The United Nations declares 2020 the International Year of Plant Health
Every year, the United Nations promotes something it believes warrants attention, and it has declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health. Celebrating plant health and bringing more awareness to the issue is well worth pursuing. Plants represent about 80 per...
Bushfires put Australia in spotlight over tackle climate change
Expect plant-based diets to feature heavily in any future roadmap for food sustainability. This is in part due to growing concerns around the land use requirements and carbon footprint of breeding livestock. In his first round-up of sustainability news in 2020, Oliver...
Prince William to reward environmental heroes
Over the next decade, Prince William, with the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will award 50 environmental heroes with an Earthshot Prize. Prince William and the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced a new series of...
Ocean temperatures reached record highs in 2019
This is a big deal because the oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the extra heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels. A study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Monday found that ocean temperatures reached record highs in 2019, and this is not an...
Madagascar’s rainforests could be gone by 2050
The journal Nature Climate Change has found that by 2070 all of Madagascar’s rainforest will be gone due to deforestation and climate change. 80-90{85424e366b324f7465dc80d56c21055464082cc00b76c51558805a981c8fcd63} of the species in Madagascar only exist in...
