Tag: Mexico

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; allergies worsened by climate change.

Above the Fold – Week’s Best & Covid

Environmental Health News puts out weekend ‘summary’ emails, in addition to their daily emails.

EHN Week’s Best: April 16, 2021: forever chemicals on paper straws; Piney Point pollution; jails and environmental justice; DDT; PFAS; drought’s impact on farming water;  rechargeable batteries – real cost; Mexico and coal; heavy metals in children’s food; Japan dumping Fukushima’s radioactive water into the ocean.

EHN Covid: April 16, 2021: facemask garbage; underserved communities & J&J vaccine halt; green spaces & housing justice;  loosing women scientists; how to stop a pandemic.

The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021

Articles include: clean energy focus; blue carbon credits; John Kerry off to China; Glacier in Alaska is moving; Mexico & coal; Cost of rechargeable batteries; Brazil & Indigenous land rights; Endangered American rivers; companies call on Biden to reduce GHGs.

The Daily Climate, March 8, 2021

Articles include: Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food;  In call for environmental justice, Biden’s climate agenda reaches into neighborhoods;  Can the market save the planet? FedEx is the latest brand-name firm to say it’s trying.;  Mexico set to reshape power sector to favor the state;  Oil giants prepare to put carbon back in the ground;  NFTs are hot. So is their effect on the Earth’s climate;  Porsche to produce fuel ′as clean′ as electric vehicles;  Carbon taxes don’t reduce emissions but closing offshore tax havens can;  Singapore builds huge floating solar farm at sea in bid to tackle climate crisis;  Lake Huron is getting warmer: What that means for Georgian Bay

Environmentalists urge halt to decree that would allow herbicide, GM corn

Mexico News Daily discusses why Environmentalists urge halt to decree that would allow herbicide, GM corn. They say it would violate president’s campaign promises.

More than 200 activists and environmental and sustainable agriculture organizations have written to President López Obrador to urge him to cancel a plan that they say will open the door to the cultivation of genetically modified corn and allow the ongoing use of glyphosate, a controversial herbicide.

In an open letter, the activists and organizations including Greenpeace, Sin Maíz No Hay País (Without Corn There Is No Country) and Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria (Alliance for Food Health) say that an Agriculture Ministry (Sader) proposal that is intended to serve as the basis for a presidential decree violates campaign promises made by López Obrador.

The Monarch butterfly is in great peril.

Esquire discusses why the Monarch butterfly is in great peril – climate change. We Leave the Milkweed Standing as a Monument to a Vanishing World.

All around our house, there are thick stands of milkweed. They grow tall all summer so that, by August, Monarch butterflies will dance amid them. (Milkweed is catnip for Monarchs. The only good comparison around the yard is the thistle we leave up so as to tempt the goldfinches.) This plague summer has been no different. Outside, doing yard work, sweating behind the mask and trying to avoid the neighbors, I look upon the Monarchs darting amid the milkweed as a reward for being a good immunological citizen.

Now, however, I read in the Boston Review that the other end of the Monarch supply chain, in Mexico, to which the Monarchs migrate every winter, is largely destroying itself with the invaluable help of humans.

Study: Thirsty Future for American West, as ”Megadrought” Grips Some of the Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities

Fairwarning.org discusses Thirsty Future for American West, as ”Megadrought” Grips Some of the Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities.

In 2002, Utah was reeling from four years of dry conditions that turned the state ‘’into a parched tinderbox,’’ as the Associated Press reported at the time. “Drought Could Last Another 1-2 years,” the headline proclaimed. Right on time, in 2004, the Salt Lake Tribune ran a similar article, on “Coming To Terms with Utah’s Six-Year Drought,” that was “believed to be the worst to strike the Southwest in half a millennium.”

Almost two decades later, the drought has raged on. In October 2019, the water supplier for St. George, a rapidly growing resort and retirement community in southwest Utah, released a statement declaring the city’s longest-ever dry spell: 122 days without rain.

A study published last month in the journal Science identified an emerging “megadrought” across all or parts of 11 western states and part of northern Mexico—a drought likely, with the influence of climate change, to be more severe and long-lasting than any since the 1500s. The area includes Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California and portions of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.

 

‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico

The Guardian discusses the Deepwater Horizon ecological disaster. ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico. BP denied the oil reached Mexico, but fisherman and scientists knew it wasn’t true. Ten years on, Mexican communities haven’t received a cent in compensation.

Erica Ríos Martínez grew-up in a riverside community filled with food and fiestas thanks to a booming fishing industry which supported tens of thousands of families across the Gulf of Mexico.

After high school, Ríos Martínez moved to a nearby town for college which she financed by selling blue crabs, shrimp and tilapia fished by her father in the Tamiahua lagoon – an elongated coastal inlet famed for its abundant shellfish.

OPEC and Russia Agree to Cut Oil Production

The New York Times discusses how OPEC and Russia have agreed to cut oil production. The reductions for May and June were smaller than some investors and analysts had expected, and oil prices gave up earlier gains.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other countries reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to temporarily cut production.

OPEC and the other oil-producing countries agreed to cut 10 million barrels a day — about 23 percent of their production levels — in May and June, they said in a statement on Friday. Possible further trims could come from a meeting of the Group of 20 nations on Friday.

Negotiations hit a snag late Thursday over Mexico’s reluctance to cut its share of oil, reportedly 400,000 barrels a day, leaving the deal in limbo. In the statement, the group said the deal was conditional on Mexico’s consent.

Study: Yale Climate Connections, April 3, 2020

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