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Report: How Efforts To Save Hawaii’s Forests Are Preventing A ‘Freshwater Crisis’
CivilBeat.org discusses How Efforts To Save Hawaii’s Forests Are Preventing A ‘Freshwater Crisis’. Landowners, volunteers and an army of local hunters are helping the state fight an uphill battle to protect Hawaii’s forests — and its drinking water. Five years in, a report to the Legislature showed the project had removed [...]
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Report: World misses 2020 biodiversity goals: leaked UN draft report
Climate Home News discusses how the world misses 2020 biodiversity goals: leaked UN draft report. Global Biodiversity Outlook draft finds funding shortfalls and failure to account for the role of women held back progress on restoring ecosystems. Over the last decade, governments have failed to meet any of the internationally
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Study: Multiple Articles on Toxic Chemicals In The Environment
EarthJustice discusses how big oil is using toxic chemicals as a lifeline – and how we can stop it. Petrochemicals are an environmental and public health disaster. Here’s what you need to know. Star Tribune discusses a study showing how PFAS-laced water caused infertility, premature births and low birthweight. The [...]
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Yale Climate Connections, September 11, 2020
Articles include: California wildfire evacuation zone; Key messages about climate change; Italy’s north-south economic gap; upbeat news about climate change; 12 books and reports on the COVID-19;
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How We Got Conned Into Drinking Bottled Water — 2 articles
Huffington Post discusses how we got conned into drinking bottled water — and how we can stop. In just a few decades, water went from a common resource to an incredibly popular packaged commodity with a serious environmental footprint. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs died and were covered with mud.
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Devastating wildfires, extreme weather raise concerns about lack of preparedness for climate change
ABC News discusses how devastating wildfires, extreme weather raise concerns about lack of preparedness for climate change. Experts say the country should do more to prepare for disasters. Six of the 20 largest wildfires in California history started in August and September 2020 and with average high temperatures
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The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the End of Seasons as We Knew Them
The New Yorker discusses Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the end of seasons as we knew them. The unravelling of back-to-school rituals is part of a larger shift. The coronavirus pandemic, together with recurring natural phenomena brought on by climate change, is sharply altering our sense of the seasons. Like gentrification, covid-19 [...]
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Trump’s Fire Sale of Public Lands for Oil and Gas Drillers
New Republic discusses Trump’s Fire Sale of Public Lands for Oil and Gas Drillers. The Bureau of Land Management is rushing to auction off sites ahead of a potential Biden presidency. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned off oil and gas leases to 11 parcels of land totaling around 15,000
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Brazil’s Amazon fires worsen in September, threaten virgin forests
Reuters discusses how Brazil’s Amazon fires worsen in September, threaten virgin forests. Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest worsened in the first week of September and are increasingly spreading into areas of untouched forest, satellite data showed as of Wednesday, after the number of fires likely reached a 10-year high in [...]
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EU Parliament’s environment committee votes to support 60% EU emissions cut by 2030
Reuters discusses how EU Parliament’s environment committee votes to support 60% EU emissions cut by 2030. Lawmakers in European Parliament’s environment committee on Thursday voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, against 1990 levels. The