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In France, zero-waste experiments tackle a tough problem: People’s habits - Grist Climate and Energy (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · Andrée Nieuwjaer, a 67-year-old resident of Roubaix, France, is what one might call a frugal shopper. In fact, her fridge is full of produce that she got for free. Over the summer, she ate peaches, plums, carrots, zucchinis, turnips, endives - all manner of fruits and vegetables that local grocers didn’t want to sell, whether because of some aesthetic imperfection or because they were slightly overripe.
What Nieuwjaer couldn’t eat right away, she preserved - as fig marmalade, apricot jam, pickles. Reaching into the depths of her refrigerator in September, past a jar of diced beets that she’d preserved in vinegar, she tapped a container of chopped pineapple whose shelf life ... Read more ...
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In Michigan, the controversial Line 5 pipeline gets one step closer to the finish line - Grist Climate and Energy (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
During a heated public meeting last Friday, Michigan’s top energy regulator granted the Canadian company Enbridge Energy a permit to build a new pipeline and tunnel under the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac, in an important - but not final - step in the controversial project’s approval process.
Construction can’t begin unless the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers grants it a federal permit. Before that happens, the Army Corps has to release its assessment of the project’s environmental impacts.
The Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision ... Read more ...
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Most Americans want to electrify their homes - if they can keep their gas stoves - Grist Climate and Energy (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · Most Americans would prefer to live in a home where almost all major appliances run on electricity - but only if they can keep their gas stoves. Just 31 percent want to go fully electric.
“We realized we didn’t really have a baseline for what people actually want,” said Jennifer Marlon, a research scientist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication who helped design the question and push for its inclusion. Combine those who said they would go fully electric with the 29 percent who would do so except for their gas stove and six in 10 Americans are ready to decarbonize. ”As a starting point, this is quite encouraging.”
Addressing residential energy use is ... Read more ...
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COP28 starts today. Here are four issues to watch at the annual climate conference - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · Every year, world leaders gather under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to assess countries’ progress toward reducing carbon emissions and limiting global temperature rise. The most famous of these so-called Conferences of Parties, or COPs, resulted in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which marked the first time the world’s countries united behind a goal to limit global temperature increase. That treaty consists of 29 articles with numerous targets, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing financial flows to the most climate-vulnerable countries, and establishing a carbon market.
This year’s COP, which commences in ... Read more ...
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Why some experts say COPs are ‘distracting’ and need fixing - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 28) |
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Diplomats, academics, and activists from around the globe will gather yet again this week to try to find common ground on a plan for combating climate change. This year’s COP, as the event is known, marks the 28th annual meeting of the conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. More than 70,000 people are expected to descend on ... Read more ...
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Why some experts say COPs are ‘distracting’ and need fixing - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 28) |
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Diplomats, academics, and activists from around the globe will gather yet again this week to try to find common ground on a plan for combating climate change. This year’s COP, as the event is known, marks the 28th annual meeting of the conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. More than 70,000 people are expected to descend on ... Read more ...
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Why tenants struggle more in the wake of hurricanes - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 28) |
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This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
When hurricanes hit, it’s easy to show the damage: downed power lines, uprooted trees and destroyed houses. But when those things are removed or cleaned up, there is a more insidious damage that still lurks and is hard to portray: lack of affordable housing.
And that hits renters in the coastal United ... Read more ...
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Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 25) |
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Nov 25 · This story was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education last week rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to include information on climate change.
The 15-member board largely rejected the books either because they included policy solutions for climate change or because they were produced by a company that has an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy. Some textbooks were also rejected ... Read more ...
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One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces. - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 17) |
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Nov 17 · This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
In the beginning, parking lots were created to curb chaos on the road. But climate change has turned that dynamic on its head.
Since the 1920s a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped a large facet of American life. In major cities, this meant that any type of building - apartments, banks, or shopping malls - needed to reserve a certain amount of parking spaces to accommodate anyone who might visit.
But transportation makes up almost one-third of carbon emissions in the U.S. and cars represent a significant portion of those emissions. As the country attempts to aggressively cut ... Read more ...
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China and the US, the world’s biggest polluters, strike a climate deal - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · The United States and China agreed on Wednesday to “sufficiently accelerate” the deployment of clean energy and boost global production of renewables in a bid to begin displacing fossil fuels and address the climate crisis.
