"The Plague Is More Likely Now Thanks to Climate Change"
"The risk of the plague spilling over from humans to animals in the western U.S. has increased since 1950 thanks to climate change, a new study has found."
Source: Earther, 11/23/2021
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RCMP Tracked Photojournalist Amber Bracken In Investigations Database
"An RCMP officer reveals police were collecting information about journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano in a database of police investigations".
Source: The Narwhal, 11/23/2021Jaguars In Mexico Are Growing In Number; Conservation Strategies Working
"The jaguar population in Mexico increased by about 800 animals from 2010 to 2018, according to the first two censuses of the elusive carnivores ever conducted in the country. The news confirms that Mexico’s national strategy to protect jaguars is working, researchers reported recently in the journal PLOS One."
Source: Mongabay, 11/23/2021How U.S. Yen for Leather in Luxury SUVs Worsens Amazon Deforestation
"An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers."
Source: NYTimes, 11/23/2021"Insuring New York Against Climate Change"
"Climate change poses “wide-ranging and material risks to the financial system,” a New York state agency is warning, and the insurance industry needs to be prepared."
Source: Grist, 11/23/2021"Long Thought Extinct, A Native Corn Re-Emerges"
"The fact that these age-old varieties survived — the fact that Pawnee corn exists at all in 2021 — is a story of tribal perseverance, cutting-edge horticulture and good, old-fashioned cooperation".
Source: Flatwater Free Press, 11/23/2021"Flood-Hit Canada Province Braces For Heavy Rain, Three Bodies Found"
"Searchers located three bodies swept away by landslides in British Columbia, officials said on Saturday, after record rainfall that paralyzed parts of the province, leading to food and fuel shortages."
Source: Reuters, 11/22/2021"How The House Spending Bill Addresses Climate Change"
"The budget reconciliation proposal passed by the House would mark the biggest climate investment in U.S. history at half a trillion dollars. It would also move President Biden closer to his administration’s ambition goals of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050."
Source: Washington Post, 11/22/2021"Wildfires Torched Up To A Fifth Of All Giant Sequoia Trees"
"Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday."
Source: AP, 11/22/2021"Brazil Accused Of 'Greenwashing' The Amazon's Deforestation"
"Deforestation in the Amazon region has risen for the fourth straight year, despite international pressure and pledges from Brazil's government to preserve the rainforest."
Source: DW, 11/22/2021RCMP Arrest Journalists, Land Defenders Following Gidimt’en Eviction
"RCMP arrested two journalists, including photojournalist Amber Bracken, on assignment for The Narwhal, during police enforcement of a Coastal GasLink injunction in northwest B.C. Friday."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/22/2021Canada’s Tar Sands Destruction Challenges Existence of Land and People
"Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people’s traditional lands with mines that cover an area bigger than New York City, stripping away boreal forest and wetlands and rerouting waterways."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/22/2021"A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution"
"The quest for Congo’s cobalt, which is vital for electric vehicles and the worldwide push against climate change, is caught in an international cycle of exploitation, greed and gamesmanship."
Source: NYTimes, 11/22/2021Company Cancels Plans For $2.5 Billion Oil Terminal In Plaquemines Parish
"A Midwest energy company on Friday canceled controversial plans for a $2.5 billion oil export terminal and pipeline in Plaquemines Parish after facing numerous obstacles to development. Instead, Tallgrass Energy Partners said it will consider other uses for the site."
Source: Nola.com, 11/22/2021"The Real Reason Gas Prices Are So High Right Now"
"It's not the Biden administration's energy policies nor Big Oil illegally manipulating prices."
"On Wednesday, amid a fresh surge in gas prices, the Biden administration announced that it had asked the FTC to investigate whether oil and gas companies were doing anything illegal to manipulate prices. Republicans have countered that it’s a cheap political stunt and blamed President Joe Biden’s energy policies.
Source: Earther, 11/22/2021
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