Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body | Airline emissions: The relatively secretive UN’s committee on aviation environmental protection (CAEP) seems to be dominated by representatives from the aviation and fossil fuel companies.
The environment
2025-02-15
Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles: Food is harder to grow in a world ravaged by climate change.
2024-12-31: 'The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years'
2024-12-31
World endures ‘decade of deadly heat’ as 2024 caps hottest years on record: ‘The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years’.
2024-12-30
2024-11-22: 📚 Finished listening to Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn.
2024-11-12
Regime of Unreason: The US surely couldn’t need any ‘liberalisation’ of its fossil fuel regulations when it’s already a net exporter of energy.
2024-11-10
2024-10-30
Yelling at clouds: ‘The Cloud’ might feel like magic but we must remember that it has a real material footprint and consequent impact.
2024-10-10
Trump’s rampant lies about FEMA’s Hurricane Helene response, briefly explained: Once again, disinformation can have deadly consequences.
Hurricane Milton: what causes such intense storms?: Largely climate change, unsurprisingly.
2024-10-04
Labour to commit almost £22bn to carbon capture and storage projects: Glad to see them putting serious investment into something ‘environmental’, tho I don’t know enough about the technology to know if this is is the best option.
2024-09-19
Do you really need a new phone every 2 years? How to get more out of your devices: If you must upgrade there are several options beyond throwing your old phone away.
Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling smartphone e-waste: Reusing and repairing your old phone is much better for the environment than recycling it.
2024-06-08: A calculator to quickly compare the energy costs of using different types of appliances
2024-05-10: Hundreds of IPCC scientists think we'll being living in an environmental semi-dystopia by the end of the century
2024-04-15: US regulators introduce a law to limit the levels of PFAS present in drinking water
2024-03-28: ‘Refugee Astronaut III’, from a recent visit to the Wellcome Collection’s …
2024-03-27: The benefits of eating snakes
2024-01-25: This (taken from some random Discord if I remember correctly) might be a little simplistic in some …
2024-01-15: Mis- and dis-information are the biggest immediate threats to the world according to the WEF
2023-12-04: The world is on track for a “hellish” 3C of global heating, the UN has warned. Apparently our …
2023-08-12: Please let's not fight the next election on who can damage the environment the most
2023-07-31: A new paper re-affirms that plant-based diets are far less damaging to the environment