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Carbon Removal No Solution If World Overshoots Warming Target: Scientists

"Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail to avert climate change catastrophe as rising global temperatures threaten to cross a key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), scientists said on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 10/10/2024

Photos Of Vast E-Waste Dumping Ground — And Those Who Make A Living Off It

"When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the equivalent of about 60 U.S. dollars."

Source: NPR, 10/07/2024

"Biden Signs Bill Cutting Environmental Reviews For Semiconductor Industry"

"President Biden on Wednesday signed legislation exempting semiconductor manufacturing facilities from environmental reviews — despite objections from some Democrats and green activists who have expressed concerns about the potential for toxic waste."

Source: The Hill, 10/03/2024
October 10, 2024

Mongabay Webinar: How To Cover Geoengineering

This Mongabay webinar will focus on how journalists can better cover geoengineering concepts, such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), the ethical and scientific questions/concerns surrounding this, and the global scientific divide on researching or deploying this technology to combat climate change. 3pm ET.

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"They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans."

"In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant sponges that absorb carbon dioxide from the air."

Source: NYTimes, 09/25/2024

"How A California County Got PFAS Out Of Its Drinking Water"

"Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles. It’s perhaps best known for being the birthplace of President Richard Nixon. But in the past few years, Yorba Linda has picked up another distinction: It’s home to the nation’s largest per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) water treatment plant of its kind, according to the city."

Source: NPR, 09/18/2024

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