Articles include: The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere; Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change; The Exxon of green power: A Spanish company and its boss set sky-high goals; Poland clinches ′historic′ deal to phase out coal by 2049; DOE unveils grid plans to unlock renewables; A warming world threatens Colombia’s coffee future; Study: Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects; Study: ‘Life support’ measures could buy Great Barrier Reef another two decades.
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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.
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. The lives of my community here are woven between the valleys, forests and mountains. The Western Ghats protect our people from floods and other natural calamities that affect coastal areas. I love the greenery and liveliness of Western Ghats. They are very special to me. But over the past few years, I’ve seen climate change threaten everything I love. The Western Ghats and the futures of the people who live there are now at stake due to flooding, drought, deforestation and the building of dams and nuclear power plants.
Phys.org: Why forests in the Andes are crucial to fighting climate change. Andean forests sequester a significant amount of carbon from the atmosphere. Trees and forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, or the movement of carbon dioxide through the atmosphere. Thanks to activities like deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, there is now 2.5 times the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than there was before industrialization. Without forests, says Francisco Cuesta, an ecologist at La Universidad de las Américas in Ecuador, we would be dealing with even more CO2. A study out this month in the journal Nature Communications, authored by a team of 28 scientists including Cuesta, looks at how the carbon cycling process is playing out in the tropical and subtropical forests of the Andes.
The Daily Climate, April 22, 2021
Articles include: Earth Day; Young activists; EU climate agreement; Biden’s climate goals; Biden and Putin; building electric vehicles; Brazil and the Amazon; climate change and the world’s economy; African peace and climate change; car-free inner cities; Putin, Russia, and GHGs; Canada’s GHG pledge; Ikea and renewable energy.
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.
The Daily Climate, April 12, 2021
Articles include: Flood survivors; Biden’s infrastructure plan; California expands O&G drilling; battery makers; Canadian energy jobs; nuclear power plant shutting down; Russia & the arctic; Maine laws & solar investment; Brazil; home buying and climate change; offshore wind; Navajo farmers.
Study: Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact
The Guardian: Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests. Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say.
ust 3% of the world’s land remains ecologically intact with healthy populations of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat, a study suggests.
These fragments of wilderness undamaged by human activities are mainly in parts of the Amazon and Congo tropical forests, east Siberian and northern Canadian forests and tundra, and the Sahara. Invasive alien species including cats, foxes, rabbits, goats and camels have had a major impact on native species in Australia, with the study finding no intact areas left.
The researchers suggest reintroducing a small number of important species to some damaged areas, such as elephants or wolves – a move that could restore up to 20% of the world’s land to ecological intactness.
“Much of what we consider as intact habitat is missing species that have been hunted [and poached] by people, or lost because of invasive species or disease,” said Dr Andrew Plumptre, the lead author of the study, from the Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat in Cambridge, UK. “It’s fairly scary, because it shows how unique places like the Serengeti are, which actually have functioning and fully intact ecosystems.
The Daily Climate, March 23, 2021 – Study
Articles include: Pennsylvania & solar electric power; NY offshore wind; California oil companies; nitrogen hot spots & agriculture; Biden & greenhouse gas emissions; infrastructure plans; housing and flooding; climate polluters & greenwashing; FOIA reveals interference with offshore wind farms; migration caused by storms; Sharks, climate change, and restoring ocean habitats – study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
DeSmogBlog, March 20, 2021
Articles include: Argentina’s Illegal Oil and Gas Waste Dumps; Whistleblower Claims Dangerous Defects in Pipeline for Shell’s Pennsylvania Plastics Plant; Nudging Social Media Users to Think Critically Helps Slow the Spread of Fake News, Study Finds; Green Groups File ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ FTC Complaint Against Chevron for Climate Lies; Climate Disinformation Database: Principia Scientific International.
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 health; Amazon rainforest could be worsening climate change, study suggests; This billionaire governor’s coal companies owe millions more in environmental fines; Tiny town, big decision: What are we willing to pay to fight the rising sea?; How dirt could help save the planet