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Plastics and the Environment
These bike shelters are made from wind turbines
Wind turbines have a service life of around 20 years. After that, they can be retired and reused for other purposes such as bike shelters
Climate Change
This is how much of the Earth's surface humans have modified
14.6% of the world's land area, an area greater than Russia, has been modified by humans, according to researchers.
Climate Change
A carbon moon-shot: Fossil fuels could peak as early as 2025, experts explain
Demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2025 if countries meet their climate pledges, according to the latest World Energy Outlook 2021 from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Climate Change
What is 'eco-anxiety' and how can we ease young people's fears for the planet?
The climate crisis is having a negative impact on children's mental health, say experts, and tackling eco-anxiety should be an urgent priority for governments.
Plastics and the Environment
New law in France will save 1 billion pieces of single-use plastic annually
France's environment minister has announced that the country will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022.
Biodiversity
How the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework could become the ‘Paris Agreement for nature’
The UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework could be to nature what the Paris accord is to our climate, protecting habitats and creating sustainable food systems.
Plastics and the Environment
This is how much plastic debris is floating in the Mediterranean Sea
Researchers have created a model, tracking the pathways of land-based micro and macro-plastics to the sea.
Plastics and the Environment
How can we help tourists to make better decisions about the environment?
A study in Indonesia found that subtle messaging and cues can encourage tourists to engage in behaviors that protect the marine ecosystem.
Plastics and the Environment
Reduce, reuse, compost: Why recycling alone won’t solve the plastic crisis
Recycling plastic is not enough beat the global waste crisis - we need more new ways to make food packaging, including using more compostable materials.
How to Save the Planet
Investing in plastic waste can reap rich rewards
Solving the plastic pollution issue will require systemic change. Financing these solutions will require a collective, public-private approach.
Circular Economy
Zero-waste shopping comes to Japan
Loop, a system of returning and reusing the packaging many grocery items come in could help us reduce single-use plastic. Here’s what you need to know.
Plastics and the Environment
This is how New Zealand is tackling plastic pollution
New Zealand is proposing to regulate single-use plastic packaging and to ban various hard-to-recycle plastics and single-use plastic items.
Climate Change
What is a keystone species, and why do they matter?
They are the lynchpin of ecosystems – species that maintain balance and support biodiversity – without which the food web is transformed or could even collapse.
SDIS2021
These 4 methods can help solve Ghana’s plastic dilemma
Ghana currently only has waste recovery and recycling rates of 12% and 10% respectively. Effective deployment of policies and social interventions can improve this.
SDIS2021
Just how environmentally friendly are our reusable containers?
New research shows that reusable containers could actually be worse for the environment than their disposable counterparts, with a higher carbon footprint overall.