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05/26/23

...Supreme Court abandons wetlands

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Audubon

‘Devastating’ Supreme Court Decision Leaves Wetlands Unprotected

By Andy McGlashen 05/26/23
The majority of the nation’s wetlands where many birds raise their young, congregate in winter, and rest during migration—and which filter out pollutants and buffer…
Supreme Court

Supreme Court ruling on wetlands

05/25/23
Petitioners Michael and Chantell Sackett purchased property near Priest Lake, Idaho, and began backfilling the lot with dirt to prepare for building a home. The…
Inside Climate News

Supreme Court Sharply Limits the EPA’s Ability to Protect Wetlands

By Emma Ricketts 05/26/23
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect wetlands applied only to those that are indistinguishable from, and have…
The Washington Post

How Supreme Court’s EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water

By Timothy Puko and Robert Barnes 05/25/23
The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin. Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All…
NPR

Supreme Court ruling narrows scope of Clean Water Act’s wetlands jurisdiction

By Nina Totenberg 05/25/23
The U.S. Supreme Court placed new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clean Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho…
NBC News

Supreme Court delivers blow to wetlands protections in win for Idaho landowners

By Lawrence Hurley 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday significantly weakened a landmark water pollution law by ruling that an Idaho couple's property does not include wetlands subject to…
CNN

Supreme Court rolls back federal safeguards for wetlands under Clean Water Act

By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, with a 5-4 majority…
The New York Times

Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Power to Address Water Pollution

By Adam Liptak 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police millions of acres of wetlands, delivering another setback to the agency’s ability…
Vox

A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news if you care about clean water

By Ian Millhiser 05/25/23
The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision on Thursday which places a drastic new limit on the Clean Water Act, the 1972 law that…
05/25/23

...El Nino is back! what does that mean for weather and economics

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Los Angeles Times

Opinion: El Niño is back. What does that mean for an already overheated California?

By Justin S. Mankin and Christopher W. Callahan 05/25/23
During the El Niño of 1983, Californians counted their blessings. The warm Pacific waters sloshing eastward certainly brought heavy spring rains and record snow. But…
BBC

The high cost of an El Niño in 2023

By Isabelle Gerretsen 05/25/23
Over the coming months, a vast body of warm water will slosh slowly across the tropical Pacific Ocean in the direction of South America. As…
The Washington Post

Here’s why this hurricane season could be unusually unpredictable

By Scott Dance 05/24/23
Under normal circumstances, a quiet Atlantic hurricane season would be a safe bet this year: The global climate pattern known as El Niño is fast…
THE HILL

What El Niño means for the 2023 hurricane season

By Alix Martichoux 05/21/23
National forecasters recently upped the chances that a “potentially significant” El Niño will form soon. Also scheduled to start soon, on June 1, is hurricane…
Popular Science

El Niño is probably back—here’s what that means

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira 05/19/23
This year is going to be pretty unforgettable, and not in a good way. Climate scientists have predicted the arrival of El Niño, a climate…
NPR

El Niño is coming. Here’s what that means for weather in the U.S.

By Bill Chappell 05/03/23
As hot as the Earth's weather has been in recent years, it's about to get hotter: El Niño is on the way, with warmer sea…
05/23/23

...the Colorado River and who gets it’s dwindling water

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The Washington Post

The breakthrough deal to protect the Colorado River, explained

By Anumita Kaur 05/23/23
After nearly a year of negotiations, three states agreed to conserve an unprecedented amount of their water supply to protect the drought-stricken Colorado River. The…
Time

Western States Finally Strike Colorado River Deal. But The Hard Work Has Only Just Begun

By Alejandro De La Garza 05/24/23
t one of Los Angeles’s main water treatment plants a few miles north of the Port of Los Angeles, a small-scale facility is demonstrating what…
The Washington Post

