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

[squeekness]

You go, girl!! Love you!

 

[blueharvest]

University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Woman drops AirTag in recycling to see if plastics are actually recycled

A Texas environmentalist found that her recycling was going to a local facility that has been hoarding plastics yet to be recycled.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lily Adler]

You go, girl!! Love you!

In a Bernie AU, I could see him giving her the Medal of Freedom.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[squeekness]

In a Bernie AU, I could see him giving her the Medal of Freedom.

She's earned it.

 

[blueharvest]

EPA pledges $15M to study "significant threat" to U.S. food supply

Ten grant recipients will research reducing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure to the U.S. food supply.

www.newsweek.com

 

[squeekness]

EPA pledges $15M to study "significant threat" to U.S. food supply

Ten grant recipients will research reducing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure to the U.S. food supply.

www.newsweek.com

Hope they find some way to actually stop these chemicals from being created in the first place.

 

[blueharvest]

Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation

A court in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle out of what is supposed to be a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon, which is illegal.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Biden-Harris Administration invests $100 million in a new high-performance computer system to advance NOAA research and development

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act support a state-of-the-art high-performance computer system to advance weather, climate, ocean and ecosystem research

www.noaa.gov

 

[blueharvest]

The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change

Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a poleward shift in parts of these jet streams could cause dramatic changes in weather from the western US to the Mediterranean

www.newscientist.com

 

[:eek:]

https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/pollution-harms-men-s-fertility-but-traffic-noise-affects-women-s

 

[blueharvest]

‘Oh my God, what is that?’: how the maelstrom under Greenland’s glaciers could slow future sea level rise

A pioneering mission into a mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be cleaned for $7.5 billion

The Ocean Cleanup today declared the eradication of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) achievable within a decade and an ambition to make the cleanup happen faster and more cost effectively.

www.sailworldcruising.com

 

[squeekness]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be cleaned for $7.5 billion

The Ocean Cleanup today declared the eradication of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) achievable within a decade and an ambition to make the cleanup happen faster and more cost effectively.

www.sailworldcruising.com

Hope it actually happens before it gets even bigger.

 

[Lily Adler]

She's earned it.

Only reason I didn't say Hillary is I'm not sure how serious her administration would have taken the climate crisis and if she would reward an activist who would be pushing her administration to do more.

 

[blueharvest]

What's at stake in the US election? The climate for the next million years | Bill McKibben

Donald Trump gets everything wrong about global heating. The results of the vote in November could reverberate for a million years

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

What's at stake in the US election? The climate for the next million years | Bill McKibben

Donald Trump gets everything wrong about global heating. The results of the vote in November could reverberate for a million years

www.theguardian.com

Because if you can't make money from it, he doesn't care.

 

[blueharvest]

The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’

In Barra de Santiago, local people are struggling to save one of the few remaining mangrove forests, as they are lost to agriculture and urban sprawl

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’

In Barra de Santiago, local people are struggling to save one of the few remaining mangrove forests, as they are lost to agriculture and urban sprawl

www.theguardian.com

People don't realize how important mangroves are as barriers against coastal flooding. They should be building them up, not ripping them out.

 

[blueharvest]

Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study

Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south

www.google.com

 

[blueharvest]

Texas proposes first new rules for oilfield waste in 40 years

While environmentalists say the new rules don’t do enough to protect groundwater, oil and gas operators are contesting stricter requirements for waste pits near wells.

www.texastribune.org

 

[squeekness]

Texas proposes first new rules for oilfield waste in 40 years

While environmentalists say the new rules don’t do enough to protect groundwater, oil and gas operators are contesting stricter requirements for waste pits near wells.

www.texastribune.org

Can't make money without making a mess.

 

[blueharvest]

How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power

The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firms

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Big Oil Sold Stuff They Knew Was Dangerous. There’s a Law for That.

Prosecuting fossil fuel executives for reckless endangerment could help millions of victims of climate change–related disasters get justice.

newrepublic.com