Drawdown Labs Job Function Action Guides

Download the guides. The Drawdown Labs Job Function Action Guides are practical and shareable resources that highlight specific, high-impact climate actions employees in common corporate professions can take at work. Each guide includes why your role and skills are...

Flipping the script on AI cheating with “linguistic fingerprints”

Read the full story at AI EduPathways. Yesterday, Wilson Tsu of Powernotes – an EdTech platform I use myself in the classroom — wrote a compelling piece on TheHill.com titled “AI cheating is destroying higher education; here’s how to fight it.” He’s got a point that’s...

Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism

van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-024-00171-9 Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be...

Separating land carbon uptake from net-zero emissions

Read the full story from CICERO. How are net zero emissions defined? It matters. It is the difference between either halting or continuing global warming, writes senior researcher Glen Peters in this blog about a new study published in Nature. 

Google parent Alphabet’s skunkworks targets the plastic crisis

Read the full story at Trellis. Eighty percent of plastic, made from fossil fuels, gets thrown out rather than recycled. Recycling plants lack the tools to identify and sort the myriad types of plastics. Even when plastic products are recycled, the lower-quality...

Agrivoltaics can improve water conservation in Africa

Read the full story at pv magazine. Research led by the University of Sheffield installed an off-grid agrivoltaic system in Tanzania and a grid-tied agrivoltaic system in Kenya. They found the installations helped boost crop yield and conserve water while generating...

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

The boat comes to a halt, shuddering against the dirt bank that rises from the edge of the Ucayali River. Sixto, tanned and with a frown cutting deep furrows across his forehead, jumps ashore. He strides up to a flat area dotted with banana plantations, yucca crops...

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

For more than a year, there have been no confirmed sightings of the critically endangered southern patas monkeys in their last known refuge, in western Tanzania. In 2021, fewer than 200 of these lithe-limbed primates, Erythrocebus baumstarki, were thought to remain in...

Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has laid an egg, this time with a new partner. She is a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), or mōlī in Hawaiian, and this is her first egg in four years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Pacific region said...

Your Microbiome is What You Eat And Who You Know

Move over, influencers; there’s a new trendsetter in town: the gut microbiome. This paper demonstrates that your social butterfly status isn’t just reflected in your follower count—it’s also mirrored in your gut, as social connections drive the...

EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap: Three Years of Progress

Download the report. This report highlights significant accomplishments achieved under its PFAS Strategic Roadmap and aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration’s all of government strategy to protect communities from the impacts of forever chemicals. The report...

The US industries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions

Read the full story at Trellis. Every year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issues an exhaustive report on greenhouse gas emissions, by source, economic sector and other factors that track data going back to 1990. The latest report, made public in late...

A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science

This graphic from Compound Interest looks at the different factors that can contribute towards ‘bad’ science – it was inspired by the research I carried out for the recent aluminium chlorohydrate graphic, where many articles linked the compound to causing breast...

Biosolids as a Potential Source of PFAS to Farming Soils

Biosolids as a Potential Source of PFAS to Farming Soils. (2024, November 8). https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5220265/v1 Abstract This study, one of the few conducted to date on working farms in the US, examined per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...

Coca-Cola cuts back on reusable plastic pledge

Coca-Cola is reducing its plastic recycling targets from previous commitments, which advocacy groups say is an abandonment of its reuse goals. The beverage giant’s announcement comes just as talks for a global plastic treaty stalled this month. In a statement...

The uncertain future of Amazon river dolphins amid historic drought

TEFÉ, Amazonas — “I’ve lived on this floating home for 40 years, and this is the worst drought I’ve ever seen. You can see that the water dropped well below the 2023 levels,” says Carlos Magno, as he shows the point reached by the water last year. “That’s a scary...

Op-ed: The plastic treaty had to fail, so it can succeed

Looking back at the outcome of the UN plastics treaty negotiations that just finished in South Korea, it is clear to me that failure to reach agreement in this round of negotiations was the best result. This failure was necessary. Moving to a final treaty in South...

EU votes to weaken protection for European wolves

Wolves across Europe are set to lose their “strictly protected” status. The move is seen as a win for farmers concerned about loss of livestock, but conservationists warn that removing protections will jeopardize stable wolf populations. At a recent meeting of the...

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Bolivian society was profoundly traumatized by the Chaco War and the loss of about thirty per cent of its national territory; before that, it had ceded Acre to Brazil and its coastal provinces to Chile. Schoolchildren...

What I’m Reading (Dec. 5)

This week’s reading is a kaleidoscope of corporate shenanigans, technological detachment, and battles we never thought we’d fight—against weeds and algorithms. From Spirit Airlines’ golden parachute for a CEO amid bankruptcy to Nicholas Carr’s critique of how vertical...

‘Safe’ and ‘Drug’ are Now Four-Letter Words

Depending on the results of a case pending before the California Supreme Court, you can kiss new drug development goodbye. The case derives from an FDA-approved, lifesaving, ground-breaking HIV drug that has saved millions of lives. But good, safe, and lifesaving, are...

Tribal Issues: Barriers to Access to Federal Assistance

Download the report. Tribal applicants experience systemic barriers to access federal programs, funding, and services. For example, federal cost-share requirements can create obstacles for Tribes with limited financial resources to match funds. GAO has made...

World’s top court starts hearing historic climate change case

A group of small island nations led by Vanuatu is urging the world’s top court to hold the major greenhouse gas-emitting countries accountable for failing to tackle climate change. The case involves nearly 100 countries and is being heard by 15 judges at the U.N.’s...

How the plastic industry undermines democracy by blocking bans

On a cool, sunny day in March 2020, Ted Harris towed a large net from a boat in Clinton Lake in Kansas and retrieved a sample of microscopic debris in the water. Harris, an associate research professor at the University of Kansas, was participating in a global study,...

Traditional fishers in Peru guard the coast from illegal fishing

It’s 4 a.m., and a group of fishers in the city of Chimbote, 422 kilometers (262 miles) north of Lima, have arrived at the rocks of Campamento Atahualpa and Vesique beaches. This is the area they guard to protect the Peruvian grunt (Anisotremus scapularis), a fish...

Public comments sought on food date labeling

Read the full story on the ISTC Blog. See also today’s article in Food Safety Magazine. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)  Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

Mongabay series on palm oil wins national journalism prize in Brazil

The Mongabay series “Palm Oil War,” published between 2021 to 2023, won second place in the text category of Brazil’s National Federal Prosecutor’s Journalism Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious impact journalism awards. The announcement that Mongabay’s...

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