Their joint announcement included a commitment by the world’s two largest polluters to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the decade in an effort to keep global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). To achieve that, the two countries pledged to ramp up their use of solar, wind, and battery storage through the end of 2030 to reduce their dependence on coal, oil and gas. They also aim to triple renewable energy ... Read more ...
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Michigan wants 100 percent of its electricity to be clean by 2040 - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
In a turning point for Michigan, a state long associated with industry and fossil fuels, the state legislature passed a package of bills that aims to cut carbon emissions, requiring 100 percent of its electricity to come from clean sources by 2040.
The state’s new 2040 target is one of the most ambitious in the country, bringing it in line with Minnesota, New York, Connecticut and Oregon.
“This really marks the first swing, industrialized state in the country to pass such sweeping legislation,” said Tim Minotas, the deputy legislative and political ... Read more ...
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Climate change is putting the health of billions at risk - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · Eight years ago, the medical journal the Lancet began compiling the latest research on how climate change affects human health. It was the first coordinated effort to highlight scientific findings on the health consequences of climate change, published in the hopes of making the topic more central to global climate negotiations. The Lancet’s annual reports on this topic, which summarize research conducted by dozens of scientists from leading institutions around the world, have become increasingly dire in tone.
On Tuesday, the journal published its most damning installment yet. Drawing on research published in 2022 and preliminary data on record-breaking heatwaves and floods in ... Read more ...
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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how. - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment - an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. It may come as no surprise that its findings are dire. Impacts that we are already experiencing today, like the rate of temperature increase, frequent and extreme wildfires, and ongoing drought in the West, are “unprecedented for thousands of years.” These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after.
But the report also offers reason for hope. “The takeaway from this assessment, the takeaway from all of our ... Read more ...
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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide. - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. This report, a collaboration between 13 federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography - 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.
The last report, which the Trump administration tried to bury when it came out in 2018, was the most dire since the first assessment was published in 2000. Until now.
The Fifth ... Read more ...
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New US climate report says land theft and colonization amplify the climate crisis for Indigenous peoples - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · The Fifth National Climate Assessment, a collaboration between 13 federal agencies and an array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and breaks down its effects by geography. Read about how climate change will impact your region of the country, and explore potential solutions to the crisis.
For the last 20 years, Walter Ritte has been working to restore a massive, human-made lagoon along the south shore of the island of Molokai. Before Hawai?i become a state, before the United States overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom, this 55-acre pond was a fish farm - one of an estimated 450 brackish, coastal coves that fed an estimated 1 million ... Read more ...
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The West wants to help developing countries transition to renewables. It’s off to a rocky start - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · The Komati coal-fired power plant, located 88 miles east of Johannesburg in South Africa’s coal heartland, has been called the flagship of the country’s budding energy transition. At its peak, the facility, which came online in 1961, produced 2 percent of the country’s power supply. It also supported thousands of people, from miners digging nearby seams to hawkers selling bananas by its front gates. Yet its owner, the state company Eskom, retired the plant in October, 2022, after deeming the repairs needed to keep it running cost-prohibitive. Instead, it chose Komati for a different sort of makeover.
A $497 million project financed by the World Bank will, over the next five ... Read more ...
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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again. - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 3) |
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Nov 3 · A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming target by the end of the decade and surpass the 2 degrees C target by 2050.
The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28.
The group’s findings were published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change on Thursday and garnered various responses from the climate community. For context, it has taken the ... Read more ...
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Why can’t we just quit cows? - Grist Climate and Energy (Nov 1) |
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Nov 1 · Cattle play a colossal role in climate change: As the single largest agricultural source of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, the world’s 940 million bovines spew nearly 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions - much of it through belches and droppings.
As such, there’s an astonishing amount of time and money being funneled into emission control. On-farm biodigesters, for example, take a back-end approach by harvesting methane wafting from manure pits. A slew of research aims to curb bovine burps by feeding them seaweed, essential oils and even a bovine Bean-O of sorts. The latest endeavor, a $70 million effort led by a Nobel laureate, uses gene-editing technology in an ... Read more ...
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What happens when solar panels wear out? - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 24) |
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Oct 24 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
In 2019, the nonprofit Michigan Energy Options had just put up a solar farm in the city of East Lansing - in a dump.
“It was a closed dump,” said John Kinch, the solar company’s executive director. “There was grass and some flowers and weeds growing there. “
As part of the project, Kinch and his colleagues restored the land around the newly installed panels.
