To Survive
Climate Catastrophe, Look to Queer and Disabled Folks - JULY 31, 2019
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/07/31/climate-change-queer-disabled-organizers
It will cost $110
billion to protect San Francisco Bay from rising sea levels, new study shows
Highways, homes,
airports and wastewater treatment plants all need protection by 2050
A New Breed of
Climate Protesters Vows to Take the Fight to US Political “Cowards”. Climate Defiance is trying to make the
climate crisis a top issue in the 2024 election.
Earth is
finishing up its warmest year ever recorded. The heat has scientists asking: Is
climate change accelerating?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/climate/global-warming-accelerating.html
The world's
population was up 75 million this year, will stand at 8 billion on Jan. 1
Biden-Harris
Administration Finalizes Standards to Slash Methane Pollution, Combat Climate
Change, Protect Health, and Bolster American Innovation. Announced at COP28, the final rule will
advance President Biden’s historic climate agenda, prevent 1.5 billion metric
tons of greenhouse gas emissions, and deliver billions of dollars in health and
economic benefits
Massive rogue
wave slams into California beachgoers, multiple hospitalized – December 29,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib6xAxcH_F8
The Government Is
Basically Burning Trash to Pad Its Climate Stats. To appear greener, US agencies rely on dodgy
renewable energy certificates.
Why Are So Many
Studies Being Retracted? And what to do
about it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/why-are-so-many-studies-being-retracted/
Plant Milk Is
Better for Us and the Climate. So Why Do We Subsidize Dairy? Dairy milk is cheaper at the counter—and your
taxes keep it that way.
Private Equity’s
Green Façade
Is Being Funded by Your
Pension. The growth potential of
decarbonization efforts is a double-edged sword for municipalities.
https://progressive.org/magazine/private-equitys-green-fa%C3%A7ade-baratta-bieber-20231016/
Youth Lead the
Way on Addressing the Climate Crisis,
With the slow pace of international negotiations, climate litigation is
an increasingly important tool.
A Power Struggle
in the Pine Tree State. Maine’s ballot
initiative to make electricity a public good could set a national precedent for
giving power to the people.
https://progressive.org/latest/power-struggle-in-pine-tree-state-daigon-230802/
Evicted into the
Climate Crisis. What it’s like to be
evicted during a hurricane.
https://progressive.org/magazine/evicted-into-the-climate-crisis-decastro-20231012/
The Other
Americans: The Costs of Climate Change in Central America. The region could lose hundreds of billions
per year by 2100, along with a drastic reduction in biodiversity.
https://progressive.org/latest/the-other-americans-the-costs-of-climate-change-abbott-20230630/
Minnesota Emerges
as a Leader
in Climate Action. All electricity in the state will be carbon-free
by 2040.
https://progressive.org/magazine/minnesota-emerges-as-a-leader-in-climate-action-lahm-20231018/
How the Wood
Pellet Industry Is Threatening Small Southern Towns. In Garysburg, North Carolina, a plant that
claims to be carbon-neutral has endangered residents and local forests.
OrganicEye –
December 31, 2023
https://mailchi.mp/ca0fce9beb00/eoy2022-16926294?e=96f4d2014e
Beavers released
into California wild for the first time in 75 years
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-beavers-released-in-wild-18569060.php
U.S. to cancel
Alaska oil and gas leases issued under Trump.
Environmentalists and an Alaska Indigenous group praised the move, while
a Republican senator from Alaska slammed it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/us-cancel-alaska-oil-gas-leases-issued-trump-rcna103782
In 2018, the City
passed an ordinance designed to stem the tide of illegal tire dumping. Five
years on, the problem has only gotten worse
SCIENTISTS ARE
USING ‘CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES’ TO SAVE A SPECIES THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT —
HERE’S WHY SOME BIOLOGISTS ARE SKEPTICAL.
The project may seem like something out of a fantasy story.
Book Excerpt: A
Just Clean-Energy Transition for All.
Vien Truong, a leader in the environmental justice and
climate-protection movements, sees environmental and climate policy “as a
bridge to address other issues,” including economic inequality.
https://progressive.org/magazine/a-just-clean-energy-transition-for-all-berger-20231023/
Hemming and
Hawing: The (D)evolution of Fandom.