States near historic deal to protect Colorado River

By Joshua Partlow 05/17/23
After nearly a year wrestling over the fate of their water supply, California, Arizona and Nevada — the three key states in the Colorado River’s…
Mother Jones

Utah’s suicide pact with the fossil fuel industry

By Stephanie Mencimer 05/05/23
“The whole connection between water and climate change, and conventional energy development and climate change, is not front and center” in Utah, says Brad Udall,…
The Gazette

Top water attorney, state officials say fed’s Colorado River drought proposal should spur action

By Ernest Luning and Luige Del Puerto 04/13/23
A leading Colorado water attorney says draft guidelines released this week by the Biden administrati ........
Arizona Capitol Times

As states continue to bicker, feds say Colorado River cuts are coming

By Luke Runyon KUNC 04/13/23
Cuts to water use along the Colorado River could be spread evenly across some Southwestern states or follow the more than century-old priority system that…
The Times Of San Diego

Feds Propose Cuts to California, Other States’ Water Supply from Colorado River

By Elizabeth Ireland 04/12/23
Southern California and the state as a whole could see dramatic reductions in allocations of Colorado River water under proposals released Tuesday by the federal…
Spectrum News

Feds propose major Colorado River water cuts as the crisis continues

By Sarah Pilla 04/12/23
A century ago last November, seven states, including California, got together and signed the Colorado River Compact. The document divided the river’s water and provided…
CNN

Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other major cities could face huge water cuts in feds’ proposed plan to save the Colorado River

By Ella Nilsen 04/11/23
The Biden administration on Tuesday released a highly anticipated analysis of the Colorado River crisis that paints a dire picture of what that river system’s…
myheraldreview.com

US floats options to reduce water pulled from Colorado River

By Ken Ritter and Suman Naishadham 04/11/23
The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their…
Desert Sun

Feds may cut supply across seven states to keep Colorado River afloat

By Janet Wilson 04/11/23
The U.S. Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it could ― and possibly would ― impose cuts to Colorado River deliveries starting next year if…
CBS Los Angeles

Feds propose plans for future of Colorado River water distribution

04/11/23
Southern California and the state as a whole could see dramatic reductions in allocations of Colorado River water under proposals released Tuesday by the federal…
Las Vegas Review Journal

Water rights: Feds could place burden on Las Vegas to protect California farms

By Colton Lochhead 04/11/23
The federal government laid out a pair of options Tuesday to drastically cut water use along the Colorado River and keep Lake Mead and Lake…
npr.org

A look at the new plan for managing the drought stricken Colorado River

By Michael Elizabeth Sakas 04/11/23
The Biden administration announced an emergency plan to save lakes Mead and Powell from drying. It gives Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland authority to cut…
Los Angeles Times

At the heart of Colorado River crisis, the mighty ‘Law of the River’ holds sway

By Hayley Smith and Ian James 02/23/23
It’s a crisis nearly 100 years in the making: Seven states — all reliant on a single mighty river as a vital source of water…
Los Angeles Times

California is alone in battle over Colorado River water cuts

By Ian James 02/02/23
After a key deadline passed this week without an agreement on how to address the Colorado River’s crisis, California is now sharply at odds with…
Los Angeles Times

In California’s Imperial Valley, farmers brace for a future with less Colorado River water

By Ian James 01/27/23
Just north of the California-Mexico border, the All-American Canal cuts across 80 miles of barren, dune-swept desert. Up to 200 feet wide and 20 feet…
The New York Times

As the Colorado River shrinks, Washington prepares to spread the pain

By Christopher Flavelle 01/27/23
The seven states that rely on the river for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts. It appears the Biden administration will…
Los Angeles Times

A river guide’s view of Lake Powell’s decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis

By Ian James 01/26/23
Muddy water whizzed past as John Weisheit steered a motorboat upstream in the Colorado River. He revved the engine as the boat sped around a…
Los Angeles Times

The Colorado River is overused and shrinking. Inside the crisis transforming the Southwest

