World’s Top Scientists Say Worse Pandemics To Come If We Keep Destroying Nature
There will be even deadlier diseases in the future unless we halt the rampant destruction of nature, which is the root cause of pandemics, warn the world’s leading wildlife and biodiversity scientists. According to the group of experts,!-->…
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Singapore’s Plant-Based Maker Growthwell Secures US$8 Million To Bring Chickpea Protein To Asia
The Growthwell Group, a Singaporean plant-based protein company, has just announced that it has raised US$8 million. The latest funding round was led by Singapore government-backed fund Temasek, alongside other investors including DSG!-->…
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2020 On Track To Be The Hottest Year Since Records Began, With Temps In Asia 3 Degrees Higher Than Normal
Despite global lockdowns that have lowered carbon emissions, this year is on course to become the hottest year since records began. Meteorologists estimate that there is as high as a 75% chance that 2020 will shatter the records for high!-->…
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Spanish Plant-Based Chicken Startup Heura Sees 450% Growth In Past Year & Announces New Investment
Barcelona-based vegan startup Heura has become the fastest growing European company in the plant-based industry with a staggering 450% growth in the past year. Within just 3 years, the company’s presence has expanded from its native Spain!-->…
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Did The Romans Invent Recycling? New Pompeii Ruins Research Unearthed
Turns out, the Romans were not only the engineers behind aqueducts and underground heating. Excavations at Pompeii by classical academic Allison Emmerson and a team of researchers and archeologists has revealed that rubbish left outside!-->…
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Beyond Meat Enters US$150 Million Credit Facility To Fund Global Growth
Beyond Meat, one of the most popular plant-based meat makers in the world, has announced that it has obtained a US$150 million five-year secured revolving credit facility to finance its global expansion. The announcement followed breaking!-->…
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Ocean Plastic Was Choking Chile’s Shores. Now It’s In Patagonia’s Hats
By: Charis McGowan
A startup is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?
In Tumbes, a village in southern Chile, discarded plastic!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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INTERVIEW: Nature & Forest Therapy Guide Jasmine Nunns “Build A Relationship With Green Spaces”
Jasmine Nunns founded Kembali to re-wild city-dwellers and connect them back to nature. As Hong Kong’s first certified Nature & Forestry Therapy Guide, she knows a thing or two about why our connection to earth, animals and community!-->…
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‘Rebel Alliance’ Bookshop Emerges As Antidote To Amazon Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic
Over the past years, bookstores owners across the world have suffered from the rise of Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Now, just like almost every business sector, bookstores are facing another round of devastation with!-->…
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The World Must Protect Vulnerable Food & Farm Workers Amidst Covid-19
Food and farm workers have been called heroic essential workers amidst the pandemic, yet they continue to lack the protections they deserve to ensure their workplace safety. Leaving them in danger not only threatens their physical health,!-->…
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OPINION: Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Film Trashes Clean Energy, Offers Zero Solutions
Editor's Note: Lest this piece may be misunderstood, it's worth nothing that this publication believes a good takedown can be an incredibly important tool in the climate crisis fight. But takedowns should be nuanced, fact-checked and offer!-->…
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Could Microsoft’s Climate Crisis ‘Moonshot’ Plan Really Work?
By: Oscar Schwartz
The tech giant’s pledge to go carbon negative by 2030 leans heavily on nascent technology such as machines that suck carbon out of the air.
Microsoft drew widespread praise in January this year after Brad Smith,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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5 Things To Know About Climate Change & Coronavirus With WHO Climate Lead
By: Margaret Brennan & Kelsey Micklas
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and since well before the COVID-19 outbreak, the World Health Organization has been tracing and analyzing the impact of how climate!-->!-->!-->…
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How Financial Markets Can Grow More Climate Savvy
By: Jenessa Duncombe
Take extreme weather risks into account, and markets could prove hardier in a changing world.
Energy investors looking to steel themselves against topsy-turvy market transitions could try something new:!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Why The Climate Movement Is Failing Us: From A Black Woman Schooled In Science Bias
By: Jasmine C. Leyva
Jasmine Leyva, director of The Invisible Vegan, unpacks the complicated relationship between people of color and the climate movement.
Math is one of the only subjects I trust because, as much as I hate it,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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A Look At The Oil Industry’s Favourite Climate Solutions
By: Justin Mikulka
Shell recently announced plans to “stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050,” a move hailed by some as a major step towards addressing climate change. Around the same time,!-->!-->!-->…
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At Home & School, Young Japanese Still Push To Halt Climate Change
By: Yoshiyuki Ito
The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the postponement of this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26), but it has not prevented young Japanese from continuing their calls for action against global warming.
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Amid Historic Oil Collapse, An Opportunity To Accelerate Clean Transportation
By: Dana Drugmand
Petroleum products continue to fuel most of our vehicles while fouling our air, leaving some people more vulnerable to suffering severe impacts from respiratory illnesses like COVID-19. Transportation is also!-->!-->!-->…
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OPINION: Covid-19 Has Given Us A Chance To Ditch Cruises For Good. Let’s Take It.
Cruise ships have made headlines for all the wrong reasons during the current coronavirus pandemic – they are now seen as outbreak hotspots and incubators of the infectious virus where the “unlucky” holidaymakers onboard have been confined!-->…
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Coronavirus Is Pushing More Work Online. Is That Good For The Planet?
By: Irina Ivanova
The millions of Americans who are skipping their morning commute and working from home because of the coronavirus have drastically reduced smog over America's largest cities and otherwise benefited the!-->!-->!-->…
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This Earth Day, Stop The Money Pipeline
By: Bill McKibben
We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.
Nineteen-seventy was a simpler time. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.)
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