Tag Archives: ClimateChange

[ad_1] Oxford City Council has launched Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO), thought to be the world-first project that integrates decarbonising power, heat and transport across a city. The local authority has taken delivery of its first electric vehicles (EVs) as part of the project, as well as outlining the next steps …

[ad_1] ???? SIXTH ONLINE STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE ???? •Strike, because coral reefs are so gloriously beautiful and complex and so vulnerable. •Strike, because sun and wind are now the cheapest way to generate power around the world,if we could match the political power of the fossil fuel industry we …

[ad_1] Fifty years ago today, not long after WWF-Canada was founded, environmentalists took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day. The demonstrations went global 20 years later, inspiring a new generation. This year’s Earth Day anniversary would’ve been part of a month of international student-led climate strikes. Then …

[ad_1] 素敵な投稿をリポストさせて頂きました✨ 環境問題や気候変動問題に向き合えば向き合うほど、全ては繋がってることに気付かされます????️ . だからか、 新型コロナウィルスが世界で猛威を振るっているこの時も、ウィルスの脅威だけでなく問題が起こった背景や、 この混乱の中で起こったプラス面もマイナスな面も、いろんな方向に目を向けるようになりました。 . そして、 地球環境を守ったり気候変動を進行させないことは、 新型コロナウィルスのような感染症のリスクを将来的に下げることにも繋がり、決して地球のためというきれい事だけではなく、最低限でも私たち人間が生きやすい環境にしていくことに他ならないんだって気付くことができました???? . ここからリポスト投稿です↓ . #Repost @hachiyashinko • • • • • • : : 【　コロナがくれたもの】 : : 地球温暖化を止めて、 環境をどうやったら 良くできるのだろうと ずっと悩んできました。 : : 二酸化炭素の排出を減らすこと 澄んだ水や青空をたった １、２ヶ月で取り戻すことなど 今まで不可能だと思っていました。 : : でもこの写真を見てください。 イタリア、ベネチアです。 : : あれほどコロナに苦しんだ イタリアの人たちの環境は 驚くほどのスピードで 改善されました。 : : 濁った水の代わりに …

[ad_1] With the world reeling from the disastrous spread of coronavirus, it might seem extraordinary for a government to make policy on anything else. But in South Korea, they did just that. Back in March, and in the midst of its coronavirus response, the ruling Democratic Party announced plans for …

[ad_1] At the end of February, thousands of cleaning workers in Minneapolis marched in what’s believed to have been the first union-authorized climate strike in the United States. The protesters, many of them immigrants and people of color who have seen their communities harmed by everything from air pollution to …

[ad_1] The Delaware River, a major source of drinking water for Philadelphia, is facing an emerging threat as rising seas push saltwater farther upstream. It’s a problem that other places, from Miami to Shanghai, will also confront, especially as increasing drought lowers river flows. At the Delaware Memorial Bridge, about …

[ad_1] Barack Obama has warned that the climate crisis “will force far harsher changes” on future generations than the coronavirus pandemic and urged people to “demand more” from leadership to protect the plant. In a message on Twitter on Earth Day, the former president shared an Associated Press report about the young climate activists that …

[ad_1] The coronavirus outbreak has rightly dominated the headlines over recent months. The number of fatalities as well as the changes made to daily life have been huge, and resulted in rapid change in working, social and economic conditions. Recently, media narratives have shifted to exit strategies, and the risk …

[ad_1] GlacierHub Writers and Editors Share What Earth Day Means to Them Earth Day is the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement, which began in 1970. Fifty years later, “Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion …