"With Fall Migration, Bird Flu Flies Back Into Town"
"Zoos, bird rescue groups and other animal facilities are grappling with a “radically different” outbreak of avian influenza."
Source: NYTimes, 10/12/2022
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Heatwaves To Make Some Regions Uninhabitable Within Decades: UN, Red Cross
"Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday."
Source: France24, 10/11/2022"How Fossil Fuel Firms Use Black Leaders To ‘Deceive’ Their Communities"
"Black community members have been asked to rubber-stamp harmful projects for decades, activists say".
Source: Guardian, 10/11/2022"With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What’s Next"
"With its 2025 deadline a little more than three years away, environmental leaders are publicly acknowledging what’s been increasingly obvious for years — that the Chesapeake Bay region will for the third time miss a self-imposed cleanup deadline."
Source: Bay Journal, 10/11/2022Truss Plan To Ban Solar On Farmland Risks £20bn Of Investment, Sector Warns
"Up to £20bn of investment in renewable energy is under threat from Liz Truss’s plans to effectively ban solar farms on agricultural land in England, the industry has warned."
Source: Financial Times, 10/11/2022Mongabay Probe Key As Brazil Court Rules On Palm Oil Pesticide Contamination
"Prosecutors in Brazil say the findings from a Mongabay investigation were key to obtaining a court decision this week to probe the environmental impacts of pesticides used by oil palm plantations on Indigenous communities and the environment in northern Pará state."
Source: Mongabay, 10/11/2022Shutting An Agency Managing Sprawl Might Have Put More People In Ian's Way
"When Hurricane Ian roared ashore the Southwest Florida coast last week, it hit one of the fastest growing areas in the nation that's been fueled by sunshine and paved with lax growth management rules."
Source: NPR, 10/11/2022"Drive for Climate Compensation Grows After Pakistan’s Floods"
"Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she used to walk to school and play with are scattered, finding refuge elsewhere."
Source: AP, 10/11/2022"Half Of Voters Say Climate Change Is Important In Midterms, Poll Finds"
"With less than a month until Election Day, roughly half of registered voters say climate change is either “very important” or “one of the most important issues” in their vote for Congress, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll."
Source: Washington Post, 10/11/2022"England’s Summer Heat Waves Linked To Record Excess Deaths Among Elderly"
"England’s scorching summer that sent temperatures to record-breaking highs has now been linked to a record number of excess deaths among the elderly."
Source: Washington Post, 10/11/2022"'Steam Loops' Under Many Cities Could Be A Climate Change Solution"
"Across North America, hundreds of downtowns, college campuses and hospitals are heated by steam carried through networks of underground pipes. Electric companies installed many of these "steam loops" or district energy systems more than 100 years ago in older East Coast cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia."
Source: NPR, 10/11/2022"Nations Agree to Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050"
"After almost a decade of talks, the nations of the world committed Friday to drastically lower emissions of planet-warming gases from the world’s airplanes by 2050, a milestone in efforts to ease the climate effects of a fast-growing sector."
Source: NYTimes, 10/10/2022Gray Whale Numbers Along West Coast Down Nearly 40% Since 2016
"The number of gray whales migrating along the Pacific Coast of North America has steadily declined by nearly 40% from a 2016 peak, and the population produced its fewest calves on record this year, according to U.S. research released on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 10/10/2022"Next on the Supreme Court Docket: Farm Animal Welfare"
"Oral arguments begin next week in a case targeting California’s Proposition 12, a law that bans the sale of pork from farm systems that cage pigs. The ruling has implications for a wide range of other environmental and public health laws."
Source: Civil Eats, 10/10/2022"EPA Is 'Falling Behind' On Power Plant Rules, Report Says"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is “falling behind” on finalizing eight key rules to slash air pollution, water pollution and planet-warming emissions from the nation's power plants, according to a report shared first with The Climate 202 before its broader release Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 10/10/2022
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