DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

China has also made widespread use of biometric surveillance and forcibly put Uyghurs to work in Xinjiang’s cotton fields, or in other industries around the country, according to human rights groups. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The industry is attracting investment as new technologies for cultivating meat are emerging and start ups edge towards commercialisation. However, the report warns the industry is still a long way from being commercially viable, as well as being acceptable to consumers.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Recent monitoring by uncrewed submarines and satellites, along with ice-sheet modeling, suggest that the Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent smaller twin, the Pine Island Glacier, may already be in a death spiral — eaten up by the intensifying speed and warmth of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current. But offshore wind farms would.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even South America, in the throes of winter, saw unbelievable heat: A town in the Chilean Andes topped 100 degrees F — another all-time high. If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study.

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