Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]
Working on fisheries bycatch can be a pretty gruesome task. Bycatch is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) as well as countless other protected species every year – and entanglement in fishing gear is deeply traumatic for every individual experiencing it. Once an animal […]
When most people think about plastic pollution, they think about littered beaches, entangled wildlife and overflowing landfills in faraway places. The reality is that the plastics crisis doesn’t begin (or end) with these visible impacts, it starts much earlier with the extraction of fossil fuels and the production of the plastics themselves, where toxic emissions […]
A new two-part investigation by The Guardian, found here in part one and part two, has exposed the hidden consequences of the UK’s plastic waste exports to Türkiye. The investigation was informed by EIA analysis and traced thousands of tonnes of UK plastic waste sent for recycling in Adana, Türkiye, revealing how exported plastic is […]
The UK, Europe and many other parts of the globe are already experiencing rising temperatures and more regular heatwaves – and with a higher than 90 per cent chance of the world experiencing an El Niño event this year, conditions could worsen significantly. In this special blog, EIA Climate Campaigner Joanna Sparks takes a look […]
Due to the damage done to our climate, the EU is phasing out the use of what are known as F-gases – commonly used in air-conditioning units and the refrigerators and cooling cabinets in supermarkets – to replace them with low-emissions refrigerants by 2030. But today (23 July), a major industry group in Spain representing […]