By Ian James and Molly Hennessy-Fiske 01/26/23
The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky…
AZFamily

How Pinal County farmers are dealing with historic cuts to Arizona’s Colorado River water supply

By Whitney Clark 01/18/23
Farming thousands of acres of alfalfa, Bermuda grass, and more, isn’t just a job for Jace Miller: it’s in his blood. “My great-great-grandfather came and…
The Washington Post

Disaster scenarios raise the stakes for Colorado River negotiations

By Joshua Partlow 12/17/22
Those responsible for divvying up the Colorado River's dwindling supply are warning that unprecedented shortages could be coming to farms and cities in the West....
The Washington Post

The Colorado River is in crisis, and it’s getting worse every day

By Erin Patrick O'Connor 05/14/22
It is a powerhouse: a 1,450-mile waterway that stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez, serving 40 million people in seven U.S.…
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05/17/23

…wildfires

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The New York Times

There’s no escape from wildfire smoke

By David Wallace-Wells 05/17/23
In Western Canada, fire season comes early by American standards — beginning, usually, right around now. In Alberta, by today’s date, only about 1,000 acres…
The Washington Post

Air quality hits hazardous levels Wednesday from Canadian wildfire smoke

By Andrew Jeong, Victoria Bisset and Others 06/07/23
Smoke and haze from the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests probably will continue to blanket buildings and residents in the Northeast, the Ohio Valley and the…
City & State New York

Eric Adams, NYC health officials warn of poor air quality risks

By Annie MCDonough 06/07/23
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and a team of top city officials urged New Yorkers to limit outdoor activity whenever possible Wednesday as an…
billmckibben.substack.com

We Can See Clearly Now

By Bill MCKibben 06/07/23
I live in Vermont, where the scent of woodsmoke on a late fall afternoon is an iconic smell. It’s not like that here today—it’s more…
The Washington Post

How long will wildfire smoke last? Here’s the latest air quality forecast.

By Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow 06/07/23
New York City experienced its worst air quality on record Wednesday afternoon as wildfire smoke poured south from Canada. For at least the next 24…
climate central

Wildfire Weather

05/24/23
Climate change is worsening wildfires across the United States and putting more people at risk. Warming from heat-trapping pollution is affecting weather conditions in ways…
Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow 05/16/23
The climate-warming emissions from the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers are behind more than one third of the wildfires that have…
Eco Watch

Smoke From California Wildfires Dimmed Solar Energy in 2020

By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 12/09/22
In September of 2020, the smoke from major wildfires in California made the skies so dark that the state’s solar power production was reduced by…
Inside Climate News

Western wildfires are fueling extreme weather in other states

By Kristoffer Tigue 10/18/22
Scientists are once again sounding the alarm over the intensifying wildfires plaguing the American West. In a series of new peer-reviewed studies, researchers warned that…
Inside Climate News

Western Forests, Snowpack and Wildfires Appear Trapped in a Vicious Climate Cycle

By Bob Berwyn 09/26/22
When Stephanie Kampf visited one of her wildfire test plots near Colorado’s Joe Wright Reservoir in June of 2021, the charred remains of what had…
Climate Signals

Wildfires

09/13/22
Climate change is increasing the size, frequency, and intensity of wildfires as well as the length of the fire season. All fire needs to burn…
CNN

Oregon wildfire explodes in size as multiple blazes rage across the West

By Nouran Salahieh 09/12/22
An outburst of wildfires that broke out over the past week amid triple-digital temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the…
The New York Times

As Wildfires Grow, Millions of Homes Are Being Built in Harm’s Way

By Nadja Popovich and Others 09/09/22
Across the Western United States, wildfires are growing larger and more severe as global warming intensifies. At the same time, new data shows, more Americans…
The New York Times

California wildfire burns at least 50 structures and forces thousands to flee.

