Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk (e360.yale.edu)
Edible Insects: In Europe, a Growing Push for Bug-Based Food (e360.yale.edu)
Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 (e360.yale.edu)
Boiling hard water then Filtering Can Get Rid of Microplastics, Study Finds (e360.yale.edu)
Global Power Sector Emissions Headed for Decline (e360.yale.edu)
When Species Names Are Offensive, Should They Be Changed? (e360.yale.edu)
Why Is Britain Retreating from Global Leadership on Climate Action? (e360.yale.edu)
World Appears on Track to Triple Renewable Power by 2030 (e360.yale.edu)
Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade (e360.yale.edu)
Climate Plans That Rely Too Much on Carbon Removal Could Breach International Law (e360.yale.edu)
TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)
As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires (e360.yale.edu)
A.I. use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water, and it indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs....
In Texas, the Heat Index Is Rising Faster Than the Temperature (e360.yale.edu)
Why We Won’t Know When We’ve Passed the 1.5-Degree Threshold (e360.yale.edu)
Judge Finds Trump-Era Rule Allowing Old-Growth Logging Violates Federal Law (e360.yale.edu)
e360.yale.edu/…/trump-rule-old-growth-logging-ore…
New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse (e360.yale.edu)
A new analysis by Australian and American researchers, using new and more detailed modeling of the oceans, predicts that the long-feared turn-off of the circulation will likely occur in the Southern Ocean, as billions of tons of ice melt on the land mass of Antarctica....
New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse (e360.yale.edu)
As Climate Talks Near, Calls Mount for a ‘Phaseout’ of Fossil Fuels (e360.yale.edu)
Climate Change Yielding Bigger Waves Along the California Coast, Study Finds (e360.yale.edu)
The paper is here
As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires (e360.yale.edu)
After a Record 2023, Coal Headed for Decline, IEA Analysts Say (e360.yale.edu)
This year coal demand grew by 1.4 percent worldwide, according to an IEA analysis, which found a stark divide between developing and developed countries. While coal use grew by 5 percent in China and 8 percent in India, the world’s largest producers and consumers of coal, it fell by 20 percent in the U.S. and the EU....
As Temperatures Rise, Dengue Fever Spreads and Cases Rise (e360.yale.edu)
Indonesia, Malaysia Have Cut Deforestation in Half in Last Half-Decade (e360.yale.edu)
Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk - Yale E360 (e360.yale.edu)
The data supplied to the UNFCCC, and published on its website, are typically out of date, inconsistent, and incomplete. For most countries, “I would not put much value, if any, on the submissions,” says Glen Peters of the Centre for International Climate Research in Norway, a longtime analyst of emissions trends.
Why Is Britain Retreating from Global Leadership on Climate Action? (e360.yale.edu)