Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters …
Oct 9, 2024 · Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.
Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion
Sep 19, 2024 · In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencers’ “#sheinhaul” videos advertised the company’s trendy styles on social media, garnering billions of views.
The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.”The report did not sugarcoat their view of the dangers humanity is facing.
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
Nov 6, 2022 · You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the climate-warming pollution caused by manufacturing electric vehicle batteries cancels out the benefits.
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
Jan 29, 2024 · Even a coal-fired power plant is less wasteful than a car engine. The electricity that charges EVs has to come from somewhere. It would be correct to point out that some types of electricity generation are also grossly inefficient, especially coal.
8 artists who are grappling with climate change and imagining a …
In 2016, Black and Ginsburg visited a California forest decimated by sudden oak death. The disease is caused by a water mold — a fungus-like, parasitic organism — that infects oaks and other trees.
Category 5 Super Typhoon Man-yi hits the Philippines
Nov 16, 2024 · Super Typhoon Man-yi (called Pepito in the Philippines) made landfall on Catanduanes Island in the Philippines at 9:40 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 16, as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, less than eight hours after peaking as a category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 923 mb, as determined by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).
Does recycling actually help the climate?
Feb 13, 2024 · Myth: “Reduce,” “reuse,” and “recycle” are equally beneficial. Plastics can only be recycled a finite number of times at best, sometimes only once, due to structural and composition breakdowns during the recycling process. This process involves melting, during which the material loses its integrity and gathers contaminants.
The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
Jan 11, 2022 · [en Español] The year 2021 made an indelible mark in the annals of weather history. Not only did it feature the most extreme heat wave in history – the late June heat wave over western North America that smashed all-time records by unprecedented margins – it also had four weather mega-disasters costing over $20 billion each, tied with 2017 for the most such disasters on record.
Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?
May 11, 2023 · The percent chance that the historical average (1865-2016) elevation of snowpack in each Sierra Nevada subregion will retreat given a 1 C (1.8 F) increase in average winter air temperature.