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Trump Slams John Kerry In Wild Town Hall, Insisting Climate Change Isn't A Problem - Huffington Post (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · Former President Donald Trump didn’t shy away from echoing his adamant denial of climate change during a town hall Tuesday in Iowa hosted by Sean Hannity.
During the event in Davenport, Trump slammed John Kerry and the efforts made by the presidential envoy for climate.
“Our country can be rich again. John Kerry has to be stopped. He’s destroying our country,” Trump told Hannity and the crowd at the town hall.
Kerry, a former senator and secretary of state, announced Tuesday that the U.S. would collaborate with other governments to speed up the process of making nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, which could be used to power cars and heat and cool ... Read more ...
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COP28 Climate Summit Awash In Record Number Of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists - Huffington Post (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · Nearly 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the halls of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai - a record number that’s nearly four times the industry’s presence at last year’s negotiations.
That’s according to a new analysis from Kick Big Polluters Out, a coalition of groups that advocates for ridding the annual climate talks of fossil fuel industry influence. The coalition combed through a provisional list of COP28 participants and identified at least 2,456 attendees with various ties to fossil fuels.
That number dwarfs the previous record of 636 sector lobbyists at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt. The spike can likely be largely attributed to new rules requiring ... Read more ...
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Head Of Global Climate Summit Manages To Deny Science In Pro-Science Comment - Huffington Post (Dec 4) |
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Dec 4 · Sultan Al Jaber, the oil company boss presiding over the COP28 climate conference, has spent the last week defending himself against a rising tide of public outrage, first over how he reportedly tried to use the international talks to strike backdoor oil and gas deals for the United Arab Emirates and most recently that he dismissed the need to urgently phase out planet-warming fossil fuels.
Ahead of this year’s summit, which kicked off Nov. 30 in Dubai, Al Jaber claimed that there is “no science” to support the idea that phasing out oil, gas and coal is needed to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the goal of the landmark Paris climate agreement, The Guardian ... Read more ...
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Scandal At Major Climate Summit Spurs A Resignation - Huffington Post (Dec 1) |
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Dec 1 · Hilda Heine, a former president of the Marshall Islands, on Friday resigned from the main advisory committee of this year’s United Nations climate summit, citing allegations that the conference president tried to use the international talks to strike oil and gas deals.
Heine’s resignation, first reported by Reuters, came just one day after the summit kicked off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Centre for Climate Reporting and the BBC reported Monday on leaked documents that purportedly show Sultan al-Jaber - the controversial president of the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28, and the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company - planned to leverage his role at ... Read more ...
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UN Atomic Chief Backs Nuclear Power At COP28 As World Reckons With Proliferation - Huffington Post (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made the comments in an interview with The Associated Press at the COP28 climate talks. He called the inclusion of nuclear power at the summit, where he said a major nuclear agreement was likely, showed just how far the formerly “taboo” subject had come decades after the disasters at Three Mile Island and ... Read more ...
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A Scandal Just Rocked A Major Climate Summit - And It Was Years In The Making - Huffington Post (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · A scandal involving the host country of this year’s United Nations climate summit cast a dark cloud over the annual negotiations days before they kicked off in Dubai.
On Monday, the Centre for Climate Reporting and the BBC reported on leaked documents obtained from a whistleblower that purportedly show Sultan Al Jaber - the controversial president of the 28th Conference of Parties, or COP28, and the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company - planned to leverage his role as head of the summit to broker oil and gas deals with other countries and boost fossil fuel exports from the United Arab Emirates.
In other words, a powerful oil executive - someone who’d already come ... Read more ...
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President Of UN Climate Summit Planned For Oil And Gas Deals Behind The Scenes: Report - Huffington Post (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · The president of the United Nations’ annual climate summit planned to use the talks to lobby dozens of countries and business leaders to increase exports of oil and gas, according to leaked documents obtained by media outlets this week.
