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ClimateNewsNow, 14 days ago to climate

Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrunk so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.

Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times. #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/venezuela-loses-its-last-glacier-as-it-shrinks-down-to-an-ice-field?CMP=share_btn_url

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It.

The industry knew decades ago that recycling was never viable in the long term, and now we’re all being poisoned by its product. #ClimateChange

https://newrepublic.com/article/179267/recycling-doesnt-work-plastics-industry-knew

ClimateNewsNow, 9 months ago to climate

India slashes emissions rate by one-third in 14 years, putting it on track to reach UN goal.

This drop is faster than expected and is down to a rise in renewable energy generation and forest cover, according to two officials who have seen the latest assessment made for submission to the United Nations.

The report's findings showed India well on the way to meeting a commitment to the United Nations.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/10/india-slashes-emissions-rate-by-one-third-in-14-years-putting-it-on-track-to-reach-un-goal

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

Spain’s plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a train in under two and half hours. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/23/spains-plan-to-ban-domestic-flights-where-you-can-take-a-train-in-under-two-and-half-hours

ClimateNewsNow, 5 months ago to climate

Native Americans are building their own solar farms.

Cody Two Bears founded Indigenized Energy, a native-led energy company installing solar farms for tribal nations in the US
#ClimateChange

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231204-native-americans-are-building-their-own-solar-farms

ClimateNewsNow, 3 months ago to climate

A Native American tribe is building a $1B solar farm in Colorado.

The up to 971 megawatt (MW) solar farm will sit on around 4,000 acres of Ute Mountain Ute tribal land, nine miles south of the tribe’s capital, Towaoc, in southwestern Colorado. Sun Bear will be around eight miles long and one mile wide and will feature 2.2 million solar panels. #ClimateChange

https://electrek.co/2024/02/16/native-american-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-solar-farm-colorado/

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

Heartbreaking. The internet favorite Axolotl numbers are low, which means the “Mexican walking fish” is now classified as critically endangered.

Despite being a cultural icon of Mexican culture for centuries (they are named after Xolotl, the Aztec god of fire and lightning), the Axolotl’s habitat has been under attack from rapid urbanization, pollution and invasive species. #ClimateChange

https://www.zurich.com/en/media/magazine/2020/it-isnt-too-late-to-save-the-axolotl

ClimateNewsNow, 5 months ago to random

Portugal just ran on 100 percent renewables for six days in a row.

For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

https://grist.org/energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-percent-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row/

ClimateNewsNow, 4 months ago to random

Why Are Builders Putting Gas Stoves In New Homes?

An investigation into the oil and gas industry’s efforts to influence the construction industry.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/12/gas-industry-investigation-why-are-builders-putting-gas-stoves-in-new-homes/

ClimateNewsNow, 3 months ago to climate

Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds.

“The bottom line is that plastic bag bans work.” #ClimateChange

https://grist.org/solutions/plastic-bag-bans-have-already-prevented-billions-of-bags-from-being-used-report-finds/

ClimateNewsNow, 15 days ago to climate

Shell has sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits based on emissions savings that never happened, according to a new investigation.

Shell made more than $200 million dollars selling the credits from its flagship carbon capture facility called 'Quest'.

Canadian taxpayers covered 93% of the costs of building the 'Quest' carbon capture project. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/07/false-promises-and-phantom-emissions-how-was-shell-able-to-double-its-carbon-credits-in-ca

ClimateNewsNow, 8 months ago to climate

What if companies had to pay for the problems their carbon emissions cause? Their profits would plunge, according to new estimates, possibly wiping out trillions in financial gains.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://grist.org/economics/true-cost-carbon-pollution-half-of-corporate-profits-climate/

ClimateNewsNow, 8 months ago to climate

Fake letters of support for natural gas "Fracking" in Ohio were submitted. They don’t know how.

Brittany Keep has no clue how her phone number, daughter’s email address, or their home address, wound up on a letter touting “opportunities for economic development and the creation of family-sustaining jobs for fracking” in Ohio.

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/09/their-names-appeared-on-letters-urging-fracking-ohios-state-parks-they-dont-know-how.html

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

Boiling tap water may be solution to microplastics.

Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be found in your water, according to findings published Wednesday in Environmental Research Letters. #ClimateChange

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4494416-boiling-tap-water-may-be-solution-to-microplastics/

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

European leaders ‘outpaced’ by increasing risk from climate change, environment watchdog warns.

The situation is already critical as climate change leads to increasingly frequent and severe flooding, drought and rising sea levels. Without urgent action by governments and EU leaders the impact is likely to become 'catastrophic' over the coming years, the European Environment Agency warns.

#ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/11/european-leaders-outpaced-by-increasing-risk-from-climate-change-environment-watchdog-warn

ClimateNewsNow, 7 months ago to random

Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels.

A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of net-zero emissions by 2050.

https://grist.org/energy/us-scientists-lay-out-a-sweeping-roadmap-for-decarbonization/

ClimateNewsNow, 9 months ago to climate

By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years.

Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.

#plastic #pollution #climate #climatechange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RDc2opwg0I

ClimateNewsNow, 9 months ago to climate

Parts of Iran could be uninhabitable in 30 years due to climate change.

According to the Middle East Institute, some 70% of all Iranians might need to leave the country to survive by 2050.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-754167

ClimateNewsNow, 6 months ago to random

Texas: Republican-controlled school board votes against climate textbooks.

Republican board member condemns photos in some textbooks for being unfairly critical of oil and gas industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/17/texas-republican-school-board-climate-textbooks

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to random

Polluting private jets could face a 400% fuel tax increase under new Biden proposal.

US President Joe Biden is proposing a huge increase in fuel taxes for private jets. It is being pitched as a fairness issue compared with airline passengers, who pay special taxes on every ticket.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/12/polluting-private-jets-could-face-a-400-fuel-tax-increase-under-new-biden-proposal

ClimateNewsNow, 2 months ago to climate

Website Realtor.com adds climate change risk features; 40% of US homes show risks of heat, wind, air quality. #ClimateChange

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/13/realtor-com-climate-change-risks-listings/72950284007/

ClimateNewsNow, 1 month ago to climate

Do you live near one of these "Sacrific Zones"?

From ProPublica, this is a detailed map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S. #ClimateChange #Pollution

https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

ClimateNewsNow, 18 days ago to climate

Gas stove emissions increasing childhood asthma rates, adult deaths: Stanford study.

Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found. #ClimateChange

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4641542-gas-stove-emissions-childhood-asthma-rates-adult-deaths-stanford-study/

ClimateNewsNow, 26 days ago to climate

Why beavers are essential to improving the climate and preventing wildfires.

Beavers are small, but mighty creatures. #ClimateChange #Nature #Beavers

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/beavers-climate-change-wildfires/

ClimateNewsNow, 3 months ago to climate

Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. #ClimateChange

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/02/16/coral-reefs-widespread-death-climate-change/ca24c274-cd17-11ee-aa8e-1e5794a4b2d6_story.html