Causespixabay.com Can solar power save India’s iconic houseboat capital? Kerala’s Lake Vembanad teems with birds, bucolic villages—and pollution. New initiatives aim to make boating on the lake more sustainable.
Solutions Could we grow enough plants to make all our plastic plant-based? It would take a major reshaping of global agriculture to generate enough material to replace petroleum-based plastic with plant-based ones. Circularity has to be the end goal.
Impacts Harmful algal blooms kill farmed salmon near Tofino Cermaq first reported the die-off on Nov. 15. A local environmental group estimates thousands of fish were affected.