Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion
Sep 19, 2024 · In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencers’ “#sheinhaul” videos advertised the company’s trendy styles on social media, garnering billions of views.
The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.”The report did not sugarcoat their view of the dangers humanity is facing.
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
Jan 29, 2024 · As U.S. EV sales rise, more cars than ever are using the electrical grid to power up. It would be reasonable to assume that means the grid must now supply a vast amount of energy to those cars — but it actually won’t take as much as you might think.
Category 5 Milton poses an exceptionally serious threat to …
Oct 7, 2024 · Intensity forecast for Milton. Between 2 p.m. EDT Sunday and 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Milton’s official top sustained winds increased from 80 to 175 mph, an increase of 95 mph (153 km/h) in 24 hours – not far from Hurricane Wilma’s Atlantic-record 24-hour intensification rate of 110 mph in 2005.Milton intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just under 25 hours, just shy ...
Which hurricane models should you trust in 2024?
Jul 18, 2024 · Figure 2. Skill of various computer model track forecasts of Atlantic named storms in 2023, compared to a “no skill” model called CLIPER5 that uses only climatology and persistence to make a hurricane track forecast (persistence assumes that a storm will tend to keep going in the direction and at the same speed that it is currently going).
Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe
Sep 18, 2024 · At midlatitudes — the region of the globe that includes much of North America, Europe, and Asia — blocking patterns and cut-off upper lows have been prevalent in recent days, including Storm Boris and the slow-moving Potential Tropical Cyclone 8, which dumped more than 20 inches of rain on parts of the North Carolina coast. Research extending back more than a decade has pointed to a ...
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
Nov 6, 2022 · You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the climate-warming pollution caused by manufacturing electric vehicle batteries cancels out the benefits.
Electric cars vs. gasoline cars: Which is better for climate change ...
Jul 8, 2021 · Electric vehicles can be an effective way to reduce pollution from transportation and limit global warming. But in most parts of the U.S., the electricity used to charge EVs is still dominated by fossil fuels.
Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?
May 11, 2023 · The percent chance that the historical average (1865-2016) elevation of snowpack in each Sierra Nevada subregion will retreat given a 1 C (1.8 F) increase in average winter air temperature.
UN report: The world’s farms stretched to ‘a breaking point’
Jan 19, 2022 · The world’s climate-stressed and pollution-degraded farming and agricultural system must shift quickly to sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion mouths expected by 2050, a new United Nations report finds.