"Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity"
"When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 02/01/2022
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Count Estimates Earth Has 73,000 Tree Species – 14% More Than Reported
"There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species."
Source: Guardian, 02/01/2022
"‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams"
"A new generation of pesticides promoted as safe alternatives to compounds shown to endanger the environment and public health are turning up in California streams at toxic levels, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022
"Georgia Power Plans To Double Renewables, Ditch All Coal"
"Southern Co.’s Georgia Power utility announced a plan yesterday to double its renewable energy footprint by 2035 as it maps out a path to close the rest of its coal fleet in that time."
Source: E&E News, 02/01/2022
"Biden Begins Crackdown On Power Plant Pollution"
"Biden administration officials are kicking off a crackdown on power plant pollution, aiming to shift the nation’s electricity supply to cleaner energy in the face of congressional resistance and a Supreme Court that could limit the federal government’s ability to tighten public health standards."
Source: Washington Post, 02/01/2022
2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
The Society of Environmental Journalists' 10th annual look ahead at the year's key energy and environmental issues took place Feb 9, moderated by #SEJ2022 co-chair and ProPublica/Texas Tribune Investigative Unit's Perla Trevizo. Event details, recording and chat log.
2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
Join us Feb 9 for the Society of Environmental Journalists' 10th annual look ahead at the year's key energy and environmental issues, moderated by #SEJ2022 co-chair and ProPublica/Texas Tribune Investigative Unit's Perla Trevizo. 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET. Advance registration required.
"Deadly Colorado Blaze Renews Focus On Underground Coal Fires"
"A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state’s first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.”
Source: AP, 01/31/2022
"Mexican Town Protects Forest From Avocado Growers, Cartels"
"Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the pine-covered mountains of western Mexico, where loggers clear entire hillsides for avocado plantations that drain local water supplies and draw drug cartels hungry for extortion money."
Source: AP, 01/31/2022
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