Thursday, March 28, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 032819



Norway Becomes World’s First Country to Ban Deforestation

The palm-oil industry’s effort to curb deforestation has lots of flaws: But falling prices and wet weather has disguised them

There Really, Really Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Climate Change: Nuclear power might be part of a Green New Deal, but it can’t meet all U.S. energy needs.

Nuclear power is carbon-free. Should it play a bigger role in every country's green energy plan?

Greener Childhood Associated With Happier Adulthood

A terrifying look at the consequences of climate change: But David Wallace-Wells is optimistic about humans’ ability to reverse some of the damage

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells review – our terrifying future

Destruction from climate change will be worse, much worse, than you think

Review: ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ explores climate doomsday

The End of the Story: The Uninhabitable Earth paints a picture of the world after climate change—and suggests the limits of the way we think about the human narrative.

Students globally protest warming, pleading for their future

Spotlight Newsletter: Issue 1, 2019

US accused of blocking ambitious global action against plastic pollution: Commitments agreed at UN conference in Kenya do not go far enough, say green groups

Record-High Floods in Nebraska Breach Levees and Isolate Towns: A roadway in Omaha, Neb., is underwater on Saturday as flooding continued in parts of the Midwest.

Why it’s time to think about human extinction | Dr David Suzuki

State Water Board Unveils Aggressive Plan to Issue Investigative Orders for PFAS

There Are Wildfires Burning in the Arctic Circle Amid Sweden's Record-Breaking Heat Wave

Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?

Two Dead, Hundreds Evacuated as ‘Historic’ Flooding Swamps Midwest

The 12 Best Breakfast Foods

Midwest voters in Trump country face historic floods and call for climate action: Farm groups say the situation is the worse than ever and that's causing pain in states that flipped from Obama to Trump.

Spring break 2019: 30 tons of trash is left behind on Corpus Christi, Port Aransas beaches

Found, Inside Dead Sperm Whale: 100 Plastic Cups, 4 Plastic Bottles, 25 Plastic Bags, 2 Flip-Flops

Oil profits grease Trump administration’s move to recognize Israeli annexation of Golan

Kochs' Americans for Prosperity Group Launches Campaign to Crush Fuel Economy Standards

EPA Head Says Drinking Water a Larger Threat Than Climate Change

Trump's EPA Head Said Climate Change Is Not a Top Threat Because It's '50 to 75 Years Out'

Spring Outlook: Historic, widespread flooding to continue through May.  Above-average spring rain and snow will worsen flood conditions

NOAA warns of 'unprecedented' spring flood season that may become ...

Greater Philadelphia Geohistory Network

Wild reindeer in continental US now extinct: report

Political upheaval real risk of climate change

Amid Tourism Push, Concern Grows Over Indonesia's Komodo Dragons

'Humancane Trump' is killing Puerto Ricans

2017 recording reveals the oil industry is dangerously intimate with Trump's EPA and Interior

Wind and solar power is now cheaper than 74 percent of coal production

Spring flooding is 'unprecedented' and 'historic' as thousands of Americans become climate refugees

Nebraska Floods: 74 Cities, 65 Counties Declare A State of Emergency

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