Author: Max Merzer

Climate Change
Environment
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Meet the Woman Who May Revamp Climate Finance

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who first burst onto the international climate policy scene with a searing speech at 2021’s COP26 conference in Glasgow, is now spearheading a push for global institutions to finally meet the challenges of environmental degradation. Why it matters: Her effort, known as the Bridgetown Initiative, or another like it may help avert the suffering of billions […]

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Climate Change
Environment
Featured

Starmer Accuses Government of ‘Turning Britain’s Waterways Into an Open Sewer’

Lib Dems call for Thérèse Coffey to resign after raw discharges sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year. Keir Starmer has accused the government of “turning Britain’s waterways into an open sewer”, as data showed raw discharges were sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year. Private water companies have […]

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Climate Change
Environment
Forests

‘Bees Are Sentient’: Inside the Stunning Brains of Nature’s Hardest Workers

‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers ‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions When Stephen Buchmann finds a wayward bee on a window inside his Tucson, Arizona, home, he goes to great lengths to capture and release […]

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Environment

‘I Would Have Been India’s Elon Musk’: The Maths Teacher Who Built a Solar Car From Scratch

An Indian man has caused a sensation with the solar-powered car he created over 11 years. Bilal Ahmed, a maths teacher from Srinagar in Kashmir, set out to build a ‘luxurious’ and sustainable vehicle that is not just for the super wealthy. He achieved his dream in June 2022. Soaring fuel prices in the northern region […]

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Environment

All Fish Tested From Michigan Rivers Contain ‘forever Chemicals’, Study Finds

Researchers found PFAS chemicals – used to make products resistant to heat and water – in all samples of 12 species of fish. All fish caught in Michigan rivers and tested for toxic PFAS contained the chemicals – and at levels that present a health risk for anyone eating them, according to a new study. Researchers […]

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Environment

This ‘Climate-Friendly’ Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk

Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a climate-friendly initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained […]

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Environment

Three Wheels United to Expand Its Presence to 11 More Cities by April 2023

Over the next one month, Three Wheels United will launch operations in Agra, Faizabad, Kanpur, Aligarh, Kannur, Lucknow, Bareilly, and many more cities. Bengaluru: Three Wheels United (TWU), a global fintech company for EV financing is expanding its operations to 11 cities across India by April 2023. TWU is currently operating in 16 cities. Over the next one month, […]

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Europe
Forests
Indonesia

APRIL Group Keeps Destroying Peatlands and Natural Rainforests…so whatelse is new?

Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer, and one of the world’s largest producers of rayon, a textile widely used by the fashion industry. After a decade of business expansion at the cost of Indonesian rainforests and of increasing boycott campaigns, in 2015, APRIL committed to stop deforestation, to protect natural […]

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