Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.
By @bradplumer.bsky.social
Interesting story on sea-ice-thickening research. Covers moral hazard, potential side effects, working with local stakeholders, scalability. Would like to hear from icy people on their take www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Now the arcane system of water rights governing the river entitles each state and Mexico to far more water than is actually available. The rules prioritize the longest-established uses of water, in many cases dating to the 1850s and 1860s.”
By @byscottdance.com
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Recent Landslides in Indonesia Devastated Rare Orangutans, Study Finds
More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.
By Catrin Einhorn
Tensions Are Rising Between States That Rely on the Colorado River
A prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lay ahead.
By @byscottdance.com
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“In February, a coalition including the National Parks Conservation Assn., American Assn. for State and Local History, Assn. of National Park Rangers and Union of Concerned Scientists filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston alleging that the order was erasing American history and science.”
“About 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of cropland depend on the Colorado for drinking water and irrigation, but its flow has gradually diminished over the past two decades as the climate becomes warmer and more arid across the West.”
By @byscottdance.com
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Reflections on shutting out the view of Earth
By @dgraham.bsky.social:
“When the shades are drawn so quickly, passengers miss out on both the fascinating machinations of infrastructure—the strange vehicles, markers, and signs that make airports work—and the natural beauty of the landscape.”
Sea ice is melting fast, worsening the climate crisis, but a bold attempt to rethicken it is showing early signs of success
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change, slavery and Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history that were removed under an executive order to ...
