Monthly Archives: December 2022

Source: CLIMATE ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2023 – Other News – Voices against the tide

Source: Global warming myths, disinformation and lies circulated in 2022

Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people in Muzaffarnagar. Source: Amazon Packages Burn in India, Last Stop in Broken Recycling System

Source: Can We Plow Through the Blizzard of Nonsense? When you’ve spent your life working on the climate crisis, good news is hard to come by. So perhaps I’m jumping the gun—but I find myself feeling just the tiniest bit … Continue reading →

A Mongabay story featuring a whistleblower who debunked the green claims of Enviva — the world’s largest wood pellet maker — has prompted the Dutch to ban subsidies to biomass firms who make false sustainability claims. Source: The Netherlands to … Continue reading →

Source: Insects and us: a mind-blowing 20 quadrillion ants and what they mean for the planet | Insects | The Guardian To most of us, they are small, uninteresting and sometimes annoying, but 2022 revealed just how ubiquitous ants are … Continue reading →

Source: How did the US nuclear industry fare in 2022? | Canary Media Nuclear plants big and small are getting support from the feds. Still, problems persist — TerraPower can’t source fuel, Oklo and NuScale are tangled in red tape, … Continue reading →

Source: Fusion vs Fission Earlier this month, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used 192 lasers firing for billionths of a second to fuse hydrogen atoms in a tiny gold capsule into helium. For the first time, this experiment released more energy … Continue reading →

Source: How Bad Are Plastics for the Environment, Really? – The Atlantic

Source: How to Be a Good Person Without Annoying Everyone – The Atlantic You’ve heard the joke: How do you know someone’s vegan? Don’t worry; they’ll tell you. The punch line to the punch line, though, is that they very deliberately … Continue reading →