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This Real-Life Planeteer From Zimbabwe Is Saving The Earth With Green Chemistry

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Pollution, Save Earth / By / August 20, 2020

Emmie Chiyindiko grew up in Zimbabwe dreaming of superheroes and watching Captain Planet and Planteers, but now she’s a chemist exploring green chemistry: reducing the carbon footprint by making industrial processes more efficient. The 26-year-old, now a chemistry Ph.D. student at South Africa’s University of Free State, says she studies catalysts (materials that speed up …

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How Deforestation Leads to the Spread of Deadly Viruses from Animals to Humans

Leave a Comment / CSR, Save Earth / By / August 19, 2020

A growing body of evidence shows that deforestation can greatly increase the prevalence of zoonotic viruses in which viruses are passed from animals to humans. Six out of every 10 infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic. In an uninterrupted environment, viruses carried by animals are limited by their ecosystems. However, deforestation and other environmental disturbances displace the …

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Seaweed replaced with tropical coral as global warming hits Japanese waters

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, Save Earth / By / August 13, 2020

KYONAN, CHIBA PREF. – Tropical corals are increasing and seaweed beds nurturing sea creatures have disappeared in the sea south of Tokyo Bay, local divers and fishers have found, showing the impact of global warming on Japanese waters. In the waters off Kyonan in Chiba Prefecture, seaweed beds have disappeared over the past 12 years, while …

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Hong Kong study finds hungry fish creating microplastics at faster rate than previously thought

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, Environment, No Plastic, Save Earth / By / August 11, 2020

City University associate professor Dr Cheung Siu-gin makes discovery while collecting fragments for other research WWF-Hong Kong researcher says results show just how big the plastics problem is Sea animals could be chewing on ocean plastic waste and creating microplastics at a faster rate than previously thought, a Hong Kong researcher has found. Dr Cheung …

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SHIFTING TOWARD A PLANT-BASED FOOD SYSTEM WOULD CREATE 19 MILLION JOBS IN LATIN AMERICA BY 2030

Leave a Comment / CSR, Plant Based, Save Earth / By / August 5, 2020

A new report outlines the urgent need to decarbonize the economy in Latin America and the Caribbean to avoid climate catastrophe, a transition that will come with millions of jobs in plant-based food production.  A shift toward plant-based agriculture would create 19 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, according to a …

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