Articles include: Marine photographer captures haunting images of California’s beautiful, but vanishing, kelp forests; Ambitious action on climate change could be Biden’s ‘moon shot’; It’s been a record-long time since the last EF5 tornado. What does that mean?; 12 reports on what the U.S. may make possible on climate; To help address the climate problem, universities must rethink the tenure and promotion system; Dominican Catholic sisters help create climate-friendly investment funds; Ninety-five percent of bull kelp forests have vanished from 200-mile stretch of California coast; Denmark plans to build a massive wind-energy hub on artificial island in the North Sea; Installing solar panels over California’s canals could save 65 billion gallons of water a year; Outer Banks communities see beach renourishment projects as a lifeline.
Tag: politics
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
Yale Climate Connections, April 30, 2021
Articles include: Major parties’ climate programs are miles apart; With seas rising, stalled research budgets must also rise; Cities’ notable efforts on climate change; Citrus farming and geothermal energy; Sea-level rise could submerge fiber optic cables, a key component of internet infrastructure; Air pollution from fossil fuels caused 8.7 million premature deaths in 2018, study finds [No study link]; Four electric cargo cycles deliver packages in Miami.
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 rise and budgets.
DeSmogBlog, April 24, 2021
Articles include: Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?; The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate; Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit; Oxford University Has Pledged to Divest from Fossil Fuels; The Greenwashing Files: Fossil Fuel Giants Accused of ‘Deceptive’ Advertising; Climate Disinformation Database: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
The Daily Climate, April 20, 2021
Articles include: Exxon & carbon capture; offshore wind; glaciers melting in the Andes; coal financing; cities hardest hit by climate change; Biden trying to reinstate US climate change leadership; shrinking sea meadows and GHGs; Canadian budget; Euro lawsuits derail clean energy; DOI heads towards clean energy; climate change and coffee; melting Arctic & Russia.
DeSmogBlog, April 17, 2021
Articles include: Security Firm Accused of Working Illegally on O&G Pipelines; ‘Net-Zero’ PledgesDelay Climate Action new paper warns; Fossil Fuel Companies’ Tough Sell: Oil and Gas Sites With Costly Environmental Clean-up; Shell’s Science Museum Climate Exhibition; Irish Politicians And New Cheese Factory; Environmental Racism, Europe, and Coal Use; European Court & Climate-Related Human Rights Challenges; Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020; Climate Disinformation Database: Bjørn Lomborg.
The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021
Articles include: Canadian methane emissions; Hawaiian coral reefs; phase-out of non-EVs; better highways; funding focus changes on infrastructure; Japan & hydrogen; South Korea funding coal plants; wildfires and Alaska; Utilities and clean energy standards; clean hydrogen energy; US and China – foes; 3% of ecosystems remain intact – study.
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.
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.