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One of the world's rarest turtles is beginning to show signs of recovery after washing up on the Welsh coast. The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle has been named Tally by Anglesey Sea Zoo, where it is being nursed back to health. On Sunday Tally was found on Talacre beach, Flintshire, 4,000...
Thousands of homes in the north of England are facing a sixth day without power after cuts caused by Storm Arwen. Northern Powergrid (NP) said 11,000 were still off and according to Electricity North West's (ENWL) latest figures more than 2,000 homes, mostly in Cumbria, are still without...
Huffington Post
On Lead, Michigan's Drinking Water Might Look Safer Than It Really Is
New lead rules Michigan instated in 2018 following the Flint water crisis were heralded as the nation’s strictest, but lax enforcement and flaws in testing protocols are making the state’s drinking water appear safer than it likely is, a Planet Detroit and HuffPost analysis of state records...
A sea turtle has been given the chance of a new life in Scotland after being found injured and entangled in netting in the Maldives. April, an olive ridley sea turtle, was in care at the Turtle Rehabilitation Centre after being rescued in Raa Atoll in April 2019. Vets discovered she needed...
New York Times - Climate Forward
.After Hurricane Sandy, a Park in Lower Manhattan at the Center of a Fight
Nine years after Hurricane Sandy, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to rising seas. The fight over a plan to protect them reveals why progress on our most critical challenges is so hard. Credit...Daniel Arnold for The New York Times To hear more audio stories from publications...
The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen? Credit...Mike Haddad Hindsight is a series from the Headway team looking back at predictions and promises from the past. As the 2009 global climate summit in Copenhagen approached, the European Union raced to...
New York Times - Climate Section
For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed. Credit...Mike Haddad Our forebears had a lot of ideas about where we’d be by now. Go back just a few years, and you’ll find no end of prophecies about the...
The financial industry will be relied on to meet climate goals. NatWest, a lender to oil giants, provides a template. Advocates descended on the streets of Glasgow last month, pressing banks and other financial institutions at 26th United Nations climate summit to be more responsible stewards of...
MIT - Research
Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity
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PHYS.ORG - Earth
Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean - by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary published Dec. 2 in Nature Communications reports coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, more commonly...
Guardian - Energy
The UK is "nowhere near" meeting emissions targets enshrined at the Glasgow climate summit, official advisers have warned. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that, at current rates, the UK will be contributing to a disastrous temperature rise of 2.7C by 2100. It says this could - in theory...
Guardian - Climate Change
Citing Covid-19, Climate and Wars, U.N. Asks Donors for Big Jump in Funding
The world body said it needed $41 billion to fund humanitarian aid to help 183 million people in 63 countries. GENEVA - When the United Nations made its last appeal for humanitarian aid funding before the pandemic, it asked donors for about $29 billion. But in the past year alone, there has been...
Beads of glass in meteorites help scientists piece together how solar system formed
Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they've been puzzled - and fascinated - by what's inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the earliest days of the solar system, before the planets were even formed. Scientists with the...
Strawberry harvest in California. Image Via Unsplash/ Tim Mossholder It's a pesticide called 1,3-Dichloropropene that's commonly sold under the brand name Telone. And although it's largely unknown outside agricultural circles, 1,3-D has an outsized footprint. In 1990, state regulators banned use...
PHYS.ORG - Biology
Scientists now have a deeper understanding of how a fungus develops a symbiotic lifestyle inside grass leaf and why the grass leaf fails to defend itself against the intruder, thanks to research coming from Massey University in New Zealand and the University of Münster in Germany. Fungal...
When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become more frequent over the last 150 years. However, scientists have questioned whether this upward...