbine Blades Have Piled Up in Landfills. A Solution May Be Coming. Wind power has a waste problem that has been difficult to solve. Turbine blades made from a …
Canada’s Wildfires Were a Top Global Emitter Last Year, Study Says The blazes produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on …