CleanTechnica→ Ford Offers 6 New EV Chargers & Considers Zero Inventory Dealer Model
2022-03-10 Ford is offering a range of EV chargers and a possible zero inventory sales model for its EVs. …›
Category Archives: Climate
An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
CleanTechnica→ ESG Lawsuits in 2022 Challenge Environmental Reporting Discrepancies
2022-03-10 Consumers are watching corporations more than ever and identifying statements about environmental practices that may not be accurate. They're using the legal system to hold companies accountable. …›
The Independent Climate→ Relocate farms and cut their carbon footprints by 70%, scientists say
2022-03-10 Scientists remap global farmland to reveal ‘optimal scenario’ for reducing impacts on climate …›
Climate Beat Archive — Covering Climate Now→ War, Oil, and Reporting the New Climate Story
2022-03-10 Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Russia’s war on Ukraine is an epoch-changing event that poses sweeping challenges, and opportunities, for climate reporting. Suddenly the only existential threat that matches climate change, nuclear war, has …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Hawaiian corals show surprising resilience to warming oceans
2022-03-10 A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change. …›
The Independent Climate→ Sydney floods: No point tackling climate in Australia if emissions keep rising in developing world, PM says
2022-03-10 Flooding is among ‘most extreme disasters in Australian history’, says major environmental assessment …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ ‘Seafloor fertilizer factory’ helped breathe life into Earth
2022-03-10 Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth's seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Cutting HFCs to cool the Earth
2022-03-10 To have a better chance of holding global warming to 1.5°C, we need to accelerate the phase-down of HFC refrigerants under the Montreal Protocol. This could also reduce pollution and improve energy access. …›
Climate Beat Archive — Covering Climate Now→ Q&A: John Mecklin on Climate Change and Other Existential Threats
2022-03-10 Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with John Mecklin, editor in chief …›
The Independent Climate→ ‘Bomb cyclone’ to ice over parts of US, tornadoes possible
2022-03-10 A bomb cyclone, is essentially a winter hurricane, and commonplace on the Eastern Seaboard …›
Covering Climate Now – Columbia Journalism Review→ John Mecklin, of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on climate change and other existential threats
2022-03-10 Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with John Mecklin, editor in chief …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Whatever your agenda, the war in Ukraine will have a huge effect on British politics | Polly Toynbee
2022-03-10 From energy security to Britain’s place in Europe, Putin’s criminal invasion has thrown every issue into sharp reliefChurchillian echoes from Volodymyr Zelenskiy stiffened the sinews and summoned up the blood of the House of Commons: “We will fig …›
Climate – Science News→ How did we get here? The roots and impacts of the climate crisis
2022-03-10 Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as Vancouver, Portland and Seattle baked in record temperatures that killed hundreds …›
CleanTechnica→ Electric Vehicles Cut CO2 Emissions — Huge Emissions Reductions Possible with Smart EV Charging
2022-03-10 A new report, More EVs, Fewer Emissions, lays out strategies to maximize emissions reductions through optimized EV charging and provides clear recommendations for the transportation and power sectors. A new report from RMI has found that optimized char …›
The Independent Climate→ Voices: How cities across the world are taking the lead to slow climate change
2022-03-10 I’ve been determined to make our city a global leader on climate action. Here’s what we have done so far …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Millions suffering in deadly pollution ‘sacrifice zones’, warns UN expert
2022-03-10 Businesses blamed for rise of toxic hotspots hitting poor communities hardestA UN expert has warned of the creation of pollution “sacrifice zones” across the world, where tens of millions of people are suffering strokes, cancers, respiratory proble …›
The Independent Climate→ Electric vehicle conspiracy theories abound on social media after gas price hikes
2022-03-10 Social media users suggesting soaring fuel prices in the US are part of a government scheme to get drivers into electric vehicles …›
The Independent Climate→ Australia storms turns beach red with ‘maggot-filled’ algae
2022-03-10 ‘We were completely in shock,’ woman who visited beach says …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists
2022-03-10 Scientists have produced a map showing where the world's major food crops should be grown to maximize yield and minimize environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural use of freshwater to …›
CleanTechnica→ Scaling Clean: Assessing Market Options for Clean Energy & Capacity in PJM
2022-03-10 Scaling Clean: This report draws on original RMI analysis as well as extensive discussions with PJM states, utilities, customers, and clean energy developers. Spurred by state decarbonization policy, strong customer demand, and rapidly improving techno …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Australia Declares National Emergency Amid Severe Flooding
2022-03-10 Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia, said the deadly downpours that forced thousands of people to evacuate the nation’s eastern coast are making the country harder to live in. …›
The Independent Climate→ Endurance: ‘Remarkably’ low sea-ice levels helped historic mission to find Shackleton’s lost ship
2022-03-10 Exclusive: Antarctic expedition’s chief scientist says crew took advantage of rare favourable conditions to reach long lost wreck …›
Inside Climate News→ Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up
2022-03-10 Coal, wind and solar gained market share, while natural gas, hydropower and nuclear were down.By Dan GearinoOne of the near constants in the transition to clean energy has been the decline of coal as a fuel for power plants. And then 2021 happened. …›
CleanTechnica→ XPeng P5 Open for Reservations in 4 European Markets!
