WION Climate Tracker | Historic drought in Horn of Africa
raises famine threat - Aug 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwD9mH0irKc
WION Climate Tracker | Drought threatens war-scarred
Iraq's national security - Aug 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjB-I6xZaI
Dozens of high-water rescues are underway as the
drought-parched Dallas area gets a summer’s worth of rain in a day
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/us/dallas-weather-flash-flood-warning/index.html
Valley activists, residents head to Sacramento to demand
cleanup of contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab: Organizers said DTSC and CalEPA
responsible for remediating contaminated sites across the state failed to hold
polluters accountable, allowing them to walk away from cleaning toxic fields
often located in low-income and working-class communities.
Did California give Boeing a pass on a major pollution
cleanup?
Tennessee’s second-largest crude oil spill narrowly
missed the state’s biggest aquifer
What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically? Some forms of geoengineering could slow the
Arctic's heating.
https://www.arctictoday.com/what-could-we-do-to-cool-the-arctic-specifically/
Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster
| DW Documentary - May 1, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Uv9_7KJE&list=RDCMUCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q&index=6
Methane gas leaks from the ground both naturally and from
coal, oil, and gas extraction. New research shows that more of the gas in the
atmosphere comes from the fossil fuel industry than previously thought.
Trees across the U.S. face dire threats, new report shows
- Aug 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCK6FgJ8qQ
Made-in-America Electric Cars: Good in Theory but a
Complicated Mess in Practice: Demanding E.V. parts be made domestically could
slow down the energy transition—or, alternatively, fall afoul of free trade
policies the United States has worked hard to enact.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167504/electric-cars-made-in-america
Greenland ice melt will raise sea levels by nearly a
foot, study says - Aug 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4udMtbXuY
How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built
a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire: PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the
internet’s biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two
ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.
Climate Change Will Bring Pakistan's Deadly Floods To
Your House - Aug 30, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoituaiQGWY
What is PP4FDR? We
are pushing for a more participatory community engagement process, facilitated
by local organizations, to create a People's
Plan for FDR Park that reflects the current needs and interests of
South Philly communities, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the face
of a changing climate.
What’s happening to the Meadows?
https://www.savethemeadows.com/
Climate Change Remains Top Global Threat Across
19-Country Survey: People see UN favorably and believe ‘common values’ are more
important for bringing nations together than ‘common problems’
Lakeside Vacation Towns Have a Controversial Poop
Problem: Waterfront communities from Seeley Lake to Cape Cod are experiencing
deep conflict over septic system updates. But if they do nothing, sewage and
toxic algae will destroy the waters they cherish.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167571/vacation-towns-poop-septic-system
California heat wave sparks fears of power outages, fires
California urges energy conservation as heat wave hits
"Zombie Ice": Greenland's Melting Glacier to
Raise Sea Nearly 1 Foot, Double Previous Estimate - Sep 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB9ON3QCwo
2021 saw record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels and
ocean heat, new report shows: Climate change "shows no sign of
slowing."
Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study
says
Let’s start in Ste. Genevieve County in eastern Missouri,
where a proposed silica mine is triggering memories of toxic waste and
pollution left behind from other, long-dead mining projects in a three-county
stretch known as the Old Lead Belt, the Missouri Independent reported as part
of an ongoing joint investigation with NPR’s Midwest Newsroom.
The dirty "Net Zero" carbon myth (that everyone
believes) - Sep 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaLGsZseL3w
When I Was a Boy, Back Before Earth Got Too Hot to Live
On . . .: Great-Grandfather Simon reminisces about the olden days, when boys
and girls fell in love without knowing what each other looked like naked.
Canada might be getting a 1,000 kph vacuum-tube train
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/fluxjet-transpod-canada-hyperloop/index.html
Analysis shows 2021 fossil fuel subsidies nearly doubled
globally to $697B
Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid: The water crisis
in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous
future.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167648/mississippis-dry-run-eco-apartheid
Diet for a Hotter Climate: Five Plants That Could Help
Feed the World: As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly
nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency
How to Make A Difference Amid Extreme Floods and Droughts
on a Human-Heated Planet
Some tips for seeking sanity and impact amid nonstop
waves of dire events and hot headlines
Climate change increasing chance of 'mega storm' in
California, scientists say - Sep 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeoKFK3Ej_0
What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points
Hit? - Sep 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBKZWKeKYqE
Pakistan looks 'like a sea' after floods, PM says, as 18
more die
Wake up call for humanity: Q&A with climate expert on
IPCC report
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/wake-call-humanity-qa-climate-expert-ipcc-report
Historic Fire Lookout Towers Are Burning Down in Today’s
Megafires: One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in
the largest wildfire in California’s history. What else is being lost?
https://newrepublic.com/article/167662/fire-suppression-lookout-towers
Reject this dirty side deal. -
Sep 8, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itk0J1IQjuk
Inside Climate News, September 10, 2022
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=824b5527a9
Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande: A
century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are
“praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on both
sides of the Mexico-Texas border.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05092022/rio-grande-texas-water-crisis/
Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led
to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis
Heather McTeer Toney, the former regional EPA
administrator, talks about the factors—climate change among them—that led to
the water-system failure in Mississippi’s capital city.
