Environment

About 100 people packed into the Smithers courthouse on Friday to show support for three Indigenous land defenders being sentenced for attempting to halt work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2021 in defiance of a court-ordered injunction.

Obligatory fuck Nestle, but also “low emissions dairy” is a hoax - the “clean coal” of the ag industry.

An outback solar farm has officially switched off its panels after the owner said a failed agreement with Ergon Energy forced his hand to pull the plug.

Approximately 1.6 million tons of old ammunition are lying on the bottom of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, posing a considerable danger: their casings are slowly rusting and emitting toxic substances such as TNT compounds.

The chefs, all of whom sell or endorse cookware lines, are opposing a California bill that would phase out the contentious chemicals from a range of products they’re used in, like nonstick cookware, food packaging and dental floss. California lawmakers could vote on the measure this week.

InventWood's Superwood represents a breakthrough material that transforms ordinary wood into a substance stronger than steel through molecular restructuring and densification[^1]. The company is launching a 90,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Frederick, Maryland in Q3 2025 to begin commercial production[^7].

Dear people of Florida,

Durant les six premiers mois de 2024, des libraires belges et français ont mené une grève singulière. L’association Pour l’écologie du livre proposait une « trêve des nouveautés » en refusant certains titres sur des critères volontairement nébuleux ou surprenants : les parutions d’un mois sur deux, le catalogue d’une seule maison d’édition, un seul titre par structure, ou encore en refusant les couvertures bleues, les auteurs d’un certain renom, etc. « À système absurde, réponse absurde », explique en souriant Mme Anaïs Massola, présidente de l’association. « Notre proposition a fait sens, non pas parce qu’elle était radicale, mais parce qu’elle était moins absurde que le quotidien des libraires depuis des années. »

Species discoveries can be joyous occasions, but not in this case. Eastern African forests have nearly disappeared in the past century, and neither bee species has been spotted in surveys conducted in the area since the 1990s, noted coauthor and entomologist Michael Engel, who recently moved from a position at the University of Kansas to the American Museum of Natural History.