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The Daily Climate, April 28, 2021
Articles include: lumber shortage; disabilities and natural disasters; California wildfire season; Study: cut methane emissions quickly; flooding in Michigan; climate vote in Senate; Study: poor communities affected by climate change; low carbon fuel standard; money to modernize grid; Fukushima; Ford making electric vehicles; Study: sea level […]
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The Daily Climate, April 27, 2021
Articles include: California drought; underreporting GHGs; weather station in the Andes; 26,000 snakes; tools: graphics and climate change; deforesting Brazil; EPA and California air standards; pandemic and snow melt in SE Asia.
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Report: We can avoid the worst effects of climate change, but we’re still in for a fight
Popular Science: We can avoid the worst effects of climate change, but we’re still in for a fight. We may still be able to reverse some of the major effects if we cross the crucial threshold.
It’s easy to get disheartened about climate change. To keep global warming within the safe threshold […]
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Study: Climate Crisis & Food Production
The Hill: Effective and profitable climate solutions are within the nation’s farms and forests. America’s farmers, ranchers and forest managers work with the earth every day, not on just Earth Day. And natural and working lands underpin our national economy — sustaining our food supply, generating timber and providing wildlife habitat, […]
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Study: Forests – 2 articles
Apple News: Where have our forests gone? 15-year-old Indian student Vanya Sayimane writes about how climate change has affected her home in the Western Ghats. I was born in the middle of dense forests in the Western Ghats, a chain of mountains that runs along the western coast of India. […]
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There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It
New York Times: There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, it’s a polluter and destroyer of nature.
In 2013, Kathy Claiborne got a noisy new neighbor. That’s […]
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The Daily Climate, April 19, 2021
Articles include: forests cut for fuel; immigration driven by climate change; infrastructure funding and orphan wells; Greta Thunberg and Congress; ALEC fighting climate change science; bottom trawling fishing; US and China; climate guide for kids; drought in the western US & Mexico; methane & old wells; Louisiana oil haven; […]
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What a 1,600-year-old New Zealand tree can tell us about climate change
Vox: What a 1,600-year-old New Zealand tree can tell us about climate change. Buried in mud for millennia, some of the hulking kauri trees in rural Northland are portals to the past, present, and future of Earth’s climate.
This story is part of Down to Earth, a new Vox reporting […]
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Tool: Yale Climate Connections, April 16, 2021
Articles include: 12 books on repairing our relationship with our only planet; How addressing climate change can also improve public health; Researchers examine how world-apart ice sheets influence each other; New York City group retrofits apartments without displacing residents; Trees planted along Colorado’s Yampa River […]
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The Daily Climate, April 8, 2021
Articles include: Marine life can’t survive at the equator; Black climate agenda; Biden to court – dismiss children’s lawsuit; ghost forests and sea level rise; Enbridge pipeline & Michigan; handling the climate crisis; nuclear heating plant; lightning & the Arctic; Report: Canadian wood pellet industry; EPA reverses trump; polar […]
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