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Study: Pollen can raise your risk of COVID-19 – and the season is getting longer thanks to climate change
The Conversation: Pollen can raise your risk of COVID-19 – and the season is getting longer thanks to climate change.
xposure to pollen can make you more susceptible to COVID-19, and it isn’t just a problem for people with allergies, new research released March 9 shows. Plant physiologist Lewis Ziska, a co-author […]
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Report: How to Build Back Better: A 10 Year Plan for Economic Renewal
Sierra Club: new report released by our Living Economy team last week, “How to Build Back Better: A 10 Year Plan for Economic Renewal.” The report provides an ambitious, detailed roadmap for how the United States can recover from the pandemic and create millions of good […]
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DeSmogBlog, March 12, 2020
Articles include: Plastic Pollution During Shipping; Flaring, Increased Health Risks, UCLA Study; Canceled Keystone XL Pipeline Driving Safety Changes in Canadian Oil-by-Rail; I’m a Climate Scientist — Here Are 3 Key Things I Have Learned Over a Year of COVID; Climate Disinformation Database: Energy In Depth.
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Report: COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing Way for a Green Recovery
New York Magazine: COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing Way for a Green Recovery.
The COVID pandemic has provided climate hawks with plenty of cause for despair. The fact that America’s capacity for misgovernance, ideological delusion, and consumerist myopia has proved vast enough to sustain opposition to […]
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The next global crisis is already here—and it’s even worse than COVID-19
Fast Company: The next global crisis is already here—and it’s even worse than COVID-19 Imagine the horrors of coronavirus, compounded and made permanent. That’s climate change. Politicians who care about the future (ours and theirs) can’t wait […]
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Study: Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic
CBS News: Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic, study says. Human-caused climate change “may have played a key role” in the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests […]
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Yale Climate Connections, January 29, 2021
Articles include: Deadlines for action on Trump-era climate issues; 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020; Study: Accounting for value of nature; Michael Mann’s book, ‘The New Climate War’; Poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘Earthrise’ climate change video; […]
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How Hudson Valley Farmers Are Experiencing Climate Change
The River Newsroom: How Hudson Valley Farmers Are Experiencing Climate Change. The local effects of the climate crisis are easy to list. But how does it feel, and what challenges is it already presenting?
Christmas Eve of 2020 brought a storm to the Hudson Valley that one might describe as tropical. Temperatures […]
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Report: How the COVID-19 pandemic has made fighting the climate crisis harder
The Hill: How the COVID-19 pandemic has made fighting the climate crisis harder. A new report explains the continued effort needed to fight climate change amid the ongoing pandemic.
A report from the World Economic Forum states that countries cannot rely on the COVID-19-induced emissions reduction to alleviate adverse effects […]
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