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[ad_1] In normal times, you’d find Greenpeace groups meeting in pubs, cafes or community centres across the country each month, discussing campaigns and making plans. But last month, groups around the country hosted their first-ever online meetings. We asked Zoe, a first-time Greenpeace volunteer from Dundee, and Jess, a returning …

[ad_1] As the death toll from the coronavirus continues to climb and millions find themselves struggling to pay bills amid growing economic uncertainty, a new danger may be buzzing on the horizon. The New York Times reported Saturday that the insects, actually called Asian giant hornets, could establish themselves in the …

[ad_1] It is not often you meet a scientist breathless with excitement about their new findings. But it happened to me last September at the National Institute for Space Research in the Brazilian research city of Sao Jose dos Campos. Atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti was rushing to tell her colleagues …

[ad_1] NASA satellites have provided more data than ever before on what has been happening to Antarctica and Greenland’s ice over the past 16 years with dire, if not entirely unexpected, findings. Both polar ice sheets are losing billions of tonnes of ice every year and adding to sea-level rise. The results revealed that although …

[ad_1] We are living in a time unlike any other. The rhythm of life is shifting; the frenzied speeds of daily activities and the productive flows that propel and accelerate entire societies have been intercepted by the global reach of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. I write from Toronto, Canada, where this has been …

[ad_1] How Mangos Got Me Hooked on Climate Change by Juliana Vélez Duque |May 1, 2020 One of the mango trees that bore fruit in the mountain farm in Porce, Colombia. Source: Juliana Vélez Duque Climate and Society 2020 students are blogging about topics that interest them for Applications in Climate …

[ad_1] There is no question that the current situation linked to Covid-19 is entirely without precedent, with governments around the world putting in place extraordinary measures to prevent or reduce the hardship suffered by many. In the UK, the crisis has led to many government activities being put on hold. …

[ad_1] News on climate in the time of coronavirus Subscribe today This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. *Note: Some names have been changed in order to protect sources with undocumented status. For the past five years, …

[ad_1] Congress should direct the Department of Agriculture to use COVID-19 relief funds to ensure that farmworkers – not big farmers – have protections, free testing and paid sick leave. Last month, USDA announced a $19 billion COVID-19 relief initiative, including $16 billion in direct payments to farmers. These new …

[ad_1] In an industry notorious for food waste, award-winning chef Douglas McMaster has achieved the seemingly unattainable — Silo, the world’s first zero-waste restaurant. For Silo’s second outpost in London, local interior design studio Nina+Co teamed up with McMaster to craft an interior that reinforces the restaurant’s sustainable ethos with locally sourced natural …