Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing
More than 9,000 people in Leh, India, planted more than 50,000 tree saplings in under an hour on October 10, 2010. Drukpa Publications via Wikipedia This story was originally published by YaleE360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the fastest. On…
Top Chef Challenge 2022: Palatable Jellyfish
Jellyfish could be a plentiful food source, but finding appetizing ways to prepare them is not easy.Agostino Petroni This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian…
How Joe Biden Made the War in Ukraine a Gift to the Gas Industry
Marios Lolos/Xinhua via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Russian tanks and armored vehicles had barely begun to roll into Ukraine before the fossil fuel industry in the US had swung into action. A letter was swiftly dispatched to the White House, urging an…
Indigenous Leaders Beg US Firms to Stop Supporting Deforestation
Andre Penner/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Indigenous leaders from the Amazon have implored major western brands and banks to stop supporting the ongoing destruction of the vital rainforest through mining, oil drilling, and logging, warning that the ecosystem is on the brink of a disastrous…
Activists Demand Action Against Oil Giants Accused of Misleading the Public
BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig burns in April 2010 following an explosion that led to the worst oil spill in US history.Associated Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campaigners have urged governments to intervene after oil companies were accused of misleading the public about their commitment to…
Northern California’s Killer Algae Bloom Was Like a “Wildfire in the Water”
Piles of dead yellow-fin goby on the shores of Lake Merritt, Oakland, California, September, 14, 2022.Courtesy of Damon Tighe This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lake Merritt, in the center of Oakland, California, is a tidal estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. It usually teems…