by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | Conservation, Sustainability
Deforestation in Brazil has already fallen by over 60% in the first month of President Lula’s administration, according to satellite data. During his first presidency from 2004-2010, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made preserving natural resources a...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
A sperm whale has been found dead on a beach in Hawaii, its body full of hundreds of pounds of ingested plastic waste. Saturday, January 28th, a 56-foot sperm whale was found deceased on a reef of Kauai. Scientists, who rarely get to study the deep ocean predators,...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 23, 2023 | Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
The Fortistar power plant in upstate New York has been taken over by a cryptocurrency mining company, and environmental activists are suing to stop it. Digihost describes themselves as a Blockchain Technology Company with a focus on Bitcoin mining. “Our...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 11, 2023 | Conservation, Profiles, Sustainability
Marina Silva, Amazon activist, is President-elect Lula’s choice for Brazil’s new minister of environment. Marina Silva grew up in the Amazon, working as child labor on a rubber plantation. As an adult, she has worked hard to undo the damage of the kind of...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 12, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Europe’s water crisis is worse than assumed, according to what satellites can see of groundwater conditions. For the second summer in a row, drought dried up rivers and reservoirs all over Europe, and wildfires raged. Photos of the Loire River in France running...
