Pressure is mounting on an obscure U.N. body based in Jamaica to hit pause on plans to potentially open the world's deep seas to mining as companies push for permission to extract metals from seabeds in international waters.
Environment
Apr 1, 2023
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Australia's parliament passed breakthrough climate laws targeting the nation's worst polluters on Thursday, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about five percent each year.
Environment
Mar 30, 2023
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Australia is about to take a big, constructive step on climate change policy: we will have a carbon price for the industry sector, under the safeguard mechanism.
Environment
Mar 30, 2023
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A new report published by Fauna & Flora reveals growing evidence of the risks associated with deep-seabed mining—including that its negative impacts are likely to be extensive and irreversible. Once lost, deep-sea biodiversity ...
Ecology
Mar 27, 2023
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A team of chemists and computer scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, the University of California and Institut des Sciences et Ingenierie Chimiques, Ecole, have developed an ecosystem of tools ...
Eight years ago, the data was sound but only suggestive, the evidence strong but circumstantial.
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2023
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When it comes to gold, how pure is pure? And how does anybody know?
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 7, 2023
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The discovery of vast lithium deposits in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, hailed as a win for the country's clean energy transition, comes at a price for communities in the Himalayan region, say villagers and environmental ...
Environment
Mar 6, 2023
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Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor and likely future presidential contender, has opened up a new front in his party's war on "woke capitalism." He is proposing to change the rules around how public bodies within ...
Economics & Business
Feb 27, 2023
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In the heart of the Ecuadoran Amazon live the Cofan Avie, masters of ayahuasca—the powerful hallucinogenic concoction said to open the door to the "spirit" world.
Other
Feb 24, 2023
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