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#News: Study finds even a small reduction in #meat consumption in wealthy nations would stop 25 billion tons of #carbondioxide (exceeding the total number of global #fossilfuels emissions over the past 3 yrs) from spewing into the atmosphere. Be #vegan #BoyottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241104150523.htm


#News: Around 620,000 individuals, 46 municipalities, 2,000 businesses and 65 faith-based institutions in #Brazil are set to claim damages from the Anglo-Australian #mining giant #BHP at a high court trial in London for a catastrophic toxic waste spill #ecocide #SouthAmerica #ecocidelaw #FossilFuels https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/13/bhp-to-face-620000-claimants-in-mariana-dam-collapse-trial-in-london


BP Scraps Target of Reducing Oil Production by 2030 #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #oil #BP #greenwashing https://www.ecowatch.com/bp-abandons-oil-reduction-target-2030.html


An Amazon free from oil and gas #Amazon #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #oil #gas https://act.350.org/sign/amazon-resists/


#News: Report finds petrochemical giant #BP funded a #greenwashing tree planting #carboncredits project in #SierraLeone and did not obtain community rights, risking locking families into 50-year contracts and debt peonage. Story via @worldrainforest https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/tree-planting-offset-project-in-sierra-leone-usd-25-million-from-bp-but-no-community-consent
#Humanrights #Fossilfuels #corruption



Happening NOW: Hundreds & hundreds of people have entirely shut down the Federal Reserve of New York City.

The Fed needs to force Wall Street to stop funding climate chaos!

#Biden #Climate #fossilfuels


As we (humans) get to grips with how to scale up #hydrogen as an energy source (and for energy storage) and as part replacement for #fossilfuels, this new research (once again) shows that #microbes have beaten us to it and evolved their own solutions for energy - in this case using hydrogen power.

This new research in Nature Microbiology explores how hydrogen in seawater supports growth of multiple and diverse #bacterial species.

Fof those (like me) in #Melbourne , you may be interested that the research also includes study of this process within #PortPhillipBay sediments.

Learn more on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01322-0

#microbiology #bacteria #ecology #MicrobialEcology

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