Environment
Emily Eavis says that 99.3% of all tents were packed up 👏
Companies will be expected to reveal by 2022 how climate change could jeopardise their finances.
Extreme weather events like floods and heatwaves used to occur every few decades – now they are expected to happen every five years after 2050.
Emails show long-time corporate mercenaries on the march at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Ditch single-use packaging – and buy loose where you can.
Can you avoid single-use plastic for a month? Millions of people from around the world have signed up for Plastic Free July, an initiative from the Plastic Free Foundation. Participants take on the challenge to avoid single-use plastic for the month, swapping out disposable cups for reusable ones, and plastic shopping bags for material totes. Half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once and then thrown away, adding to the trillions of pounds of plastic waste polluting the planet.
One engineer-turned-farmer in the Netherlands believes he has found a solution to climate change - floating cow farms. Moored in an offshoot of Rotterdam's busy port, the farm is a futuristic three-story floating structure where one robot milks the cows and another automatically scoops up the manure.
Glastonbury Festival has opened female-only urinals with “Shewees”, free environmentally friendly sanitary products and hooks for bags. The charity WaterAid created the project at the festival.
Nothing and no one is safe from our narcissism!
The retail giant said it was inspired by the BBC series Blue Planet.