Will Glasgow Fix Broken Climate Finance Promises?
A sad but not surprising tally of how the Glasgow summit fell way short on climate handwaves, um, commitments.
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The New Coal: Pushing Plastics Worsens Climate Change
Climate change campaigners will be locked in a whack-a-mole contest with fossil fuel interests, as they seek to address upcoming challenges, including increasing plastics production.
Read more...‘The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Planet’: Review of EPA Power Triggers Alarm
“This is the equivalent of an earthquake around the country for those who care deeply about the climate issue.”
Read more...Inspiration from the 1970s for Today’s Young Environmentalists
Today’s young environmentalists can learn much from the example of the 1970s.
Read more...Climate Change Is Muting Fall Colors, But It’s Just the Latest Way That Humans Have Altered US Forests
Like so many things, fall color season ain’t what it used to be.
Read more...“Want to See a Modern Country Commit Suicide? Take a Hard Look at Britain”
Post Brexit Britain is not doing at all well, and things are not going to take a turn any time soon.
Read more...Tiny Leaks, Big Impacts: New Research Points to Urban Indoor Methane Leaks
A new carbon reduction target: Researchers in Boston find buildings’ indoor sources emit much more methane than most experts thought.
Read more...Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
Read more...French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds
A new study has found Total knew about the links between climate change and fossil fuels 50 years ago.
Read more...Joe Biden Is in No Position to Lecture the World on Climate Change
The US president’s administration has lots of rousing climate change rhetoric but has taken little action.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...Moving Beyond America’s War on Wildfire: 4 Ways to Avoid Future Megafires
Under a changing climate, we will have to learn to coexist with wildfires in the U.S. West.
Read more...In 2021, US on Pace for Most Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Since Records Began
“What we are seeing now with these increasing disasters is with just one degree of warming on our planet,” said one scientist. “We have to choose now between bad or terrible outcomes.”
Read more...Rural Alaska Has a Bridge Problem as Permafrost Thaws and Crossing River Ice Gets Riskier with Climate Change
In Alaska, bridges face a unique and growing set of problems as the planet warms.
Read more...Microsoft Endorses Right to Repair; Apple Doubles Down on Opposition
Microsoft responds to a shareholder resolution by supporting the right to repair, at least in theory; Apple remains opposed.
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