Tropodo is a village in the eastern part of Java, Indonesia. It's a hub for the production of tofu. The local tofu factory uses plastic as a fuel for making the soy-based staple. About 12 percent of plastic waste is burned globally every year.

Montreal Protocol was overly optimistic to protect the ozone layer. Too many chemicals are still released into the environment that destroy the protective layer in the high atmosphere. It will take 6-11 years longer than predicted for the ozone hole over Antarctica to close. Carbon tetrachloride is used as a starting material for many refrigerants and in the production of PVC.

Erle Ellis is a professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is a leading researcher studying the Anthropocene, the current geological age defined by the large-scale impact of human activity on Earth. He argues that the same collective abilities that allowed societies to transform the planet can also be used to improve it.

A contractor at Claremont Farm in Bebington, Wirral Peninsula, destroyed an acre of asparagus in the process. Farmer Andrew Pimbley is devastated after having an important crop destroyed just as they entered their first full production season. Asparagus consists of 95% water, 18 calories per 100g and is rich in vitamins and minerals. Germans eat around 1.5 kilos of fresh asperagus per capita.

Jackie Chesnutt's West Texas ranch has five oil wells that produce a few barrels of oil a month. Her company, CORE Petro, says it's struggling to break even, let alone pay to plug the wells, but it says all its wells are in compliance. About two-thirds of the active oil wells in Texas produce less than 10 barrels a day. Texas has more than 159,000 inactive wells.

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41 people died and 116 were injured in the fire in Crans-Montana bar. Mayor Nicolas Féraud says the municipality took all the necessary measures to ensure legal controls. Internal documents show that the human resources were not sufficient to fully carry out the prescribed controls. Only 20 percent of the buildings were inspected between 2018 and 2020.

At least 66 tornado reports were submitted in multiple states including Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa. In Marion Township in Minnesota, about 30 homes were damaged and a dozen have significant damage because of a tornado. In Illinois, McClean County officials declared a disaster emergency because of severe storms in Bloomington. More than 43,000 customers lost power in Illinois but power was restored to almost all of them by Saturday night. In Wisconsin, 75 homes were destroyed by a tornado in one town.