Floating dairy farm debuts in the Netherlands
In a town where abandoned indoor water parks are transformed into mushroom farms, an urban agriculture project involving a floating dairy farm doesn’t seem like a stretch. Simply named Floating Farm, the multi-level agricultural hub is now operational in the…
These Australian ants are bucking the 'insect apocalypse' trend
Some insects don’t seem to have gotten the memo about end of the world. Despite increasingly stark scientific warnings about the state of bug-kind — including a recent report suggesting 40 percent of the world’s insect populations are in steep…
Correcting historic sea surface temperature measurements
Why did the oceans warm and cool at such different rates in the early 20th century? New research points to an answer both as mundane as a decimal point truncation and as complicated as global politics. Part history, part climate science, this research corrects decades of data and suggests that ocean warming occurred in a much more homogenous way.
Why are London’s house sparrows disappearing?
If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.
FINANCE: Food company raises $2.1B in China’s first sustainability loan
The trading division of China’s biggest food company signed a $2.1 billion loan that links all of its main financing lines to environmental targets.
CONGRESS: Republican lawmaker challenges Dems on emissions: ‘Bring it’
The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis yesterday showed deep partisan divides on the question of reducing planet-warming emissions from transportation.
FRANCE: Energy minister resigns over lavish lobster dinners
France’s energy minister resigned after revelations he ordered a costly refurbishment of his private residence and splurged on lavish dinners using tax-payers’ money, as Emmanuel Macron moved to avoid a repeat of last year’s drawn-out saga over a disgraced bodyguard.
PUBLIC LANDS: Former Obama official calls drilling ban ‘impractical’
Democratic resistance to “keep it in the ground” is taking shape.
CAMPAIGN 2020: Klobuchar says her climate pitch can win the Midwest
When it comes to climate change, Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has a secret weapon none of her Democratic rivals can match — the ability to talk to the middle of the country about the threat of a warming planet.
PUBLIC HEALTH: VW cheating scandal had big impacts on kids — fed economist
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is investigating how the Volkswagen AG emissions cheating scandal affected health outcomes in the United States.
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