A woman near the ruins of a summer house destroyed by a fire in a dacha community in the Moshkovo district, Novosibirsk region, southern Siberia. The Novosibirsk region is experiencing hundreds of fires believed to have been caused by burning old grass. Kirill Kukhmar | TASS | fake pictures The …
Read More »Cost of preventing the next pandemic ‘equal to only 2% of Covid’s economic damage-19’ | World News
According to a new analysis, the cost of preventing more pandemics in the next decade by protecting wildlife and forests would amount to only 2% of the estimated financial damage caused by Covid-19. The researchers said two new viruses a year had spilled from their wildlife hosts to humans over …
Read More »Selling Tesla environmental loans helps boost profitability
An aerial view of the Tesla Fremont Factory on May 13, 2020 in Fremont, California. Justin Sullivan | fake pictures During a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors they reached a significant milestone: four consecutive quarters of GAAP profitability. The electric …
Read More »Huge amount of plastic will fill oceans and land by 2040: report
A volunteer cleans up the riverbank surrounding the canal in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Before it was a canal, but the continuous deposit of urban waste has completely obstructed it. Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images More than 1.3 billion tons of plastic waste will flow into …
Read More »Signs of farm “revolution” in India as coronavirus causes change
RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
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