Global aviation emissions nearly 300 million metric tons higher than reported for 2019 & more environmental news.

[View this email in your browser]( Friday, May 3, 2024 “We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” — Terry Swearingen [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [X]( Unprecedented Floods and Landslides in Kenya Kill 188, Displace 165,000 Since March, [flooding]( and [landslides]( throughout [Kenya]( have killed at least 188 people, with dozens still missing, according to the country’s ministry of the interior, as AFP reported. There have been at least 125 injuries with 165,000 people displaced. [Read More]( Related: [Rivers in Russia and Kazakhstan See Worst Flooding in Nearly a Century]( Plastic Manufacturing and Processing Are Still Increasing, Study Finds [Plastic]( — once seen as a marvel of modern science with uses from packaging to textiles — is now a scourge polluting our [waterways]( exposing us to [PFAS “forever chemicals”]( and making its way into our bloodstreams in the form of [microplastics](. [Read More]( Related: [56 Companies Responsible for Half of Global Plastic Pollution That Researchers Could Trace]( Global Aviation Emissions Nearly 300 Million Metric Tons Higher Than Reported for 2019, Study Finds A new study has uncovered that flight-related emissions from 2019 are far higher than reported. Scientists reviewed data for more than 40 million flights in 2019 and calculated the total global aviation emissions to be about 911 million metric tons, well above the 604 million metric tons reported to the United Nations in 2019. [Read More]( Related: [Airline Places Order for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made From Human Waste]( Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has found that Tyson Foods dumped hundreds of millions of pounds of pollutants into U.S. waterways from 2018 to 2022. The pollutants came from company facilities including slaughterhouses and processing plants. [Read More]( Related: [Tyson Foods Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than Exxon]( Slow Fashion 101: Everything You Need to Know Back in 2007, design activist [Kate Fletcher coined the term “slow fashion”]( when talking about the needs for systems-level change in the fashion industry. It was a hat tip towards the [Slow Food Movement]( which began in Italy as pushback against the fast food industry, overproduction and waste, in favor of local food and traditional cuisine that supported farmers and local ecosystems. For individual consumers, it also promotes mending damaged clothes, reusing second-hand items and upcycling to extend the life of materials to avoid having them end up in landfills. [Read More]( Related: [Fast Fashion 101: Everything You Need to Know]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2024 EcoWatch, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for EcoWatch Top News of The Day Our mailing address is: EcoWatch 1122 Oberlin RoadRaleigh, NC 27605 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](