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The pope leads 1.4 billion Catholics. Getting them to care about the climate is harder than he thought. - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 23) |
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Oct 23 · If there’s one person in the Catholic Church who ought to have the ability to influence climate action on a global scale, it’s the pope. And yet as Laudate Deum, his most recent exhortation on climate, demonstrates, even Pope Francis seems frustrated by how little has changed despite his best efforts.
The pontiff didn’t shy away from calling out those he sees as responsible, and after outlining the science proving that climate change is human-caused, he made clear that developing nations contribute little to the problem but bear the brunt of its impacts. He rejected the idea that technology alone will avert disaster and lamented the failure of repeated meetings of the ... Read more ...
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The pope leads 1.4 billion Catholics. Getting them to care about the climate is harder than he thought. - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 23) |
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Oct 23 · If there’s one person in the Catholic Church who ought to have the ability to influence climate action on a global scale, it’s the pope. And yet as Laudate Deum, his most recent exhortation on climate demonstrates, even Pope Francis seems frustrated by how little has changed despite his best efforts.
The pontiff didn’t shy away from calling out those he sees as responsible, and after outlining the science proving that climate change is human-caused, he made clear that developing nations contribute little to the problem but bear the brunt of its impacts. He rejected the idea that technology alone will avert disaster and lamented the failure of repeated meetings of the ... Read more ...
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them? - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 19) |
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Oct 19 · Jasmine Granillo was eager for her older brother, Roendy, to get home. With their dad’s long hours at his construction job, Roendy always tried to make time for his sister. He had promised to take her shopping at a local flea market when he returned from work.
“I thought my brother was coming home,” Granillo said.
Roendy Granillo was installing floors in Melissa, Texas, in July 2015. Temperatures had reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit when he began to feel sick. He asked for a break, but his employer told him to keep working. Shortly after, he collapsed. He died on the way to the hospital from heat stroke. He was 25 years old.
A few months later, the Granillo family ... Read more ...
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them? - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 19) |
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Oct 19 · Jasmine Granillo was eager for her older brother, Roendy, to get home. With their dad’s long hours at his construction job, Roendy always tried to make time for his sister. He had promised to take her shopping at a local flea market when he returned from work.
“I thought my brother was coming home,” Granillo said.
Roendy Granillo was installing floors in Melissa, Texas, in July 2015. Temperatures had reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit when he began to feel sick. He asked for a break, but his employer told him to keep working. Shortly after, he collapsed. He died on the way to the hospital from heat stroke. He was 25 years old.
A few months later, the Granillo family ... Read more ...
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Offshore wind turbines need rare earth metals. Will there be enough to go around? - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 6) |
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Oct 6 · For more than a decade, an Australian company called Arafura Rare Earths has been looking for customers willing to buy rare earth metals from a mine under development in the nation’s Northern Territory. In April, it secured one of its biggest clients yet.
Siemens Gamesa, one of the largest offshore wind turbine makers in the world, signed an agreement to purchase hundreds of tons of rare earths from Arafura, beginning in 2026, to make giant magnets for its seagoing turbines. The reason a major manufacturer entered a contract with a mining company that isn’t mining anything yet? As CEO Jochen Eickholt told Reuters, Siemens Gamesa is almost 100 percent reliant on China for rare ... Read more ...
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In Michigan, not-so-sunny prospects for solar farms - Grist Climate and Energy (Oct 2) |
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Oct 2 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
Michigan isn’t known for sunny weather. Yet in recent years, it’s seen a strong push for solar energy - including in Traverse City, the largest community in northern Michigan. Along the M-72 highway, rows of huge solar panels gleam in the sun, covering about 30 acres of grassy field.
In the shade underneath the panels are sheep.
This is called “solar grazing,” where livestock are placed on solar installations to keep vegetation in check. Sheep have grazed at the site for the past three summers, eating grass and depositing droppings along the rows of ... Read more ...
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Despite climate promises, insurance companies are still covering coal - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · The insurance industry is in a state of flux because of climate change. This year has seen a record-breaking number of costly disasters in the United States, and insurance companies are on the hook for much of that property damage. But even as insurers pull out of disaster-prone areas, deeming them too risky to insure, they are continuing to cover one of the most polluting industries: coal.
