The Chilean town living with the world’s most polluting dump
From afar, Chile’s Tiltil landfill almost resembles just another mountain, but the growing rubbish pile has created a…
Birds avoid wind turbines painted like venomous snakes
Wind turbines are a net positive for a sustainable society, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have an…
Enhanced response of extreme compound events to cumulative CO2 emissions
Zscheischler, J. et al. A typology of compound weather and climate events. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 1, 333–347…
Recycled plastics for food use require stronger safeguards, warn UN food security experts
The UN food security agency warns that recycled plastics and alternative packaging materials can help reduce waste, but…
Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years | Brazil
Brazil’s Atlantic forest, the country’s most threatened biome, last year recorded its lowest level of deforestation since monitoring…
Viridor proposes shutdown of Quantafuel chemical recycling activities
Viridor has proposed shutting down its chemical recycling operations in Northern Europe. The British waste management company argues…
Climate risk is changing where investors put their money – even as NZ relaxes disclosure rules
Across New Zealand and Australia, the impacts of a warming climate have been slowly changing how investors weigh…
Yorkshire’s WallFest launched to protect crumbling boundary wall of ‘world’s first nature reserve’ | Conservation
Over four years in the 1820s, Charles Waterton built a 9ft-high, 3-mile-long wall around the parkland and lake…
Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rates drop, but El Nino could threaten recovery
SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it…
Record-breaking timber tower uses recycled materials, including wind turbine blades
Rising to a height of 78 m (256 ft), this extraordinary tower sets a new record as Denmark’s…
Large-scale PV could intensify water stress in China’s Tarim Basin – pv magazine International
Chinese researchers have found that massive photovoltaic deployment in the Taklamakan Desert could alter regional climate dynamics and…
Oil spill in Gulf likely caused by tanker dump, Iran says
Iran’s top environmental official said on Tuesday that a suspected oil spill in the Gulf near Iran’s Kharg…