environment

The failure of Cop28 to call for a phase-out of fossil fuels is “devastating” and “dangerous” given the urgent need for action to tackle the climate crisis, scientist have said. One called it a “tragedy for the planet and our future” while another said it was the “dream outcome” for the fossil fuel industry.

Environmental groups have slammed an unregulated mining explosion captured on video in Marivan province, western Iran. The footage shows a quarry detonating amidst forested mountains near the village of Savva to extract sand and gravel.

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have developed a method to overcome some the key issues surrounding the recycling of clothing and textiles that contain elastane.

It’s an open secret in fashion. Unsold inventory goes to the incinerator; excess handbags are slashed so they can’t be resold; perfectly usable products are sent to the landfill to avoid discounts and flash sales. The European Union wants to put an end to these unsustainable practices. On Monday, it banned the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.

Following what is expected to be the warmest year on record, next year could bring massive coral bleaching events that disrupt marine ecosystems. 

While the plastics used at every step of the farming process can boost productivity, they also pollute the soil and the food we eat. New research has farmers and advocates pushing for change.

Almost a decade ago, Kathryn Kellogg started storing all of her trash — every receipt, sticker, wrapper, and anything else she couldn’t recycle or compost — in a 16-ounce Mason jar. The idea was to save money and avoid generating garbage by adopting zero-waste practices: bringing canvas bags to the grocery store, for example, or making her own beauty products. All of this could be done without putting her infractions on display, of course, but the jar offered Kellogg an extra form of accountability — especially since she decided to share it with her numerous Instagram followers.

Andrée Nieuwjaer, a 67-year-old resident of Roubaix, France, is what one might call a frugal shopper. In fact, her fridge is full of produce that she got for free. Over the summer, she ate peaches, plums, carrots, zucchinis, turnips, endives — all manner of fruits and vegetables that local grocers didn’t want to sell, whether because of some aesthetic imperfection or because they were slightly overripe.

The oil and gas sector and alternative fuel producers need to beef up efforts to produce greener aviation fuel to help airlines to cut carbon emissions, the chief economist of global aviation industry body IATA said on Wednesday.

For the second time in three weeks, a court struck down an air pollution permit issued by Texas’ environmental regulator. In a one-page ruling posted Tuesday, Travis County District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum reversed a 2022 decision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to deny local shrimpers’ request for a permit hearing and authorize an expansion of Max Midstream’s Seahawk Oil Terminal on Lavaca Bay, on the Gulf Coast between Houston and Corpus Christi.