The global fashion industry is widely known for the environmental pollution throughout its supply chain.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of carbon emissions annually. If the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions continues, it will surge by more than 50% by 2030.
After months of expectation, it's official — 2023 will be the hottest year ever recorded. The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced the milestone after analyzing data that showed the world saw its warmest-ever November.
Last month was roughly 1.75 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, Copernicus said, with an average surface air temperature of 14.22 degrees Celsius, or about 57.6 degrees Fahrenheit. And now, Copernicus says that for January to November 2023, global average temperatures were the highest on record — 1.46 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.
World leaders and renowned scientists are taking center stage at COP28, the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference, fervently arguing about how to keep the world within a 1.5-degree Celsius global temperature rise. But no one can agree on how to measure 1.5 degrees.
JOINVILLE ISLAND, Antarctica – Behold the world's largest iceberg, a colossal mass of ice that has been grounded for decades, but has now started moving again across the polar regions of Antarctica's open waters.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) released a video above showcasing the massive iceberg known as A23a, which is 40 miles wide and stretches as far as the eye can see.
Despite this cultural connection to farming, agricultural production and food systems across Hawai’i have suffered from decades of commercial exploitation, climate change, economic volatility and policy failures. Historically, Hawai’i allocates less than 1% of the state budget to agriculture.
I moved to Missoula in December 2006 to enter the environmental studies graduate program at The University of Montana. There I found an active community motivated by the desire for self-sufficiency. I soon was introduced to the people and activities at one of the local hubs of sustainability, the Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society (PEAS) farm.
Petroleum has been the transportation fuel of choice for more than a century now, but it’s not the only fuel that can run our cars and trucks. Some of the most promising replacements for oil come from organic biomass, including crops such as corn and soybeans. Those are the main sources for the most common types of biofuels in use today, ethanol, and biodiesel fuel.
Heat your home with biodiesel in situations where an electric heat pump system is not a good fit and your home currently uses fuel oil. A biodiesel blend easily can be added to your fuel-furnace storage tank.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – This year is on track to become the hottest year ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned Thursday as world leaders gathered in Dubai for a global climate summit.
Algae have the potential to be a solution to some of society’s biggest challenges. What can we use as renewable fuel? Algae. How will we feed a growing population? Algae. What’s that green stuff growing in the pool? Algae.
The Algae Academy takes algae from “Ick†to “Awesome!†and will have your students asking their own big questions as they explore the potential of algae in their classrooms. Students will cultivate algae, monitor its growth, analyze and interpret data, and make connections as to how algae production has a positive impact on the global environment.