[ad_1] According to The Verge, the updated veggie meatballs will be made out of apples, oats, peas and potatoes. They’ll be available both as an in-restaurant meal and a frozen package to make at home. IKEA hopes that the new taste will be more attractive to meat eaters, and help them make the transition to […]
Category: Climate Change
Uber, Lyft may create more CO2 emissions than trips they displace
[ad_1] The Union suggests that these services will not only want to electrify their fleets, but increase the rates of carpooling beyond the 15 percent seen today. If carpooling jumps to 50 percent, the scientists estimate EV trips could generate about half the emissions of the trips they’re displacing. This would have the upshot of […]
Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to combat climate change
[ad_1] He says the Bezos Earth Fund will support scientists, activists and NGOs, with the first grants slated to go out sometime this summer. Besides that information, Bezos didn’t provide many details on the fund. While Bezos is likely to get a lot of favorable coverage for the move, it’s worth pointing out that, as […]
Delta hopes to be the first carbon neutral airline
[ad_1] The company is promising to be both transparent about its progress and “nimble” in adapting to the latest technology. It teased a “number of milestones” coming in 2020. It’s an ambitious plan (BP isn’t expecting neutrality until 2050), and it’s notable that Delta isn’t trying to ‘cheat’ by using carbon offsets. This is still […]
Last month was the hottest January on record
[ad_1] This shouldn’t be too surprising, given that 2019 was Earth’s second-warmest year on record, last June was the hottest on record and researchers just recorded record-high temps in Antarctica. According to NOAA, the 10 warmest Januaries have all occurred since 2002. What makes this year especially unique is that there was no El Niño […]
Antarctica is hotter than it’s ever been
[ad_1] This isn’t necessarily surprising. Earth just saw its hottest January on record, and 2019 was the second-warmest year recorded. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the Antarctic Peninsula (the northwest tip near to South America) is among the fastest warming regions of the planet. Its temperature has increased almost 3 degrees Celsius (37.4 degrees […]
Microsoft plans to be ‘carbon negative’ by 2030
[ad_1] In addition to its plans to be carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft also says it’ll remove from the environment all of the carbon the company has either emitted directly or produced through electrical use since it was founded in 1975. That’s a pretty massive undertaking, and Microsoft notes that actually making that progress will […]
2019 was Earth’s second-warmest year on record
[ad_1] 2019 was 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (0.98 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). To collect the data, NASA took exhaustive readings from over 20,000 weather stations, sea surface buoys and ships and Antarctic research stations. The full dataset is available on the agency’s […]
Amazon employees say they were threatened for climate change criticism
[ad_1] In October, the employees, Maren Costa and Jamie Kowalski, told The Washington Post that Amazon contributes to climate change by supporting oil- and gas-company exploration with its cloud computing business. Both employees say they were subsequently called into meetings with human resources, where they were accused of violating the company’s external communications policy. Costa […]
YouTubers have raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees
[ad_1] YouTubers created videos about trees to promote TeamTrees, leading over 500,000 viewers to donate to the cause. While most donations were about $5, Elon Musk donated $1 million. He even changed his Twitter handle to @Treelon to draw attention to TeamTrees. The Arbor Day Foundation will begin planting the trees next month and will […]