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Yale Climate Connection, June 4, 2021
Articles include: A climate-change-inspired video road-trip across the U.S.; Key readings on IEA’s ‘Net Zero by 2050’ report; Tips: How to weatherize your home; Talking climate with those holding different worldviews; New Mexico imposes strict rule to prevent venting, flaring of natural gas; Can […]
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The Western Drought Is Bad. Here’s What You Should Know About It.
New York Times: The Western Drought Is Bad. Here’s What You Should Know About It. Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States.
Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought […]
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The Daily Climate, April 23, 2021
Articles include: GHG commitments from Biden; Miami sea level rise costs; Steel company and GHG goals; Texas and clean energy; clean energy loan risks; humanity’s friend against climate change; bitcoin and the environment; Canada’s biggest banks missing from net-zero pledge; Study: dangerous toxins in Alaska’s algae; Study: […]
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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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Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history
CBS News: Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history. Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with some […]
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The Daily Climate, March 18, 2021
Articles include: ‘They aren’t used to losing’: Wealthy New York enclave battles over offshore windfarm; Feds move forward with New Mexico drilling plan despite community outcry; Report: Looking for climate solutions? Protect more ocean, researchers find; More than 10 million people displaced by climate disasters in six months, report finds;
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The Daily Climate, March 15, 2021
Articles include: Energy companies left Colorado with O&G cleanup costs; Treaty rights acknowledged pipeline’s history; How the oil industry is shifting to offshore wind; Western states chart diverging paths as water shortages loom; Study finds that Floridans are underpaying for flood insurance; How climate change worries affect young people’s mental […]
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Multiyear drought builds in western US with little relief in sight
CNN: Multiyear drought builds in western US with little relief in sight.
While much has been written this year about atmospheric rivers, avalanche warnings and even flash flooding, the western half of the United States is experiencing a crushing drought.
The weather patterns […]
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Study: California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions
The Guardian: California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions, study says. Toxic particles spewed by wildfires resulted in 10 times as many respiratory-illness related hospitalizations as other types of pollution, researchers found.
The thick, grey wildfire smoke that shrouds California each autumn and […]
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Insecticide known for killing pollinators found in deer across Minnesota
Star Tribune: Insecticide known for killing pollinators found in deer across Minnesota. DNR says more research is needed on the insecticides’ possible effect on herds.
Powerful insecticides are turning up in deer in nearly every corner of Minnesota, raising concerns that the ubiquitous chemicals may be keeping fawns from surviving to […]
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