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Civilians continue to flee from Irpin due to ongoing Russian attacks in Irpin, Ukraine on March 07, 2022. Wolfgang Schwan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images On the morning that Russia went to war with Ukraine, Fadey woke up at 9am to a deluge of Telegram messages from friends asking him what was happening on

More than 11 million tons of plastic pollution enter the ocean each year, approximately 80% from land-based sources, and 20% from ocean-based sources like fisheries and vessels. Unless addressed, plastic pollution will increasingly harm human and ocean health as well as our economies and livelihoods. We cannot address these challenges in our own silos. What

A sign reflects the price per gallon of fuel at a gas station on March 10, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Americans are feeling the pinch of rising gas prices. Now two states — Maryland and Georgia — are temporarily suspending their gas taxes in order to help their residents save

This article was adapted from Mobility Weekly, our free weekly newsletter. Register for a subscription here. Another day, another headline proclaiming a new record high for fuel prices — adding to the litany of reasons to reduce consumption. As an EV driver, I’ve avoided feeling the pinch at the pump. However, when booking a flight,

The U.S. has been “extremely trigger-happy” with stinging economic measures, and central banks may decide to diversify their portfolio of foreign reserves instead of relying heavily on the U.S. dollar, according to the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. “Central banks are beginning to ask questions,” said Gal Luft of the

Reprinted from GreenBuzz, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Today is International Day of Forests, a United Nations-proclaimed event that aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of forests of all types. It’s a relatively recent addition to the commemorative calendar: The U.N. General Assembly first proclaimed March 21 as the date in

UN Secretary General António Guterres photographed at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 11, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.N. Secretary General issued a stark warning Monday, saying the planet had emerged from last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow with “a certain naïve optimism” and

This article was originally published on Environmental Health News. Read it here. You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about the negative environmental and human health impacts of plastics. And for good reason — its global production is expected to more than triple between now and 2050. According to industry projections, we will create more

If you’d like to find out whether Jennifer Holmgren can do something, the quickest way is to tell her she can’t. The Colombian-born chemist started her career in the late 1980s, in a lab in Des Plaines, Illinois, working for a company called UOP that would later be acquired by Honeywell. UOP developed technology for

Forests need angel investors. That’s the backbone mission of a new <$100 million fund launched in early March by the nonprofit Bankers without Boundaries and the reforestation company Terraformation. The goal is to unlock private capital for reforestation efforts by reaching out to banking partners and other investors who have not yet been identified by