Fandom has gotten exciting! But also . . . overly involved and weird and
scary.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-d-evolution-of-fandom-farsad-20231101/
The Water Wars
Deciding the Future of the West. From
conservation to importing water from the Pacific, Democrats say they have all
the answers to historic drought. The one thing no one wants to talk about:
stopping the sprawl.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176163/water-wars-future-american-west
Marianne
Williamson and Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus | CLIMATE: WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT
TO DO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNG7Eq9QjLs
AOC Demands
Action On Climate Crisis And Promotes Progressive Green Agenda | 2023 Rewind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSOh4EnmUWI
Statement from
President Joe Biden on the Earthquake in Japan
Sierra Nevada
snowpack at lowest level in 10 years: What it means for California’s water
supply. Reversal from last year’s wet
winter has left the Sierra snowpack at just 25% of normal for early January
Here's how
shredded wind turbine blades can be used to make cement. #recycling #waste
#windturbines
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/up8Bcf_KBmw
Great Lakes start
2024 with smallest amount of ice in at least 50 years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/02/great-lakes-ice-cover-low/
Inside Climate
News Weekly, January 6, 2024
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=712a979488
State officials
wouldn’t let these homeowners build a sea wall. Their lawsuit could reshape
California’s coast. Sea levels are
rising, and what to do about homes and beaches in harm’s way is becoming a
major flashpoint
2023 costliest
climate disasters reveal ‘global postcode lottery’ Christian Aid study finds
'The impacts are
real': New satellite images show East Coast sinking faster than we thought
https://www.yahoo.com/news/impacts-real-satellite-images-show-101731740.html
Fracking for
Clean Energy (wait, what?) – 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCE1i2tJQQY
Scientists knew
2023's heat would be historic - but not by this much.
As Utility Bills
Rise, Low-Income Americans Struggle for Access to Clean Energy
The Biden
administration has deployed various programs to try to increase access to clean
energy. But systems that could help lower bills are still out of reach for many
low-income households.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/utility-bills-clean-energy.html
With climate
change, king tides could be the new normal.
King tides returned to the San Francisco Bay this week, though flooding
across the region was mild.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/12/with-climate-change-king-tides-could-be-the-new-normal/
What’s behind the
‘arctic blast’ plunging into the U.S.?
The week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive
arctic outbreaks this century,” one climate scientist says.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-behind-the-arctic-blast-plunging-into-the-u-s/
John Kerry Bows
Out as U.S. Climate Envoy. Mr. Kerry,
80, is expected to work on President Biden’s re-election campaign to stress the
climate achievements of the administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/climate/john-kerry-climate-envoy.html
Climate
Conference Offers Little Hope
https://populist.com/30.01.Lingo.html
Carbon
Colonialism, COP28 and the Climate Crisis
https://populist.com/30.01.Goodman.html
Another large
earthquake hits OKC metro – January 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1Js_ez8p4
An interview with
Andreas Malm of How to Blow up a Pipeline fame
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/14/magazine/andreas-malm-interview.html
A court struck
down local gas bans — so Seattle and other cities are getting creative
Playing for
Change. A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/playing-for-change
Blackouts: Did
You Know EV Cars are a Backup Power Source for Your House? While your GOP friends are sitting in the
dark complaining that they can’t follow Trump on his Nazi-infested social media
site or recharge their phones, you can ride out the next storm in comfort!
https://hartmannreport.com/p/blackouts-did-you-know-ev-cars-are-aa4
The Whale Who
Went AWOL
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/magazine/hvaldimir-whale.html
‘We need gas and
food’: Rains obliterate Redwood Valley roads, trapping residents
Microplastics,
like Asbestos, Can Kill. The current
explosion in colorectal cancer among young adults, for example, appears to be
at least partly caused by our gut being flooded with microplastics in the food
and beverages we consume…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/microplastics-like-asbestos-can-kill-4b9
Where Anteaters
and Anacondas Roam, and Ranchers Are Now Rangers. Colombia created its latest, and perhaps
last, national park by befriending the traditional ranching culture that
surrounds it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/science/colombia-park-manacacias.html
Does the EPA Die
Today? The Supreme Court, it appears, is
planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies in what could be the most
consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since the New Deal… -
January 17, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-the-epa-die-today-800
Scientist shares
remarkable before-and-after photos of a restored nature reserve: ‘It’s an
incredible example’
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/scientist-shares-remarkable-photos-restored-104527750.html
Rising
temperatures, glacier loss and less snow are forcing Swiss farmers to adapt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/world/europe/switzerland-glaciers.html
Why Are We Still
Here, and How Will We Survive? Finding
answers in the third-oldest city on Earth.