A new report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit advocacy organization, and Insure Our Future, a global coalition aimed at holding the insurance industry accountable for its role in climate change, details the extent to which global insurers are propping up U.S. coal mining companies. In 2022, ... Read more ...
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The climate culture wars reach British shores - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · Four years ago, the United Kingdom became the world’s first major economy to legally commit to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The unprecedented move came even as the country had already reduced emissions by 42 percent from 1990 levels - mainly by slashing its dependency on coal and oil for electricity generation. It cemented the U.K.’s role as a global climate leader, but that position is now showing cracks.
Last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an about-face on some of the country’s core decarbonization initiatives, citing the need to relieve costly burdens on working-class households.
“We seem to have defaulted to an approach which ... Read more ...
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A group of U.S. governors promise to install 20 million heat pumps by 2030 - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 21) |
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Sep 21 · Buildings, particularly older ones and those with poor energy efficiency, account for 31 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Beyond contributing to the climate crisis, these structures can saddle their occupants with high utility bills, further burdening those with low incomes.
On Thursday, the U.S. Climate Alliance, an association of 25 governors of states accounting for half of the country’s population, announced a major move to reduce those emissions, cut utility bills, and create jobs. Beyond committing to emissions reduction targets including achieving zero-emission new construction, they promised a four-fold increase in the number of buildings using heat pumps. Read more ...
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Climate risks place 39 million U.S. homes at risk of losing their insurance - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 20) |
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Sep 20 · From California to Florida, homeowners have been facing a new climate reality: Insurance companies don’t want to cover their properties. According to a report released today, the problem will only get worse.
The nonprofit climate research firm First Street Foundation found that, while about 6.8 million properties nationwide already rely on expensive public insurance programs, that’s only a fraction of 39 million across the country that face similar conditions.
“There’s this climate insurance bubble out there,” said Jeremy Porter, the head of climate implications at First Street and a contributor to the report. “And you can quantify it.”
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Deprived of Colorado River water, an oil company’s plans to mine in Utah may have dried up - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · The Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah is one of the richest oil shale deposits in the country. It is estimated to hold more proven reserves than all of Saudi Arabia. Enefit, an Estonian company, was the latest in a long line of firms that hoped to tap it.
It’s also the latest to see such plans collapse - but perhaps not yet for good.
The company has lost access to the water it would need to unearth the petroleum and relinquished a federal lease that allowed research and exploration on the land. The two moves, made late last month, appear to signal the end of Enefit’s plans to mine shale oil in the Uinta Basin.
“If they’re getting cut off from this water, ... Read more ...
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It’s not just coral. Extreme heat is weakening entire marine ecosystems in Florida. - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · Summer afternoons on Florida Bay are a wonder. The sky, bright blue and dotted with clouds, meets the glassy water in a blur of blue that melts away any sign of the horizon. Wading birds rustle in the verdant branches of mangroves. Beneath the surface, fish and other creatures dart among tangled mangrove roots adorned with colorful sponges and corals. Out in the shallow flats, redfish forage for crabs, snails, and shrimp hidden in fields of seagrass as manatees graze and bottlenose dolphins hunt.
But this vast estuary, which by some estimates stretches at least 800 square miles - roughly the size of Tokyo - and comprises about one-third of Everglades National Park has looked ... Read more ...
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It’s not just coral. Extreme heat is weakening entire marine ecosystems in Florida. - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · Summer afternoons on Florida Bay are a wonder. The sky, bright blue and dotted with clouds, meets the glassy water in a blur of blue that melts away any sign of the horizon. Wading birds rustle in the verdant branches of mangroves. Beneath the surface, fish and other creatures dart among tangled mangrove roots adorned with colorful sponges and corals. Out in the shallow flats, redfish forage for crabs, snails and shrimp hidden in fields of seagrass as manatees graze and bottlenose dolphins hunt.
But this vast estuary, which by some estimates stretches at least 800 square miles - roughly the size of Tokyo - and comprises about one-third of Everglades National Park has looked ... Read more ...
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‘It’s gigantic’: Hurricane Lee heads for New England and Atlantic Canada - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 15) |
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Sep 15 · Hurricane Lee, a mammoth peak-season storm in the Atlantic, is making a beeline for New England and Canada. Once a Category 5 storm, Lee weakened to Category 1 by the time it made a northward pivot and began its march toward land on Thursday. But the storm is still expected to lash parts of Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia with tropical-storm-force winds, rain, waves, and potentially catastrophic storm surge as it makes landfall over the weekend.
