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Original post on One Green Planet  Plastic pollution has become one of the biggest environmental problems we face today. Another alarming issue which needs our attention is food waste – billions of tons of food are thrown away and wasted in prosperous countries, often going to rot in landfills where they release tons of greenhouse gases over time. Those […]

Original post on DW Ten thousand every year, 150 a day, three every hour – estimates on the number of species that become extinct in a given time period, vary wildly. But what everyone does agree on, is that they are being lost at a higher rate than would be the case if we humans were

Original post on Ethical Corporation Barry Parkin, who is chief sustainability officer of Mars, Inc, and chairman of the World Cocoa Foundation, said in an interview with Ethical Corporation that the agreement, signed between 21 companies and the world’s biggest cocoa-producing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, is unprecedented. “Those two countries account for around 60%

Original Post on Pm News Nigeria A group, the Billital Moroobe Association of Nigeria (BILPAN) warned on Monday that the anti-grazing law enacted in some states was a violation of the fundamental human rights of herdsmen. The group, which also call themselves Pastoralists, made the statement while speaking with newsmen in Dutse, Jigawa. The position

Original post on The Guardian  The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird life, the Treasury has said. The commitment was welcomed by

Original post on Popular Science  The conservative city of Georgetown, Texas, runs on renewable energy. After all, wind and solar power are more predictable and easier to budget than oil and gas. Clean power pushes may be associated with more left-leaning cities, but Republican mayor Dale Ross called the switch to renewables a no-brainer. On November 14, Joe Brown, editor

Original post on DW A group of European and South American astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had discovered a potentially habitable world at the “close” distance of just eleven light years outside our solar system. According to the European Southern Observatory, planet Ross 128b has a mass similar to Earth and “its surface temperature

Original post on Futurism Flooding in China continues to take lives and destroy towns. Climate change is causing this issue to worsen, so the government is supporting innovators to create sponge cities that rapidly and safely absorb water. China is taking the repercussions of climate change seriously. One consequence of our warming world is increasingly frequent and