NYT > Climate and Environment→ Water Supplies From Glaciers May Peak Sooner Than Anticipated
2022-02-07 New satellite mapping of the world’s mountain ice suggests Earth’s glaciers may contain less water than previously thought. …›
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Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Shifting rainfall patterns will affect whether an imperiled butterfly survives climate change
2022-02-07 When we think of climate change, we often imagine how a warmer world will impact species, but a new study highlights the importance of changes in precipitation. The finding suggests that paying attention to the environmental triggers within each specie …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Europe’s most valuable marine species ‘reduced to a fraction’ of their current population size by 2100
2022-02-07 If carbon emissions continue to increase at their current rate the resilience to climate change of seafood species that are mainstays of the EU market, such as great Atlantic scallop, red mullet, and common octopus, will be weakened by the combined ons …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Drones help solve tropical tree mortality mysteries
2022-02-07 Understanding when and where trees die in vast tropical forests is a challenging first step toward understanding carbon dynamics and climate change. Researchers explained variations in tree mortality over a five-year period by analyzing drone images of …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Deep insights into the Arctic of tomorrow
2022-02-07 Hundreds of international researchers are currently analyzing observations from the one-year MOSAiC expedition, during which hundreds of environmental parameters were recorded with unprecedented accuracy and frequency over a full annual cycle in the Ce …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ The Congo tropical forest is simply different
2022-02-07 Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical forests, releases large amounts of nitrous oxide and binds methane. Researchers have now shown that it behaves differently: methane is released, while nitrous …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Only 15 per cent of global coastal regions remain intact
2022-02-07 New research has revealed that only 15 per cent of coastal areas around the world remain intact, exposing the need for urgent coastal rehabilitation and conservation on a global scale. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Is the Coronavirus in Your Backyard?
2022-02-07 White-tailed deer could become a reservoir for the virus, putting people and animals at risk, health experts say. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ A rainforest cries: music, art, books and more to help you deal with climate anxiety
2022-02-07 From Noname’s new single to Bruegel’s vision of a lost world, our critics offer up culture for processing the impending crisisEnvironmental concerns have motivated the animation giant Studio Ghibli since its salad days: Nausicaä of the Valley of t …›
Inside Climate News→ Activists Urge the International Energy Agency to Remove Paywalls Around its Data
2022-02-07 The intergovernmental organization, based in Paris, derives about a quarter of its budget from subscriptions costing almost $18,000 a year. Activists say the fees are an impediment to climate-related research by nonprofits.By Andrew Marquardt and Jeann …›
Climate : NPR→ An estimated 45,000 people have been displaced by a cyclone in Madagascar
2022-02-06 The cyclone has caused widespread damage by blowing the roofs off homes, knocking down trees and utility poles, making roads impassable and flooding many areas.(Image credit: AP) …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ A Climate Opportunity
2022-02-06 Biden’s big climate goals depend on Congress. …›
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 …›