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NYT > Climate and Environment→ Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room
2022-02-06 Ten years ago, psychologists proposed that a wide range of people would suffer anxiety and grief over climate. Skepticism about that idea is gone. …›
Inside Climate News→ A California Water Board Assures the Public that Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation, But Experts Say the Evidence Is Scant
2022-02-06 Studies in Kern County, performed by oil industry consultants, cannot answer fundamental safety questions about irrigating crops with “produced water,” the board’s own panel of experts concedes.By Liza GrossAfter years of controversy, the Central …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Visualized: a third of Americans already face above-average warming
2022-02-06 Temperatures in 499 counties across west, northeast and upper midwest US have already breached 1.5C (2.7F)More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid, above-average rates of temperature increase, with 499 counties alrea …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ How Beijing Created Snow for the Winter Olympics
2022-02-05 The environmentally unfriendly secret of winter sports is that many competitions take place on artificial snow. China’s water-scarce capital had to go to enormous lengths to make enough of it. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘We need politicians and experts’: how Chile is putting the climate crisis first
2022-02-05 President Gabriel Boric has brought renowned named climate scientist Maisa Rojas into government to help ensure a greener futureHidden behind the Andes in a quiet corner of South America, a formidable generation of former student leaders are putting to …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Did Your Handbag Help Destroy the Rainforest?
2022-02-05 A recent report examines the links between fashion brands and Amazon deforestation. …›
Inside Climate News→ One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation
2022-02-05 Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead.By Dan GearinoTexas is recovering from this week’s winter storm, nearly a year after a mu …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ President Biden extends solar tariffs, with major caveats.
2022-02-04 The Biden administration extended tariffs on imported solar products but made changes to exempt many more products from the levies, a decision that angered some domestic producers. …›
Inside Climate News→ The Biden Administration Rethinks its Approach to Drilling on Public Lands in Alaska, Soliciting Further Review
2022-02-04 The Bureau of Land Management is inviting public input on ConocoPhillips’ Willow project on the North Slope, following a court reversal on leases it approved last year in the Gulf of Mexico.By Nicholas KusnetzThe Biden administration will give the pu …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Electric Monaros and hotted-up skateboards : the ‘genius’ who wants to electrify our world
2022-02-04 After advising the US government on energy, Saul Griffith is back in Australia to declare war on the climate crisisGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingIt is late morning at the home of inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, Saul Griffith, in …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ The abyssal world: Last terra incognita of the Earth surface
2022-02-04 The first unified vision of the world ocean biodiversity, based on analysis of DNA sequences from the surface to deep-ocean sediments, unveils the rich and unknown life in the abyssal realm, the last terra incognita of the Earth surface. This collectiv …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ If Rover Can Make It Here, Perhaps Bald Eagles Can Make It Anywhere
2022-02-04 A white-headed raptor has been preying on smaller birds in Central Park. It’s come a long way since conservationists affixed aluminum bands to its legs four years ago. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ President Biden extends solar tariffs, with major caveats.
2022-02-04 The Biden administration extended tariffs on imported solar products but made changes to exempt many more products from the levies, a decision that angered some domestic producers. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ US household air conditioning use could exceed electric capacity in next decade due to climate change
2022-02-04 An 8% increase in summer air conditioning demand can be expected in the U.S. when the global average temperature exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This climate driven increase is likely to cause prolonged blackouts during peak su …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Study looks at glacial lakes, dams in Alaska and potential for flooding
2022-02-04 Researchers have produced a detailed inventory of glacial lakes and dams over a 35-year timeframe from 1984 to 2019 in Alaska and northwest Canada. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Stepping Back to Look Ahead
2022-02-04 The New York Times’s new Headway initiative investigates challenges around the world — and evaluates our progress toward solving them. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ California subsidies for dairy cows’ biogas are a lose-lose, campaigners say
2022-02-04 The state pumps millions into methane produced by manure – but advocates argue it increases greenhouse gas emissions and encourages factory farmingA coalition of climate, environmental and animal welfare groups is calling for California to remove the …›
Inside Climate News→ Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions
2022-02-04 Team Canada’s official clothing supplier, and the apparel industry at large, rely heavily on coal power for manufacturing.By Phil McKennaAs Team Canada prepared to don red Lululemon parkas and march in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in B …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘Carbon footprint gap’ between rich and poor expanding, study finds
2022-02-04 Researchers say cutting carbon footprint of world’s wealthiest may be fastest way to reach net zeroWealthy people have disproportionately large carbon footprints and the percentage of the world’s emissions they are responsible for is growing, a stu …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ A Search Begins for Shackleton’s Endurance, the ‘Most Unreachable Wreck’
2022-02-04 Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915. Now, a team of researchers is heading to the Weddell Sea where it went down. …›
Climate : NPR→ A satellite finds massive methane leaks from gas pipelines
2022-02-03 A satellite has detected massive leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from natural gas plants and pipelines. Most of these releases are deliberate, resulting from sloppy pipeline repairs.(Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) …›
Climate : NPR→ A new study predicts a huge increase in catastrophic hurricanes for the northeastern U.S.
