November 2024 – Climate Desk

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Guardian

This secret society is on a mission to change the way we eat

The "leguminati" say a worldwide shift towards eating beans rather than meat would hugely benefit human health and the environment.

Damien Gayle · November 26, 2024
Vox.com

Trump wants a big expansion in fossil fuel production. Can he do that?

He’ll have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations, too.

Li Zhou · November 21, 2024
Guardian

Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

Exclusive: Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds

Sandra Laville · November 20, 2024
Grist

The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty

Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”

Joseph Winters · November 19, 2024
Mother Jones

A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers

In rich nations, just a fraction of e-waste is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.

Vince Beiser · November 19, 2024
Guardian

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

Oliver Milman · November 17, 2024
Inside Climate News

Katharine Hayhoe’s post-election advice: Fight fear, embrace hope and work together

The Texas-based scientist warns people who care about climate change and the energy transition against despair—and looks to examples from the Bible.

Dan Gearino · November 15, 2024
Atlas Obscura

Why Did the Spider Cross the Road?

In Colorado, tap-dancing male tarantulas risk everything for love—including becoming lunch.

Karuna Eberl · November 14, 2024
Guardian

EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution

Workers face being targets in what could be Environmental Protection Agency’s biggest upheaval since its founding

Oliver Milman and Tom Perkins · November 11, 2024
YaleEnvironment360

Will Ukraine Let Nature Revive When the War Is Finally Over?

Amid the destruction, scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. Some of them think it should continue.

Fred Pearce · November 9, 2024
Guardian

“Used like taxis:” Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions

Analysis of 19 million flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50 percent rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste.’

Damian Carrington · November 7, 2024
Grist

The race for clean energy is local

A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the US power grid—and some of them are on your ballots.

Emily Jones & Gautama Mehta · November 4, 2024