"We Should Eat More Plants. Here’s Which Ones Are Best For The Planet."
"So you’re thinking about eating more plants?"
Source: Washington Post, 11/03/2022
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"The Marine Lab in the Path of Fury"
"At the DeFelice Marine Center, researchers and staff are living, working, and adapting to climate change in real time."
Source: Hakai, 11/03/2022"The Pinyon Jay’s Plight"
"Two culprits have pushed this keystone species to the brink in New Mexico."
Source: The Revelator, 11/03/2022"Rishi Sunak Is Now Going To COP27 Climate Summit"
"The prime minister has reversed an earlier decision not to go to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt."
Source: BBC News, 11/02/2022Brazil Top Court Says Bolsonaro Recognized Election Loss By OKing Transition
"Brazil's Supreme Court said in a statement on Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro recognized the result of the election he lost by authorizing the start of a transition to a government by President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva."
Source: Reuters, 11/02/2022Feds Pick Gulf's First Two Zones For Offshore Wind Off Louisiana, Texas
"The federal government has selected the first two areas for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Mexico, clearing the way for a process that could have windmills spinning over the waves near Louisiana by the decade’s end."
Source: Nola.com, 11/02/2022Nearly 1/3 of S. Sierra Forests Killed By Drought And Wildfire In Decade
"As climate change continues to transform California’s landscape in staggering and often irreversible ways, researchers have zeroed in on yet another casualty of the shift: the forests of the southern Sierra Nevada."
Source: LA Times, 11/02/2022Not Enough Land To Meet Many Of The World’s Climate Pledges: New Study
"National climate pledges would collectively require 1.2 billion hectares (about 3 billion acres) of land, researchers have found in a new study, The Land Gap Report."
Source: Mongabay, 11/02/2022"Enormous Emissions Gap Between Top 1% And Poorest, Study Highlights"
"The top 1% of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10% over more than two decades, new data has shown."
Source: Guardian, 11/02/2022"As Climate Change Worsens, U.S. Weighs Which Communities to Save"
"The Biden administration is considering proposals to relocate Native American communities threatened by global warming. It could become a template for the rest of the country."
Source: NYTimes, 11/02/2022"White House Trumpets $13 Billion Move to Reduce Energy Costs"
"The White House on Wednesday announced more than $13 billion in assistance aimed at lowering utility bills, creating union jobs, and meeting climate goals—with a big emphasis on heat pumps."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/02/2022Toxic Metal Pollution Is 10 Times Worse In Racially Segregated Areas
"Racially segregated communities in the United States are exposed to airborne toxic metals at a rate that’s nearly 10 times higher than more well-integrated areas, according to a new study published Tuesday."
Source: Washington Post, 11/02/2022"Exclusive: Shark Finning Rampant Across Chinese Tuna Firm’s Fleet"
"Dalian Ocean Fishing used banned gear to deliberately catch and illegally cut the fins off of huge numbers of sharks in international waters, Mongabay has found."
Source: Mongabay, 11/02/2022Biden Warns of Windfall Tax To Stop Oil Company ‘War Profiteering’
"President Joe Biden escalated weeks of sharp warnings to energy producers on Monday by floating a so-called “windfall” tax on their corporate profits, calling out major gas companies for racking up gains from a spike in prices he attributes to Russia’s war in Ukraine."
Source: CNN, 11/01/2022"2/3 of US Money For Fossil Fuel Pours Into Africa Despite Climate Goals"
"Joe Biden will head to Egypt next week to tout America’s re-emergence as a leader on the climate crisis at the Cop27 talks. But he will be landing in a continent that the US continues to pour billions of dollars into for fossil fuel projects, with seemingly no end in sight despite the president’s promises."
Source: Guardian, 11/01/2022
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