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How USDA is failing farmers
This Politico article discusses how USDA is failing farmers. ‘I’m standing right here in the middle of climate change’. The $144 billion Agriculture Department spends less than 1 percent of its budget helping farmers adapt to increasingly extreme weather.
American farmers are reeling after extreme rains followed by a “bomb cyclone”— […]
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Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina’s fracking dream
This The Guardian article discusses how the indigenous Mapuche are paying a high price for Argentina’s fracking dream.
The roar of the burning gas well could be heard almost a mile and a half away, from atop the high plateau where Albino Campo Maripe stood, looking down at the orange […]
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Report: Higher temperatures driving ‘alarming’ levels of hunger
This The Guardian article discusses how higher temperatures are driving ‘alarming’ levels of hunger. Global hunger index finds countries affected by drought and conflict have seen biggest increases in undernourished people.
The climate crisis is driving alarming levels of hunger in the world, undermining food security in the world’s most […]
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Yale Climate Connections, October 18, 2019
This week’s articles include:
92% of Greenland’s residents believe climate change is happening
12 reports on carbon pricing, climate security, and more
How power purchase agreements can help wind and solar get on the grid
Researchers turn algae […]
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The Actual Reason Meat Is Not Healthy
This The Atlantic article discusses the reason meat is not healthy. Nutrition studies leave out a crucial factor. Eating red and processed meat, the headlines declared, was no longer unhealthy. It seemed—at a glance—that a bad thing was now a good thing. The stories were based on a recently […]
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Tropical fish, microplastics and disappearing beaches: Climate change along the Central Coast
This article discusses tropical fish, microplastics and disappearing beaches: Climate change along the Central Coast of California.
Butterfly Beach in Montecito is popular among beachgoers. But 30 years from now, there won’t be much of it left to enjoy.
“You’re going to have more hours a day where the waves are […]
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Report: In the Mountains, Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything, from How Water Flows to When Plants Flower
This Inside Climate News article discusses how climate change is affecting mountains. The melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.
With ominous orange-gray smoke clouds seething on the western horizon, it’s easy to understand how Colorado’s highest city and […]
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Reports: What we eat matters: to change climate crisis, we need to reshape the food system
This The Guardian article discusses what we eat matters: to change climate crisis, we need to reshape the food system. Everything we eat has an effect on global heating, but perhaps the biggest problem is livestock.
The world came together last week for the UN general assembly, and climate crisis […]
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Study: ‘Everywhere we looked’: trillions of microplastics found in San Francisco bay
This The Guardian article discusses a study analyzing microplastics in SF Bay. Most comprehensive study to date finds plastic in sediment collected from bay and tributaries and digestive tracts of fish.
The most comprehensive study to date of microplastics in California has turned up a mind-boggling amount of plastic particles […]
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Biosolids: mix human waste with toxic chemicals, then spread on crops
This The Guardian article discusses biosolids and food production – mix human waste with toxic chemicals, then spread on crops. Residual sludge from treating waste water has been turned into a money-spinner but what are the costs to health of ‘the most pollutant-rich man-made substance on Earth’?
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