Plastic industry is heating up Earth's atmosphere TWICE as fast as the global airline industry, study claims
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Daily Mail— Most of the focus on plastics involves waste, but making them creates pollution. Plastics are made from petroleum byproducts, and factories run on fossil fuels. The top nine most used plastics produce about 2.5 billion tons of CO2 per year. READ MORE:
GlobeNewswire—U.S. Global Investors Announces Merger of Europe-Domiciled Airlines ETF into the Travel UCITS ETF (TRIP), Expanding and Diversifying Investment Opportunities in Global Travel Industry. San Antonio, TX, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (NASDAQ: GROW) (the “Company”), a registered investment advisory firm
The Guardian—Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds. World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as causeFossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found.Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural...
Ars Technica—It’s cutting calories—not intermittent fasting—that drops weight, study suggests. The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work.