Tag: climate
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This article is part of POLITICO’s Fit For 55 series. The hard work of cutting Europe’s emissions to net-zero starts now. The European Commission proposed a legislative package Wednesday that aims to take… more ›
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One country dominates the Pacific’s resources extraction. Guardian analysis of trade data has revealed that China received more than half the total tonnes of seafood, wood and minerals exported from… more ›
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Henry Ford left little to chance. To ensure raw materials reached his slick new production lines, the U.S. automobile pioneer owned everything from coal mines in West Virginia to rubber… more ›
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https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/05/09/the-world-s-most-unlikely-nature-reserve-wildlife-is-thriving-in-chernobyl more ›
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A previous version of the report, released by the Obama administration, highlighted the risk of a pandemic and the vast economic disruption it could cause — a prescient prediction in… more ›
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HSINCHU, Taiwan — Chuang Cheng-deng’s modest rice farm is a stone’s throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world’s… more ›
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The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›
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The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a… more ›
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Merely “following the science” will not get us anywhere close to a more progressive future. Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a… more ›