Tag Archives: ClimateAction

[ad_1] Because of staff shortages, UK councils are not cutting roadside verges which is already boosting wildflower numbers and could be a ‘silver lining’ to the coronavirus crisis, says the charity Plantlife. The UK has 238,000 hectares of road verges and for many wildflowers, these roadside mini-meadows are their main …

[ad_1] A spring lockdown is a great time to do some simple and clever home spring greening. There’s likely to be more time to cook, clean, learn and teach new skills – and pick through precious plastic, glass and paper recycling for discarded treasure to reuse around the home. Here …

[ad_1] KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) ― A huge forest fire in Ukraine that has been raging for more than a week is now just one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and poses a radiation risk, Greenpeace Russia warned on Monday, citing satellite images. Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service …

[ad_1] A year from now, how will the battle to slow global warming look in a post-coronavirus world? That’s a question being asked a lot these days by policy experts and activists, and it’s one with huge implications. Some hope it will bring out the best in us and our …

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[ad_1] Global methane levels have hit an all-time high after what appears to be a near-record yearly atmospheric increase in the potent greenhouse gas. The concentration of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere reached nearly 1,875 parts per billion in 2019, up from the previous year’s 1,866 parts per billion, according to preliminary data …

[ad_1] Roma communities across central and eastern Europe are experience systematic and systemic environmental racism, which has intensified during the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the ‘Pushed to the Wastelands’ report published yesterday. The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) network collaborated with ICTA-UAB published the report on International Romani Day at a …

[ad_1] Pod of the Planet: Ep.5 Look After Yourself In a changing worldImpacts are often not clearLook after yourself —Robbie Parks, EI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mailman School of Public Health In this episode Jason Smerdon and Kyu Lee discuss home life, home schooling and pathways forward for climate research and …

[ad_1] A key taskforce bringing together business, finance and civil society has outlined how to reduce the climate and environmental effects of commodities in UK supply chains. ClientEarth legal experts took part in working groups to help develop the Global Resources Initiative (GRI) taskforce report highlighting the complexity of global …

[ad_1] News on climate in the time of coronavirus Subscribe today This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just as the novel coronavirus has spread from person to person across the world, so too does traffic propagate through highways …