Researchers call for urgent action to tackle this unregulated side of the fashion industry Clothing waste is generated by people living in wealthy cities, but its environmental impact is … [+] being felt by those in the Global South getty Urbanites are buying and disposing of more clothing than ever. Somewhere between 80 and 150 […]
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world’s deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago. A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed. On Wednesday, the toxic waste – around 337 tonnes – was taken […]
Let me start with the following principle: “Energy is the only universal currency: One of its many forms must be transformed to get anything done.” Economies are just intricate systems set up to do those transformations, and all economically significant energy conversions have (often highly undesirable) environmental impacts. Consequently, as far as the biosphere is […]
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