Articles on or after 7/25/2024: Washington Post - Climate and Environment
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Climate change challenges winemakers, but some are benefitting from it - Washington Post - Climate and Environment (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · While many vintners are forced to grapple with extreme weather brought on by climate change, some regions are seeing more consistent harvests and better-quality wines.
Climate change is transforming wine. We’ve seen devastating wildfires threaten or destroy recent harvests in California, Australia, Chile and Portugal; harsh winters decimate vineyards in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley and the Eastern United States; and spring frosts, an age-old enemy of vignerons, increasingly menacing as warmer average temperatures nudge vines to send out their tender shoots earlier in the spring.
It might seem strange to suggest climate change has produced any winners, but if we ... Read more ...
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Extreme heat is threatening humanity’s best ally in fight against climate change - Washington Post - Climate and Environment (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · High temperatures, droughts and wildfire last year caused some forests to wilt and burn enough to degrade the ability of the land to lock away carbon dioxide.
Earth’s forests lost much of their ability to absorb the carbon dioxide humans pumped into the air last year, according to a new study that is causing concern among climate scientists that a crucial damper on climate change underwent an unprecedented deterioration.
Temperatures in 2023 were so high - and the droughts and wildfires that came with them were so severe - that forests in various parts of the world wilted and burned enough to have degraded the ability of the land to lock away carbon dioxide and act as a ... Read more ...
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New U.K. state company to develop offshore wind on seabed owned by Charles III - Washington Post - Climate and Environment (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · The Crown Estate, the monarchy’s real estate firm, owns much of the seabed surrounding Britain.
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LONDON - A new state energy company, set up by Britain’s fledgling Labour government to promote clean, sustainable power sources, has found a partner for its first venture: the king.
The Crown Estate, the monarchy’s property firm, owns much of the seabed surrounding Britain. Great British Energy will work with the firm to develop offshore wind and other clean energy projects, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Thursday.
“This new partnership … will unleash a tidal wave of public and private investment to ... Read more ...
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The fight to make landlords turn down the thermostat - Washington Post - Climate and Environment (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · Cooling proposals are similar to protections many tenants have for adequate heating. But some see cost as a hurdle.
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FRESNO, Calif. - On a 114-degree day, May Yang was seeking relief - from her own home.
Her ground-floor, two-room apartment sits in direct sun for much of the day, making the inside unbearably hot, despite her air conditioner’s feeble attempts to cool it down.
In California and many other states, renters like Yang are entitled under the law to heating that maintains a minimum temperature during the winter. But there are few mandates nationwide - including in California - that ... Read more ...
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The Great Salt Lake isn’t just drying out. It’s warming the planet. - Washington Post - Climate and Environment (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · The Great Salt Lake released 4.1 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in 2020, researchers found - more evidence that dried-out lakes are a significant source of emissions.
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Like some dystopian astronaut, Melissa Cobo would hike the searing flats of the dried-out Great Salt Lake every couple of weeks, hauling a heavy backpack attached by a hose to what looked like the lid of a cake dome. What remained of the lake often seemed out of reach as she struggled through hot mud, clay and a weird crystalline layer that broke with her footsteps onto a greenish muck.
“You see the water, but ... Read more ...
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