By Ryan Heinsius, NPR A portion of Grand Canyon National Park and the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument The new national monument in Arizona that President Biden is announcing today is primarily aimed at protecting Native American sacred sites on …
App-based Tool Quantifies Pesticide Toxicity in Watersheds, Identifies Mitigation Opportunities
By Phys.Org Watershed applied toxicity. The heat map and legend values represent applied toxicity as the Net Toxicity Index (NTI), the total applied toxicity of pesticide applications to all aquatic taxa investigated over the simulation period, fish, invertebrates, nonvascular aquatic plants, and vascular aquatic plants. Results are displayed for each …
Energy Industry Uses Whale Activists to Aid Anti-Wind Farm Strategy, Experts Say
By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, The Guardian Unwitting whale advocates and rightwing thinktanks create the impression that offshore wind energy projects endanger cetaceans. One night in late March, J Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies at Brown University, stepped in to a high school gymnasium in a small seaside town …
EU Confirms Watering Down of Corporate Sustainability Disclosures
By Huw Jones, Reuters LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive body on Monday published final rules for corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures, confirming earlier moves to water down the requirements. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had pledged to cut red tape across the …
What CFOs Need to Know About Fast-Emerging Biodiversity-Credit Markets
By Laura Waterford, Sustainable Brands When companies invest in biodiversity credits, the ‘unitization’ of biodiversity outcomes in the form of credits takes the guesswork out of designing the investment. But they are not intended to offset an equivalent, negative impact on biodiversity elsewhere. We are at a crucial point in …
From Mealworms to Meals: How Ÿnsect Is Cultivating a Food Revolution
By Scarlett Buckley, Sustainable Brands The French company is poised to meet the nutrition challenges posed by a growing population and a climate- and resource-challenged agricultural future. It is estimated that the population will be almost 10 billion by 2050 and 11 billion by 2100. With this growth comes the insatiable …
At Long Last, Canada Restricts Oil and Gas Subsidies (Except for All the Loopholes)
By Mitchell Beer, Corporate Knights New federal guidelines may still leave the door open to prop up LNG exports with carbon credits and Indigenous fossil fuel projects with federal dollars Environment and Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault has unveiled detailed plans to phase out “inefficient” oil and gas subsidies, based on …
Air Pollution Particles May be a Cause of Dramatic Drop in Global Insect Numbers
By Rebecca Colless, The University of Melbourne The impact of air pollution on insect health and reproduction is greater than previously understood and could be contributing to global declines in insect populations, including in remote wilderness areas, new research shows. Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Beijing Forestry University, and …
Environmental Racism is Rampant in Florida, but Don’t Mention It
By Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix From incinerator smoke to toxic waste sites, Black residents face a lot of health hazards Last year I wrote a magazine story about James Weldon Johnson, one of the most remarkable Florida men ever. He was a Black lawyer, educator, poet, novelist, diplomat, and civil …
Vegan Diet Massively Cuts Environmental Damage, Study Shows
By Damian Carrington, Guardian Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones. Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded. The research showed that …