Dubai is preparing to host the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP, this week, which will see hundreds of world dignitaries and envoys meet to discuss the growing threat of a warming world. The president of COP28 is Sultan Al Jaber, the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or ADNOC, which provides about 3% of the world’s oil.
The Centre for Climate Reporting and the BBC obtained briefing documents from a whistleblower that ... Read more ...
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Ex-Federal Prosecutor Thinks Trump’s Lawyers Doomed Him With Latest 'Dumb’ Move - Huffington Post (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · A former federal prosecutor argued on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawyers are making the wrong move by calling the former president to take the stand as their last witness in his civil fraud trial in New York.
Trump’s attorneys on Monday said they would on Dec. 11 call Trump to testify for the final time in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million lawsuit accusing him and his company of systematically overvaluing their assets for years for financial gain.
It is “well, dumb,” Elizabeth de la Vega wrote on X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, of the decision by Trump’s legal team.
“What happens after a witness testifies on direct ... Read more ...
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This Type Of Disaster Could Be The Most Dangerous Of All - And It’s A Mystery - Huffington Post (Nov 25) |
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Nov 25 · Shortly after entering the field of public health in the early 1970s, Stephen Lester learned there was one thing he should steer clear of studying: how exposure to multiple chemicals at once might be devastating human health.
It was nearly impossible to secure government grant money for mixture studies, due to monumental hurdles in interpreting the results and ultimately determining which chemicals might have caused any documented health issue. If, for example, you exposed a rat in a lab to seven chemicals and the rat developed cancer, you could conclude the mixture causes cancer but are no closer to being able to say which toxin or combination of toxins was responsible. ... Read more ...
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Hunt For Pipeline Leak Continues As Oil Spill Tops 1 Million Gallons - Huffington Post (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
The affected pipeline has been shut down but authorities were still trying to determine the exact location and cause of the leak, officials said during a Coast Guard news conference. None of the oil has reached land so far, though its affect on wildlife was still being investigated. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife official said two oily pelicans were sighted off the Louisiana coast Saturday, but still appeared active and able to fly.
The oil discharge was discovered amid high winds in ... Read more ...
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This Country Is Gripped By Political Chaos - But Some See A Big Opportunity - Huffington Post (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · LISBON, Portugal ? After nearly five hours in a stuffy, cream-walled classroom on the second floor of a college physics department last Tuesday night, Luis Guimarãis stood up and broached the metaphysical: Can something die that was never born?
The audience of nearly two dozen students had been sitting in the fluorescent-lit room, which featured a tragically inactive espresso machine, since the middle of the afternoon. The sky had gone dark hours earlier, and most of the University of Lisbon’s students had dispersed to neighborhood bars. But the youths and professors staring at a projector screen at the front of the room listened intently to a lineup of speakers attempting to ... Read more ...
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Is this climate change measure an act of cultural erasure? - Huffington Post (Nov 21) |
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Nov 21 · Many of us these days are contemplating the various ways that cultural and ethnic erasure play out globally. In one example in the U.S., there’s been a recent clash between the government and survivors of Japanese American incarceration camps over the development of land near a memorial that’s crucial to the community.
According to a report by The Associated Press, the Bureau of Land Management is planning to build a wind farm that would include 118 square miles of 400 turbines near the Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, Idaho - one of the few remaining sacred spaces for Japanese American survivors of U.S. incarceration camps.
A group of survivors are trying to ... Read more ...
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These Japanese Incarceration Camp Survivors Are Calling Out A Climate Change Measure That Feels Like Cultural Erasure - Huffington Post (Nov 21) |
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Nov 21 · Many of us these days are contemplating the various ways that cultural and ethnic erasure play out globally. In one example in the U.S., there’s been a recent clash between the government and survivors of Japanese American incarceration camps over the development of land near a memorial that’s crucial to the community.
According to a report by The Associated Press, the Bureau of Land Management is planning to build a wind farm that would include 118 square miles of 400 turbines near the Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, Idaho - one of the few remaining sacred spaces for Japanese American survivors of U.S. incarceration camps.