A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar
Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work? Gov. Wolf touted jobs and less plastic
pollution when the plans were announced in April, but a professor from Carnegie
Mellon who’s studied the technology says it can lead to “sustainability fraud.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06092022/chemical-advanced-recycling-plastics-pennsylvania/
Remember That Coal Surge Last Year? Yeah, It’s Over. Renewables are now about 25 percent of U.S.
electricity generation, leapfrogging coal.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08092022/inside-clean-energy-renewables-coal/
Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops:
Excessive heat directly harms bees and the plants they pollinate, but can also
trigger cascading effects with potentially devastating impacts on pollination
and crop yields that scientists are just beginning to study.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092022/extreme-heat-food-pollinators/
Rural Pennsylvanians Set to Vote for GOP Candidates Who
Support the Natural Gas Industry: Four years after a Pulitzer Prize-winning
book detailed air and water poisoning from local drilling, many shrug off
concerns that the industry poses a health threat.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07092022/rural-pennsylvania-natural-gas-fracking-2022-midterms/
Chilean Voters Reject a New Constitution That Would Have
Provided Groundbreaking Protections for the Rights of Nature: On Sunday,
Chileans chose not to replace the constitution adopted during the Pinochet
dictatorship with one reflecting a more Indigenous worldview that would protect
natural cycles, ecosystems and biodiversity.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04092022/chile-constitution-rights-of-nature/
The Working-Class Loggers Who Saved an Old-Growth Forest:
Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles, timber workers
have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs.
Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within
decades: New research finds an estimated 25,000 properties in Louisiana could
slip below tidal boundary lines by 2050. Florida, Texas and North Carolina also
face profound economic risks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/sea-level-rise-climate-central/
A bisexual goose raising a family with two black swans
isn’t as strange as it sounds: Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I
Learned This Week.
https://www.popsci.com/science/bisexual-geese-and-swans-in-throuple/
Resurrecting the Tasmanian
Tiger Is a Dumb Project: Naturally, Peter Thiel is an investor in the company
that came up with the idea.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167645/resurrecting-tasmanian-tiger-dumb-project
The mission of the New Mexico
Acequia Association is to protect water and our acequias, to grow healthy food
for our families and communities, and to honor our cultural heritage.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s New
Climate Theory Is Absurd. It’s Also Very Smart.
The new Republican strategy on climate change is to admit it’s happening
but argue that it’s good, actually. Voters may find that optimism compelling.
A human ‘fat gene’ dramatically
boosts rice and potato yields
https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/20593/66341345504003667
Last Century’s Approach to
Journalism Is Useless in a Climate Crisis: If media outlets can’t find a better
way of delivering bad news, people will tune out.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167106/mainstream-media-climate-change-journalism-hotline
Stronger & Wetter: Michael Mann on How Climate Change
Makes Storms Worse & Why We Must Cut Emissions – Sep 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smD-fkleQEc
Climate Forward New York - Started streaming Sep 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7AOWcnmfbY
Puerto Rico Can Blame Its Total Blackout on Predatory
Companies and Poor Decisions in Washington
Hurricane Fiona hit the island as only a Category 1
storm. But thanks to bad management, the electrical grid immediately collapsed.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167787/puerto-rico-fiona-blackout
ZIMBRUL - Bison in Southern Carpathians - Emmanuel
Rondeau - Nov 21, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ml2M9kO2U&t=143s
Showing the heart of rewilding in Europe
John Kerry Refuses to Feel “Guilty” for Climate Change:
The U.S. climate envoy seemed to come unglued this week when Farhana Yamin, a
veteran environmental lawyer and climate negotiator, asked him about funding
for nations recovering from climate catastrophe.
