The Effects of Landfills on the Environment

Ierminstituteseo09 Dec, 2022Health

Visual and Health Impacts Landfill sites are often very unpopular with residents, often called ?Not in My Back Yard? or NIMBYs. Landfill sites impact the natural landscape: they stink, they are trashy looking and a become a bacteria breeding ground. The smell, traffic, noise and vermin that accompany landfills can lower house prices. Because of the increase in vermin surrounding landfills, disease becomes an issue with other adverse health effects, such as birth defects, cancer and respiratory illnesses also being linked with exposure to landfill sites. To read the article in SCIENCING click here. Landfill Issues

Burning Trash Bad for Humans and Global Warming

Ierminstituteseo07 Dec, 2022Technology

When atmospheric scientist Christine Wiedinmyer first went to Ghana in 2011 to investigate air pollution produced by burning different materials ? from crop stubble to coal used in stoves ? she noticed an unexpected potential source: burning piles of trash. Like most residents of developed nations who hadn?t traveled broadly in the developing world, the sight of smoldering rubbish piles, which contain anything from food waste to plastics to electronics, came as a surprise to Wiedinmyer, who works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Fashion brands can continue to increase emissions

Ierminstituteseo16 Nov, 2022Technology

?Celebrating the success of this sort of relative decoupling is a recipe for disaster,? said James Dyke, an associate professor in Earth system science at the University of Exeter. ?Global warming will stop when we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Nike having a few million more in the bank doesn?t change that.? To read the article in The Guardian click here. Integrated Waste Management

Dirty greenwashing: watchdog targets fashion brands over misleading claims - IeRM

Ierminstituteseo25 Oct, 2022Technology

The Advertising Standards Authority has clamped down on several big companies in recent years over greenwashing adverts, including the airline Ryanair, the carmaker BMW and the oil producer Shell. To read the article in The Guardian click here. Sustainable Waste Management

Sustainability efforts by industry are simply not enough

Ierminstituteseo17 Oct, 2022Environment

It?s better we act to shape the future of fashion and work towards a wardrobe good for people and planet ? rather than let a tidal wave of wasted clothing soak up resources, energy and our very limited carbon budget. Samantha Sharpe and Monique Retamal are research directors at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Taylor Brydges is a research principal at University of Technology Sydney This article was originally published on the Conversation To read the article in The Guardian click here. Waste And Resource Management

How A Dark Money Advocacy Group Has Weaponized State Treasurers to Attack Climate Policy

Ierminstituteseo10 Oct, 2022Technology

Corporations and wealthy donors have far too much power and influence in our political and justice systems. Profits and shareholders are too often put ahead of everyday people. The very real and urgent dangers of climate change are being downplayed or ignored. Our democracy itself is under attack. To read the article in Factkeepers.com click here. Landfill Issues

Mars Is �Irrelevant to Us� If Earth Is Doomed

Ierminstituteseo03 Oct, 2022Technology

?When we go up there, we?re dying but don?t stay up there long enough to actually die, we come back down in time to get back in the environment that keeps us alive because we?re co-evolved with it. That includes gravity, the magnetic field, and also the bacterial load that is in it. The old science-fiction dreams?are just a moral hazard that creates the illusion we can wreck Earth and still be okay. It?s totally not true.? To read the article in VICE click here. Integrated Waste Management

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Ierminstituteseo26 Sep, 2022Environment

Editor?s note: Mongabay has a funding partnership with the World Resources Institute (WRI) via the Forest Trackers project, which leverages Global Forest Watch data to quickly identify concerning forest loss around the world and catalyze further investigation of these areas. Mongabay maintains complete editorial independence over the stories reported using this data, and WRI has no editorial input on Mongabay content. To read the article in MONGABAY click here. Waste And Resource Management

The century of climate migration

Ierminstituteseo21 Sep, 2022Technology

People driven from their homes by climate disaster need protection. And ageing nations need them A great upheaval is coming. Climate-driven movement of people is adding to a massive migration already under way to the world?s cities. The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced people will only become greater and more urgent. To survive climate breakdown will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.

China issues alert as drought and heatwave put crops at risk

Ierminstituteseo12 Sep, 2022Technology

Local authorities told to take measures and ?use every unit of water carefully? in effort to save autumn harvest A drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ensure crops survive the hottest summer on record.

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