Our daily trek around the world

🇬🇧 English architect Sir David Chipperfield this week was awarded the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The annual award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of architecture,” represents the highest honor in the entire industry. Chipperfield is widely known for merging elegant and modern spaces with historic buildings, per the NY Times, with his past work including a restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin that was partially destroyed in WWII, as well as a restoration of the 16th-century Procuratie Vecchie in Venice.

🇹🇭🐒 HelloFresh will stop selling any coconut milk sourced from Thailand, due to allegations of forced monkey labor. Not a typo – a recent PETA Asia investigation found monkeys in Thailand’s coconut-farming industry were being forced to climb trees and pick coconuts for hours on end while attached to chains, and were sometimes subjected to punishments like whipping. Many major retailers – including Walmart, Costco, Target, and Kroger – have already dropped Thai suppliers allegedly using forced monkey labor, but HelloFresh said it decided to go one step further and pull out of the country entirely after receiving nearly 100,000 emails pushing for the change.

🌊 The amount of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans is doubling every six years, per a new peer-reviewed study. A team of international scientists analyzed global data collected from nearly 12,000 sampling points in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea between 1979 and 2019. They found a “rapid and unprecedented” increase in ocean plastic pollution starting in 2005, with the estimated total amount of plastic particles increasing from 16 trillion back then to 171 trillion in 2019 (which would weigh a combined 2.3 million tons, if collected).