Ngày đăng: Tháng Tư 7, 2021

Drinking coffee in the US? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study warns

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

eco-business.com

The US’s thirst for coffee drives forest loss in central Vietnam, while Germany’s craving for cocoa is doing the same in West Africa, a landmark study that tracks the drivers of deforestation across borders found.

coffee beans Vietnam
<p>A Vietnamese farmer tosses roasted coffee beans in order to remove the bits of burnt skin surrounding each one. Image: jeevs, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0</p>

Mongabay.comApril 5, 2021

  • Consumption patterns, especially in wealthier countries, are eating away at forests in some of the world’s most biodiverse regions. In the US, the thirst for coffee drives forest loss in central Vietnam, a landmark study that tracks the drivers of deforestation across borders found.

Germany’s demand for cocoa is linked to forest loss in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, while Japan’s demand for agricultural products like cotton fuels deforestation in coastal Tanzania.

Tiếp tục đọc “Drinking coffee in the US? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study warns” →

It won’t take much for Vietnam to develop nuclear power

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

By Sebastien Eskenazi   April 7, 2021 | 07:00 am GMT+7 VNExpress

All it will take is VND1 million ($43) per person per year for Vietnam to get its entire power supply from nuclear plants.

Sebastien Eskenazi
Sebastien Eskenazi

Lately there has been a few articles about how Vietnam will feed its growing energy demand. And I usually feel sad for Vietnam when I read them because they support either coal and gas which pollute a lot or solar and windfarms which take a lot of space and need coal and gas to provide power when they don’t work anyway.

Humans using too much space is actually the first environmental threat according to the WWF. And a good example of the need for coal and gas when you have too much solar or windfarms is Germany. In contrast France produces the majority of its electricity from nuclear power and emits a lot less CO2 per megawatt.hour than Germany.

Tiếp tục đọc “It won’t take much for Vietnam to develop nuclear power” →