ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Could cigarette-style warnings on food labels cut meat consumption?

Food labels – similar to those warning of cancer on cigarette packets – could help consumers make wiser choices about not just their health, but the health of the planet. People are used to seeing stark warnings on tobacco products alerting them about the...

The beef industry is turning the Amazon forest to dust

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The beef industry is the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation. A new report by the Climate Observatory notes that Brazil’s beef industry now has a bigger carbon footprint than Japan. Cows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after...

Canada needs to address its Big Oil problem

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Canada has spent enormous amounts of time and money fighting devastating wildfires, now its time they deal with their fossil fuels. Following a federal committee hearing that dragged a Suncor executive over the coals for his company’s plans to expand fossil fuel...

How do rising temperatures harm wild animals?

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While people and their beloved pets can take refuge in air conditioned rooms, wild animals can’t summon up soothing streams of cool air at the flick of a switch. You haven’t been imagining the heat; well over 100-million Americans have been subject to dangerous heat...

Climate denialism continues to build while scientists receive threats

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Disinformation and conspiracy theory is the order of the day as right-wingers and the media encourage distrust of climate science. In September, 29 of the world’s prominent scientists published a paper in the journal Science Advances showing conclusively that given...

Scientists could help marine reserves adjust to rising temperatures

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Marine reserves are currently not equipped to deal with the impact of the changing planet and rising temperatures, but scientists might know a way to save them. The Pacific waters that hug the coastlines of California and Mexico’s Baja California peninsula teem with...