A sweeter future
for rare candy darter
https://www.fws.gov/story/2022-11/sweeter-future-rare-candy-darter
Buffalo Mayor:
'People Can Feel Their Homes Moving' – Dec 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4n5TXKi38
The USPS Could Be
Transformative for Decarbonizing America—if Only It Weren’t Run by Louis DeJoy.
The agency’s plan
to eventually replace its gas-guzzling fleet with electric vehicles is good
news, but so much more would be possible if Biden would take steps to expel the
Trump appointee.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169685/usps-electic-vehicles-decarbonizing-louis-dejoy
Tiny New Genes
Appearing in Human DNA Show How We're Still Evolving
https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-new-genes-appearing-in-human-dna-show-how-were-still-evolving
To Reduce Climate
Chaos, Eat Less Meat
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Lingo.html
What Lula's
Victory in Brazil Means for Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/climate/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro-climate.html
Brazil’s new
president vows a new day for the Amazon: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he
would crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/16/brazils-new-president-vows-a-new-day-for-the-amazon/
At COP27, Lula
puts Brazil at Forefront of Climate Battle, vows to stop Destruction of Amazon
Rainforest
https://www.juancole.com/2022/11/forefront-destruction-rainforest.html
Amazon
deforestation in Brazil remains near 15-year high
New Mexico court
upholds public access
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Benson.html
US braces for
more deaths as ‘blizzard of the century’ grips nation: Rescue crews struggle to
reach stranded residents in Buffalo, New York, where dozens have been killed in
winter storms
COP27: Get Real
on Climate Chaos
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Lingo.html
As Biden Touts
Progress at COP27, National Assessment warns that the Things Americans Love are
Endangered by Climate Emergency
https://www.juancole.com/2022/11/assessment-endangered-emergency.html
The Assertion of
Global South in Geopolitics
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Gunasekaran.html
It’s Never Too
Late to Save a River
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Lawton.html
Lost and Damaged:
The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/17/lost_and_damaged_the_uns_cop27
Dismantling
Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill: Mia Mottley, the prime minister of
Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate
spending.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/cop27-mia-mottley-bridgetown-agenda/
Nothing Here Gets
Out Alive: Avoiding catastrophe from the Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ requires
pressure on states by the federal government.
https://progressive.org/magazine/gulf-mexico-dead-zone-johnson/
Manatees Need
Protection To Survive
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Lingo.html
Most Hopeful
Climate Story of the Year: Cleaning Up the Airline Industry: Aviation is a
major polluter and has missed most targets for reducing emissions. But this
year, thanks to years of pressure, companies and policymakers began to change
that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169514/hopeful-climate-story-year-cleaning-airline-industry
A Toxic Stew on
Cape Cod: Human Waste and Warming Water.
Climate change is contributing to electric-green algae blooms.
Massachusetts wants a cleanup of the antiquated septic systems feeding the
mess, but it could cost billions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/climate/cape-cod-algae-septic.html
Solarpunk Offers
Radical Hope in Capitalist Dystopia: It’s easy for the powerful to co-opt
exiting trends, but inauthentic, empty imitations cannot replicate worthy
vision and life-changing practice shared by many.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/solarpunk-offers-radical-hope
The Fossil
Flowers That Rewrote the History of Life: Some of the world’s first flowers
burned in wildfires more than a hundred million years ago. Else Marie Friis
rediscovered them.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-fossil-flowers-that-rewrote-the-history-of-life
Earth currently experiencing
a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes – Jan 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqhcZsxrPA
The Most
Important New Year’s Resolution for Climate: Changing your personal habits
won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169824/important-new-years-resolution-climate
Inside Climate
News Weekly, January 7, 2023
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=281b074aab
Peter Zeihan -
Last Stand Of Russians - Russia Is At Point Of No Return – Jan 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-AJ6rYI-M
The U.S. approved
a vaccine for honeybees. (It comes in the form of food.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/science/honeybee-vaccine.html
More lanes:
Widening highways doesn’t fix traffic. Why are states still doing it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html
California storm
leaves over 560,000 homes without power, more rough weather ahead
Old News in a New
Year: The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They're Not
the Ones You Think!)
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/old-news-in-a-new-year
From Alcatraz to
Pitcairn: Remembering Rikitea: This remote chain of mostly volcanic isles is
one of French Polynesia’s five archipelagoes that comprise a sprawling watery
realm the size of Western Europe
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/travel/remembering-rikitea
What the
Extinction Crisis Took From the World in 2022: From a frog in Venezuela to a
sturgeon in China—obituaries for the species we lost.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/extinct-species-2022/
A Gift Guide for
the Whole Planet: With accelerating climate change, threats against abortion
rights, and need everywhere, you can make a difference by giving.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/holiday-donations/
To Save the
Planet, Divide and Conquer: Democrats make progress on climate change when they
set business lobbies against each other.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/climate-policy-biden-manchin-democrats/
The Planet You
Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's?a?sure Thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60143343-the-planet-you-inherit
Laudato-Si.pdf -
Earth Ministry
https://earthministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Laudato-Si.pdf
90 Percent of
Californians (One in 10 Americans) Are Under Flood Watch: More than 34 million
people are at risk, as the rainstorms in California continue and the death toll
keeps rising.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169931/90-percent-californians-flood-watch
‘Public Trust’
Provides a Key Legal Tool to Preserve Natural Resources: Law professor Mary
Wood breaks down how people can protect their right to clean air, water, and
land as well as fortify their climate change resiliency.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/public-trust
California storm
death toll reaches 17 as floods and extreme wind wreak havoc
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/storm-northern-california
Corporate America
Reserves the Right to Kill You With Soot Pollution: All the usual suspects have
lined up against the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed tightening of
air pollution regulations.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169929/soot-lobby-epa-rules-air-quality
‘Endless stream’
of new storms hits California again this week. What to expect
California is
trying to tame the effects of flooding in ways both immediate and long-term.
