ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Big Meat gags scientific research into livestock emmissions

Big Meat is guilty of suppressing research that could help us learn about the true extent of animal agriculture’s impact on the planet. Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about methane, the second-largest contributor to the climate crisis—and focusing mostly on...

What’s stopping us from replanting the Amazon?

ClimateChange, AnimalAgri, Blogs

Is saving the Amazon as easy as replanting trees and vegetation where it has been destroyed? According to experts there are many complications. Milton da Costa Junior nosed his pickup through a remote stretch of the western Brazilian Amazon to check on his babies. The...

Oatly campaigns for climate labelling

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Sustainable dairy company, Oatly, wants to see climate labelling on all food products in the UK. Oatly has launched a campaign calling for all food and drink producers in the UK to adopt climate labelling. The company, which already makes its emissions data public,...

Is extreme weather becoming the norm?

ClimateChange, Blogs

In an era of increasing weather whiplash between floods and droughts, can we learn to embrace the rains? In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea...

United States is a hiding place for dirty climate crime money

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Secrecy and lax oversight have made the US a hiding place for dirty climate crime money accrued by environmental criminals in the Amazon rainforest, a report says. Illegal loggers and miners are parking sums ranging from millions to billions of dollars in US real...

Scary climate change facts that will give you a fright

ClimateChange, Blogs, GoodNews

No need for horror movies or scary stories; the most haunting thing this Halloween is climate change. It’s Halloween, which means costumes, candy, and scary movies. Fear turns to fun on October 31 because Halloween lets us seek scary thrills that can’t hurt us. When...