"Plants And Their Pollinators Are Increasingly Out Of Sync"
"As global temperatures rise and seasons shift, bees and other pollinators are missing critical connections with flowers and crops."
Source: Grist, 07/31/2024
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"A Test for Harris: How to Talk About the Green New Deal"
"In the Senate, Kamala Harris backed an expansive climate plan. Young activists want her to embrace it again, but so do Republicans."
Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2024"World's Forests Failed To Curb 2023 Climate Emissions, Study Finds"
"Forests and other land ecosystems failed to curb climate change in 2023 as intense drought in the Amazon rainforest and record wildfires in Canada hampered their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide, according to a study presented on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 07/30/2024Companies Are Getting Paid When Governments Phase Out Fossil Fuels
"A common part of free trade agreements helps fossil fuel companies force big payouts from governments phasing out oil and gas projects. The United States narrowly avoided a $15 billion claim over the shuttered Keystone XL pipeline."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/30/2024Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution, Documents Show
"This spring, Democrats wrapped up a nearly three-year investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in climate disinformation, and asked the Department of Justice to pick up where they left off. In House and Senate Democrats’ final report and hearing, investigators concluded that major oil companies had not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but also were continuing to misinform them about the industry’s preferred climate “solutions”— particularly biofuels and carbon capture."
Source: Drilled, 07/30/2024Campaign Funds And Charity Donations Help Big Oil Wield Power In Sacramento
"In the weeks before California lawmakers left Sacramento for their summer recess, more than a dozen environmental bills died amid heavy industry opposition in a Legislature overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats."
Source: LA Times, 07/30/2024"Hotter Temperatures Are Causing Trees to Have Heat Strokes"
"How climate-change-driven drying of the air is leading to tree deaths the world over".
Source: Sierra, 07/30/2024Washington Giving Tax Breaks to Data Centers That Threaten Green Energy Push
"In 2019, Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade. Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives."
Source: Seattle Times, 07/30/2024"A Surprising Byproduct Of Wildfires: Contaminated Drinking Water"
"Over the weekend, the Park Fire grew to more than 360,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders and warnings around Chico, Calif. in Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties. In the days ahead, Cal Fire will seek to contain the blaze to reduce harm to people, structures and the environment. However, months from now when the rains come and the fires are extinguished, a hidden threat could put communities at risk once again."
Source: Washington Post, 07/30/2024"Raw Milk Is Booming. A Salmonella Outbreak Highlights Its Risks."
"When Jackie’s 9-year-old son came down with a low-grade fever in October, she chalked it up to a typical back-to-school bug. But his illness worsened over the next couple of days. “His skin tone looked gray,” she said, and near-constant diarrhea left him unable to sleep and too weak to stand."
Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2024"It’s Shark Season. How Worried Should You Be?"
"Humans have been afraid of sharks since long before “Jaws” and “The Meg” patrolled summer movie screens. Whether it’s the teeth or the lifeless eyes, something about them can just make your blood run cold.
Marine biologists are quick to say this fear is way out of proportion. Lightning strikes and bear attacks are more common than shark bites, they say. Of the more than 500 species of shark, only a handful have ever attacked humans, and most bites in the United States can be traced to just four species.
Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2024"California Wildfire Explodes, Becomes Largest In US"
"Thousands of firefighters were battling a rapidly growing wildfire in northern California on Saturday after the blaze more than doubled in size in a 24-hour span."
Source: Reuters, 07/29/2024"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA"
"The details of Project 2025 plans on climate, and for the EPA."
Source: Drilled, 07/29/2024"Project 2025 Plan Calls For Demolition Of NOAA and National Weather Service"
"Among its many sweeping calls for change in American government, a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards."
Source: LA Times, 07/29/2024"The Plastic Industry’s $30 Million Lie"
"If you’ve tuned into any major TV network in the last few months, you may have seen an ad promising a brand new way to end plastic pollution: advanced recycling."
Source: HEATED, 07/29/2024
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