🌎 Discussion: Climate Change, Global Warming, Emission Standards, and Other Environmental Issues - Part 1

[blueharvest]

From green energy to rivers, environment at heart of nine plans in king’s speech

Labour government recognises ‘urgency of climate challenge’ but presents measures as way to also cut cost of living

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

New fungal infection discovered in China

Scientists uncovered a species of fungi that had never before been seen in humans. They say warmer temperatures could drive its evolution, for the worse.

www.livescience.com

I'm tired of discovering new diseases.

 

[Lily Adler]

New fungal infection discovered in China

Scientists uncovered a species of fungi that had never before been seen in humans. They say warmer temperatures could drive its evolution, for the worse.

www.livescience.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wind power surpassed coal in March and April

Offshore wind, the industry’s most promising area for growth, faced setbacks last year.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

‘A dystopian plot’: how will Trump’s Project 2025 affect California?

The plan takes specific aim at California on abortion rights and green policies – but the state has ways to fight it

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Republicans' Project 2025 Plans to End Free Weather Reports

Millions of people everyday rely on government data to chart the weather. Conservatives have been trying to stop it for decades.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

Tons of dead fish fill river in Brazil after waste dumping allegations

A preliminary analysis estimates that between 10 and 20 tons of fish died on the Piracicaba River in southeastern Brazil, Sao Paulo’s prosecutors said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Dubai to get 'Green Spine' lined with 1 million trees

An architectural firm has unveiled plans to turn a Dubai road into a lush "sustainable corridor," improving transport and air quality in the growing city.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Video shows isolated Amazon tribe emerge from rain forest in Peru amid threat from loggers

Video and several images show the Mashco Piro people, thought to be the largest uncontacted tribe in the world, walking along a river in Peru.

eu.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Climate Activists Get Longest Sentences for Peaceful Protest in British History | Novara Media

Just Stop Oil activists have received four and five-year prison sentences after being found guilty of conspiring to block traffic on the M25. Clare Hymer reports.

novaramedia.com

 

[blueharvest]

Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

Thousands have joined American Climate Corps, a new federal program that links young people with jobs in green energy and conservation

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Climate deniers in Congress threaten the planet and everyone living on it

Illinois Republican Reps. Mike Bost, Darin LaHood and Mary E. Miller are among those cited as climate deniers in a new analysis. Many of the 123 lawmakers in the group have pocketed big sums in "anti-climate money."

chicago.suntimes.com

 

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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/mediterranean-beach-vacation-microplastics-pollution/index.html

 

[blueharvest]

Earth's Water Is Rapidly Losing Oxygen, And The Danger Is Huge

Supplies of dissolved oxygen in bodies of water across the globe are dwindling rapidly, and scientists say it's one of the greatest risks to Earth's life support system.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[blueharvest]

Curb ‘stupid plastics’ and stop industry BS: urgent actions to prevent a plastic crisis

The worst of microplastics is yet to come. Here’s what we need to do now to begin mitigating the wide-ranging harms

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Curb ‘stupid plastics’ and stop industry BS: urgent actions to prevent a plastic crisis

The worst of microplastics is yet to come. Here’s what we need to do now to begin mitigating the wide-ranging harms

www.theguardian.com

We really do need to get working on this already. It's already bad.

 

[blueharvest]

Extreme heat may be crucial factor in human spread of bird flu

As heatwaves hit the US, farm workers struggle to wear PPE. The country now faces its biggest human outbreak

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition’, advocates say

Vice-president’s record on climate crisis strikes stark contrast with Trump in potential 2024 election match-up

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition’, advocates say

Vice-president’s record on climate crisis strikes stark contrast with Trump in potential 2024 election match-up

www.theguardian.com

Good. We're behind everyone else that is actually trying.

 

[:eek:]

Tree cutting in Egypt sparks fury as heatwave hits record highs

Recent heatwaves in Egypt, combined with the removal of trees in cities, have sparked public outrage and concerns over rising temperatures.

www.google.com

 

[blueharvest]

PFAS widely added to US pesticides despite EPA denial, study finds

Research shows ‘forever chemicals’ increasingly found in products as agency claims the chemicals aren’t being used

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Tree cutting in Egypt sparks fury as heatwave hits record highs

Recent heatwaves in Egypt, combined with the removal of trees in cities, have sparked public outrage and concerns over rising temperatures.

www.google.com

Should be planting more!

 

[blueharvest]

‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state

No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now and Louisiana is ground zero

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]