Day: August 14, 2025
Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth
Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.
Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions.
Dozens of hospital patients treated with opioid for unrelated conditions suffered serious bacterial infections
As many as 96 people are now thought to have died in Argentina after being treated with medical-use fentanyl that was tainted with bacteria.
The official death toll stands at 87, and a judicial source has told the Buenos Aires Herald that nine further deaths are under investigation.