A group of survivors are trying to ... Read more ...
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Taylor Swift Postpones Rio Show Due To 'Extreme Temperatures' After Fan's Death - Huffington Post (Nov 18) |
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Nov 18 · RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Taylor Swift postponed an Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Saturday after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show, according to a message posted on the singer’s Instagram.
“I’m writing this from my dressing room in the stadium. The decision has been made to postpone tonight’s show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio,” the singer said in a handwritten note posted on her Instagram account. “The safety and well being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first.”
The cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides Machado, the young woman who sought medical attention at Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium during Friday’s ... Read more ...
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U.S. Pledge To Triple Global Nuclear Energy By 2050 Is Joined By More Than 10 Nations So Far - Huffington Post (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · The United States is preparing to announce a pledge to triple the world’s production of nuclear energy by 2050, with more than 10 countries on four continents already signed on to the first major international agreement in modern history to ramp up the use of atomic power.
Signatories to the pledge, set to be unveiled at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai later this month, include many of the largest current users of nuclear energy such as the United Kingdom, France, Romania, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Japan and South Korea, a senior Biden administration official familiar with the efforts confirmed HuffPost. A handful of newcomers that have not yet built ... Read more ...
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U.S. Lawyer Accused Of Shooting 2 Environmental Protesters Dead In Panama - Huffington Post (Nov 10) |
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Nov 10 · An American lawyer has been arrested after being accused of shooting and killing two environmental protesters in Panama earlier this week, according to several media outlets including local networks.
Police say 77-year-old Kenneth Darlington opened fire on protesters blocking a highway in the Chame District – roughly 55 miles west of Panama City – in a demonstration against a government mining contract.
Shocking video shared on social media and by The Times & Sunday Times appears to show the gunman arguing with the group and asking them to move before shooting two people - Abdiel Díaz Chávez, who died at the scene, and Iván Rodríguez Mendoza, who was pronounced dead at a ... Read more ...
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The U.S. Project Meant To Debut Revolutionary Nuclear Reactors Just Fell Apart - Huffington Post (Nov 8) |
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Nov 8 · The project meant to debut small modular reactors, the technology the nuclear energy industry hopes will spur a renaissance of atomic power construction, collapsed Wednesday night amid mounting financial troubles.
The NuScale Power Corporation based in Portland, Oregon, whose SMR design became the first in U.S. history to win the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval last January, had planned to build a dozen of its small, partly factory-made atomic energy reactors at a federally-owned site in Idaho. The power plant was dubbed the Carbon-Free Power Project.
The company received more than $1 billion from the Biden administration to fund the construction. Once completed ... Read more ...
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s 100% Clean Energy Bills Pass - Huffington Post (Nov 8) |
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Nov 8 · Michigan lawmakers approved a slate of bills Wednesday night that are set to transform the energy systems at the heart of America’s heavy industry, putting the major manufacturing state on a course to generate all its electricity from carbon-free sources within just 17 years.
The Great Lake State gets nearly 57% of its power from plants burning coal and natural gas, while nuclear reactors produce another 30% and renewables account for just 13%.
By 2034, at least 60% of the energy mix will instead need to come from sources like solar and wind. By 2040, the rest of the electricity supply will have to come from atomic stations; plants burning “biomass,” such as wood; ... Read more ...
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Captain Found Guilty In California Boat Fire That Killed 34 - Huffington Post (Nov 6) |
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Nov 6 · LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury on Monday found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles confirmed Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Boylan was the only person to face criminal charges connected to the fire.
He could get 10 years behind bars.
The verdict comes more than four years ... Read more ...
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Now You Can Have A Washing Machine Anywhere With These Portable Options From Amazon - Huffington Post (Oct 31) |
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Oct 31 · Until recently, I’d lived in apartments without an in-home washing machine. Had I known that portable washing machines were an accessible option - even for someone without full-size washer and dryer connections in their walls - I could have avoided schlepping mountains of bedding down to my complex’s basement or saved hours at the local laundromat.
