From Other Environmental Groups (October)

NATIONAL

  1. Bike sharing sees huge growth across Canada: More and more Canadian cities are providing bike share services, and more citizens are using them. Since the pandemic, bicycle commuting has become increasingly popular. For the story, go here!

  2. Booming solar industry has a growing appetite for weed-chomping crews: How can grazing farm animals help the solar industry? For the story, go here!

  3. What to do with wastes that are radioactive for over 100,000 years? Is nuclear energy truly a clean energy? For the story, go here!

Global

  1. Human-caused dangerous methane emissions soar: In the last 20 years, methane emissions from coal mining, oil and gas have jumped 33%, while landfill and waste increased 20%, and agriculture emissions rose 14% (mainly from cows). For the full story, go here!

  2. Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation: Their unique fermenting technique can turn food waste into food. For the full BBC story, go here!

  3. The effort to save the suddenly endangered Noble pen shells (giant clams): This important species to the Mediterranean waters sees new hope. For the full story, go here!

  4. Why talk of fighting climate change is muted in the U.S. presidential campaign. Climate change not at the forefront of American’s concerns in presidential election. For the full story, go here.

Good News Stories

  1. Fresh hope for bird with bizarre ‘crex-crex’ call: An endangered bird species in the U.K. has a second chance as breeding programs and a re-introduction plan start to take off. BBC story here!

  2. Meet the men who risk their lives to save rhinos: Poaching threatens the survival of the South African Rhinos, and these men have stepped in to protect them. For the full CBC story, go here!

  3. E.U. parliament votes to criminalize most serious cases of eco-system destruction: By doing so, the European union becomes the first international body to criminalize “ecocide”. Full story here!