Permafrost, the Cryosphere, the Biosphere, and Climate Change
The effect of permafrost thaw on disease, the built environment, and the release of carbon, with a surprising possible solution!
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Emergency Situation: The Slow-Moving Tragedy of the Russian Arctic
The Russian version of America’s flyover has it pretty bad: declining industries and environmental stress.
Read more...Paltry Flint Toxic Water Settlement: Let’s NOT Kill All the Lawyers (at Least Not Some of Them)
Michigan gets off easy with its $600 million settlement of allegations that lead-tainted water in Flint has caused permanent brain damage for its victims.
Read more...‘They Have Nowhere To Run’: Inmate Families, Advocates Push for Prisoner Release as California Wildfires Engulf State
The prisons that house some inamets lie in the path of wildfires, and California hasn’t yet furloughed them or moved them to safety.
Read more...Earl Katz: Regenerative Agriculture and Massive Planting of Trees is Our Only Hope
Earl Katz, an early climate change warrior, looks at the dwindling number of options humans have for alleviating global warming.
Read more...How the Agricultural Lobby Is Sabotaging Europe’s Green Deal
The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.
Read more...Global Warming Is Accelerating. (In Other News, Democrats Reverse Platform, Won’t End Fossil Fuel Subsidies)
The Democrats busy themselves with a self-love fest as they ignore more and more dire evidence of the progress of global warming.
Read more...Mauritius Oil Spill Tragedy: How and Why the MV Wakashio Ran Aground, and Aftermath
A mysterious course change, a birthday party, oil on the beaches, and a billion dollars in compensation (maybe).
Read more...Scientists Seek to Collect Ice Core Samples Before Glaciers and Ice Sheets Melt
Ancient ice tells the secrets of the past, but it’s melting as the world warms.
Read more...The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
How the Bakken oil boom, particularly hasty development and transport by rail, was destined to create an environmental hangover…..and no one bothered to prevent it.
Read more...Mauritius Oil Spill Tragedy
Some photos and commentary from Mauritius, whose oil spill is a major ecological disaser.
Read more...Trump EPA Poised to Weaken Obama Methane Rule, Despite Possibility of Later CRA Overturn
Trump EPA to weaken Obama methane rule, acceding to fossial fuel pressure, despite the Congressional Review Act, which may kick in aft Nov.
Read more...Wind Farms Built on Carbon-Rich Peat Bogs Lose Their Ability to Fight Climate Change
Wind farms provide sustainable energy but must be properly sited, so not to destroy the carbon sink characteristsics of peat bogs.
Read more...Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...The Mekong River, Water Wars, and Information Wars
By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]
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