2022-03-10 XPeng expands further in Europe — begins selling XPeng P5 in 4 European countries and opens first store in the Netherlands, second in Europe. For nearly a decade, I and others have been wondering how long it would be until top electric vehicle (EV) p …›
Climate : NPR→ Why Baghdad will be one of the cities hardest hit by global warming
2022-03-10 Iraq's capital city is already seeing record heat — up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit. A report predicts more 120-plus degree days to come. And the "urban heat island" effect will make things even worse.(Image credit: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images) …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ How oil companies rebranded deceptive climate ads as ‘free speech’
2022-03-10 In two dozen climate liability cases, companies are arguing that their public statements about climate change are not ‘deceptive’ so much as persuasive – and protected free speechOn 24 October 2019, Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachus …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Climate change fundamentally affecting European birds, study shows
2022-03-10 Changes to birds’ size, habits and morphology have been linked to rising temperaturesGlobal warming is changing European birds as we know them, a study has found, but it’s not just the increase in temperature that’s to blame.Researchers have foun …›
Climate : NPR→ Soaring gas prices have Biden talking up the importance of domestic drilling
2022-03-10 Russia's war on Ukraine and the resulting oil price spike have forced the Biden White House to consider all kinds of measures for fossil fuel that it once would have shunned. …›
The Independent Climate→ Waitrose and Aldi ban sale of disposable barbecues for environmental reasons
2022-03-10 The devices cannot be recycled or composted and tend to end up in landfill …›
CleanTechnica→ The Limited Range of Electric Vehicles as a Blessing for Peace
2022-03-10 By Dmitry Pelegov I’m a Russian scientist writing a large book about the past, present, and future of electric vehicles. I’m supposed to avoid discussing the present days, but I hope it would be nothing criminal if I would remember the past and dre …›
CleanTechnica→ Joe Biden Highlights Tesla As “Our Nation’s Largest Electric Vehicle Manufacturer” (Again)
2022-03-10 The quick news of the past week with regard to US President Joe Biden and global EV leader Tesla is that Biden has stated that Tesla is “our nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer” — just as he did a month ago in a separate …›
CleanTechnica→ EU to Cut Gas Imports from Russia by ⅔ in 2022
2022-03-10 For the past several years, the argument from some — most notably Germany — has been that if there is a greater interdependence between Russia and the rest of Europe, Russia would be a more friendly actor. Perhaps we can all just get along? Vladimi …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Unesco to visit Great Barrier Reef as coral bleaching risk rises
2022-03-10 Environment groups say visiting scientists must be given true picture of the reef, ahead of world heritage committee meeting in JuneFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA United …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ How Climate Change Inflicts a Toll on Mental Health
2022-03-10 More than two-thirds of Americans are anxious about climate change. They feel grief, anger and hopelessness. We spoke to people about the invisible scars of this growing crisis. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ What a Power Cutoff Could Mean for Chernobyl’s Nuclear Waste
2022-03-10 With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ In Lismore, it’s getting harder to tolerate climate inaction – and Morrison’s cowardly silence spoke volumes | Kate Stroud
2022-03-10 This is Lismore’s second natural disaster in five years. The Coalition government doesn’t care about usScott Morrison circus fails to impress Lismore, a town that has lost everythingThis time was going to be different; we were prepared. I felt prou …›
The Independent Climate→ Can microalgae hasten the end to our reliance on oil?
2022-03-10 There are approximately 100,000 species of microalgae, and over the last few decades research has shown the potential biofuel uses, explains Callum Russell …›
CleanTechnica→ Porsche Temporarily Suspends Production — Reportedly Due To Russia–Ukraine War
2022-03-09 Porsche is temporarily suspending the production of its vehicles thanks to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to several reports. Motor1 initially reported that Porsche is halting the production but that it’s temporary, citing a tweet b …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ What are conservative commentators saying about the floods and climate? | Temperature Check
2022-03-09 Australia has been through worse, Chris Kenny contends, while Andrew Bolt suggests global heating is ‘brilliant for farmers’Temperature Check is a weekly column examining claims about climate change made by governments, politicians, business and in …›
The Independent Climate→ Heat pumps and insulation ‘will end need for Russian gas faster than new North Sea drilling’
2022-03-09 Equivalent energy demand could be ‘wiped out by 2027’ through greater efficiency, analysis finds …›