Archive | December 2021

“‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All”

Thwaites Glacier

Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica Could Collapse Soon: New Research – Rolling Stone

New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this”

“Morningstar ESG Chief Asks Herself: What Do Those Trillions Do?”

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Morningstar ESG Chief Asks Herself: What Do Those Trillions Do? – Bloomberg

Hortense Bioy, the global head of sustainability research at Morningstar Inc., says she’s struck by the persistent lack of clarity around investing strategies marketed as ways to protect the planet.

“Nippon Paper and Stora Enso want to turn trees into batteries”

https://news.youexec.com/briefs/nippon-paper-and-stora-enso-want-to-turn-trees-into-batteries?pt=-USER_BRACELET-

Japan’s Nippon Paper and Finland’s Stora Enso want to use trees to revolutionize the battery industry. Research into a replacement for lithium-ion and rare-metal batteries is underway globally. With the explosive popularity of electric cars, the industry could see safer, tree-powered batteries in EVs by 2040.

“Earth is getting a black box to record humanity’s ‘every step toward catastrophe'”

https://www.cnet.com/news/earth-is-getting-a-black-box-to-record-humanitys-every-step-toward-catastrophe/

An indestructible “black box” is set to be built upon a granite plain on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia in early 2022. Its mission: Record “every step we take” towards climate catastrophe, providing a record for future civilizations to understand what caused our demise, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).