"Summer Reads: Lost Birds, Pummeled Pumas and Climate Anxiety"
"We have the word on several great new books, including a look at how to fight climate disinformation and a satire of the extinction crisis."
Source: The Revelator, 06/26/2024
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"Climate Crisis Driving Exponential Rise In Most Extreme Wildfires"
"Scientists warn of ‘scary’ feedback loop in which fires create more heating, which causes more fires worldwide".
Source: Guardian, 06/25/2024Oil Lobby Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
"In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape."
Source: ProPublica, 06/25/2024"Joe Biden’s Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs"
"U.S. companies have created more than 300,000 clean energy jobs since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, according to a detailed new analysis from an environmental advocacy group."
Source: HuffPost, 06/25/2024"The Dirty Secret Of California’s Legal Weed"
"An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state".
Source: LA Times/WeedWeek, 06/25/2024"A Ride in a Chemical-Sniffing Van Shows How Heat Amps Up Pollution"
"In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week."
Source: NYTimes, 06/25/2024"Climate-Proofing India's Daily Bread: The Race For Resilient Wheat"
"Too hot, too dry, too wet; as extreme weather threatens food security, the race is on to get new seed varieties in the ground"
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/25/2024Underfunded NYC Parks Dept. Losing Fight Against Invasives, Disrepair, Climate
"Mayor Adams’ proposed budget cuts may place an outsized burden on park conservancies and small volunteer groups. With less than 1 percent of the city budget spent on parks, they’re finding it harder and harder to keep up."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/25/2024"How Biden’s Promise To Coal Country Became A Warning For Democrats"
"A fading coal town in Pennsylvania is struggling to replace the jobs and money that the fossil fuel industry once offered."
Source: Washington Post, 06/25/2024"Ash Trees Are Dying Everywhere. This Is Why."
"A bug is going to make your summers hotter".
Source: Sierra, 06/25/2024"Environmental Protests: Interview With UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst"
"The repression that environmental activists using peaceful civil disobedience are facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights, according to U.N. special rapporteur Michel Forst."
Source: Mongabay, 06/25/2024Billions Of People Just Felt The Deadly Intensity Of Climate-Fueled Heat Waves
"Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace."
Source: Washington Post, 06/24/2024"Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of 'Advanced' Plastic Recycling"
"The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a “solution” that works like magic. Don't be fooled."
Source: ProPublica, 06/24/2024"Bayer Lobbies Congress To Help Fight Lawsuits Tying Roundup To Cancer"
"The biotech giant Bayer has lobbied Congress over the past year to advance legislation that could shield the company from billions of dollars in lawsuits, part of a national campaign to defeat claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer in people who use it frequently."
Source: Washington Post, 06/24/2024"Fees to Film on Public Lands Tossed for Nonprofit as Suit Proceeds"
"A federal judge temporarily blocked commercial filming fees on public lands for an outdoor recreation nonprofit but allowed the fees to remain in place for others while a lawsuit plays out."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/24/2024
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