https://progressive.org/magazine/why-are-we-still-here-and-how-will-we-survive-devon-20231221/
Crews in Hawaii
are dumping toxic wildfire debris at a temporary disposal site uphill from a
vital coral reef.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/lahaina-maui-fire-waste-landfill.html
A Record-Sized
Deep Sea Coral Reef Was Mapped in The Atlantic, And It's Breathtaking :
ScienceAlert
Right again,
Einstein: New snapshot of 1st black hole to be photographed confirms
relativity. The new black hole image
offers further confirmation for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
How is Climate
Change Affecting The Weather Now? - Myles Allen – January 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuxcuBXyp1M
Insect
populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities. In less than five years, insect abundance
tripled
Inside Climate
News
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=f872a5d63d
How do we know
climate change is caused by humans? – January 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1KGnCj_cfM
I wasn't worried
about climate change. Now I am. – January 27, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4
‘Smoking gun
proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents
show
Documents show
industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate
change would wreak
Democrats and
Climate Activists Are on a Collision Course in 2024. In the run-up to a
presidential election with dire climate implications, can activists afford to
demonize Democrats? Can they afford not to?
https://newrepublic.com/article/177572/democrats-climate-activists-collision-course-2024
The US is facing
a groundwater crisis. Stress is high as
water runs low
https://theweek.com/environment/groundwater-crisis-united-states
Can Slowing Down
Save the Planet? In a best-selling
manifesto, the Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of
economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-slowing-down-save-the-planet
Tesla ordered to
pay $1.5 million after dumpster-diving DA snoops find hazardous waste. Auditors to snoop in trash, too
Bristlecone Pines
https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/identifying-bristlecone-pines.htm
Freshwater, the
beating heart of the Evergreen State
https://www.americanforests.org/article/freshwater-the-beating-heart-of-the-evergreen-state/
McKinleyville
Community Forest now publicly owned
https://www.times-standard.com/2024/02/05/mckinleyville-community-forest-now-publicly-owned/
The Sun's Poles
are About to Reverse. Should You Be Worried? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-wW5EHyTFo
New pollution
rules could improve air quality in Bay Area, other parts of California. Biden administration cracks down on soot,
among the most harmful types of air pollution
Enormous
underwater mountains discovered off west coast of Americas | New Scientist
Critical Atlantic
Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from
scientists
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-weather-climate/index.html
AMOC collapse:
Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, suggests simulation | New Scientist
'Simply did not
work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of
failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak | Live Science
SCIENTISTS
BAFFLED AFTER FINDING 4 GIGANTIC MOUNTAINS LURKING UNDER THE OCEAN. "THE TALLEST IS OVER ONE-AND-A-HALF
MILES IN HEIGHT, AND WE DIDN’T REALLY KNOW IT WAS THERE."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-baffled-mountains-ocean
World's largest
iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROr65ujq4X8
Invasive
earthworms are reshaping North American ecosystems
https://www.earth.com/news/invasive-earthworms-are-reshaping-north-american-ecosystems/
The Tectonic
Plate Under The Pacific Ocean Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists Reveal
Traces of Oldest
and Largest Solar Storm Found in Buried French Forest | Scientific American
Farming linked to
disease spike - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923019802
Sea level rise is
already leading to longer commutes in coastal US | New Scientist
A mystery in the
Pacific - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923014732
Oops, Scientists
May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline. Clues have emerged that reveal a much hotter
history than we thought.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a46678623/climate-change-sea-sponges/
Researchers
achieve super-safe, ultrafast Li-ion battery charging
https://electrek.co/2024/02/05/researchers-achieve-super-safe-ultrafast-li-ion-battery-charging/
In a ‘monumental
shift’, EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind-and-solar-ascend/
Opinion | Don’t
Offer Up Our National Forests for Industrial Carbon Waste Dumping | Common
Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/carbon-dumping-national-forests
Mt. Hood National
Forest - Home
https://www.fs.usda.gov/mthood
The Newsletter of
Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics
https://nationalforestadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FSEEE-Forest-News-Winter-2024-web.pdf
The arrogance of
the off-road vehicle lobby — Jonathan P. Thompson (@Land_Desk) – Coyote Gulch
Forests in the
American East, Part 3: A Vision of the Return of Old-Growth Forests — Andy Kerr
| Oregon Conservationist, Writer, Analyst, Operative, Agitator, Strategist,
Tactician, Schmoozer, Raconteur
