Anthropocene Magazine: Mushroom leather may finally be ready for mass production
Researchers in Finland have developed a way to make leather-like fabrics from fungal mycelium at large scale using industrial equipment. This is a key advance towards vegan, plastic-free leather alternatives for the mass market…..
Fix The News: Drones Aid Removal of Ghost Nets
AI-equipped drones are helping Indigenous rangers clear ghost nets from northern Australia’s coast. AI-equipped drones are now spotting abandoned fishing nets from the air, letting Anindilyakwa and Dhimurru ranger teams remove about 15 nets…
Guardian: Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year….
Inside Climate News: Court Stalls EPA Plan to Override California’s Vehicle Pollution Standards
Sept 3 - A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from challenging California’s longstanding authority to set vehicle pollution standards stricter than federal requirements….
Earthjustice: Stopping a massive oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico
A federal court rejected the Trump administration’s approval of a proposed oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed terminal, called the Texas GulfLink project, was projected to export over 2 million barrels of crude oil per day. Earthjustice and Texas Community Law Partners took the federal government to court….
Happy Eco News: Global Mangrove Forest Recovery Confirmed by Four Decades of Satellite Data Showing Unexpected Expansion
Mangrove forests, once considered among the world’s most threatened coastal ecosystems, are showing signs of recovery worldwide. New research published in the journal Science found that decades of losses have been largely offset by regrowth and expansion
Heated: Wastewater - The oil industry’s achilles heel
But oil producers in the Permian are running into a serious problem: They are running out of space to dispose of their toxic, often radioactive wastewater, often called “produced water,” which comes out of the ground at about four times the rate of every barrel of oil - nearly a billion gallons of this wastewater every day.
Jan Rosenow, Substack: Bright Spots - Clean Energy Investment Overtakes Fossil Fuels
….there are clear indicators of the energy system moving. I’ve written about example after example of energy systems already changing beyond recognition, whether that is electric vehicles in Norway, the rapid rise of batteries in places such as California, Pakistan’s bottom-up solar revolution, Spain’s successful phase-down of natural gas in power market….
Fix The News: First Nations win back the world’s oldest rainforest
On August 12, Australian courts recognized the Eastern Kuku Yalanji’s native title over a vast stretch of their ancestral Country in Cape York, including the remaining parts of the Daintree (Earth’s oldest surviving rainforest - 180 million years old)…
Optimist Daily: The Great Bubble Barrier - Bubble curtains are intercepting 86 percent of river plastic
Rivers are how plastic gets to the ocean. Stop it there, and you stop it for good. The Great Bubble Barrier, a Dutch company, built a technology to do exactly that. A perforated tube runs across the bed of a waterway and connects to an air pump. The pump creates a rising curtain of bubble…
High Country News: Trump Fast-Tracks Oil and Gas Development in Alaska
Trump and his team are following through on their promise to fast-track drilling in the NPRA by allowing new winter exploration and drilling to move forward without any kind of environmental review.
Inside Climate News: The year so far in New Power Plants
More than two-thirds of new power capacity that’s come online In the US this year has come from solar and battery storage, with clean energy responsible for 90% of new energy sources. Eric Gimon, with Energy Innovation, explained that the bulk of new projects are small and mid-size utility-scale solar…
Environment America: Governor Walz issued an order to block all mining in the Boundary Waters.
Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area is our nation's most-visited wilderness area -- an otherworldly labyrinth of forests, wetlands, lakes and rivers that provide habitat for creatures like gray wolves, the Canadian lynx and more. Yet this beloved landscape has been under threat of toxic pollution
Save The Waves: New Short Film - 'Beyond the Break: World Surfing Reserves'
We’re proud to release a brand new short film about one of our most loved programs: World Surfing Reserves. This new film goes beyond the iconic waves to showcase the people behind the World Surfing Reserves, and why WSRs are benefiting local environments and communities.
Optimist Daily: Europe’s electric flight era could begin within four years
Electric aircraft startups have been promising a lot for a long time. Two of them are now close enough to matter. Battery-electric and hybrid planes with a range of up to 500 kilometers (310 miles) would cover a quarter of Europe’s existing flight routes…
High Country News: Utah is killing the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is unique and uniquely fragile, utterly dependent on freshwater inflows to maintain its brackish wetlands, which are hotspots of biodiversity. Its significant degradation, much less its loss, would be devastating, not only to bird populations throughout the Western Hemisphere..
Happy Eco News: Portland Clean Energy Fund Raises $1 Billion for Climate Action and Community Resilience
In Portland, Oregon…. an innovative local initiative has demonstrated what can happen when climate action receives sustained investment. Created by Portland voters in 2018, the funding program is a first-of-its-kind climate and environmental justice program financed through a 1% tax on large retailers..
Earthjustice: The Line 5 Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes — But We Just Got a Big Win Against It
In a major victory for Tribal nations, Michigan’s Supreme Court just dealt Enbridge a stunning blow. The court overturned a key permit the Canadian company needs to build a massive four-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac for its aging Line 5 oil pipeline.
U.S. PIRG: New York just raised the bar on electronics repair
New York's state legislature just became the first in the country to pass a bill requiring retailers to post repair scores for electronics at the point of sale…. Repair scores rate a product based on factors like how available spare parts are, how easy it is to take apart and how long the manufacturer will keep supporting it.
Inside Climate News: Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes?
In San Francisco Bay, new AI-powered technology aims to help ships dodge whales whose long-haul migration is being disrupted by climate change. San Francisco Bay is one of the busiest marine superhighways in the United States. Massive container ships cruise alongside crude oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge…