"How Megafires Are Remaking the World"
"In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."
Source: NYTimes, 10/16/2023
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Electric Vehicles Will Be Burning Rubber in 2024
As global sales of electric vehicles surge, the positive impact on climate change emissions could be a critical benefit. But as our Backgrounder points out, it’s not as simple as that. There are challenges with politics, tax laws, mineral access, related pollution regulations and union jobs. Get an overview of the issue, in this latest entry in our expanding 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy.
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Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard
If you’re harboring serious doubts about the climate future but want to be prepared to cover it, the latest Reporter’s Toolbox offers up a seasonably ghoulish list of a dozen and a half great visualization sources to help tell the story. And lest it leave you spooked, remember, as the saying goes, everything will be OK in the end. And if it's not OK, it's not the end.
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Warming And Habitat Loss Shrink Pollinator Numbers, Threaten Coffee, Cocoa
"Changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops. As those problems interwine and intensify, it likely will hit coffee lovers right in the mug, according to a new study."
Source: AP, 10/13/2023
"Extreme Heat Risks Rise For Pregnant Women And Babies"
"As a health worker in South Sudan, Night Stella Elias sees from year to year how rising temperatures are adding to the dangers faced by pregnant women and their babies."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/13/2023
"War In The Middle East Jeopardizes Climate Talks"
"A lasting war between Israel and Hamas could complicate climate talks next month in the United Arab Emirates by raising tensions between nations with fragile alliances and triggering a race to secure energy resources over reducing carbon emissions."
Source: E&E News, 10/13/2023
Trillions Of Tons Of Of Ice Melts From Many Protective Antarctic Ice Shelves
"Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial “gatekeepers’’ between the frozen continent’s massive glaciers and open ocean."
Source: AP, 10/13/2023
"How Climate Change Is Threatening Your Beer"
"Climate change is making it harder to grow hops, a key ingredient in beer".
Source: Washington Post, 10/12/2023
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