by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
‘Duty of Care’ about the environment is up for debate again in the Australian courts, unfortunately. In 2020, eight student activists took Australia’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley to court to try to stop her from approving the expansion of a...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 14, 2022 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Chemical recycling may be a scam, according to research done by a major environmental group. Chemical recycling is a relatively new method popularized by industry groups as recycling exportation breaks down. It’s a process where plastic is treated with compounds...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The Great Barrier Reef may not outlast this generation, if conditions don’t improve. A UN climate report released on Monday identified 127 major consequences of rising global temperatures, some of them already happening, some of them irreversible. One...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The megadrought in the American West is the worst in at least 1200 years, according to a recent study by UCLA researchers, and human-led climate change is a key part of it. Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA, has been studying the history of soil hydration...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
San Javier de Cachaví, a small village in Ecuador, is being choked by oil palm trees, and now the courts want them to pay the plantation owners thousands for protesting the damage. San Javier de Cachaví is small, only about 120 families in a little community along a...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Sustainability
Winter sports are facing a widespread difficulty this year – there’s not enough winter weather. The Alpine World Cup began in Beaver Creek, Colorado last December, a ski resort at almost a mile and a half elevation in the Rocky Mountains. Ordinarily in December,...
