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Study: NY Times Climate Fwd: May 26, 2021
Articles include: offshore wind; drought in the US west; Russia’s new nightmare; net zero GHGs; preparing for a disaster season; Study: invasive species in Africa
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DeSmogBlog, May 8, 2021
Articles include: Oregon Utility Using Greenwashing and ‘Renewable Natural Gas’ To Push Back on Potential Gas Bans; New Government Report Highlights Federal Failures to Oversee Offshore Drilling [report is here]; New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide; Over a Half-million Americans Live Near […]
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The Daily Climate, April 22, 2021
Articles include: Earth Day; Young activists; EU climate agreement; Biden’s climate goals; Biden and Putin; building electric vehicles; Brazil and the Amazon; climate change and the world’s economy; African peace and climate change; car-free inner cities; Putin, Russia, and GHGs; Canada’s GHG pledge; Ikea and renewable energy.
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The Daily Climate, April 15, 2021
Articles include: 2050 Goals are inadequate; champagne & climate change; 100% clean power; renewable energy powers decarbonization; electric vehicles by 2035; Interior Department and Manchin; Epic Drought; Indian monsoon season; ticks moving into the Arctic; East African oil pipeline; American research station abandoned; food web in the Great Lakes.
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Study: Climate Change Could Impact Your Favorite Cup of Coffee
Eco Watch: Study: Climate Change Could Impact Your Favorite Cup of Coffee.
Climate change could make it harder to find a good cup of coffee, new research finds. A changing climate might shrink suitable areas for specialty coffee production without adaptation, making coffee taste blander […]
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Climate change: 5 places where global warming is a security risk
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Climate change: 5 places where global warming is a security risk. As the U.N. Security Council meets to discuss growing threats from a heating planet, here are some places where storms, wildfires and drought are fueling security risks.
From Louisiana’s battle with two hurricanes and an icy polar vortex […]
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Study: ‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018
The Guardian: ‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds. Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals.
Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil […]
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Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future?
Civil Eats discusses Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future? Yolele hopes this nutritious, climate-crisis-ready crop w2ill compete with quinoa globally, while supporting smallholder farms in West Africa.
Multinational corporations (and foundations) generally take one approach to agricultural development in Africa. They encourage farmers to grow high-yield varieties of crops—mostly […]
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The Daily Climate, December 18, 2020
The Daily Climate discusses: Native American art; First Native American Interior Secretary; John Kerry; NC environmental chief to lead EPA; Iceberg heading towards island; preventing wildfires; winter storms and climate change; coral versus climate; report on cost of climate change; Biden picks.
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How climate change threatens African coffee farmers
DW discusses How climate change threatens African coffee farmers. Rising temperatures, drought and erratic rainfall are making growing coffee harder. In just 30 years, climate change could destroy half of all coffee growing land, threatening millions of African farmers.
Some savor the taste, others drink it to stay awake. Whatever the reason, […]
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