It’s Raining Plastic, From the Pyrenees to the Rockies to the Arctic
On the extent of plastic exposure in the form of microplastics.
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‘The Next Flint,’ and America’s Problem with Lead in Its Water
What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
Read more...Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?
Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.
Read more...Summertime and the Living is Easy: In Praise of Farmers Markets
Not every aspect of modern life has been crapified: in praise of farmers markets, and the pleasure of making good jam.
Read more...Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices.
Read more...Example of ‘Unknown Unknowns,’ Study Detailing ‘Almost Instant Mortality of Corals’ Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood
New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.
Read more...New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
Read more...Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom
Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.
Read more...Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming
Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.
Read more...Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal
Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.
Read more...Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Electric Cars
Press and affluenza enthusiasm for electric vehicles is ahead of mass consumer appetite.
Read more...Climate Equity: What Is It?
Why the AOC-Kamala Harris climate equity scheme fails as climate and economic policy.
Read more...Carbon Dividends: A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Yves here. Carbon dividends are a way to create support for setting a price for carbon. None other than those starry-eyed granola heads at Financial Times called for setting a price for carbon in 2007. Pigovian taxes (ones meant to discourage activity, like transactions taxes) should typically not be seen as revenue generators, since you […]
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
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