Natural Resources

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

"Ferocious Mother 128 ‘Grazer’ Wins Back-To-Back Fat Bear Week Titles"

"128 “Grazer” made Fat Bear Week history Tuesday night by becoming the first competitor to win the tournament while caring for a cub. Her victory over 32 “Chunk” also felt deeply personal for legions of her online fans; earlier this summer, Grazer’s enormous rival attacked the second of her offspring, who later died of the injuries."

Source: Washington Post, 10/09/2024

"Tribes Celebrate The End Of The Largest Dam Removal Project In US History"

"The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Wednesday, marking a major victory for tribes in the region who fought for decades to free hundreds of miles of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border."

Source: AP, 10/07/2024

What Happens To Thousands Of Shipping Containers Lost At Sea?

"Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys made for hunters, colorful squirt guns." ... "These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans that Lewis also finds tossed overboard by fishers or partygoers. They’re the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean."

Source: AP, 10/04/2024

Blue Ridge Parkway To Be Closed Indefinitely After Helene: Park Service

"The country’s most-visited national park site, the Blue Ridge Parkway, will remain closed indefinitely, the National Park Service (NPS) said Wednesday. The closure affects the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway, though some parts were hit harder than others by storm damage. It comes right as the region and scenic road typically see a boom in tourism, as weather cools and the leaves change colors."

Source: The Hill, 10/04/2024

Voting In Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Starts After Attack Killed 1 Contestant

"Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter."

Source: AP, 10/03/2024

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