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Natural gas developers banking on report to prevent Pa. fracking ban
This article discusses how natural gas developers are banking on report to prevent Pa. fracking ban.
Natural gas developers in Pennsylvania are hoping a recent water quality report by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission could squelch plans for a fracking ban that’s currently being considered by the neighboring Delaware River […]
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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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As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests
This NY Times article discusses sea level rise and ghost forests. Saltwater is killing woodlands along the East Coast, sometimes surprisingly far from the sea.
Up and down the mid-Atlantic coast, sea levels are rising rapidly, creating stands of dead trees — often bleached, sometimes blackened — known […]
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Report: Tracking the Atlantic Ocean’s Inland Creep in Miami-Dade County
This article discusses how the Atlantic Ocean’s salt water is creeping inland, into Florida’s aquifers. U.S. Geological Survey report documents underground movement of salt water.
It’s a gentle intruder, moving stealthily underground, out of sight but not undetected. Salt water continues to move farther inland in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, albeit […]
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100% Wind, Water, and Solar (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmaps
These two sites provide information on how to get to 100 renewable energy.
Roadmaps for Countries, States, Cities, and Towns; and,
100% Virginia.
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Yale Climate Connection, October 4, 2019
This week’s articles include:
‘This situation brings me to despair’: Two reef scientists share their climate grief
A New Jersey city reuses abandoned industrial sites to capture stormwater
Climate change threatens to reverse recent progress in educating girls
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Report: Billions face food, water shortages over next 30 years as nature fails
This National Geographic article discusses why billions of people face food, water shortages over next 30 years as nature fails. A new model shows which areas of Earth will likely be hit the hardest by the changes caused by human activity, also revealing possible solutions.
As many as five billion […]
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The strange, uncertain fate of Alaska’s biggest wild salmon habitat
This The Fern article discusses the strange, uncertain fate of Alaska’s biggest wild salmon habitat. Bristol Bay is a rare, pristine wild salmon fishery. Can it survive a rapidly changing climate—and a massive, Trump-backed mine?
For her generation of fishermen, investing here is more of a gamble than ever. Twin threats […]
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Nine Years On, the Deepwater Horizon’s Well Is a “Hellscape”
This Hakai Magazine article discusses the impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the Gulf of Mexico. The environment around the blown-out well has yet to recover.
Nunnally and his colleagues found many troubling aspects “of this new deep-sea hellscape,” he says. For instance, none of the artificial structures […]
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Report: Climate change is coming for our toilets. Here’s how we can stop it.
This Grist article discusses the impact climate change is having on our septic systems from sea level rising.
Of all the amazing conveniences Americans are lucky enough to enjoy, the bowl that makes the poop go away is one of the best — on par with the tap that turns […]
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