Reducing sugar consumption could help fight climate change & more environmental news.

[View this email in your browser]( Tuesday, July 26, 2022 “When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.” Freezing Point on Swiss Alpine Summits Reaches a New High, Another Sign of Climate Change On Monday, meteorologists in Switzerland sent weather balloons over Alpine country in search for the freezing point. The weather balloons had to rise over 5,100 meters (over 17,000 feet), before finding the freezing point, setting a new record and breaking the previous highest freezing point of 27 years ago. [Read More]( Related: [Biden Says Climate Crisis Is an Emergency, But Doesn’t Declare One]( In First-of-its-Kind Protest, Hill Staffers Arrested After Sit-in for Climate Action at Schumer’s Office Democratic leadership may have given up on passing major [climate]( legislation, but their employees aren’t ready to throw in the towel. Six Congressional staffers were arrested Monday after a first-of-its-kind sit-in at Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s office demanding he give climate negotiations another try. [Read More]( Related: [Artists in 28 Countries Come Together to Respond to Climate Crisis With World Weather Network]( Yet Another Reason to Cut Sugar Consumption: It Could Help Fight Climate Change The processing of sugarcane has an enormous impact on the environment due to the [emissions]( wastewater runoff and solid waste produced by [sugar mills](. It also causes [biodiversity]( loss when animal and plant habitat is destroyed to make way for sugarcane cultivation, according to the World Wildlife Fund website. [Read More]( Related: [Taste the Toxins: Lawsuit Claims Skittles ‘Unfit for Human Consumption’]( Could Tolerant and Peaceful Bonobos Be the Model for Human Peacemaking? Humans share 98.7 percent of their DNA with two species of endangered [great apes]( bonobos (Pan paniscus) and [chimpanzees]( (Pan troglodytes). Bonobos — which can only be found in forested regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), south of the Congo River — differ from chimpanzees in appearance and behavior. They are usually smaller, and their societal groups are led by females and are generally more peaceful. [Read More]( Related: [More Than 30 Endangered Green Sea Turtles Found Stabbed on Japanese Island]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2022 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](