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Climate scientists have landed on a new metric for understanding the climate crisis, and it's a sobering way of looking at the mounting effects of burning oil and gas.
Yesterday's weekly newsletter tackled the Trump administration's latest shell game about wind energy. Take a read here: link.motherjones.com/view/68c9ad0...
Some plants and animals are better off than they were before the 2021 heat dome, despite a week of record-breaking heat intensity across Western North America.
However, this is not necessarily a net positive for ecosystems.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, is losing wind turbines that once offset as much as 70% of its power demand. What comes next?
"Looking at the number of bombs dropped or Iranian leaders killed or the fluctuation in the price of oil is not the best way to evaluate this war—especially in these first weeks of the conflict."
Buy organic....if you can afford it.
You can't judge the Iran war by its stats, writes @davidcorn.bsky.social.
"For sure, the US military can be rather successful in killing and annihilating. That might look like winning to some. History tells us otherwise."
Join the Bulletin and the Chicago Council today for a discussion on nuclear power, geopolitics, and energy security.
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With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock
Demand for hydropower surges as Trump clamps down on clean energy
It isn't the target set out in the Paris agreement, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere or the record-breaking string of record-hot years. Now, climate scientists have released a figure that sounds...
A loud cohort of Gloucester, Massachusetts, residents is cheering the shutdown. But some of us are mourning the loss and thinking about what comes next.
www.canarymedia.com
Peaches, strawberries and grapes were almost always found to be contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ in the analysis
The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.
Home to one of the largest deposits of freshwater on the planet, the Great Lakes region will soon host next-generation tidal-powered generators – just as prices are being hiked across the US
www.theguardian.com
To paint a picture of how ecosystems changed in the aftermath of the heat dome, scientists used a combination of computer modelling, media reports and a meta-analysis of existing field data and remote...