By Mandy Feder- Sawyer and Others 09/02/22
A wind-whipped fire that erupted near a defunct lumber mill in Northern California on Friday and became a fast-moving inferno has destroyed at least 50…
Grist

Wildfire smoke is choking Indigenous communities

By Diana Kruzman 08/24/22
On July 29, 2021, Li Boyd woke up to the smell of smoke. It was her birthday — she was turning 38 — and she…
The New York Times

Why Does the American West Have So Many Wildfires?

By Winston Choi-Schagrin and Others 08/01/22
In just one weekend, the McKinney Fire, fueled by strong winds and high temperatures, burned more than 55,000 acres in Northern California, becoming the state’s…
Forbes

How wildfires impact our health, as well as the environment

By Jamie Hailstone 07/13/22
It is a sad truth that many parts of the world - including various parts of the United States - are now facing an increased…
The Conversation

A case for retreat in the age of fire

By Emily E. Schlickman and Others 07/13/22
Wildfires are getting larger, more frequent and more severe in many areas. Although efforts are underway to create fire-adapted communities, it’s important to realize that…
The Los Angeles Times

Out-of-control Yosemite fire threatens iconic giant sequoias

By Alex Wigglesworth and Diana Marcum 07/09/22
The first that Michael Gilbert, a 67-year-old rock climber and bellman, heard of the fire in Yosemite National Park was from a mother and daughter…
The Guardian

‘All that’s needed is a spark’: why the US may be headed for a summer of mega-fire

By Gabrielle Canon 07/07/22
Fire activity is expected to increase in several US states over the coming months, according to a newly released outlook from the National Interagency Fire…
The Washington Post

Extreme lightning sparks more Alaska wildfires in already historic season

By Jacob Feuerstein and Joshua Partlow 07/06/22
An unusual spate of lightning has ignited more than 50 new wildfires in Alaska, worsening air quality, spurring communities to prepare to evacuate and exacerbating…
AP News

Recent rain allows forests in US Southwest to reopen

06/24/22
The monsoon has delivered much-needed moisture to the parched region and relief from scorching temperatures. Forecasters say Arizona has a good chance of getting above-average…
The Washington Post

Arizona wildfires gut observatory buildings, endanger artifacts

By Marisa Iati 06/23/22
In the latest example of the expanding reach of wildfires, a trio of blazes in Arizona has gutted several buildings at a national observatory, forced…
The New York Times

Track Wildfires in the West

By Matthew Bloch, Bea Malsky and Others 06/22/22
The map includes active and recent fires reported by the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services Group. The locations of the fires on the map are…
The New York Times

A wildfire year

By Ashley Wu and Matthew Cullen 06/20/22
The American West is burning more quickly than it has in a decade. New Mexico has been fighting its two biggest wildfires on record for…
The New York Times

Arizona Wildfire Destroys Observatory Buildings

By Neelam Bohra 06/19/22
The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 18,000 acres, twisting among Indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might…
Los Angeles Times

Pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires likely offset decades of air quality gains

By Tony Briscoe 06/17/22
In an analysis published this week in the annual Air Quality Life Index, researchers found that wildfire smoke probably offset decades of state and federal…
The New York Times

California Wildfire Scorches Nearly 1,000 Acres and Prompts Evacuations

By Christine Chung 06/13/22
A fast-moving wildfire in California’s Angeles National Forest has grown to nearly 1,000 acres in a little more than a day, prompting road closures and…
cnn

Hundreds are urged to evacuate due to wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona, as thousands more are told to prepare to leave

By Elizabeth Wolfe & Others 06/13/22
The Pipeline Fire was first reported by a fire lookout at around 10:15 a.m. Sunday and has grown to 4,500 acres, according to InciWeb, a…
The New York Times

A ‘Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire’: New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season

By Tim Wallace and Nadja Popovich 06/01/22
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…
The New York Times

Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States

By Christopher Flavelle and Nadja Popovich 05/16/22
The nation’s wildfire risk is widespread, severe and accelerating quickly, according to new data that, for the first time, calculates the risk facing every property…
The Washington Post

