From the Ukrainian battlefield, dangerous resistant bacteria klebsiella emerges
The bacterium ‘Klebsiella pneumoniae’, which is resistant to all antibiotics, is also particularly aggressive and dangerous.
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Nearly five-fold increase in North Pacific Garbage Patch plastic waste
A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch [NPGP], threatening the local ecosystem and potentially the global carbon cycle.
Another COP, another plan, but will it stick?
A new global fund for sharing the benefits of using digital sequence information (DSI) from genetic resources was agreed at COP16 in Cali, Colombia. However, discussions around the establishment of a new wider biodiversity fund, as well as other key decisions, have been postponed and the meeting suspended.
How farm subsidies wreck landscapes in Europe
The CAP, which represents about a third of the EU’s budget (€55 billion annually), was meant to address sustainability alongside supporting farmers. It grants financial rewards for environmentally friendly practices, like planting trees or conserving wetlands. However, these measures have largely failed to protect biodiversity.
Keeping hope alive, or ourselves?
We must hope. Hope is good. Politicians, businesspeople, and even climate activists keep hammering it home, but research shows that people who worry are more likely to take action together.
Basic standard of living for everyone no longer sustainable
To sustain even a basic standard of living for everyone, we need to dramatically change our economic systems and technologies, new research reveals.
The market for lithium is blocking the energy transition
Increasing supplies of earth metals such as lithium and cobalt drive prices down. Good news, you might say. But it is holding back the energy transition.
New life forms discovered in volcanic caves
A new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic caves beneath hydrothermal vents at a well-studied undersea volcano at 2.500m depth.
EU ban on harmful chemicals is failing, NGOs warned
Exactly a year ago, the European Commission announced it would rapidly ban thousands of the most notorious harmful chemicals still found in consumer products and contributing to growing human infertility, serious illnesses and environmental harms. So far, little has changed.
Dutch dump plastic clothing waste in Kenia – investigation
The Netherlands is dumping a million items of junk plastic clothing waste in Kenya every year that are too dirty or damaged to be reused, creating serious health and environmental problems for vulnerable communities.