9 Best Articles in 2020
The New York Times
The End of Meat Is Here
The New York Times
6 min read · 554 saves · May 21st · If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.
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The Circular Design Guide
circulardesignguide.com
1 min read · 550 saves · From 2017 · What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future.
TIME
Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
TIME
20+ min read · 408 saves · 2019-12-11 · The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change
Guardian Environment
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
Guardian Environment
6 min read · 384 saves · 2019-10-09 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Guardian Environment
50 simple ways to make your life greener
Guardian Environment
~20 min read · 377 saves · Feb 29th · Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
OneZero
Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
OneZero
7 min read · 357 saves · Jun 25th · Eric Holthaus · Climate change will force more people to leave their homes than at any other point in human history. Conflict is inevitable.
The Atlantic
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 347 saves · 2019-12-18 · Wil S. Hylton · It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.
Guardian Environment
Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked
Guardian Environment
~12 min read · 332 saves · Jun 19th · Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear
The Guardian
Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
The Guardian
2 min read · 322 saves · Feb 13th · Jonathan Watts · Scientists describe 20.75C logged at Seymour Island as ‘incredible and abnormal’
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The New York Times
They’re Among the World’s Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.
The New York Times
6 min read · 139 saves · Dec 10th · California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.
The New York Times
Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
The New York Times
~14 min read · 133 saves · Dec 17th · We measured how much air pollution two children, Monu and Aamya, breathed for a day to see how much inequality makes a difference.
Guardian Environment
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for third year in a row
Guardian Environment
2 min read · 105 saves · Dec 7th · Companies accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste, with Coca-Cola ranked No 1 for most littered products
grist
21 Predictions for 2021
grist
~14 min read · 103 saves · Dec 8th · As this record-settingly terrible year draws to a close, 21 visionary climate and justice leaders point the way to progress in 2021.
Guardian Environment
US to hold world climate summit early next year and seek to rejoin Paris accord
Guardian Environment
5 min read · 94 saves · Dec 14th · Fiona Harvey · Action points for first 100 days of Joe Biden presidency seen as boost to international action currently falling behind
Guardian Environment
Restore UK woodland by letting trees plant themselves, says report
Guardian Environment
2 min read · 81 saves · Dec 15th · Patrick Barkham · Rewilding Britain charity says natural dispersal of seeds is cost-effective and boosts biodiversity
Guardian Environment
Human-made materials now outweigh Earth's entire biomass
Guardian Environment
2 min read · 80 saves · Dec 9th · Sandra Laville · Production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks and asphalt greater than mass of living matter on planet, paper says
Guardian Environment
‘Ugliest orchid in the world’ among 2020's new plant discoveries
Guardian Environment
2 min read · 74 saves · Dec 17th · Damian Carrington · Kew Gardens botanists also named a new toadstool found at Heathrow airport and a bizarre scaly shrub from Namibia
Guardian Environment
The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe?
Guardian Environment
~13 min read · 64 saves · Dec 8th · Fiona Harvey · With Trump no longer a threat, there is a sense of optimism around what the accord could achieve – but only if countries meet their targets
The Guardian
Time for some home truths about deforestation
The Guardian
4 min read · 61 saves · Dec 21st · Laura Spinney · A powerful French book punctures the myth that countries in the global south are largely responsible for habitat destruction, says science journalist Laura Spinney
