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.
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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 […]
Read more...Could Leaving ‘Room for the River’ Help Protect Communities from Floods?
A pioneering Dutch strategy offers one way to respond to the increasing threat of flooding.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debts, Worthless Shares, Collapsed Prices of Oil & Gas
The day of reckoning has arrived in oil and gas. A record number of companies have filed for bankruptcy. with the epicenter in Texas.
Read more...2020’s Plague of Locusts Spreads to Indian Subcontinent and South America
State of play for locust infestations in Nepal, Pakistan, India, Argentina, Brazil…. and the United States.
Read more...Some New Climate Models Are Projecting Extreme Warming. Are They Correct?
Why some of the more dire predictions of climate models may be an overshoot.
Read more...Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API
Minnesota launches a bold climate lawsuit. What are its odds of prevailing?
Read more...Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
Read more...We Caught Bacteria from the Most Pristine Air on Earth to Help Solve a Climate Modeling Mystery
Due to how remote the Southern Ocean is, there have been very few actual studies of the clouds there.
Read more...Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
Read more...Melting Ice Opens Doors for Wider Spread of Contaminants, Diseases
New pathways and new and more distant places are leading to additional scientific findings on impacts of melting Arctic ice.
Read more...U.S. States Just Lost Pipeline Veto Rights And That’s A Big Deal For Oil
The EPA issued new regulations on pipeline approvals that narrow state authority to intervene. But the fight may not be over.
Read more...Climate Change: Hurricanes Getting Stronger; Cyclone Amphan Pummels Bengal
Study: climate change is worsening tropical storms. Cyclone Amphan is battering an India and Bangladesh locked down to slow COVID-19.
Read more...Betsy Sweet: “In Maine, We Live the Climate Crisis Everyday”
Betsy Sweet, a Democratic primary candidate for the US Senate, explains why a progressive policy agenda is popular in Maine.
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