Meteorologists are especially concerned about the Bay of Fundy, a body of water between eastern Maine and Nova Scotia that holds the record for the highest tides in the world - with a difference of up to 53 feet ... Read more ...
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How climate change contributed to the staggering flood death toll in Libya - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 15) |
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Sep 15 · Catastrophic flooding earlier this week in Libya killed at least 10,000 people, with more than 30,000 people displaced, after Storm Daniel pummeled the coast and two dams broke in quick succession.
Nearly a quarter of Derna, a coastal city in the eastern corner of Libya, was destroyed in the flooding, with entire blocks of buildings now missing and washed out to sea.
Death counts range, reaching estimates as high as 20,000, a number that came from the mayor of Derna. The Libyan Red Crescent put the number slightly lower at more than 11,000, as reported by the Associated Press.
Tropical storms or hurricanes in the Mediterranean are often referred to as “medicanes,” ... Read more ...
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Is it time for the world to take a siesta? - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 14) |
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Sep 14 · Security guards and tourism guides at the Parthenon in Athens made headlines this summer when they went on strike during the scorching afternoons of a July heat wave that reached up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Greece.
“The extreme weather conditions continue to plague the country, despite this the Ministry of Culture did not take drastic measures – as it should have – to protect workers and visitors,” said the Panhellenic Union of Employees for the Guarding of Antiquities in a press release. The union stated that multiple people were seen fainting and suffering from heat stroke at the Acropolis, the complex of monuments that includes the Parthenon, prompting them ... Read more ...
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A look inside the plan to store carbon at the bottom of the Black Sea - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. It’s easy to see why.
His startup, Rewind, wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year - about 10 percent of what climate scientists deem necessary each year to reach net zero by 2050 - in a remarkably simple way. The elevator pitch goes like this: Gather millions of tons of agricultural waste and send it to the bottom of the Black Sea, where it won’t decay. Wilder still, an ancient Greek ship that sank 2,400 years ago helped inspire the idea.
At first glance, the proposal might seem counterintuitive. The carbon that plants absorb from the ... Read more ...
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Mobile homes could be a climate solution. So why don’t they get more respect? - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 8) |
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Sep 8 · This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
About 22 million Americans live in mobile homes or manufactured housing, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and as the housing crisis continues to worsen in places like Arizona, California, and New York, that number could go up.
But for some, mobile homes conjure up an image of rusting metal units in weed-choked lots, an unfair stereotype that has real consequences - advocates argue that mobile homes are not only a housing fix but could also help with the climate crisis.
According to Andrew Rumbach, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, mobile homes are a good solution with a bad ... Read more ...
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Amazon deforestation continues to plummet - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 7) |
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Sep 7 · August was another month of relatively good news for the Amazon rainforest: The rate of deforestation has continued to decline significantly.
Earlier this week, Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, announced a 66.1 percent decrease in Amazon deforestation compared to last August. That amounted to a loss of about 217 square miles, according to Reuters. These figures come during a time of year when destruction of the rainforest is usually quite high, and follows a similar trend seen in July.
So far this year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than in 2022 and is at levels not seen since 2018. The numbers are another victory for President Luiz Inácio ... Read more ...
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The planet just sizzled through the hottest summer on record - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 6) |
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Sep 6 · The summer of shattered heat records – hottest month, week, and day - has just shattered another record, perhaps the most fitting of them all: hottest summer.
June, July, and August were the warmest three consecutive months ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, reported on Wednesday.
August wound up being the hottest one ever and the second warmest month on record, just behind July, according to data from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average temperature in August was 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.2 degrees Fahrenheit) - about 1.5 degrees C above the pre-industrial average. Scientists warn that if the planet ... Read more ...
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The planet just sizzled through the hottest summer on record - Grist Climate and Energy (Sep 6) |
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Sep 6 · The summer of shattered heat records – hottest month, week, and day - has just shattered another record, perhaps the most fitting of them all: hottest summer.
June, July, and August were the warmest three consecutive months ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere, the World Meteorological Organization reported on Wednesday.
August wound up being the hottest one ever and the second warmest month on record, just behind July, according to data from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average temperature in August was 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.2 degrees Fahrenheit) - about 1.5 degrees C above the pre-industrial average. Scientists warn that if the planet stays ... Read more ...
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