Impossible Foods has no interest in making a veggie burger that tastes like meat, its founder and CEO said Friday.
Veggie burgers don’t serve the company’s goal, said Patrick Brown—to solve “the catastrophic impact of the use of animals as a food…
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The plant-based meat industry will need the millions of workers now employed in animal agriculture, the founder of Impossible Foods said Friday, but the slaughter room has to go.
Impossible CEO Patrick Brown described the slaughter-room as a…
The carbon intensity of the U.S. power sector reached a new low in 2019, more than a third below its 2005 level, according to a new analysis from Carnegie-Mellon University. The drop tracks an accelerating collapse in the burning of coal.
In 2019,…
The coronavirus lockdown likely has caused the largest single-year drop in carbon emissions ever recorded, but according to a new analysis, it achieved that silver lining at the expense of a lot of gold.
“While lower CO2 emissions are nominally a…
The coronavirus pandemic shows that companies and the economy can respond quickly and globally to natural threats, said a leading expert on organizational change, but also that we need to better prepare for climate change.
Companies that don’t…
Air pollution in some cities is less than half what it was a year ago, according to new data from the satellite that has been documenting the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on air pollution across the world.
Paris has seen nitrogen dioxide drop…
China has led the world in using plastic-film mulch to increase the productivity of its crops, and now it needs to lead the world in removing the plastic residue damaging its croplands, according to a study out this week.
Just days earlier, as if on…
Environmental groups should buy up cheap stocks in the sectors that cause the most climate damage, including energy and aviation, the director of a leading European research center has urged.
Some environmental groups have dismissed activist…
The heating climate will likely have greater impacts on extreme heat and weather than history suggests or science has predicted, according to a climate scientist who studies the relationship between climate and weather events.
Stanford University…
It’s “an evolutionary certainty” that more viruses will leap into humans with the potential to cause more pandemics, according to the epidemiologist who heads GAVI, the global vaccination initiative.
Dr. Seth Berkley called for increased surveillance…
