Population, Climate Leave Cities On A Fast Track To Water Deficits
"By 2050 many of the world's major cities will face surface water shortages, spurring regional conflict and competition for scarce resources".
Source: Daily Climate, 01/25/2018
Climate Change
"Murky World Of 'Science' Journals A New Frontier For Climate Deniers"
"Deniers have found a platform in emerging publications that publish without rigorous review".
Source: Guardian, 01/25/2018
Charting the Year Ahead in Environment, Energy News
This is a decisive time on the energy and environment front, with challenges and confrontation expected over the consummation of the Trump deregulatory agenda. Our second annual issues guide provides a roadmap for covering the big stories. The guide's formal launch took place at an SEJ event in Washington, D.C. on January 26. If you missed it, the webcast is archived here.
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"How Engineering Earth’s Climate Could Seriously Imperil Life"
"Travel with me to the year 2100. Despite our best efforts, climate change continues to threaten humanity. Drought, superstorms, flooded coastal cities. Desperate to stop the warming, scientists deploy planes to spray sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, where it converts into a sulfate aerosol, which reflects sunlight. Thus the planet cools because, yes, chemtrails."
Source: WIRED, 01/23/2018
"Lloyd's of London To Divest From Coal Over Climate Change"
"Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, has become the latest financial firm to announce that it plans to stop investing in coal companies."
Source: Guardian, 01/22/2018
"EPA Official: Government Must Plan For Climate Change"
"WASHINGTON — A top manager who supervises the Environmental Protection Agency program responsible for cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated properties and waterways told Congress on Thursday that the government needs to plan for the ongoing threat posed to Superfund sites from climate change."
Source: AP, 01/22/2018
"CEQ Pick Hartnett White May Be In Trouble"
"Council on Environmental Quality nominee Kathleen Hartnett White, one of the White House's most controversial staffing choices, may be stuck in the Senate."
Source: E&E Daily, 01/22/2018
"Warming, Water Crisis, Then Unrest: How Iran Fits an Alarming Pattern"
"UNITED NATIONS — Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency or even full-scale war."
Source: NY Times, 01/22/2018
"EPA Official Speaks On Risk Of Climate Change To Toxic Sites"
"A top manager who supervises the Environmental Protection Agency program responsible for cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated properties and waterways told Congress on Thursday that the government needs to plan for the ongoing threat posed to Superfund sites from climate change."
Source: AP, 01/19/2018
"With Climate Change, This Island Is Swallowed by the Sea"
"Rising waters now cover homes and land on a Bangladeshi island, leaving farmers desperate."
Source: NY Times, 01/19/2018
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