Unpacking the ongoing protests in France
After two months of peaceful demonstrations sparked by a proposed pension reform in France, the message is clear: President Macron remains unmoved by his citizens’ clear opposition to the policy. As frustration increases without any sign of a U-turn, the national mood has started to turn sour. Protests. They’re the...
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This tree offers an eco-friendly alternative to palm oil and soy
Farmers in Hawaii are cultivating the pongamia, a tree that could prevent further clearing of natural rainforests for palm oil and soy plantations. Its resilient nature could offer a huge economic boost to farmers losing out due to land degradation. Palm oil is known as one of the most environmentally...
‘Liquid tree’ installation absorbs CO2 emissions in Belgrade
Serbia is among the nations with the very worst air quality on the planet. A novel solution to sequestering GHGs in Belgrade’s most concentrated urban area, is the ‘Liquid 3’. If humanity has any chance of remaining under a 1.5C temperature rise, atmospheric greenhouse gases must decline by 43% before...
This volcanic microbe could be the next frontier in carbon capture tech
Scientists have recently discovered an organism in hot springs that eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly.’ They hope to utilise it as an efficient means of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. When it comes to the most efficient ecosystems for carbon capture, mangroves, the Amazon rainforest, and peat swamps are what...
Headteacher’s suicide sparks debate about Ofsted inspections
Ruth Perry took her own life after a report downgraded her school from ‘Outstanding’ to ‘Inadequate’. Teachers and policy-makers are urging for a national boycott of Ofsted. Education unions have called for a boycott of Ofsted, and urged teachers to refuse inspectors access to their schools, after 53-year-old headteacher Ruth...
Florida lawmakers look to ban ‘period talk’ in local schools
Mere months before discussions about sexual orientation become prohibited in state-wide Florida schools, Republicans are now looking to do the same for lessons and discussions about menstruation. Republicans in Florida have been on a mad one for quite some time. Last year, they passed the Don’t Say Gay bill, which will...
New York Times contributors protest biased trans coverage
In the last eight months, it's estimated that The New York Times has published over 13,945 words of front-page coverage debating medical care for trans children.
Big media loves a moral panic, but it’s a little embarrassing to see it from the Times, as was echoed by an open letter from over 1,200 contributors to the paper last month - among them Cynthia Nixon, Chelsea Manning and Roxanne Gay.
Nuud calls out chewing gum giants’ plastic problem
Working to ignite a conversation around the ‘food industry’s dirtiest secret,’ the plastic-free chewing gum manufacturer has called out its rivals in a bold new campaign. Did you know that gum - which millions of us chew every year - contains an ingredient derived from plastic? ‘Chewing gum is basically plastic doped with flavours and colourings,’ as BBC Science Focus puts it. Not only does this mean that it’s...
Should fossil fuel firms be charged with homicide?
Legal experts are preparing to publish a paper in next year’s Harvard Environmental Law Review. They will argue that fossil fuel companies should be charged with homicide for the deaths they’ve caused by accelerating the climate crisis. The booming fossil fuel industry continues to be the number one cause of the worsening environmental crisis. Individuals running these companies have been aware of their actions' consequences for decades, yet have shown no...
Breaking down the IPCC’s alarming ‘AR6 Synthesis Report’
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered a ‘final warning’ on the climate. It’s latest report summarises five years of harrowing stats on global temperature rises, fossil fuel emissions, and climate impacts. ‘There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all,’ warns the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest report. Dubbed the AR6 Synthesis Report, the mammoth 8,000-page document represents...
