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Oil Spills 101: Everything You Need to Know - EcoWatch
2023-09-01 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeOil spills are major environmental disasters that will likely continue as long as our dependence on oil does.
U.S. Forests Struggling to Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change, Study Finds - EcoWatch
2023-06-13 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeResearchers have uncovered warning signs that forests in the Western U.S. are struggling to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
Biggest Polluters Linked to Worsening Wildfires in Western U.S. and Canada - EcoWatch
2023-05-17 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeFossil fuel and cement companies are linked to at least one-third of the area burned by wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada since 1986.
Tagged under: Wildfires
94% of Forest-Based Carbon Offsets Certified By Leading Global Provider Are ‘Phantom Credits,’ Major Investigation Finds - EcoWatch
2023-01-22 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeA new investigation from The Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial leads heavily towards the latter conclusion. The report, published Wednesday, found that more than 90 percent of the rainforest offset credits offered by top carbon standard Verra are actually what The Guardian called “phandom credits” that don’t actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Tagged under: Rainforests | Trees
Microbes Are Evolving to Digest Plastic, Study Finds - EcoWatch
2021-12-14 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeIt’s no secret that plastic is taking over our planet at a rapid pace. Now, researchers of one study have found that microbes in the oceans and soil all around the world are quickly evolving to digest the plastic. The study authors say these findings show “a measurable effect of plastic pollution on the global microbial ecology.”
Tagged under: Oceans
Legal Experts Define Ecocide, Take Step Toward International Criminal Law - EcoWatch
2021-06-23 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeAfter six months of deliberation, an international panel of 12 legal experts has drafted an official definition of ecocide. The draft defines ecocide as, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts."
New 'Vegan Spider Silk' Could Help Solve Our Plastic Problem - EcoWatch
2021-06-14 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifePlastics are very useful materials. They've contributed significant benefits to modern society. But the unprecedented amount of plastics produced over the past few decades has caused serious environmental pollution. Packaging alone was responsible for 46% out of 340 million tonnes of plastic waste generated globally in 2018.
Fracking 101: What You Should Know - EcoWatch
2021-05-11 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeFracking involves blasting water, chemicals and frac sand deep into the earth to break up rock formations and extract natural gas and crude oil. It's one of the most important environmental issues today, and a case study in how a new technology that offers immediate economic and political advantages can overpower environmental and health concerns.
Tagged under: Environmental Protection Agency USA | Water Resources | Fracking | Health | Economics
Young Climate Leaders Conclude Mock COP26 With Calls for Green Recovery, Recognition of Ecocide - EcoWatch
2020-12-02 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeThe youth-led Mock COP26 virtual conference concluded with a treaty they hope world leaders will sign ahead of the official COP26 in November 2021. Mock COP26 participants presented the 18-point treaty, which includes calls for climate education at all levels, a legally recognized crime of ecocide and a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic
Tagged under: COP26
Physicists: 90% Chance of Human Society Collapsing Within Decades - EcoWatch
2020-08-03 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeDeforestation coupled with the rampant destruction of natural resources will soon have devastating effects on the future of society as we know it, according to two theoretical physicists who study complex systems and have concluded that greed has put us on a path to irreversible collapse within the next two to four decades.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Collapse
East Siberian Sea Is Boiling With Methane - EcoWatch
2019-10-09 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeRussian scientists on an Arctic expedition have discovered, for the first time, methane "boiling" on the surface of the water that is visible to the naked eye. The methane is so pronounced that it can be scooped from the water in buckets. The research team found the methane leak east of Bennett Island in the East Siberian Sea.
Tagged under: Arctic | Methane | Russia
Greta Thunberg Says 'Haters' Attacking Her Asperger's Have 'Nowhere Left to Go' - EcoWatch
2019-09-03 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeChampions of Greta Thunberg — and the 16-year-old climate activist herself — hit back against malicious right-wing bullies over the weekend as she called her Asperger's syndrome diagnosis a "superpower" and her defenders said there is but one reason that people attack the person who has galvanized the global climate strike movement ...
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism
Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation - EcoWatch
2019-08-28 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeTrump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet's largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the "lungs of the world"
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Rainforests | Forest Fires | Alaska | Trees
Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop - EcoWatch
2018-09-27 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeClimate change is giving Arctic plants a growth spurt. A study published in Nature examined seven key plant characteristics over 30 years of warming at 117 locations in the Arctic or alpine tundra and found that plants were growing taller at all locations studied. Plant height could actually speed up as well as signal the warming process.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Arctic | Climate Change
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