These portable versions don’t require traditional plumbing, so you’re probably wondering how they work. Most portable washing machines are automatic and operate just like traditional full-size appliances, with multiple wash settings. But they typically connect to a regular power outlet and can be temporarily hooked up to an existing ... Read more ...
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Hurricane Otis Makes Landfall As Category 5 Storm Off Mexico's Coast - Huffington Post (Oct 25) |
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Oct 25 · ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane early Wednesday, bringing 165 mph (170 kmh) winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and surrounding towns, stirring memories of a 1997 storm that killed dozens of people.
The hurricane was expected to weaken quickly in Guerrero state’s steep mountains. But the five to 10 inches of rain forecast, with as much as 15 inches possible in some areas, raised the threat of landslides and floods.
Otis had strengthened rapidly, going from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 12 hours Tuesday. Residents of Guerrero’s coast scrambled to prepare, but the ... Read more ...
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Scientists Warn Earth Has Entered 'Uncharted Climate Territory' - Huffington Post (Oct 24) |
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Oct 24 · If Earth were a human, it would already be in the emergency room.
An international team of scientists on Tuesday issued a new assessment of planetary health that says the world has entered “uncharted climate territory” and that “life on planet Earth is under siege.”
The report, published in the journal BioScience, found that 20 of 35 identified “vital signs” of the planet - from human population and greenhouse gas emissions to sea level rise and ocean acidity - have reached record extremes.
The analysis, authored by a dozen expert scientists, is as much a desperate warning as an urgent call for action.
“For several decades, scientists have consistently warned ... Read more ...
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Biden’s “Moonshot” To Fight Cancer Just Took A Big Step Forward By Moving To Ban This Chemical - Huffington Post (Oct 23) |
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Oct 23 · The EPA on Monday proposed a nationwide ban of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a cancer-causing industrial chemical widely used in refrigerants, degreasers and dry cleaning.
The federal agency announced its action at a press conference in Woburn, Massachusetts, where industrial dumping from W.R. Grace and other companies beginning in the 1950s left the town’s soil, groundwater and drinking wells tainted with TCE and other chemicals. The environmental and human health disaster and subsequent legal battle in Woburn is documented in the 1995 book ”A Civil Action” and a 1998 movie with the same title.
Michal Freedhoff, assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety ... Read more ...
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Dwindling Fuel Supplies For Gaza's Hospital Generators Put Premature Babies In Incubators At Risk - Huffington Post (Oct 22) |
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Oct 22 · DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body. A ventilator helps him breathe as a catheter delivers medication and monitors flash his fragile vital signs.
His life hinges on the constant flow of electricity, which is in danger of running out imminently unless the hospital can get more fuel for its generators. Once the generators stop, hospital director Iyad Abu Zahar fears that the babies in the ward, unable to breathe on their own, will perish.
“The responsibility on us is huge,” he said.
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Democratic Governors Block Bills For New Nuclear Power Plants - Huffington Post (Oct 21) |
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Oct 21 · In just the last three months, the Democratic governors of Illinois and North Carolina have vetoed bills to build new reactors in their states, warning that doing so would divert money and attention from a strategy of using renewable energy backed up, at least for now, with natural gas.
The first was Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose state generates more power from atomic fission than any other and who has championed subsidies to keep existing plants open. In August, the second-term governor vetoed a bill he said would “open the door to the proliferation of large-scale nuclear reactors that are so costly to build that they will cause exorbitant ratepayer-funded bailouts” and ... Read more ...
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China Bans Exports Of A Key Material, Escalating Trade War With U.S. - Huffington Post (Oct 20) |
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Oct 20 · China has slapped export controls on graphite, a key mineral used to make steel and electric car batteries, ratcheting up a trade fight with the United States over the technologies needed to wean the world’s economy off planet-heating fossil fuels.
The measures, announced Friday in a joint declaration from Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs, banned exports of artificial graphite, the natural flake version of the mineral, and products made with them unless the government grants permission. The restrictions take effect on Dec. 1.
