"Kelp Gets on the Carbon-Credit Bandwagon"
"Is there potential for seaweeds to help solve the climate crisis?"
Source: Hakai, 02/04/2022
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EPA Warns USPS To Halt $11.3 Billion Gas Truck Contract, Cites Climate
"The Environmental Protection Agency warns Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to halt his plan to replace the aging delivery fleet with thousands of gas-powered vehicles."
"The Biden administration launched a last-minute push Wednesday to derail the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to spend billions of dollars on a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks, citing the damage the polluting vehicles could inflict on the climate and Americans’ health.
Source: Washington Post, 02/03/2022"How Spiking Energy Prices Complicate the Fight Against Global Warming"
"While world leaders have vowed to scale back the use of fossil fuels to help keep a lid on global warming, a drastic upheaval in the markets for oil, natural gas and coal could complicate the shift toward cleaner sources of energy."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2022"US To Modernize, Speed Up Work On Puerto Rico Power Grid"
"Three federal agencies promised Wednesday to help modernize Puerto Rico’s outage-plagued power grid and speed up efforts to strengthen it more than four years after Hurricane Maria razed it."
Source: AP, 02/03/2022"Hanford Begins 1st Large-Scale Treatment Of Nuke Tank Wastes"
"Workers on a former nuclear weapons production site have started the first large-scale treatment of radioactive and chemical wastes from large underground storage tanks, a key milestone in cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 02/03/2022"Extreme Heat In Oceans ‘Passed Point Of No Return’ In 2014"
"Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research."
Source: Guardian, 02/03/2022"From Fertilizer to Fuel: Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?"
"Ammonia has been widely used as a fertilizer for the last century. Now, using renewable energy and a new method for making ammonia, researchers and entrepreneurs believe “green” ammonia can become a significant clean fuel source for generating electricity and powering ships."
Source: YaleE360, 02/03/2022Scotland Hopes To Save Salmon By Planting Millions Of Trees By Rivers
"Millions of trees are being planted beside Scotland’s remotest rivers and streams to protect wild salmon from the worst effects of climate heating."
Source: Guardian, 02/03/2022"Miami Agrees To Do Something About Its Peacock Problem"
"Peacocks may lose their legally mandated welcome in some neighborhoods across Miami-Dade after county commissioners agreed to loosen a law protecting the divisive birds."
Source: Miami Herald, 02/03/2022"The Search for What’s Harming Florida’s Beloved Bonefish"
"If you think it’s not our fault, urine denial."
Source: Hakai, 02/03/2022"A Butterfly Conservatory Is Shutting Down Due To Right-Wing Harassment"
"The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced that it's closing its doors "for the immediate future" after ongoing harassment directed at employees and the center itself."
Source: NPR, 02/03/2022"Manchin, Key Dem, Says Build Back Better Bill Is ‘Dead’"
"Sen. Joe Manchin declared Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s vast social and environment bill is “dead,” using his strongest language to date to underscore that any revival of Democrats’ top domestic priorities would have to arise from negotiations that are now moribund."
Source: AP, 02/02/2022"Va. Senate Panel Snubs Trump EPA Chief for Youngkin’s Cabinet"
"A state Senate committee on Tuesday rejected former Trump administration official Andrew Wheeler for Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet — a rare snub that is not likely to end the Republican governor’s efforts to install Wheeler as secretary of natural and historic resources."
Source: Washington Post, 02/02/2022All Coral Will Suffer Severe Bleaching When Heating Hits 1.5C: Study
"Almost no corals on the planet will escape severe bleaching once global heating reaches 1.5C, according to a new study of the world’s reefs."
Source: Guardian, 02/02/2022Illegal Overfishing By Chinese Trawlers Leaves Sierra Leone ‘Starving’
"As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless".
Source: Guardian, 02/02/2022
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