https://www.andykerr.net/kerr-public-lands-blog/2023/4/20/7rst52cp1uy1rtcd0l6q0b3f4l8dsh
Region 6 - Land
& Resource Management
World sees first
12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor – February 8, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-world-months-15c-climate.html
Bill Nye has a
warning about this 'very serious' problem – February 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MWf0DiKIw
Heat and Older
Adults (Aged 65+) – February 13, 2024
https://www.cdc.gov/extreme-heat/risk-factors/extreme-heat-and-older-adults-aged-65.html
Greenland's ice
sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation, finds major satellite
analysis – February 13, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-greenland-ice-sheet-vegetation-major.html
Some
anti-environmental politicians and representatives of industries that pollute
claim that in rejecting environmental protections and legislations, they are
protecting something more valuable: jobs. This reveals a false dichotomy,
writes science historian Naomi Oreskes, in the February issue of Scientific
American. Such ploys, that falsely present situations as either/or, are
intended to force people to choose the thing they want more, at the expense of
the other.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-protection-does-not-kill-jobs/
Is there any good
news about climate change? – February 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9p5VKd8VkE
Is Geothermal
About to Become the Solar of the 2020s?
The startup Fervo Energy is learning how to bring down costs — fast. –
February 14, 2024
https://heatmap.news/economy/fervo-energy-tim-latimer-drilling-costs
How we stop
cement ruining the climate – A year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBLdiZ8nSk
The Plundered
Planet by Paul Collier: 8 Minute Summary – February 15, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppyik7EOUmw
Wildlife
conservation groups urge U.S. Forest Service to ban Idaho's aerial wolf hunting
– February 15, 2024
Cool Us or Kill
Us? Did Geoengineering ALREADY Cause a Massive Famine? – 3 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRcFe9VM5o
As Klamath River
dams come down, old lands emerge and the landscape begins to heal – February
16, 2024
Hiker makes
upsetting discovery deep in the woods at national park: 'In the area we have
made an effort to specifically protect' “Sometimes it is mind bending just how ignorant people can be.” – February
16, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sequoia-national-park-hiker-trash-tourist/
Mountain creature
— with ‘massive’ head and blue eyes — discovered as new species
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mountain-creature-massive-head-blue-162629819.html
Solar &
Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024
Biden
Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars. The change to planned rules was an
election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to
people familiar with the plan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/climate/biden-epa-auto-emissions.html
President Biden
Delivers Remarks on Supporting Americans in East Palestine, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj-hgHJ5ab8
20°C seems the
optimal temperature for life on Earth to thrive: What this means in a warming
world – February 17, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-20c-optimal-temperature-life-earth.html
'Oldest living
thing on earth' discovered in Chile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHQ4HnrxO4
Uranium and
Radium
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JRL_Tvazw2I
17 Year Old
Growing A Forest In The Desert With A Racoon! – February 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u00eSRI7Nc
Can astronomers
use radar to spot a cataclysmic asteroid?
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-astronomers-radar-cataclysmic-asteroid.html
Green Hydrogen
making Green Steel. Is 2024 the breakthrough year? – February 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwtQS146tak
Wall Street
firms, faced with Republican attacks and potential legal risks, are backing out
of their climate commitments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/business/climate-blackrock-state-street-jpmorgan-pimco.html
New study
describes how chemical composition of US air pollution has changed over time
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-chemical-composition-air-pollution.html
Developers in
England will be forced to create habitats for wildlife—here's how it works
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-england-habitats-wildlife.html
New
satellite-based research reveals how land along the East Coast, from Boston to
Miami, is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level
rise. Our interactive tool shows which
cities are sinking, and by how much.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/13/climate/flooding-sea-levels-groundwater.html
Ending the LNG
Threat Biden Administration’s Moratorium on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports
Promises Delaware River Protection
Chester, PA hails permitting halt to protect community health and the
environment and to address surging climate impacts
https://delawareriverkeeper.org/sites/default/files/20240201%20PR%20Ending%20the%20LNG%20Threat.pdf
The Paradox
Holding Back the Clean Energy Revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/vegas-sphere-energy-efficiency.html
Just How Many
People Will Die From Climate Change?