1 in 6 Americans live in areas with significant wildfire risk

By John Muyskens, Andrew Ba Tran, Naema Ahmed and Anna Phillips 05/16/22
When a wildfire tore through drought-stricken towns near Boulder, Colo., late last year, it reminded Americans that fire risk is changing. It didn’t matter that…
The Washington Post

How the future trees of New Mexico were almost destroyed by wildfires

By Elizabeth Miller 05/12/22
Saving tree seedlings critical to restoring forests in the Southwest from the fires ripping through northern New Mexico took four trucks and three trailers —…
The Washington Post

‘Potentially historic’ wildfire event threatens New Mexico, Southwest

By Matthew Cappucci & Jason Samenow 05/07/22
Critical-to-extreme wildfire conditions are about to take hold of the southwestern United States and parts of Colorado, leading into what could be a lengthy, multiday…
The New York Times

Smoke and sandstorm, seen from space

By Maggie Astor 05/04/22
A time-lapse image of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico and dust from a storm in Colorado illustrates the scope of Western catastrophe. The video…
The Guardian

New Mexico governor urges Biden to declare wildfires a disaster to free funds

05/03/22
New Mexico’s governor on Tuesday asked President Joe Biden to declare a disaster as firefighters scrambled to clear brush, build fire lines and spray water…
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03/20/23

...the newly released IPCC Report

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Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle

03/24/23
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published the synthesis report of its sixth assessment report (AR6). This forms the final part of…
Inside Climate News

Corporate interests ‘watered down’ the latest IPCC climate report, investigations find

By Kristoffer Tigue 03/28/23
References to fossil fuels and meat consumption were removed from the report summary, while language bolstering controversial carbon removal technologies were added.
The Boston Globe

Urgency heightened in Mass. in face of grim UN climate report

03/27/23
Re “Pushing up climate goals here would be daunting: Mass. efforts have targeted 2050, but UN report may mean it’s not soon enough” (Page A1,…
TNR

Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics

By Kate Aronoff 03/24/23
The release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week has provoked a new round of discussion about how best…
The New York Times

Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says

By Brad Plumer 03/21/23
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic…
The New York Times

A clear message from science

By Somini Sengupta 03/20/23
“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).” This is the most striking…
The Guradian

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

By Fiona Harvey 03/20/23
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that…
The Conversation

‘It can be done. It must be done’: IPCC delivers definitive report on climate change, and where to now

By Frank Jotzo and Mark Howden 03/20/23
The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely,…
The Conversation

IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status quo and embrace innovation

By Robert Lempert and Elisabeth Gilmore 03/20/23
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will…
The Washington Post

World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says

By Sarah Kaplan 03/20/23
The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming —…
IISD

Summary report, 13–19 March 2023

03/19/23
“Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Global greenhouse…
Medium

Climate change will impact everything everywhere all at once

By Christa Avampato 03/06/23
Over the weekend, I read a disturbing article that quoted a potential presidential candidate who wrote, “We will keep fighting until we put a stop…
moodys.com

Latest IPCC Report Demonstrates Urgency & Opportunity of Reaching Net Zero

04/15/22
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the third and final part of its sixth assessment report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate…
The Nature Conservancy

The Latest IPCC Report: What is it and why does it matter?

04/04/22
The IPCC has released a new climate report, building on the findings of a previous report released in February. But what exactly is the IPCC?…
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01/18/23

...replacing gas stoves with electric

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GRID

Gas stoves can harm your health — and scientists have known that for decades

By Jonathan Lambert 01/18/23
The United States’ never-ending culture wars have moved to the kitchen, as Republicans turn up the heat on nascent efforts to shift Americans away from…
The Boston Globe

The gas stove culture war, explained

By Dharna Noor 01/19/23
A common household appliance has sparked the nation’s latest culture war. Gas stoves were deemed dangerous in a slew of recent studies, fueling chatter about…
HEAT

Why gas stoves actually matter

By Emily Atkin 01/19/23
In last week’s HEATED chat, paid subscribers and I were discussing (what else?) gas stoves, when a reader chimed in to express frustration. “I yearn…
climate solutions

Gas stove talk gets weird

01/19/23
Scientists have been calling attention to the health risks associated with gas stoves since the 1970s. But a new study prodded a government agency to…
The Washington Post

I bought an induction stove. Then the power went out.

