People who follow government guidelines on healthy eating significantly reduce their risk of an early death and can also contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A study in the journal BMJ Open found that people who adhere to five or more recommendations in the government’s Eatwell guidelines experienced an estimated …
Read More »Large investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto on stock Environment
A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $ 90 billion (£ 68.6bn) has its shares in some of the world’s largest oil companies and miners responsible for lobbying against climate action. Storebrand, a Norwegian asset manager, split from miner Rio Tinto, as well as US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron …
Read More »GOP platform on climate risk supports issue to Democrats
By adopting its 2016 platform for 2020, Republicans risk replacing early young GOP voters and leaving the party for four years without climate goals or solutions, according to critics on both sides of the aisle. The GOP claims in its platform – unchanged from 2016, even until the lengthy criticism …
Read More »Marco becomes a hurricane, heading for the Gulf Coast
An employee of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is monitoring tropical storm Laura in Santo Domingo, on August 22, 2020. Erika Santelices | AFP | Getty Images Marco intensified Sunday in a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico en route to the coast of Louisiana, according to data from an …
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