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In U.S. cities, ridership on public transit is growing as the Iran War keeps gasoline prices high.
Last month, for the first time in the U.S., solar generated more electricity than coal.
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Former crew members on squid fishing expeditions report environmental crimes and labor abuses. via @insideclimatenews.org
Tiny particles of rubber cast off by car tires, which have long been known to harm wildlife, may also pose a risk to humans, according to a new study.
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The Trump administration is moving to dismantle a vast ocean observation system.
The system supplies data on critical Atlantic currents that increasingly appear in danger of collapse.
Weekday commutes aboard the Los Angeles public transit system have grown by 8 percent since January, Bloomberg reports. In the Bay Area, weekday ridership aboard the regional train system has risen by nearly 11 percent. Chicago has also seen transit ridership grow by 11 percent this year, while in Boston, usage of the local rail system has jumped by 13 percent.
In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, blue whales rely on krill to survive.
But warming is driving declines of krill, while supertrawlers are harvesting them en masse to meet the global demand for nutritional supplements.
Countless animals, from honeybees to turkey vultures, rely on their sense of smell to locate food or mates.
Increasingly, scientists are finding natural fragrances are being disrupted or degraded by warming and pollution, with consequences for wildlife.
Warming has “fundamentally altered” the climate of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, exposing millions of Islamic pilgrims to increasingly dangerous heat, a new analysis finds. via @theguardian.com
Lost to science for more than 70 years, the black-lored waxbill was only recently rediscovered in a marshy region of the Congo.
Now, researchers have published the first clear photographs of the bird ever taken in the wild.
A mooring used in the Ocean Observatories Initiative is recovered off the coast of Alaska.
Rebecca Travis / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Last month, for the first time in the U.S., solar generated more electricity than coal, a reflection of both the rapid adoption of renewable power and the declining fortunes of America’s aging fleet of coal power plants.
African countries are increasingly looking to renewable energy to meet growing power demand.
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In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, whales and other marine mammals rely on krill to survive. But as the market for human dietary supplements and animal feeds booms, and climate change reduces krill populations, scientists worry there may not be enough to go around.e360.yale.edu
Tiny particles of rubber cast off by car tires, which have long been known to harm wildlife, may also pose a risk to humans, according to a new study.
A growing body of research shows how air pollution, fertilizers, and fungicides are altering the chemical signals that plants and animals use to communicate. Scientists warn that insect reproduction, foraging, navigation, and even the pollination of crops could be affected.
“Africa is not on the periphery of the global energy transition, it is sitting at its center,” Mugwe Manga, climate finance lead at FSD Kenya, told the Associated Press. “The continent holds the world’s best renewable resources, and the economics have now decisively turned in favor of clean energy.”