By Tove Danovich 01/18/23
I had been touting the benefits of my new induction stove to all my friends since I switched from gas about a year ago. Water…
The Guardian

Are gas stoves really dangerous? What we know about the science

By Brian Kahn 01/15/23
Gas stoves are a hot topic. A new study linked them to one in eight childhood asthma cases, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said…
The Atlantic

May the Best Stove Win

By Jacob Stern 01/14/23
Somehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a…
business insider

Chef Alison Roman loves her induction stove. Twitter has so many questions

By Catherine Boudreau 01/14/23
Electric-induction stoves got celebrity-chef endorsements following a controversy over gas stoves. nduction stoves are popular in Europe, but unfamiliar to many Americans. "Can you toast…
Politico

What the right’s gas stove freakout was really about

By Alex Guillén and Ben Lefebvre 01/14/23
No, President Joe Biden isn’t coming for your gas stove. Republicans and conservative pundits have spent the past week nonetheless expressing alarm about the fate…
Fox 13

Push to phase out gas stoves over health concerns met with online anger

By Matthew Smith 01/14/23
The push to electrify kitchens is not new. Scientists have sounded the alarm on the dangers of gas stoves for years. In the mid-80s, the…
The New York Times

About That Gas Stove

By Somini Sengupta 01/13/23
My grandmother in India cooked for many years with coal, then with a tank of liquid petroleum gas. As a child in California, I lived…
Grist

U.S. regulators hinted at a possible ban on gas stoves. The debate boiled over

By John McCracken 01/12/23
Seemingly overnight, the gas stove in nearly one of three homes in the country became an appliance of controversy, bringing possible comparisons to cigarettes on…
Consumer Reports

Induction Cooktops and Ranges Are So Good You May Not Miss Your Gas Appliance

By Paul Hope 01/12/23
Gas cooktops and ranges have had a rough couple of years. They have been the de facto choice for chefs and serious home cooks for…
VOX

The gas stove regulation uproar, explained

By Rebecca Leber 01/11/23
When the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced in mid-December it would consider its first-ever health regulations on gas stoves, it was the start…
Bonappetit

Are Gas Stoves Unsafe? Here’s What to Know About the Gas vs. Induction Debate

By Ali Francis 01/11/23
On Monday, US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg that the federal agency would consider a nationwide ban on the installation of…
The Washington Post

U.S. agency examines secret pollution from gas stoves

By Shannon Osaka 01/10/23
For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the…
Bloomberg News

US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears

By Ari Natter 01/09/23
A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
Electrify Corvallis

Professional Chefs Love Cooking With Induction

07/05/22
Reviewed's mission is to help you buy the best stuff and get the most out of what you already own. Our team of product experts…
Electrify Corvallis

Top Chef Jon Kung: Why I Cook With Induction

05/07/22
I made this video in partnership with Mothers Out Front about why I cook almost exclusively with induction these days - and why I won't…
Robb Report

How Michelin 3-Star Chef Eric Ripert Designed His Own Home Kitchen

By Janice O'Leary 03/19/22
At New York’s Michelin three-star Le Bernardin, that lone lobster claw sitting in a lime-green remoulade upon a sea of porcelain might seem the essence…
01/15/23

..."atmospheric rivers" generating floods in California

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The Washington Post

Flood watch covers nearly all of California amid severe storms

By Todd C. Frankel, Timothy Bella and Others 01/15/23
Nearly 26 million people in California were covered by a flood watch Saturday, mostly between San Francisco and Los Angeles, as fresh rain and storms…
climate central

Atmospheric Rivers

03/29/23
Annual snowpack surveys on April 1 indicate how much snow-derived water will be available through the summer for households, farms, and cities across the West.
The Washington Post

California’s vineyards were thirsty. Historic rains were ‘a dream come true.’

