The Independent Climate→ Boris Johnson ‘to scale back plans to rewild the countryside’
2022-06-12 Change of policy direction from green agenda towards food production angers conservation groups …›
Category Archives: Climate
An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
CleanTechnica→ Netherlands: 32% Of New Cars Sold Now Plugin Cars
2022-06-12 Chinese Lynk & Co 01 PHEV #1 in May In the context of a falling overall market, down 7% year over year (YoY) in May, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market has continued to grow, reaching 32% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (21% …›
CleanTechnica→ How Will The Tesla Stock Split Affect Current Stockholders?
2022-06-11 Tesla announced late Friday it will seek shareholder approval to split its stock 3-for-1. …›
The Independent Climate→ In Nigeria’s disappearing forests, loggers outnumber trees
2022-06-11 From 2001 to 2021, Nigeria lost over 1.1 million hectares of tree cover, a 11 per cent decrease, equal to 587 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Biden faces anger over huge New Mexico wildfire sparked by federal burns
2022-06-11 President visits state beset by Hermits Peak Calif Canyon fire, result of two accidental fires that mergedJoe Biden landed in New Mexico on Saturday amid anger and frustration from wildfire survivors as he visited the state to review efforts to fight i …›
CleanTechnica→ Tesla’s 35,000th Supercharger Is A Milestone For EV Charging
2022-06-11 Tesla China has announced Tesla’s 35,000th Supercharger, a milestone for EV charging. The Supercharger opened in Wuhan, China, and Tesla China noted that Tesla owns the largest fast-charging network in the world. We achieved a new milestone. …›
CleanTechnica→ California Bill Wields State’s Purchasing Power for Climate Action
2022-06-11 The California legislature has a big opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions from one of the world’s most carbon-intensive products — concrete. …›
CleanTechnica→ Cadillac Hybrid Hypercar Has Us Hyped for LeMans 2023
2022-06-11 Cadillac aims to reinvent itself with a LeMans win in 2023! …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Why bankers close their ears to the ‘climate nut jobs’ talking about the end of the world | Nick Cohen
2022-06-11 An investor’s rant gives an insight into the City’s short-termist view of the environment crisisIf the future remembers any corporate villain from 2022, it will be Stuart Kirk. The satirically titled head of “responsible investment” at HSBC lo …›
CleanTechnica→ Mercedes EQV Electric RV From Tonke
2022-06-11 The Tonke toy for grownups who love expensive vans! …›
The Independent Climate→ Mystery as thousands of dead fish found in Glasgow pond
2022-06-11 Lisa Gillen, 49, was left ‘shocked and distressed’ after making discovery while walking her dogs …›
CleanTechnica→ NIU KQi2 Pro Part 2: Never Sitting Still
2022-06-11 What happens when the novelty act becomes the headliner. …›
Climate : NPR→ Biden to be briefed on wildfires in New Mexico
2022-06-11 President Biden visits New Mexico today to get a briefing on wildfires. The governor and many locals are upset that the largest was started by prescribed burns the U.S. Forest Service let escape. …›
The Independent Climate→ ‘A hidden world’: Researchers discover new ecosystem deep beneath Antarctica
2022-06-11 New Zealand scientists were investigating what role underground estuary might be playing in melting ice shelves when cameras were swarmed by shrimp-like creatures …›
CleanTechnica→ Rivian Truck Raffle: You Get the Keys NOW! Tickets Support Fight Against Climate Change.
2022-06-11 By Mike Tidwell This summer you could win the super-hard-to-find Rivian electric truck in a Rivian truck raffle! You’ll be the first in your neighborhood to drive one. Or you could win a custom-built Tesla. It’s all part of a unique raffle just lau …›
The Independent Climate→ ‘Half-baked’ Government food strategy attacked for absence of salt and sugar tax
2022-06-11 Ministers have been accused of shunning recommendations from an independent review, while ‘goading’ farmers into producing more meat. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Thirty years of climate summits: where have they got us?