Heat death and cataclysmic storms are only the start of our worries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/environment/climate-change-death-toll.html
Let’s Build a
Climate Wall of Shame. Carve the names
of climate change deniers deep and large, so that those who come after us need
not search the archives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/opinion/climate-change-memorial.html
What a Major
Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet.
Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power
grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be
prepared for it?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/what-a-major-solar-storm-could-do-to-our-planet
Sea ice lows,
extreme ocean heat of 2023 offers glimpse of future warming, study says
Once Extinct in
the Wild, Scimitar-horned Oryx Are Back From the Brink. After 23 years, scimitar-horned oryx are no
longer extinct in the wild.
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation/news/once-extinct-wild-scimitar-horned-oryx-are-back-brink
Seawater plant
will capture 10 tons of CO2 and make 300 kg of H2 per day
https://newatlas.com/energy/equatic-ocean-based-co2-removal-plant-singapore/
Britain’s biggest
power station ‘burns ancient forests for green fuel’. Activists claim Drax is destroying old-growth
trees after it replaced coal with wood pellets
On the verge of
extinction, one of the world’s most misunderstood creatures receives a lifeline
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/africa/vultures-relocation-vulpro-south-africa-scn-spc/index.html
Turning Waste
Into Wonder: A Breakthrough in Pollution Control
https://scitechdaily.com/turning-waste-into-wonder-a-breakthrough-in-pollution-control/
Why the warming
effects of this El Niño event will linger for several months. The current El Niño event is almost over, but
the warming will persist.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/warming-effects-el-nio-event-linger-months/story
The human cost of
climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says
Scientists Are
Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures.
“It’s like an omen of the future.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/climate/scientists-are-freaking-out-about-ocean-temperatures.html
N.Y. State Sues
JBS, the Brazilian Beef Giant, Over Its Climate Claims. The lawsuit says the meatpacking company has
made a series of misleading statements about its environmental efforts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/climate/jbs-new-york-climate-lawsuit.htmlmilitar
How Texas’s
Smokehouse Creek Wildfire Just Grew into the Largest in State History. More than one million acres are burning in
Texas after freezes, dry weather and winds
3 trains involved
in collision, derailment in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley: NTSB. No injuries are being reported.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/3-trains-involved-collision-derailment-pennsylvanias-lehigh-valley/story
The Fires
Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning. We’re entering clima incognita.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/opinion/texas-wildfires-climate-change.html
Travelers are
racing to see parts of the world that may soon vanish. – March 3, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/travel/chamonix-france-glaciers-climate-change.html
The East Coast is
sinking
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/the-east-coast-is-sinking/
The Experiment
That Successfully Failed
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9B8sP0dxQDI
John Kerry: ‘I
Feel Deeply Frustrated’. The departing
climate envoy on what the world has and hasn’t achieved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/john-kerry-climate-change-china.html
Global Warming:
The Decade We Lost Earth – March 9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvGQMZFP9IA
Why recycling
plastic is not a quick fix
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-recycling-plastic-quick.html
How five crucial
elections in 2024 could shape climate action for decades
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38443639/
Many of the U.S.
Banks Funding Coal Have an Unusual Carve-Out.
They will still directly fund coal plants that are taking steps to abate
their emissions using the untested technology.
