Why do we eat popcorn at the movies?
The history of popcorn begins approximately 10,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, present-day Mexico, where the cultivation of corn was domesticated for the first time
Deep-sea mining in the Arctic Ocean gets the green light from Norwegian lawmakers
The head of Greenpeace Norway, Frode Pleym, said the decision was ‘a disaster for the sea’ and the mining would take place in ‘our last wilderness’
UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years in contentious climate policy shift
The move waters down green pledges the U.K. has made. Sunak says Britain remains committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050, but in a way that won’t ‘impose unacceptable costs’ on ordinary people
Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister’s house in black to protest oil expansion
Sunak announced this week that hundreds of new oil and gas licenses will be granted in a bid for energy independence, in a move criticized by environmentalists
Delegates working to end global plastics pollution agree to craft a draft treaty
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Environmental advocates cautiously welcomed the outcome of five days of U.N. talks in Paris on but expressed concern that the petroleum industry and some governments would water down the eventual deal