By Reis Thebault 01/21/23
So when recent rainstorms wreaked chaos across California, growers in the heart of the state’s iconic wine country did not grumble about the dangerous and…
Los Angeles Times

Storm flooding compounds misery for California farms and workers

By Dorany Pineda and Brittny Mejia 01/21/23
He pointed to a 40-foot storage container that Santa Clara River floodwaters had swept off a neighboring farm and deposited before him. Overturned tractors and…
The Washington Post

Before and after: See the impact of California storms from space

By Dan Stillman 01/21/23
After at least nine atmospheric rivers in a little more than three weeks dumped more than 30 trillion gallons of water on California, the state’s…
The New York Times

How do you fight a drought when it’s flooding?

By Farhad Manjoo 01/20/23
California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming…
Los Angeles Times

‘Endless stream’ of new storms hits California again this week. What to expect

By Rong-Gong Lin II, Hayley Smith, Susanne Rust 01/16/23
The seventh atmospheric river storm since Christmas hit California on Wednesday, and more flooding is possible as two more are forecast through the Martin Luther…
The Washington Post

Atmospheric river bears down on California, but storms are weakening

By Kim Bellware 01/16/23
The atmospheric rivers that brought pounding rains and heavy snow over parts of California this month continued to drench Southern and Central California on Monday,…
Los Angeles Times

California bracing for one final round of storms as officials assess damage

By Taryn Luna 01/15/23
Another moderate storm moved into California Sunday evening, bringing more rain to Los Angeles, the coast and inland valleys, and dropping potentially up to 2…
The Washington Post

California’s winter storms have been deadlier than any wildfire since 2018

By Reis Thebault 01/14/23
Relentless wind and rain has killed people sleeping in homes and in tents. It has taken the lives of those sheltering indoors and those working…
Los Angeles Times

Mass storm outages bring misery across California, exposing power grid’s vulnerabilities

By Grace Toohey 01/13/23
David Higares was on his fourth day without power in his Morada home in San Joaquin County when he woke up to indoor temperatures barely…
The New York Times

Weeks of Storms Test California’s Approach to Taming Nature

By Christopher Flavelle 01/12/23
As California battles a third week of lashing rain and snow that have flooded communities, broken levees and toppled power lines, the state is facing…
The New York Times

California’s Redwood Forests Don’t Mind Wet, Windy Weather

By Amanda Holpuch 01/11/23
When the rain is relentless and the wind is ferocious, there are plenty of imperiled things for Californians to worry about. The state’s iconic redwood…
Los Angeles Times

Crushed by falling trees. Drowned in floodwaters. The deadly toll of California storms worsens

By Hayley Smith 01/11/23
A toddler crushed by falling trees. A 5-year-old swept away by floodwaters before his mother’s eyes and still missing. Three bodies recovered from inside or…
NPR

Heavy rain is still hitting California. A few reservoirs figured out how to capture more for drought

By Lauren Sommer 01/11/23
Despite several weeks of torrential rain and flooding, California is still facing a severe multi-year drought. That has many people thinking about how to better…
the conversation

Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like

By Amir AghaKouchak 01/11/23
Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric…
Los Angeles Times

Death toll rises to 19 in California as new storms hit battered communities

By Luke Money and others 01/11/23
From the Pacific coast to the Central Valley, California communities battered by days of destructive flooding began repair and cleanup efforts Wednesday as the weather-weary…
The New York Times

A ‘Pineapple Express’ Is Bringing Rain and Snow to California

By Judson Jones 01/11/23
Forecasters said the rain arriving in California on Wednesday is being caused by a “true Pineapple Express” — a specific example of a common atmospheric…
The New York Times