https://capitalandmain.com/many-of-the-u-s-banks-funding-coal-have-an-unusual-carve-out
A23a, the Largest
Iceberg In the World – December 15, 2023
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/a23a-largest-iceberg-world-andrew-miller-zmxxe/
An 'entirely new
form of life' may have been found in ocean as creature leaves scientists
stumped – March 12, 2024
https://www.smartnews.com/p/4658385050797083219
US Achieves
Energy Independence for First Time in 40 Years – March 13, 2024
https://www.newsweek.com/us-energy-independence-first-time-40-years-1878729
Why Is the Sea So
Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface
temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is
changing.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot
16 Republican AGs
sue Biden administration over LNG exports pause
Why countries are
choosing to build new cities in places at high risk of worsening floods -
October 4, 2023
Ocean Circulatory
System Shutdown: Oceans' Engine Could Die by 2100 – March 19, 2024 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a60212795/ocean-circulatory-system-shutdown/
The last two
coal-fired power plants in New England are set to close. New England will be
the second region in the U.S., after the Pacific Northwest, to stop burning
coal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/new-england-coal-plants.html
Garbage dumps
release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously
estimated, a study found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/landfills-methane-emissions.html
The Secret to
Surviving Climate Apocalypse. The town
of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the
midst of catastrophe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/opinion/climate-art-salton-sea-bombay-beach.html
China Just
Attacked Biden’s Electric Vehicle Policy. That’s Good for Biden. To counter Donald Trump’s anti-EV strategy,
the president needs to show that he has the only feasible plan to help American
auto manufacturers compete with cheap Chinese cars.
Joe Biden's EV
push vs. Ruy Teixeira's strawman arguments.
Biden's multi-faceted strategy to deal with the complex challenges of
both climate change and Chinese economic competition stands in stark contrast
to the simplistic attacks leveled against it.
https://washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-ev-push-vs-ruy-teixeiras
'Literally
changing the length of the day': Scientist on fluctuations amid climate change
– March 31, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4YFIzdUGdU
Why It's Time to
Stop Saving the Planet* - March 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH2aE0lk2XM
In today’s
newsletter, “like a voice from the ground,” and then: Tremors on the Lower East
Side – April 5, 2024
https://link.newyorker.com/view/5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44kt171.13axg/4024d04c
What will Earth
look like if all its land ice melts? Here's your answer. Climate change isn't pretty.
https://www.upworthy.com/what-earth-looks-like-if-all-ice-melts-rp5
Activists protest
in trees, file lawsuit to block old growth logging on federal land https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/04/05/activists-protest-in-trees-file-lawsuit-to-block-old-growth-logging-on-federal-land/
The oceans are
talking to us, and it's not a pleasant conversation. Oceans absorb 90% of Earth's excess heat.
That will have long-term consequences – January 19, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ocean-warming-signals-1.7086410
Trump appointees
barred EPA staff from warning Senate about ‘forever chemical’ loophole:
Internal staff messages – April 9, 2024
Giant lake
suddenly returns 130 years after vanishing – April 10, 2024
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/tulare-lake-2024-2667734635
Heavy Rain and
Rising Sea Levels Are Sending Sewage Into Some Charleston Streets and
Ponds. Environmental advocates threaten
to sue within weeks if Charleston Water does not present a plan to prevent
hundreds of wastewater overflows. – April 7, 2024
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042024/charleston-south-carolina-sewage-overflow/
North Pacific
Fishery Managers Can Help Prized Fish—and Biodiversity. Commission should work towards science-based
oversight for Pacific saury and vulnerable ecosystems
The Ocean
Cleanup’s System 03 Captures Record Amounts of Plastic From the Pacific – April
9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8drUT_cZy8
Fire Forged
Humanity. Now It Threatens Everything.
Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities.
How will we respond?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-the-pyrocene-at-our-peril/
Unseasonal
wildfires beset midwest: ‘The strangest winter I’ve ever seen’. El Niño weather phenomenon has contributed to
warm, dry conditions in US, leading to more fires much earlier in the year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/12/midwest-early-wildfire-season
"Climate
Justice & Transformative Economic Change” with Jennie C. Stephens – April
21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_JLlsNK8I
Visualizing the
Average Lifespans of Mammals
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-average-lifespans-of-mammals/
Opinion Today:
Why can’t we do more about exposure to ‘forever chemicals’? – April 23, 2024
Former Shell
employees resurrect dead well in 'monumental' move for geothermal energy: 'Big
step change for humanity'. The well
didn't contain gas, but it did burrow deep enough to reach the hotter layers of
stone under the ground. – April 21, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/geothermal-energy-oil-gas-industry-tech-startup/
The world dumps
2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it
ends up https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/04/climate/plastic-pollution-ocean-cnnphotos/
Turtles swimming
to extinction in Malaysia as male hatchlings feel heat. Already under pressure from habitat loss and
pollution, turtles face an existential crisis from the climate crisis’s record heat.
