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Samsung Commits to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2020
Samsung Electronics announced Thursday an aim to source 100 percent renewable energy for its energy used in all of its factories, office buildings and operational facilities in the U.S., Europe and China...
Pope Francis Tells Oil Bosses World Must Reduce Fossil Fuel Use
Pope Francis has told oil company chiefs that the world must switch to clean energy because climate change risks destroying humanity.“Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,” he said...
Antibiotic Apocalypse: EU Scraps Plans to Tackle Drug Pollution, Despite Fears of Rising Resistance
The EU has scrapped plans for a clampdown on pharmaceutical pollution that contributes to the spread of deadly superbugs.
Plans to monitor farm and pharmaceutical companies, to add environmental standards to EU medical...
Meat and Fish Multinationals ‘Jeopardising Paris Climate Goals’
Meat and fish companies may be “putting the implementation of the Paris agreement in jeopardy” by failing to properly report their climate emissions, according to a groundbreaking index launched today.Three out of...
McDonald’s Shareholders Vote to Keep Distributing Plastic Straws
McDonald's shareholders rejected a proposal to take the first step in banning plastic straws at its 36,000 outlets worldwide.The proposal, published in an SEC filing in April, would have required the fast...
High CO2 Levels Make Rice Less Nutritious, Study Finds
Research published Wednesday in Science Advances found that rice grown with the higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations expected by the end of this century was less nutritious, signaling bad news for the...
How the UK Fell out of Love with Wet Wipes
On the eighth-floor isolation ward of London’s University College Hospital, nurses have two lines of defence against the spread of life-threatening diseases. First are the airtight double lobbies in every room. Second...
Air Pollution Inequality Widens Between Rich and Poor Nations
Pollution inequality between the world’s rich and poor is widening, according to the latest global data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) which shows that 7 million people – mostly in developing...
Shell Confirms its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose in 2017
Shell's global greenhouse gas emissions increased last year due to increased fossil fuel output in some of its key markets, according to its latest sustainability report,
Published yesterday, the report shows Shell's direct...
Land Degradation Threatens Human Wellbeing
Land degradation is undermining the wellbeing of two-fifths of humanity, raising the risks of migration and conflict, according to the most comprehensive global assessment of the problem to date.
The UN-backed report underscores...
New Data Confirms Increasingly Frequent Extreme Weather Events
New data published this week shows that man-made climate change has resulted in increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as excess rainfall leading to flooding, coastal flooding, heatwaves, and increased risks of...
Anchovies and Chips: WWF Warns of Climate Threat to Iconic Dishes
Many of the UK's most popular dishes could become much more expensive, or even disappear altogether, over the coming decades as a result of climate impacts.
That is the stark warning contained in...
New York State Approves 26 Large-Scale Renewable Projects, Seeks Exemption From Federal Offshore Drilling
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced approval last week for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects, including 22 solar projects worth 647 megawatts (MW) and 733.58 MW worth of wind energy.
At the...
INTERVIEW: Filip Radovic and Verica Jovanovic
SEPA AND BATUT: Key Partners for Improving EcoHealthThe concern about the state of the whole ecosystem, contained in the conceptual goals of EcoHealth, requires interaction between all expert services and institutions of the...
Climate Change and Weather Extremes: Both Heat and Cold Can Kill
Climate change is increasing the frequency and strength of some types of extreme weather in the U.S., particularly heat waves. Last summer the U.S. Southwest experienced life-threatening heat waves, which are especially...
Vehicles are Now America’s Biggest CO2 Source but EPA is Tearing Up Regulations
Some of the most common avatars of climate change - hulking power stations and billowing smokestacks - may need a slight update. For the first time in more than 40 years, the...
