"Does The Amazon's Drought Mean The Forest Is At A Tipping Point?"
"Scientists say deforestation is compounding the effects of climate change, threatening to turn parts of the forest into savannah".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 11/16/2023
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"Opinion: Uncounted Emissions: The Hidden Cost of Fossil Fuel Exports"
"Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas."
Source: YaleE360, 11/15/2023
2 Grim Reports On Global Climate Highlight Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Ill Health
"Humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies, according to two global reports issued Tuesday."
Source: AP, 11/15/2023
Researchers, Farmers, Brewers Want To Safeguard Beer Against Climate Change
"On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation, preparing barley seeds by the bucketful."
Source: AP, 11/14/2023
‘The Science Is Irrefutable’: US Warming Faster Than Global Average: Report
"The US is warming faster than the global average and its people are suffering “far-reaching and worsening” consequences from the climate crisis, with worse to come, according to an authoritative report issued by the US government."
Source: Guardian, 11/14/2023
US Chemical Industry Likely Spent $110M To Thwart PFAS Legislation: Study
"The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around “forever chemicals”, a new analysis of federal lobbying documents has found."
Source: Guardian, 11/08/2023
"This County Could Create The Strictest Workplace Heat Rules In The U.S."
"Miami-Dade County commissioners on Tuesday will decide whether to establish the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States, a test of whether local governments can protect workers from increasingly dangerous temperatures in the absence of federal rules."
Source: Washington Post, 11/07/2023
"UN Sounds Warning On Climate Change Health Threat"
"Climate change poses a health threat through increasing weather disasters and extreme heat, the UN said Thursday, calling for better warning systems that could be weaved into public health policy."
Source: AFP, 11/03/2023
Chemical Recycling “A Dangerous Deception” Amid Plastic Pollution: Report
"Chemical recycling — an umbrella term used to describe processes that break plastic waste down into molecular building blocks with high heat or chemicals and convert them into new products — will not help reduce plastic pollution, but rather exacerbate environmental problems, according to a new report by nonprofit environmental advocacy groups Beyond Plastics and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)."
Source: EHN, 11/01/2023
"Earth’s Climate Shatters Heat Records. These 5 Charts Show How."
"Amid what’s destined to be the Earth’s warmest year on record, multiple climate data points have catapulted to stunning extremes."
Source: Washington Post, 10/25/2023
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