Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 7, 2023
A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM 2.5 – the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
The study shows that the greatest investment need is in Australia, to supply the Asian markets, with large production clusters also predicted in Chile (to supply South America), California (to supply the Western USA.), 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants.
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DeSmogBlog
APRIL 30, 2024
The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States. The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. Neither the U.S. nor Canada have done so.
Grist
APRIL 27, 2022
The cultivation of cattle, palm oil, and soybeans in particular has led to depleted freshwater, widespread deforestation, and rampant extinctions, all of it underwritten by $700 billion in government subsidies each year that support unsustainable, polluting practices. In turn, this has unleashed tons and tons of greenhouse gasses each year.
Grist
JANUARY 10, 2020
In addition to carbon pollution, the fires are producing, well, regular air pollution. Since early November , vast smoke plumes have been wafting from eastern Australia all the way across the Pacific to the shores of South America. “It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said. “It
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
If you see a sponsorship deal, you assume the [organization] you identify with has positive feelings about it and is benefiting from the company sponsoring it.”. I am an AGU member and I feel disgusted that my professional organization still maintains these ties,” says climate scientist Peter Kalmus. “To That is classic misdirection.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.
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