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Bitcoin’s Climate Impact Is Worse Than We Thought! — Mother Jones

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

  • Assam state in northeastern India, where farmers and elephants jostle for space and food, has one of the highest incidences of human-elephant conflict in the country.
  • Conservationists from Hati Bondhu, a nonprofit organization, are working with farmers in Assam’s Golaghat district to pursue a more peaceful human-elephant coexistence.
  • Their first experimental project, which was to grow rice in some fields dedicated to elephants so farmers could harvest separately elsewhere, was a success.
  • They’re now planning solutions to overcome the limitations of this short-term project, involving more villages and planting more species outside of farmlands in large-scale projects.

Source: Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Leading Dutch Dairy Company Boermarke Announces it Will Become 100% Plant-Based – vegconomist – the vegan business magazine

Boermarke, a leading Dutch dairy company, announces that after three decades in the dairy industry, it will now focus entirely on the production and development of plant-based dairy products, with the goal of making these products available in all European supermarkets within three years… Source: Leading Dutch Dairy Company Boermarke Announces it Will Become 100% Plant-Based – vegconomist – the vegan business magazine

Justice Department targets eBay for alleged unlawful sales of pesticides and other toxins | AP News

The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil complaint against eBay, claiming the online marketplace unlawfully sold and distributed hundreds of thousands of products like pesticides and motor vehicle emission-evading devices that violate environmental laws… Source: Justice Department targets eBay for alleged unlawful sales of pesticides and other toxins | AP News