2022-06-11 Highlights and lowlights of Cop since Rio 1992, when countries set up a system to tackle climate crisisIt has been 30 years since the Rio summit, when a global system was set up that would bring countries together on a regular basis to try to solve the …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ New York has a chance to generate all its electricity from clean energy by 2030 | Ross Barkan
2022-06-11 If Democrats act, New Yorkers will begin to get the government they deserve. With climate cataclysms here, the political system can’t afford more delaysIt has been, for progressives in New York, a trying year.Major pieces of legislation that were sup …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ ‘We Buried Him and Kept Walking’: Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger
2022-06-11 The worst drought in four decades and a sharp rise in food prices caused by the war in Ukraine have left almost half of Somalia’s people facing acute food shortages. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Gas Prices in U.S. Hit $5 a Gallon
2022-06-11 The unrelenting march higher continues as the average price touches a new milestone, according to AAA. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Dolphins in New York Harbor
2022-06-11 For two years, an array of six underwater microphones tracked the feeding noises of marine mammals newly prevalent in New York waters. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new book says
2022-06-11 Climatenomics lays out how ‘supply chain disruptions’ has become a euphemism for the effects of climate changeForget Ukraine, coronavirus, corporate greed and “supply chain issues”, when it comes to inflation the climate crisis is the real, las …›
CleanTechnica→ Texas Repays Tesla — Excludes It From EV Rebates
2022-06-11 Aside from other issues, setting up Tesla’s new global headquarters in Texas was always weird since Texas has always had anti-Tesla laws in place that prevent easy, convenient in-store sales for Tesla buyers. Sure, you can buy online and have a T …›
CleanTechnica→ Toys 4 Boys Mini E-Classic, Dynamic Inductive Recharging, RoboRide Robotaxi — EV News Today
2022-06-11 The MINI E-CLASSIC shows us how the past can be green, exciting news for dynamic inductive recharging technology teases us about the future, as does the autonomous car-hailing RoboRide service in Seoul. That and much more EV news is available down belo …›
CleanTechnica→ ERCOT & Tesla: How Virtual Power Plants Can Help Texas Electricity Grid & Save Lives
2022-06-11 Tesla held a virtual power plant (VPP) workshop for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on May 31. Gail Alfar, the writer at What’s Up Tesla?, attended and shared her thoughts. Also in May, Tesla made a request for Powerwall owners …›
CleanTechnica→ Colorado EV Charging Readiness Bill Vetoed — Big Mistake
2022-06-11 In a disappointing move amid an otherwise positive legislative session for transportation, air quality, and climate, Governor Jared Polis vetoed a bill that would have expanded electric vehicle (EV) charging for Coloradans. The legislation, House Bill …›
CleanTechnica→ Multi-Gigawatt Solar from the Middle East
2022-06-11 By Andries Wantenaar of Rethink Energy Azerbaijan has announced a partnership with UAE-based developer Masdar for 1 gigawatt (GW) each of solar and onshore wind, with 2 GW on integrated offshore wind plus green hydrogen production — marking the first …›
The Independent Climate→ Government under fire for food strategy ‘bordering on the preposterous’
2022-06-10 Calls for a sugar and salt reformulation tax appear to be snubbed by ministers in a leaked draft of the Government’s new white paper. …›
The Independent Climate→ Heroes and villains: Photographers document life of Britain’s foxes
2022-06-10 The creatures are loved and loathed in equal measure, so three photographers have combined their work in a new book in a bid to beat the stigma surrounding them …›
The Independent Climate→ Texas grid to break power use record as 40m Americans face sweltering heatwave this weekend
2022-06-10 ‘Take this kind of heat seriously,’ said the National Weather Service in Phoenix …›
CleanTechnica→ Now Mobilizing Against Gun Violence: Scientists & Public Health Professionals
2022-06-10 A report this spring by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health University said the nation has lost 1,357,000 victims to firearms in the last 40 years. That exceeds the number of soldiers killed in all the wars in which the United States has fought. …›
CleanTechnica→ Energy Dome Introduces Its Carbon Dioxide Energy Storage System On Sardinia
2022-06-10 Energy Dome on the island of Sardinia has completed a proof of concept facility for its long duration CO2 battery. …›
Inside Climate News→ In an Attempt to Wrestle Away Land for Game Hunters, Tanzanian Government Fires on Maasai Farmers, Killing Two
2022-06-10 The raid was part of a larger government effort to remove about 70,000 Maasai from their ancestral territory, of which they’re the legal owners.By Katie SurmaTanzanian security forces fired gunshots at Maasai farming communities on Friday during what …›
CleanTechnica→ Is It A Tesla Model Y In Australia?
2022-06-10 After several sightings of Tesla Model Ys on car transporters on the highway, it looks like we may now have confirmation of their arrival in showrooms. This photo below of a suspicious looking black shape in the workshop area of the Valley Tesla showro …›
Climate : NPR→ California has been hit with its 1st — but not last — major heat wave of the year
2022-06-10 California is enduring its first major heat wave of the year. Temperatures are in the triple digits across the state. Experts say there's more of this weather to come this summer. …›
Climate : NPR→ How to prepare for this weekend’s heat wave stretching from California to Texas
2022-06-10 Temperatures will rise into the triple digits across the Southwest and western U.S. this weekend. Daytime temps will be 10 to 20 degrees hotter than normal, according to the National Weather Service. (Image credit: National Weather Service ) …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ How a Highway Divided a Community in Philadelphia
2022-06-10 On a personal episode of “Still Processing,” Wesley Morris revisits a highway that he walked across as a kid. He never knew how deeply it had transformed the neighborhood it ran through. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Punishing heatwave expected across the US south-west this weekend
2022-06-10 Models indicate that there could be between 25 and 30 extreme events a year by mid-centuryMillions across the US south-west are bracing for a weekend of sweltering heat as forecasts threaten record-setting high temperatures that will top 100F in severa …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ The Earth moves far under our feet: A new study shows the inner core oscillates
2022-06-10 Scientists have found evidence that the Earth's inner core oscillates, contradicting previously accepted models that posited it consistently rotates at a faster rate than the planet's surface. …›
The Independent Climate→ Google’s ‘dynamic world’ map tracks humanity’s destruction of nature in real-time
2022-06-10 Users can see how wildfires, storms and other disasters change the landscape …›