By Petra Cameron and Philippa Kearney | – We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their stomachs full of solidified fossil fuels. The recent discovery of a plastic bag in the Mariana Trench, at over 10,000 metres […]
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Environment
The Green Future is Here: Audi to sell a Million Electric Cars a Year within 5 Years
By Benjamin Wehrmann | – (Clean Energy Wire) – German carmaker Audi has announced the goal of selling one million electric cars per year by the mid-2020s and to offer 30 e-car models by that time, with 20 models being purely electric. Audi CEO Bram Schott told shareholders tthat the company intends to “take the […]
Bye Bye Miami: New Estimates Double Expected Sea Level rise to 6′
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sea level rise over the next 80 years may have been underestimated by the conservative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according Scientists Jonathan L. Bamber, Michael Oppenheimer, Robert E. Kopp, Willy P. Aspinall, and Roger M. Cooke writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The IPCC […]
Young Muslims fashion a Green Ramadan: Faith, Fasting and Environmentalism
By William Barylo | – Muslims worldwide are about to enter the second half of Ramadan, a month widely known to the public as one for fasting. However, growing concerns around the environmental crisis and social struggles across the globe have lead Muslims to consider its deeper meaning. An environmental demonstration by the MADE charity. […]
Zero Carbon Electric Air Taxi 5-Seater Completes Maiden Flight in Germany
By Benjamin Wehrmann | – (Clean Energy Wire) – The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet’s maiden flight took place in early May in Germany, about two years after the first successful flight of Lilium’s two-seater, paving […]
Could Trump’s Tensions with Iran, Venezuela Cause Gasoline Prices to Spike?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tensions between the Trump administration and two of the world’s significant oil producers, Iran and Venezuela, in addition to the campaign of warlord Khalifa Haftar in Libya to take the capital of Libya (another oil state) have raised the prospects of tightening world oil production. Then a few days […]
Our Climate Emergency was no Accident: Big Oil knew
(Otherwords.org )- As far back as 1982, fossil fuel executives knew they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet. Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for […]
Are ExxonMobil Executives the most evil people in the 200K-yr-long History of Humanity?
They are Darth Vaders and Thanatoses, they are destroyers of a planet
You’ll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won’t be Great Again
A major player is BYD, which stands for “Build Your Dreams,” headquartered in Shenzhen