2022-02-03 When hurricanes cause both extreme high tides and heavy rains, devastating floods ensue. Such storms will get much more frequent by the end of the century, according to a new study. (Image credit: Chuck Burton/AP) …›
Climate : NPR→ Massive winter storm causes travel issues and power outages in parts of the U.S.
2022-02-03 A widespread winter storm is dumping snow and causing freezing rain though large parts of the United States, leading to travel disruptions and some power outages. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Massive methane emissions by oil and gas industry detected from space
2022-02-03 For the first time ever on a global scale, using satellite imagery, scientists have quantified volumes of massive methane emissions due to fossil-fuel extraction activities and their impact on the climate. Their findings partly explain why official inv …›
Climate – Science News→ Satellites have located the world’s methane ‘ultra-emitters’
2022-02-03 A small number of “ultra-emitters” of methane from oil and gas production contribute as much as 12 percent of emissions of the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere every year — and now scientists know where many of these sources are. Analyses of …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Treasure in tree rings: Using untapped tree ring data to calculate carbon sequestration
2022-02-03 Forests around the world have the capacity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere to battle global climate change. But how much carbon they actually absorb is a question that still needs answering, and tree ring data can help, according to a new research …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Future of winter: Low emissions vital to slow warming
2022-02-03 Winters are warming faster than summers in North America, impacting everything from ecosystems to the economy. Global climate models indicate that this trend will continue in future winters but there is a level of uncertainty around the magnitude of wa …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened
2022-02-03 Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth. …›
Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ More Climate Reporting, At Last
2022-02-03 Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. No matter your favorite news source, you’ve probably been seeing more stories on climate change lately. A new report by the Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which mo …›
Inside Climate News→ Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own
2022-02-03 California power companies choose lithium-ion batteries for an eight-hour storage project, passing on some newer options.By Dan GearinoPower providers continue to work on developing long-duration energy storage, the kinds of systems that can fill in th …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal
2022-02-03 For the past year, scientists have been looking for the source of strange coronavirus sequences that have appeared in the city’s wastewater. …›
Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ Getting Personal About Climate Change Made Me a Better Reporter
2022-02-03 This story is published in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times, as part of Covering Climate Now. The third weekend of August 2020 was a hectic time for California. Wildfires raged, smoke filled the air, and power shortages had forced state offi …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ What a salamander virus can tell us about the future of biodiversity amid a changing climate
2022-02-03 The 'Ebola virus of the amphibian world' is as unpleasant as it sounds, but a species of salamander that lives in Arizona found a way to live with the endemic disease. As the climate changes, viruses change along with it, and this unpredictable virus c …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Human-induced climate change impacts the highest reaches of the planet — Mount Everest
2022-02-03 Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest's highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a research team that analyzed …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘We have to adapt’: US Pacific north-west weighs plans to cope with extreme weather
2022-02-03 After a cataclysmic year of heat and floods, Washington state considers shifting funds from mitigation to adaptationFirst came the heavy snow in late December that blanketed Seattle and the surrounding area. Then the torrential rain and flooding hit in …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll
2022-02-03 From “Don’t Look Up” to Greta Thunberg videos to doomsaying memes, we are awash in warnings that we are almost out of time. But the climate crisis is outpacing our emotional capacity to describe it. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ The climate crisis is wreaking havoc but sport can be a part of the solution | Pat Cummins
2022-02-03 As cricketers with resources to hand, we have the opportunity to support our sport in making a tangible differenceOn Saturday 4 January 2020, my local cricket club was smack bang in the middle of the hottest place on earth, with Penrith in Sydney reach …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
2022-02-03 Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictableThe hundreds of …›