– April 22, 2024
A Federal Program
Is Expanding Electric School Bus Fleets, But There Are Still Some Bumps in the
Road
Transitioning
from diesel to electric school buses can promote better lung health for
students and reduce emissions.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042024/todays-climate-electric-schoolbus-epa/
The Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening in the deep sea of the North
Atlantic Ocean, study finds – April 23, 2024
Air quality in
some parts of US worst in 25 years, report says – April 24, 2024
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/air-quality-some-parts-us-worst-25-years-report-says-2024-04-24/
PHOTOS: Tornadoes
pass though Lincoln, surrounding areas
https://www.klkntv.com/photos-tornadoes-pass-though-lincoln-surrounding-areas/
Nebraska and Iowa
Tornado Outbreak 4/26/2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wuPBHRi4Q
First-of-its-kind
study shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing
biodiversity loss – April 25, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-kind-actions-effective-halting-reversing.html
U.S. produces the
energy everyone is looking for: 900 MW at the largest plant in the world –
April 27, 2024
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/geothermal-energy-us/1188/
An El Niño-less
summer is coming. Here’s what that could mean for the US
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/weather/la-nina-summer-forecast-us-el-nino-climate/index.html
An El Niño-less
summer is coming. Here’s what that could mean for the US
Can millionaires
save nature? Stanford gift tells tale of Tompkins conservation fight. Kris and Douglas Tompkins – renowned
conservationist, founder of The North Face – overcame controversy and adversity
to save a Patagonian paradise. Now others can learn how they did …
Ottawa climate
talks: can global plastic problem be solved?
Nations aim to draft world's first treaty on plastic pollution, but
resistance from oil- and gas-producing countries could limit scope
https://theweek.com/environment/ottawa-climate-talks-global-plastic-problem
First-ever
supercomputer simulation predicts when climate change will kill us off – April
30, 2024
Big oil spent
decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify. US Senate hearing reviewed report showing
sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and
doublespeak’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/big-oil-danger-disinformation-fossil-fuels
Orangutan seen
treating wound with a medicinal plant — a first – May 2, 2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/orangutan-treated-own-wound-medicinal-plant-rcna150230
The first
motorcycle engine without gasoline or electricity: it runs on something better
– May 2, 2024
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/first-motorcycle-engine/1549/
Summer heat hits
Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme
event" in climate history – May 2, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-asia-2024-deaths-india-severe-weather-climate-change/
It's time to hold
the fossil fuel industry accountable. – May 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxBt2Tnh5E
Katie Porter
Shows MAGA Who's Boss In 26-Minute Floor SMACKDOWN – May 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_3aJxJcxsw
The Climate
Crisis Is Already Transforming the Family.
Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and
fertility itself. – May 6, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181197/climate-crisis-transforming-families-parenting
Historic aircraft
engine completes major flight using innovative new fuel — here's what it could
mean for future air travel – May 7, 2024
Raskin RIPS Ron
Johnson: "It Sounds To Me More Like You're A Climate FATALIST" – May
4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXOp3m7z5zE
Green transition
is stitched into the tax code: White House economist – May 10, 2024
Giant whale
returns after disappearing for over 100 years – May 13, 2024
‘They will flip':
Earth's poles are shifting and it is not a good sign for life on our planet –
May 16, 2024
Marine species
makes resurgence after being hunted to near-extinction: 'A success of
conservation on a global scale'. The
whales' slow rate of breeding meant it took nearly 100 years for the aquatic
mammal to restore its population. – May 18, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sei-whales-argentina-population-conservation-2/
Construction
giant awarded multimillion-dollar contract to transform major seaport into one
of nation's largest offshore wind projects — here's its expected potential –
May 19, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/empire-wind-brooklyn-offshore-wind-port/
New brand says
goodbye to EVs: this new engine revolutionize industry – May 19, 2024
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/hydrogen-evs-engine/2035/
Monkeys ‘falling
out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave. High temperatures in Mexico have been linked
to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeys. – May 21, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave
Global Tribunal
Issues 'Historic' Ruling for Oceans and Small Island Nations. "Protecting the global commons of the
oceans and atmosphere is a matter of life and death," said one expert who
praised the decision. – May 21, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/news/law-of-the-sea
Research reveals