South Korean
solar company Hanwha Qcells announced Wednesday that it would build a $2.5
billion solar-panel manufacturing complex in Georgia.
Hairdryer Climate
Mathematics Revealed – Jan 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RDjJAATro
People vs Fossil
Fuels
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/build-back-fossil-free
California’s
Devastating Storms Are a Glimpse of the Future: Even as the state weathers a
megadrought, climate change is increasing the risk of catastrophic floods.
Three Climate
Reports: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Some progress was made in 2022, but the forecast still looks bleak.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/three-climate-reports-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly
Storms send
sewage pouring into streets, creeks, San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean: Heavy
downpours triggered the release of millions of gallons of raw sewage mixed with
rainwater across the region in just two weeks, according to an analysis of 88
reports
Biden declares
emergencies for California storms, Alabama tornadoes
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-declares-emergency-california-due-winter-storms-2023-01-15/
Exxon Accurately
Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science
New research
shows the company’s scientists were as “skillful” as independent experts in
predicting how the burning of fossil fuels would warm the planet and bring
about climate change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12012023/exxon-doubt-climate-science/
Relentless Rise
of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes:
The heat of global warming will keep penetrating deeper into the oceans
for centuries after greenhouse gas emissions cease.
All Things Co-op:
Law for Cooperative Movements – Jan 017, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us7s9vrjuNE
Out of the Lab
and Into the Streets": Meet Earth Scientist Fired After Engaging in
Climate Protests – Jan 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW3r32Y6bqk
Wildfires in
Colorado Are Growing More Unpredictable. Officials Have Ignored the
Warnings. A year after the deadly
Marshall Fire drove thousands of Coloradans from their homes, the state’s
densest communities aren’t preparing for the next climate-driven wildfire.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marshall-fire-wildfire-climate-change
Wildlife Watching
has Been Getting a Free Ride
https://www.populist.com/29.02.WOTR.html
Froma Harrop: Did
Joe Biden 'shut down' American energy? Hardly.
The evidence fails to support the melodrama.
Over-Engineering
Food and Energy
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Lingo.html
Brazil Has a New
President, and a Renewed Chance to Save the Amazon
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/5/brazil_has_a_new_president_and
A Tale of Two
Cities: Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags: Americans discard 100 billion plastic
bags annually, the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/planet-versus-plastic-bags
More than
one-third of the Amazon forest is degraded, study says
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/26/amazon-rainforest-degraded
Hidden in Plain
Sight: The Great Black Swamp of Northwest Ohio - 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O294VS0yHgU
How Elephants
Boost Carbon Stores in Africa’s Forests: The dietary habits of African forest
elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density
trees better at storing carbon.
https://www.laprogressive.com/animal-rights-2/elephants-boost-carbon-stores
Ice storm death
toll rises to 10 in South; 460K without power; New England braces for 'once in
a generation' wind chills: Updates
50-car train
derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-ohio-evacuations-fires-5d399dc745f51ef746e22828083d8591
New Wind and
Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant
in the United States: New analysis shows that renewables beat existing coal plants
99 percent of the time, thanks to long-term trends and an assist from the
Inflation Reduction Act.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012023/wind-solar-coal-power-plant-costs/
January 31, 2023
Exxon and Chevron Made Their Highest-Ever Profits in 2022. What Does It Mean
for Clean Energy?
https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/exxon-and-chevron-made-their-highest-ever-profits-in-2022-what-does-it-mean-for-clean-energy/
Pennsylvania
Advocates Issue Intent to Sue Shell’s New Petrochemical Plant Outside
Pittsburgh for Emissions Violations: The complex in Beaver County “blew
through” permit limits in its first few months of operation, the advocates say.
US Emissions of
the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA
Estimates, a New Study Shows: Electric utilities are likely responsible for the
nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse
gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012023/emissions-potent-greenhouse-gas-sulfur-hexafluoride/
In Pennsylvania,
a New Administration Fuels Hopes for Tougher Rules on Energy, Environment:
After 12 years of Republican control in the state, the election of Gov. Josh
Shapiro represents a sea change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01022023/pennsylvania-fracking-josh-shapiro/
February 3, 2023
Dark Money Is Fueling Climate Denial and Delaying Action, Watchdogs Warn
The ocean
twilight zone could eventually store vast amounts of carbon captured from the
atmosphere
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ocean-twilight-zone-eventually-vast.html
Two powerful
earthquakes killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria, collapsing
buildings in dozens of cities and shaking the ground as far away as Israel and
Lebanon.
I Never Thought
I’d Miss the Earthquakes: The world as we knew it really is ending faster than
some of us ever expected.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/earthquakes
Fearing an
explosion, officials release toxic chemical after Ohio train derailment. Residents in the area were ordered to
evacuate once authorities determined five of the train cars may have been full
of the flammable gas.
Exclusive: Huge
chunk of plants, animals in U.S. at risk of extinction
As glaciers melt,
sudden flood risks threaten 15 million people, study finds. More than half of those at risk are located
in four countries: India, Pakistan, Peru and China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/07/glacier-melt-flooding-climate-change/
Cold, hunger,
despair grip homeless as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 19,000
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