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Study: Yale Climate Connections, April 3, 2020
This week’s articles include:
Artificial intelligence and climate change converge
Amateur team builds ultra-efficient electric car in a barn
Global warming fuels bark beetles, tree-killing menaces
Tennessee encourages organizations, businesses to cut food waste
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Study: For big emissions reductions, we need to think small
Environmental Health News discusses how we need to think small for big emissions reductions,. “Big new infrastructure costing billions is not the best way to accelerate decarbonization”.
Small-scale clean energy and low carbon technologies—such as solar panels, smart appliances and electric bicycles—are more likely to push society toward meeting climate […]
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Rising Tides, Troubled Waters: The Future of Our Ocean
Rolling Stone discusses the unprecedented changes to our oceans and what it means for marine life, the planet, and us.
The blob went unnoticed at first. In the summer of 2013, a high-pressure ridge settled over a Texas-size area in the northern Pacific, pushing the sky down over the ocean […]
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Dominion to take up to $650M abandonment charge for plant closings
Seeking Alpha discusses how Dominion wants to take up to $650M abandonment charge for plant closings.
Dominion Energy (D +0.5%) says it expects to take a $500M-$650M non-cash abandonment charge in Q1 due to early retirement of coal- and oil-fired power plants in Virginia.
The planned closings […]
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What We Need to Understand About Asymptomatic Carriers if We’re Going to Beat Coronavirus
ProPublica discusses What We Need to Understand About Asymptomatic Carriers if We’re Going to Beat Coronavirus. ProPublica’s health reporter Caroline Chen explains what the conversation around asymptomatic coronavirus carriers is missing, and what we need to understand if we’re going to beat this nefarious virus together.
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Curious Timing! New Offshore Renewable Energy Research Funding
Clean Technica discusses the timing of new funds allocated to offshore renewable energy research. With the US oil and gas industry in a state of collapse, now would be a good time for the nation to invest in energy infrastructure that has real staying power — not just concrete […]
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In the Mountains and Deserts of Utah, Columbia Spotted Frogs Are Sentinels of Climate Change
Inside Climate News discusses how spotted frogs are sentinels of climate change. Mormon pioneers saw the frogs as messengers of clean water. Now, their survival is jeopardized by habitat loss, drought and soaring heat.
Finding Columbia spotted frogs in Utah’s mountains is not easy. But it’s possible, with a […]
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FEMA braces for a multi-front war as hurricane season looms
Politico discusses how FEMA is bracing for a multi-front war as hurricane season looms. “Covid is the equivalent of Hurricane Katrina hitting 50 states,” said one former FEMA official.
Federal emergency managers are bracing themselves for the herculean task of handling multiple natural disasters while the coronavirus pandemic taxes their […]
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Renewables make up over half of Germany’s power mix
DW discusses how renewables make up over half of Germany’s power mix. Just over half of electricity used in Germany was created by renewable energy sources at the start of 2020. But some wind and solar advocates warn investment is needed for that to remain the case.
Germany’s target for renewable […]
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Study: Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts
Mongabay discusses the relationship between the Antarctic ice melt and tropical weather shifts.
Scientists predominantly believe that the tropics have the largest influence on global weather. Now, new research suggests that the melting of Antarctic sea ice could impact places as far away as the equator.
In one of the first […]
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