Shell’s explosive undersea oil search threatens whale mating season
The world’s most lucrative fossil fuel company plans to seek out new undersea energy reserves during peak whale mating season off the coast of South Africa. As if Shell’s practices couldn’t get any worse, the company has just begun a new oil-seeking venture off the coast of South Africa -...
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The 2022 mission to clean-up electric battery production
Precious metals like cobalt and nickel are vital components of electric batteries, but extracting them is a dirty and dangerous. As the demand for green tech grows in 2022, are we any closer to fixing the labour and sustainability issues? 2022 is going to have to be a big one...
Russia orders the disbandment of human rights outfit Memorial
In what’s being decried as yet another assault on Russian democracy, the state has ordered the liquidation of human rights group Memorial. Civil society within Russia has had a complicated history to say the least, and many are worried the authoritarian regime of decades past is creeping back. This week, Moscow...
Extinction Rebellion sabotages Amazon’s Black Friday shipments
Protestors blocked fifteen Amazon warehouses across the UK, Germany, and The Netherlands ahead of Black Friday. In recent months, the activist group Extinction Rebellion has ramped up their efforts significantly. They’ve regularly taken to city streets, made appearances at COP26, and now, are blockading streets around Amazon warehouses ahead of the...
European supermarkets pull Brazilian products linked to deforestation
Amid concerns regarding the Amazon rainforest’s destruction and in an effort to cut CO2 emissions, Sainsbury’s, Carrefour, and Lidl are among the grocery stores taking action. At this November’s Cop26 summit, more than 100 world leaders vowed to end deforestation by 2030 – a commitment that governments and private...
How will we move to a clean energy world after COP26?
Responsible for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions, reliance on fossil fuels is our #1 climate mitigation problem. So what are we going to do about it? Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5C won’t be possible without a global transition to a clean energy world. The good news...
Cambo oil field development halted indefinitely
Days after Shell pulled out of the Cambo oil field development, Siccar Point Energy has now put the whole build on pause indefinitely. Citing time constraints as a big hindrance, could this finally be the end of the controversial project? Who would’ve thought building a multi-million pound fossil fuel factory amidst a climate crisis would create so much controversy? Uneconomic and ill advised plans to drill for oil deep under the...
NASA says it will put the first Black person on the moon in 2025
The next visit to the lunar surface is set to be the most diverse yet - and it’s about time. It may surprise you to know that only a dozen humans have ever touched down on the moon. Perhaps less surprising is the fact that those boasting ‘moonwalker’ status are all white men. Although a relatively diverse set of astronauts have completed space travel (we’re not counting Bezos or Branson in...
COP26: Which banks are still funding fossil fuels?
In an age of greenwashing and disingenuous sustainability marketing, which banks are genuinely helping out against climate change and which are still funding fossil fuels? Well, we’re finally here – COP26 is underway in Glasgow as world leaders discuss climate change initiatives and pledge big money to curb emissions over the next ten years. The UK government has announced today that hundreds of the world’s biggest banks and pension funds...
Digital currency makes its way to Nigeria with the launch of eNaira
Nigeria, Africa’s economic powerhouse, has just rolled out its digital eNaira currency, the first of its kind for the region. On Monday, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari launched a new digitized model of the Naira currency, known as the eNaira. This launch comes shortly after Nigeria became the second largest country to trade in peer-to-peer Bitcoin after the US, and after Central Bank banned financial institutions from dealing with local...
