Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year (www.theguardian.com)
Environmentalists are having a cow over Tyson Foods' "climate friendly" beef (www.motherjones.com)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday her intention to sue the fossil fuel industry for its role in changing Michigan's climate and threatening the state (www.detroitnews.com)
Report: Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion (www.motherjones.com)
What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view | Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls (www.theguardian.com)
Images of a Brazilian City Underwater | Torrential rains have caused one of Brazil’s worst floods in modern history, leaving more than 100 dead and nearly an entire state submerged. (www.nytimes.com)
Climate experts say the region is reeling from the effects of El Niño, the cyclical climate phenomenon that can bring heavy rains to Brazil’s southern regions while causing drought in the Amazon rainforest....
10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean | Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has churned them out (www.nytimes.com)
The world’s biggest plant to pull carbon from the sky just opened | Experts say we’ll need carbon capture to offset stubborn emissions that can’t easily be cut with existing green technology. (wapo.st)
the plant is designed to remove 36,000 metric tons of carbon each year, the equivalent of taking 8,600 cars off the road....
The Doom vs. Optimism Debate | How to reconcile two new reports that seem to tell very different stories about the state of climate change. (www.nytimes.com)
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more (wapo.st)
The corruption is really open at this point....
BIPOC-led climate groups get bigger funding boost (www.axios.com)
Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? (theconversation.com)
Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? (theconversation.com)
I just used to accept the 7% increase per c figure but as indicated...
Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why. The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing. (www.nytimes.com)
While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change....
Why Petrostates Keep Seizing the Serengeti | A carbon credit company run by an Emirati sheik just gained control over 8% of Tanzania’s land, displacing nearly 100,000 Maasai people in the process. (atmos.earth)
G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars | The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States. (www.nytimes.com)
G.M. produces the Malibu at a plant in Fairfax, Kan., and will continue to manufacture the car until later this year, when it plans to retool the factory to make a new version of the Chevrolet Bolt, an electric car, and the Cadillac XT4, a luxury S.U.V.
Five things to know about Canada’s 2022 emissions (440megatonnes.ca)
Nicaragua drops 10-year-long Plan for Chinese canal concession which experts said would imperil the climate and uproot provincial networks (www.theglobaleconomics.com)
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Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former US Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNG (insideclimatenews.org)
Inundaciones en el sur de Brasil: Rio Grande do Sul bajo el agua | Las lluvias torrenciales han provocado una de las peores inundaciones de la historia moderna de Brasil, dejando al menos 100 muertos (www.nytimes.com) Spanish
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The world's oceans just broke on an important climate change record (www.salon.com)
More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total (apnews.com)
Scientists say emissions from burning fuels like coal must ramp steeply down to protect Earth’s climate, yet there was an increase in electricity made from burning fossil fuels. China, India, Vietnam and Mexico were responsible for nearly all of the rise....
How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic | Evidence is mounting that human disruptions to natural ecosystems are raising risks of disease spread, according to a new study. (wapo.st)
New York Times coverage of the same study...
China Is Way Ahead in Green Energy. Here’s Why That’s Risky for the U.S. Beijing’s dominance raises economic and security concerns, and tensions will be on full display as top climate diplomats meet (www.nytimes.com)
From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere (apnews.com)
When the world is warmer, it is likely to have more extreme weather and climate events, including record heat and rainfall, scientists say. And climate change is also changing weather patterns, leading to rainy and hot systems stalling over areas and the jet stream meandering, said Alvaro Silva, a climate scientist at the World...
