Τiny but deadly: cigarette butts are the most commonly polluted plastic
If I asked you, what is the most common form of plastic pollution, what would you say? Plastic bottles? Straws?
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Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows.
Record goes back to the dinosaur extinction.
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Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to accelerate the blue economy.
Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to advise and steer portfolio companies towards tackling any practices that harm the ocean.
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Impact of Covid slowdown on CO2 in the atmosphere 'not even a blip', Australian scientist says.
By early June, emissions had mostly returned to the levels of the same period in 2019, a UN report found.
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Pollutionwatch: air pollution in China falling, study shows.
Annual deaths have dropped to 1990 levels after 2013 peak thanks to concerted action in key cities.
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California's dark, orange sky is the most unnerving sight I've ever woken up to.
What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era.
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US wildfires could spark financial crisis, advisory panel finds.
Home values, state tourism and local governments could be damaged, causing defaults and market disruptions.
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Even Climate Scientists Are Freaked Out By This Year’s Wildfires.
"We have not reached the peak. In fact, no one knows where the peak is,” one expert said.
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Lloyd's of London expects £5bn in Covid-19 insurance payouts.
Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss. Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has said it expects up to £5bn to be paid out in claims related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Wood Mackenzie sees $1 trillion renewable energy investment opportunity in Asia to 2030.
Wind and solar PV could attract more investment than any other power generation source in the Asia Pacific region in the next decade as the two technologies become cost-competitive with coal by 2030, according to new analysis.
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Europe’s installed floating offshore wind capacity could hit 7GW by 2030, trade group says.
WindEurope chief executive Giles Dickson says floating offshore wind has “huge growth potential, is no longer a niche technology,” and commercial-scale projects are ready to be built.
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Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change.
COVID-19 may only be the beginning of global pandemics – a future scenario in which climate change may also play a role.
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Desert locust fight in Horn of Africa bearing fruits: FAO official.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday that robust interventions rolled out by governments and donor agencies to fight desert locusts in the Horn of African region are bearing fruits.
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The solar fridge helping African entrepreneurs living off the grid.
London - Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Liberia's Weah urges tougher measures to curb 'rape epidemic'.
Liberian President George Weah on Wednesday called for tougher laws to combat what he said was an "epidemic" of rape of mostly children and young girls. Addressing a conference on the subject, Weah said stronger measures were needed against crimes such as "rape, child marriage, and fema
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Climate change, water woes, and conflict concerns in the middle east: a toxic mix.
Hotter heatwaves, higher sea levels and more severe droughts: This is the sweltering reality in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where climate change is an especially urgent issue.
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"Κινούμαι Ηλεκτρικά": Έδωσε στην αγορά τζίρο 23,2 εκατ. ευρώ σε 8 μέρες.
Το πρόγραμμα "Κινούμαι Ηλεκτρικά” γνωρίζει ήδη μεγάλη ανταπόκριση καθώς μέχρι και το βράδυ της 1ης Σεπτεμβρίου και με 8 ημέρες συνεχούς λειτουργίας της πλατφόρμας, οι αιτήσεις που υποβλήθηκαν ήταν 3.698, με συνολική απορρόφηση 3,3 εκατομμυρίων ευρώ, ποσό που αντιστοιχεί στο 7,2% των δια
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Earth Day network - Africa ambassador raising awareness to ban single use plastics
Passion I am a multi passionate person, I’m quite adventurous, I love exploring places and just admire earth’s biodiversity. Glad it’s everywhere I go. Books are something I love to read.
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Humans Are Destroying Wildlife at an Unprecedented Rate, New Report Warns.
Human consumption has led to an unprecedented rate of decline in the world'swildlife populations, according to the Living Planet Report 2020, a biennial paper put out by the Worl
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‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary.
The Michael Moore-produced ‘Planet of the Humans’ faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed by the same ‘green’ billionaires, Wall Street investors, industry insiders and family foundations skewered in the film. “We must take control of ou
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