Will Storms End California’s Drought? That May Be the Wrong Question

By Henry Fountain 01/11/23
The onslaught of rain in California has state officials, scientists and others wondering if it will be enough to end three years of drought that…
Reuters

Storms bring mudslides, evacuations to California with more rain forecast

By Jorge Garcia 01/10/23
The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides…
Bloomberg

Soaked California Faces More Rain as Residents Are Forced to Flee

By Brian K Sullivan and Mark Chediak 01/10/23
California faces more drenching rain as a historic drought has given way to flooding that’s killed at least 17 people, closed highways and sent residents…
The Washington Post

Calif. storm triggers more floods, tornado warnings as death toll climbs

By Matthew Cappucci and others 01/10/23
Heavy rain continued to drench California on Tuesday as an ongoing parade of storms left much of the state in disarray, with power outages, collapsed…
Reuters

Biden declares emergency for California due to winter storms

01/09/23
U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California after a week of storms killed at least 12 people in the past 10 days…
Los Angeles Times

Deadly results as dramatic climate whiplash causes California’s aging levees to fail

By Hayley Smith, Louis Sahagún, Jessica Garrison 01/05/23
The pounding rains of New Year’s Eve had ceased, but the pastures, freeways and neighborhoods surrounding the tiny community of Wilton continued to disappear beneath…
01/10/23

...wrapping up climate in 2022 and the news isn’t all bad

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NOAA

Assessing the U.S. Climate in November 2022

12/08/22
The average temperature of the contiguous U.S. in November 2022 was 41.0°F, which is 0.7°F below average, ranking in the middle third of the record.…
IEA

CO2 emissions in 2022

03/04/23
CO2 Emissions in 2022 provides a complete picture of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2022. The report finds that global growth in emissions was not…
NASA

A Look Back: 2022’s Temperature Record

01/12/23
2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks…
Inside Climate News

2022 will be remembered as the year the U.S. became the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz 01/01/23
When environmentalists look back on 2022, they might remember it as the year the United States finally passed a major climate change law. Some advocates…
Inside Climate News

Snapshots, hotshots and moonshots: Images of climate change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod 12/31/22
Climate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing…
Los Angeles Times

Doom isn’t inevitable: My top 10 climate lessons from 2022

By Sammy Roth 12/29/22
Another year gone by. Another 365 days of drought, fire, flood and heat. With more to come in the New Year. You’ve heard it all…
Gizmodo

The Climate Disasters That Defined 2022

By Angely Mercado 12/29/22
Countries all over the world saw one climate disaster after another this year. There were relentless heat waves, deep freezes, and hurricanes so destructive they…
GIZMODO

The Biggest Energy Surprises of 2022

By Molly Taft 12/28/22
It’s been a hell of a year in energy. 2022 was full of historic changes—and quite a few surprises—as the world grappled with an energy…
The New York Times

This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

By Leah C. Stokes 12/25/22
For almost half a century, the world has talked about quitting its addiction to fossil fuels. Yet, year after year, we remain stuck with the…
The New Yorker

The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded

By Bill McKibben 12/20/22
he progress, or lack of it, in the climate fight is measured in an observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, the largest…
Inside Climate News

Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022 – Inside Climate News

By Dan Gearino 12/08/22
You can forgive people who work on U.S. energy policy for being tired this month. They have just sprinted, and sometimes slogged, through an extraordinary…
ATMOS

10 Environmental Justice Wins in 2022 to Celebrate

By Yessenia Funes 12/05/22
We didn’t save the world in 2022, but there were notable wins in the climate and environmental justice space. The Frontline takes time to celebrate…
The Washington Post

We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope

By Chris Mooney, Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens 12/01/22
It’s the world’s most important climate goal: limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). It’s the aspiration of global agreements, and to…
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