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Guardian Environment
Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds3 min read · 2021-12-14 · Surprising discovery shows scale of plastic pollution and reveals enzymes that could boost recycling
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environment
biology
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The explosion of plastic production in the past 70 years, from 2m tonnes to 380m tonnes a year, had given microbes time to evolve to deal with plastic, the researchers said.
Guardian Environment
1bn people will suffer extreme heat at just 2C heating, say scientists2 min read · 2021-11-09 · Climate crisis is driving up deadly combination of temperature and humidity, says study released at Cop26
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climate crisis
Guardian Environment
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing9 min read · 2021-11-18 · Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide
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marketing
history
climate crisis
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Why is meaningful action to avert the climate crisis proving so difficult? It is, at least in part, because of ads.
Guardian Environment
Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds3 min read · 2021-11-07 · Exclusive: survey of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits
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society
climate change
Guardian Environment
Half world’s fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036 in net zero transition4 min read · 2021-11-04 · $11tn fossil fuel asset crash could cause 2008-style financial crisis, warns new study
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energy
Guardian Environment
Capitalism is killing the planet~13 min read · 2021-10-30 · Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
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climate crisis
economy
umwelt
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The main cause of your environmental impact is your money. You persuade yourself you’re a green mega-consumer, but you’re just a mega-consumer
Guardian Environment
Nearly half of Britain’s biodiversity has gone since industrial revolution3 min read · 2021-10-10 · Study shows UK has lost more biodiversity than any G7 country, and is in worst global 10%
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environment
biology
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Britain has lost more of its natural biodiversity than almost anywhere else in western Europe, the most of all the G7 nations and more than many other nations such as China,”
The Guardian
The Amazon rainforest is losing 200,000 acres a day. Soon it will be too late5 min read · 2021-10-07 · Since 1988, humans have destroyed an area of rainforest roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined
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environment
biology
Guardian politics
European banks storing €20bn a year in tax havens5 min read · 2021-09-06 · Barclays and HSBC among banks booking money equivalent to 14% of annual profits in offshore entities
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finance
Works in Progress
The housing theory of everything20+ min read · 2021-09-14 · Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
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politics
society
equality
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housing inequality, not income inequality, primarily determines how much wealth inequality there is in most Western countries.
BBC Breaking News
Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C6 min read · 2021-09-13 · BBC research finds the number of days passing 50C has doubled in the past 40 years.
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climate crisis
Guardian Environment
Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea20+ min read · 2021-09-27 · One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand
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environment
biology
nature
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The risks are enormous. Oversight is almost impossible. Regulators admit humanity knows more about deep space than the deep ocean.
reason
40 Ways Things Are Getting Better10 min read · 2021-08-31
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economy
wow
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it may be easier to list things that haven't gotten better over the past two decades.
Visual Capitalist
All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic~17 min read · 2021-08-21 · Our planet supports approximately 8.7 million species, of which over a quarter live in water. But humans can hav
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environment
biology
Inside Climate News
New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another5 min read · 2021-08-16 · Calculating the future cost of global warming is one of society’s most urgent challenges. And that math will depend on the speed of major shifts in Earth’s climate system, like the complete loss of…
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society
climate crisis
future
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Getting to zero emissions is critical because the climate won’t start to stabilize until 20 to 30 years after that—that car on the wet road won’t slow down until long after the driver hits the brakes.
Guardian Environment
Health journals make joint call for urgent action on climate crisis2 min read · 2021-09-05 · Editorial in publications worldwide urges leaders to take measures to stop ‘greatest threat to public health’
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