Climate Change

January 6, 2025

DEADLINE: Extreme Heat Reporting Training in West Africa

Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sources, story angles and ideas on how to cover the mounting impacts of this climate threat. Apply by Jan 6.

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"Chart: Wind And Solar Overtook Coal On The US Grid In 2024"

"In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024. The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while coal contributed 15 percent, according to data from think tank Ember."

Source: Canary Media, 12/23/2024

WH Scientists Call For National Effort To Curb Groundwater Depletion

"Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges that call for the federal government to play a larger role."

Source: LA Times, 12/23/2024

How A Public University Courted The Gas Industry Despite Climate Impacts

"As the liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom gained momentum in southwest Louisiana, one public institution of higher learning, McNeese State University, courted the industry to help launch a new LNG Center of Excellence, hired a director doubling as an LNG industry lobbyist, and approached federal regulators to co-locate their own research center at the university, according to emails obtained via public records requests by DeSmog and The Guardian."

Source: DeSmog/Guardian, 12/20/2024

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