Cannabis is a climate villain, thanks to federal prohibition DailyClimate_RSS, POLITICS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 21, 2021Cultivating weed can be an emissions-heavy industry, and requiring each state to grow its own is making it worse
Melting ice in Arctic linked to bowhead whales holding off annual migration DailyClimate_RSS, impacts, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 21, 2021Researchers in Canada find that population did not bother making the 6,000km roundtrip in 2018-2019.
Also roaring back from pandemic: Earth-warming emissions climate, DailyClimate_RSS, economy, emissions, energy, health, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 21, 2021Global warming emissions are expected to spike this year as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and economies begin to recover.
‘Forever chemicals,’ other pollutants found around the summit of Everest DailyClimate_RSS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 18, 2021Researchers find toxic elements smudging the world’s tallest peak in ways unseen and previously unstudied.
Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis? DailyClimate_RSS, environment, Florida, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 17, 2021From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable
Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism? DailyClimate_RSS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 17, 2021Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye and other writers and activists on where they find hope.
Climate Crisis: Why 2050 goals aren’t good enough climate denial, DailyClimate_RSS, impacts, Paris Agreement, POLITICS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 15, 2021With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there...
Champagne goes green to battle climate change climate, DailyClimate_RSS, food, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 15, 2021It seems probable that the wine industry, more than any other agricultural industry, is going green in environmental terms.
100% clean power? U.S. may be halfway there climate, DailyClimate_RSS, energy, POLITICS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 15, 2021Surveying the future in 2005, energy experts predicted a steady climb of carbon emissions from power plants over the next 15 years. Reality blew the...
Pennsylvania: Neighbors and anglers cry foul over Sunoco’s pollution of Chester County trout stream DailyClimate_RSS, fishing, pennsylvania, POLITICS, RSS_NEWSBy CCR@IIXXI8April 12, 2021The discharge is not toxic, but it can hurt stream life. And people who live near the work site are fed up with a project...