“Graphite is a key material that holds strategic significance in new-energy industry and global players are ... Read more ...
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Climate Researcher Who Refuses To Fly For Environmental Reasons Fired - Huffington Post (Oct 13) |
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Oct 13 · A climate researcher who has refused to travel by air unless absolutely necessary was fired from his post at a German think tank after he declined to fly back to Europe on short notice for environmental reasons.
Gianluca Grimalda was, until recently, a social scientist at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, Germany. He first set out on a research trip about the social impacts of climate change in February, traveling to the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea via a combination of cargo ship, ferry, train and bus. The trip took 35 days rather than about two it would have taken via aircraft, but Grimalda has for 10 years avoided air travel when other, lower ... Read more ...
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Deaths Rise To 47 After Icy Flood Sweeps Through India's Himalayan Northeast - Huffington Post (Oct 8) |
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Oct 8 · GANGTOK, India (AP) - Rescuers found more bodies overnight as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee.
Officials said the hundreds of rescuers recovered six more bodies early Saturday, bringing the death toll to 47. At least 150 people are still missing.
The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when the waters of a glacial lake overflowed, cracking open the biggest hydroelectric dam in Sikkim state. The icy waters then cascaded through towns in the valley below, where it killed scores of people ... Read more ...
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Combat Winter Dryness With This Hydrating, Derm-Recommended Serum - Huffington Post (Oct 8) |
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Oct 8 · As we roll into the colder months, the humidity levels drop and our skin, less than happy about the situation, begins to dry out. Adding more moisture to your skin care routine is an obvious choice to combat this seasonal annoyance. If you’re unsure what product to add to your rotation, we’ve found a holy grail serum that hydrates and treats a whole host of other pesky skin care troubles.
Formulated with hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, Neutrogena’s Hydro Boost+ serum can help moisturize skin as well as improve texture, even out skin tone and revitalize dull complexions. The serum also promises to be free of potentially irritating ingredients like fragrances, parabens, ... Read more ...
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Scientists Agree: September Heat Was 'Mind-Blowing' - Huffington Post (Oct 5) |
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Oct 5 · After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday.
Last month’s average temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average for September. That’s the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”
While July and August had hotter raw temperatures because they are ... Read more ...
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These Movies Focus On A Very Real Crisis - But They Could Do Better - Huffington Post (Oct 4) |
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Oct 4 · This year has been filled with floods, earthquakes, wildfires and record-breaking heat, all of which have unfortunately become routine. The climate crisis has never felt more real and immediate. So it couldn’t be more timely that two upcoming movies screening at this year’s New York Film Festival feature it as their backdrop.
Unlike in real life, however, the movies are not as clear about what they’re trying to say, producing decidedly mixed results. One of them, “Evil Does Not Exist,” is a meditative and grounded look at the present - up until an uncharacteristic twist in its final act, which mutes its overall effect. The other, the overstuffed sci-fi drama, “Foe,” which ... Read more ...
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Trump Chooses His Own Shocking Cause Of Death In Bonkers New Rant - Huffington Post (Oct 2) |
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Oct 2 · Donald Trump still doesn’t like sharks.
The former president turned a rant against renewable energy into a wild explanation of how he’d rather die if he were on a sinking electric boat.
“But if I’m sitting down, and that boat’s going down, and I’m on top of a battery, and the water starts flooding in, I’m getting concerned,” Trump said at an event in Iowa in Sunday. “But then I look 10 yards to my left and there’s a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or shark, you know what I’m gonna take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time.” Read more ...
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Sen. Graham Says Ousting McCarthy Would Be A Disaster - Huffington Post (Oct 1) |
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Oct 1 · Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday criticized Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) threat to try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership, calling the move a “disaster.”
“I think Kevin is the right guy at the right time,” Graham told moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, after Gaetz announced he would launch a motion to oust McCarthy from his seat as Speaker of the House.
