After a week of far-reaching climate promises measured over decades, four of the world’s six largest economies have now proposed ending dates for their carbon emissions.President Xi Jinping’s surprise announcement at the annual United Nations climate meeting this week committed China to reaching carbon neutrality by 2060. That brings the third-biggest economy by nominal GDP…
Environment 23 September 2020 By Adam Vaughan Chinese president Xi Jinping addresses the United Nations general assembly on 22 SeptemberJu Peng/Xinhua/PA Images China surprised the world yesterday when president Xi Jinping told the United Nations general assembly that the country would “achieve carbon neutrality before 2060”. Until now 2020 has been an underwhelming year for…
By Adam Vaughan A wild fire burns on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South AfricaGuy Oliver / Alamy Wildfires and blazes lit by humans have been found to be sending huge amounts of carbon into our oceans via rivers each year. When trees and other vegetation are incompletely burned, they form black carbon, which can…
By Donna Lu We still don’t know exactly how the moon formedNASA/JPL The moon has its own carbon emissions, which changes our understanding of how it may have formed. Using data collected by Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter over a year and a half, Shoichiro Yokota at Osaka University in Japan and his colleagues have discovered that…
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara
The recalled product was distributed nationally through the online platforms, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Target, and the company's websites, tnvitamins.com and doctorspride.com. Published: June 12, 2026, 10:11 pm Total Nutrition Inc. of Deer Park, NY is voluntarily expanding its recall of TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride Ultra Potent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules because they have