Sat, Oct 24 2020

The Guardian

Ventilating rooms has been added to the German government's formula for tackling coronavirus, in refreshing news for the country's air hygiene experts who have been calling for it to become official for months. The custom is something of a national…

Bill Pugsley SARS-CoV-2 stays airborne & accumulates indoors, so German government is betting on ventilation. Help to schools for air purifiers; Grants to improve ventilation systems in buildings; Deploy CO2 sensors to tell how stale the air in a room is.

The global shipping industry's annual greenhouse-gas emissions total more than one billion tons. Reducing them is critical in the fight against climate change. Former President of Costa Rica José María Figueres writes that shrinking…

Bill Pugsley targets for the maximum amount of carbon dioxide that each type of ship may emit per ton of cargo per mile traveled.- shipowners will decide how to meet the decarbonization targets. With a steep enough target – reducing CO2 intensity by, say, 80% by 2030

Tiny, dense forests are springing up around Europe as part of a movement aimed at restoring biodiversity and fighting the climate crisis. Often sited in schoolyards or alongside roads, the forests can be as small as a tennis court. They are based…

Bill Pugsley the miniature forests grow 10 times faster and become 30 times denser and 100 times more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods. by planting saplings close together, 3 per square metre, using native varieties adapted to local conditions.

Climate change is considered a threat multiplier by national security experts, many of whom are urging voters to keep this issue in mind when they cast their ballots. Drought, fires and major disasters all have the potential to spark mass…