“The only way he loses his job is if a handful of Republicans join up with the Democratic Party to fire him,” Graham continued, pointing to the slim majority Republicans currently have over the Democrats in the House. “That would be a disaster for the ... Read more ...
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Sea Lion Escapes Enclosure As Floodwaters Rise At Central Park Zoo - Huffington Post (Sep 30) |
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Sep 30 · A sea lion got a rare chance to splash around beyond her enclosure at New York City’s Central Park Zoo on Friday as severe rain inundated the region.
Sally, one of three sea lions at the Manhattan attraction, explored the zoo grounds after rising floodwaters allowed her to swim right out of her pool, The New York Times reported.
When images of the flooded enclosure went viral online, the zoo issued a statement assuring the public that the sea lions were safe, and that they weren’t running amok in the city.
“Zoo staff monitored the sea lion as she explored the area before returning to the familiar surroundings of the pool and the company of the other two sea lions,” ... Read more ...
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Biden's Plan Would Offer Record-Low Number Of Offshore Drilling Leases - Huffington Post (Sep 29) |
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Sep 29 · The Biden administration on Friday unveiled a long-awaited drilling plan that would drastically shrink the nation’s offshore oil and gas leasing program to a maximum of three lease sales over the next five years - the smallest number ever to be offered in the program’s history.
The Interior Department said the proposal is “in line” with President Joe Biden’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. But environmental groups were quick to condemn the plan as a broken campaign promise and wildly out of step with what scientists say is required to stave off catastrophic climate change.
If approved, the plan would limit offshore oil and gas leasing to no more than ... Read more ...
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Regulators Are Charging $500K For Something The Government Admits Is Basically Pointless - Huffington Post (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · The nuclear energy startup Kairos wants to build a small test reactor at a government laboratory. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sees no problem with those plans. After months of poring over the California company’s application and holding a series of public hearings, the agency’s staff felt satisfied enough with the company’s environmental and safety reviews to formally recommend that the commissioners approve its construction permits.
In fact, the proposal has proved so uncontroversial that no opponents of nuclear energy are challenging the regulators’ decision. But there’s one more bureaucratic hurdle Kairos needs to clear: a single hearing that will cost the company ... Read more ...
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Swiss Glaciers Have Melted By A Terrifying Rate In Last 2 Years, Study Finds - Huffington Post (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · GENEVA (AP) - A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter.
Switzerland - home to the most glaciers of any country in Europe - has seen 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023, the second-biggest decline in a single year on top of a 6% drop in 2022, the biggest thaw since measurements began, the academy’s commission for cryosphere observation said.
Experts at the GLAMOS glacier monitoring center have been on the lookout for a possible extreme melt this year amid early warning signs about the ... Read more ...
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Republicans Fight Over Who Loves Fossil Fuels The Most At Second GOP Debate - Huffington Post (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · Almost exactly four years ago, one of California’s increasingly destructive wildfires caused roughly $500,000 in damage to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
But GOP candidates gathered there for the second 2024 presidential primary debate almost uniformly rejected the idea that the planet’s steadily rising temperature was a problem at all.
“It’s not climate change we need to worry about,” said North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. “It’s the Biden climate policies.”
After dodging surprisingly pointed questions about climate change at the first debate Fox News hosted last month, the contenders hoping to take on President Joe Biden next November battled each other over ... Read more ...
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Trump Goes On Evidence-Free Rant About 'Batty' Whales - Huffington Post (Sep 26) |
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Sep 26 · Former President Donald Trump has joined the right-wing war against offshore wind with an evidence-free rant about the fledgling industry being responsible for a spate of recent whale deaths along the East Coast.
“Their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before,” Trump said Sunday during a campaign speech in South Carolina. “The windmills are driving them crazy. They’re driving the whales, I think, a little batty.”
Trump, who as president spearheaded a fossil fuel-centric “energy dominance” agenda and repeatedly exaggerated the wind industry’s impact on birds, told the crowd that he “saw this weekend, three of them came [ashore].”
“You ... Read more ...
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