'staggering' production of cancer-causing chemicals despite being banned for
decades: 'We are supposed to be eliminating them' – May 22, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-reveals-staggering-production-cancer-033000038.html
The doomsday
glacier is undergoing "vigorous ice melt" that could reshape sea
level rise projections – May 22, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doomsday-glacier-ice-melt-sea-level-rise-projections/
'Boiling not
warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit record – May 23,
2024
Once celebrated,
an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is
still recovering – May 24, 2024
Native American
tribes unanimously approve Colorado River water rights proposal that would cost
Congress $5B – May 24, 2024
'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose
of all its glaciers – May 25, 2024
Is the Loss of
Insects a Desperate Cry for Help From a Planet Under Assault? It’s already too late for millions of insect,
plant, and animal species that have gone extinct; it may soon be too late for
us if we don’t wake the hell up and take decisive action...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-loss-of-insects-a-desperate-7fe
Antarctica’s
‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Even Faster Than Scientists Thought. Warming waters are reaching several miles
into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the “doomsday glacier” because of
its potential impact on sea-level rise – May 29, 2024
Is collapse of
the Atlantic Ocean circulation really imminent? Icebergs’ history reveals some
clues – May 30, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/collapse-atlantic-ocean-circulation-really-180204182.html
Is collapse of
the Atlantic Ocean circulation really imminent? Icebergs’ history reveals some
clues – May 30, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/collapse-atlantic-ocean-circulation-really-180204182.html
Researchers make
worrisome discovery after examining data collected from GPS-tagged eagles:
'Could have longer-term effects'.
"We weren't expecting this to happen." – May 30, 2024
Researchers make
concerning new discovery after analyzing tortoise feces: 'The first
comprehensive study' – May 30, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/galapagos-giant-tortoises-plastic-ingestion/
Panama prepares
to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels – June 1, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/panama-prepares-evacuate-first-island-151000223.html
There's a climate
threat lurking in rivers around the world. New research shows where
Humans may be
turning rivers from carbon sinks into carbon sources, scientist says – June 2,
2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/science-journal-climate-rivers-1.7219864
‘Dragon’-like sea
creature pulled from depths off New Zealand. It’s a new species – Jine 2,
2024
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article288885628.html
Unprecedented ocean temperatures make this hurricane season
especially dangerous – June 2, 2024
Send in the
Birds: Eliminating Pennsylvania’s Spotted Lanternflies Through Avian Assistance
– June 3, 2024
https://vista.today/2024/06/birds-pennsylvania-spotted-lanternflies/
New report shows
public drinking water systems in NC contaminated with PFAS. Some of the largest utilities in the state
are dealing with PFAS levels above the EPA's new standards including Piedmont
Triad Regional Water Authority, City of Durham, City of Greensboro,
Fayetteville Public Works Commission, and Brunswick County Public Utilities. –
June 5, 2024
Giant venomous
flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across
East Coast, experts say – June 5, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joro-spiders-new-york-giant-venomous-spiders-spread-east-coast/
Japan announces
world’s first green fuel: this engine shatters hydrogen and EVs – June 9, 2024
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/green-fuel-japan-engine/2762/
A Wild Plan to
Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise – June 12, 2024
One of Earth’s
biggest freshwater fish is bouncing back, a rare ‘win win’ – June 14, 2024 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/arapaima-brazil-amazon-conservation-fishing
How hot weather
can tamper with your words. A new study
finds that politicians tend to use shorter words in speeches on hot days. –
June 14, 2024
https://grist.org/language/heat-politicians-speeches-study/
How Corporations
Are Trading the Planet for Profit | Robert Reich on MSNBC – June 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLr4OomQFZU
Maryland
Department of Natural Resources Strongly Disagrees with Virginia’s Decision to
Reopen Long Closed Blue Crab Winter Dredge Fishery – June 25, 2024
Scientists
stunned after discovering a gigantic missing blob of water in the Atlantic
Ocean – Good – June 26, 2024
Noem surveys
impact of flooding in Vermillion area – July 2, 2024
https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/noem-surveys-impact-of-flooding-in-vermillion-area/
Demolishing
Chevron Deference: Republicans Push for a Billionaire-Run Banana Republic. The billionaires and polluters who bribed
SCOTUS Republicans just legalized poisoning our children and grandchildren... –
July 9, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/demolishing-chevron-deference-republicans-9b4
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