New York Attorney General Files Civil Suit Against Donald
Trump, 3 Of His Kids: The former president's business practices have been under
investigation in his home state for years.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-lawsuit-new-york-letitia-james_n_632b2515e4b0cd3ec26403dc
Those wishing to assist should send donations to:
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Calle Pentagrama #35 Munoz Rivera
Guaynabo,
Puerto Rico 00969
For questions, contact Jorge Pedroza, State Council
President
787-638-3062
States Take on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ With Bans,
Lawsuits
Fact Check-NASA did not announce that climate change is
only driven by variations to Earth’s orbital position relative to the sun
Fact check: NASA says modern climate change caused by
human activity, not solar orbital cycles
Is the Sun causing global warming?
https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/
Wildfires are burning away snow in the American West: A
new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and
dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/wildfire-snow-west/
Yellowstone Volcano Is FINALLY Waking Up And CRACKED Open
The Earth! - Sep 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJJ3TuuZel8
The War Over Public Water in Pennsylvania: Residents are
uniting across political lines to battle corporations attempting to privatize
their water systems.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/pennsylvania-water-privatization/
A Dead Sea: The history of one of North America’s most
polluted bodies of water.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/traci-brynne-voyles-salton-sea/
Does the Climate Bill Throw Environmental Justice Under
the Bus? And three more questions about
the biggest climate legislation in US history.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/environmental-justice-inflation-reduction-act/
This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and
Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat: The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is fighting to
protect the Pacific herring, challenging the idea of what it means to manage a
fishery sustainably.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/herring-sitka-alaska/
The Climate Crisis Is Changing Our Concept of Home:
Climate journalist and author Madeline Ostrander on finding stability on a
burning planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/madeline-ostrander-interview/
Pakistan’s Floods Are a Wind From the West: The
devastating natural disaster could be just an early glimpse of the consequences
of industrialization in the Global North.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/pakistan-floods/
Hurricane Ian Exposes Ron DeSantis’s Faux
Environmentalism: There’s a world of difference between acknowledging that
climate change is real and doing anything to stop it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167904/hurricane-ian-exposes-ron-desantiss-faux-environmentalism
Hurricane Ian Heads Toward South Carolina After Severely
Damaging Florida - Sep 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-QbjBQvoEo
ALAN GUEBERT: Forty billion green reasons to go green
Opinion: Will salmon finally win this year?
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/02/opinion-will-salmon-finally-win-this-year/
Living in the Shadow of Armageddon
https://www.populist.com/28.15.Kalet.html
Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic US Landscapes:
Joshua trees are disappearing, glaciers are melting, wetlands are flooding. Can
the threat to our parks — and the wonder they inspire — lead to action?
https://www.populist.com/28.15.Hassen.html
Hard Choices for the Colorado River: Seven Western states
who rely on the drought-parched river must devise a plan to reduce their water
usage or face limits imposed upon them.
https://www.populist.com/28.16.Squillace.html
Electric Vehicles Far Cleaner Than Gas
https://www.populist.com/28.16.Lingo.html
Dark Money’s Assault on Our Planet
https://www.populist.com/28.16.Young.html
The Colorado River has come alive even as it ebbs
I Wish John Fetterman Would Talk About Climate Change
Again: The charismatic everyman Senate candidate from Pennsylvania might
actually broaden his lead over Dr. Oz by talking about global warming. Even
better, he might convert new voters to the cause.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167912/john-fetterman-dr-oz-climate-change
We’re Not Close to Anywhere, Just So Much Data Noise
https://www.populist.com/28.17.ArtCullen.html
“Forever” chemicals used in Ohio oil, gas wells
https://psr.org/forever-chemicals-used-in-ohio-oil-gas-wells/
GENE LYONS: 'Privatization of the commons' pits anglers
against moguls
A Tiny Pennsylvania Town of 700 People Declared War on
the Fracking Industry in 2014. They’re Finally Getting Their Day in Court. Grant Township has become the poster child
for democracy and home rule. Its own state is fighting against it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167163/grant-township-fracking-home-rule
JESSE JACKSON: Water Crisis in Jackson Reflects Vicious
Neglect
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-water-crisis-in-jackson-reflects-vicious-neglect/
What They Discovered Frozen In Ice Shocked The Whole
World! - Oct 3, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKTjgtAw1c
How climate change is likely to worsen inflation: “If we
ignore it and don’t do anything about climate change, it will become a
staggering cost. And it will have a huge impact not only on grocery bills, but
many other aspects of our ordinary lives,” said Suzi Kerr, chief economist at
the Environmental Defense Fund.
Thousands of members of the Army National Guard deliver
supplies to Hurricane Ian survivors
U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian crosses the 100-mark -
Oct 4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYGeVxeARg
Orca vs. shark: Rare drone footage shows killer whales
mauling great whites
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/06/orcas-hunt-kill-great-white-shark/
Snow and cold may be lacking this winter in Philly and
the Poconos, early outlooks say: The Tonga undersea volcano is a wild card,
among others. And have these seasonal outlooks ever been wrong?
https://www.inquirer.com/weather/snow-philadelphia-winter-weather-forecast-20221006.html
Energy crisis: Conservatives 'extraordinarily complacent'
- Oct 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e7ScOQQ74
Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall? With the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal
government is illogically encouraging the increasing use of fossil fuels—in
order to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/energy-transition-taking-off
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