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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderma. 12 aug. ’19
Researchers calculated what would happen if the entire US stopped eating meat. It’d be like taking 60 million cars off the road.
Livestock farming and the meat industry accounts for 18% of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. If Americans shifted their diets away from meat and towards protein-enriched plants, that would significantly decrease carbon-dio…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderzo. 11 aug. ’19
16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg plans to sail from Europe to New York in September. Here’s what her zero-emissions journey will look like.
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist, was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering work organizing the “Fridays for Future” youth climate protests. Thunberg is scheduled to speak at the United Nations climate action sum…
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- vr. 9 aug. ’19
8 things science has shown to be strongly linked with more gun violence — and 2 things that are not
Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, killed 31 people in less than 24 hours on August 3-4. President Donald Trump seemed to blame the shootings on “gruesome video games” and “mentally ill monsters,” but there’s no scientific link betwe…
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- do. 8 aug. ’19
Our food system accounts for a whopping 37% of greenhouse-gas emissions, a UN report found. But it could also offer a solution to the climate crisis.
The way we use land – for farming, mining, logging, and raising livestock – accounts for 23% of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the United Nations has found. The report calculated that the food industry (including the land …
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderwo. 7 aug. ’19
A group of tardigrades crashed into the moon in April. The indestructible critters could still be alive.
The moon might have some new inhabitants: tiny critters called tardigrades, which can survive in extreme environments. On April 11, the tardigrades arrived on the moon aboard a spacecraft called Beresheet: a four-legged lander made by an Israeli nonp…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdi. 6 aug. ’19
5 people were bitten by sharks at the same Florida beach over 9 days. Experts share tips for minimizing your risk of a shark attack.
On August 3, two people were bitten by sharks at New Smyrna Beach off the Florida coast. A day later, an elderly Florida man was also bitten. Your chances of getting attacked by a shark are extremely low: 1 in almost 4 million. But there are still wa…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderzo. 4 aug. ’19
The movie ‘Jaws’ was inspired by a real shark: In 1916, New Jersey residents engaged in ‘active warfare’ with a shark that killed four people
In 1916, four people – including a 10-year-old boy – were killed in shark attacks along the New Jersey shore. This series of attacks inspired Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” decades later. In the blockbuster film, a fearsome great white shark terrorizes th…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insidervr. 2 aug. ’19
Scientists have created magnetic coils thinner than a human hair that could break down plastic in the ocean
About 14 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. Some scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in oceans worldwide. Most plastics never fully break down. They fragment into smaller pieces called microplast…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdo. 1 aug. ’19
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wanted to ‘seed the human race with his DNA’ as part of his fascination with transhumanism. Here’s what that means.
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told scientists he wanted to “seed the human race” with his DNA by impregnating 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch, according to The New York Times. The idea may be connected to Epstein’s inte…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdo. 1 aug. ’19
Het Amazonegebied is in gevaar en kan over een cruciaal kantelpunt geduwd worden – zo is de Braziliaanse president Bolsonaro een bedreiging voor de hele wereld
Een trieste mijlpaal. Afgelopen maand werd in het Amazonegebied zo’n 1.345 vierkante kilometer bos gekapt – een gebied dat ongeveer net zo groot is als het IJsselmeer.
Volgens The Guardian is dit een record – niet eerder werd er in één maand zo veel o…
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