Infrastructure

Another Midwest Drought Causes Shipping Headaches on the Mississippi River

"Abnormally dry conditions have caused low water levels that disrupt barge transports carrying fuel and grain. Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend."

Source: Inside Climate News, 09/16/2024

Investigation Explores Dueling Narratives for Addressing Climate Change

Is carbon capture a climate solution or a dangerous distraction? That was the question that Inside Climate News reporter Nicholas Kusnetz asked in his award-winning explanatory series, “Pipe Dreams.” For Inside Story, Kusnetz talks of the challenges of writing about a technology that largely doesn’t yet exist, and the variety of story forms he used to explore the reality of industry promises.

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New ‘Green Bank’ Could Bring Solar Power And Electric Buses To Appalachia

"Thanks to $500 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, a new initiative called the Green Bank for Rural America could help channel money to nonprofit lenders like the Mountain Association to support community solar arrays, apprenticeships in renewable energy fields, electrified public transit, and other projects."

Source: Grist/BPR, 09/13/2024

"Thirsty Data Centres Spring Up In Water-Poor Mexican Town"

"A two-year long drought in the semi-desert municipality of Colón, in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, has left many struggling with dead crops and water rationing. But at the same time, the local government in Querétaro is giving incentives to companies to build data centres that generally use large amounts of water to cool their servers."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/11/2024

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