Corals at Risk as Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event
"Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/13/2024
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"EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority"
"EPA’s rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector may be the latest battleground over whether the agency is exceeding its authority to regulate planet-warming emissions."
Source: E&E News, 03/13/2024"How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry"
"Allies of former President Donald Trump have a plan to leave the Paris climate agreement and make it much harder for a future Democratic president to rejoin it."
Source: E&E News, 03/13/2024"EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms"
"The EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to new rules to cut pollution from livestock farms, but only after agreeing with EU countries to make the law far weaker than initially planned."
Source: Reuters, 03/13/2024"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I."
"How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?"
Source: New Yorker, 03/13/2024"Bats of the Midnight Sun"
"Active in daylight during the Arctic summer and hibernating during the long winter nights, Alaska’s little brown bats are a unique population. Can their niche lives help them avoid white-nose syndrome?"
Source: Hakai, 03/13/2024"Biden Seeks $1.8B Budget Boost For EPA"
"The president’s fiscal 2025 blueprint would increase the agency’s funding over its current level but is not as ambitious as previous plans."
Source: E&E News, 03/12/2024"Colorado Could Bring Back Wolverines In An Unprecedented Rewilding Effort"
"A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers are proposing legislation to reintroduce wolverines, one of the country’s rarest carnivores, into a state primed with deep snow and high mountains. The unprecedented move would be the first wolverine reintroduction in North America, and is part of an ongoing effort by Coloradans to restore the state’s native species."
Source: Guardian, 03/12/2024"Florida Passes ‘Cruel’ Bill Curbing Water And Shade Protections For Workers"
"The Florida legislature passed a bill on Friday that prevents any city, county, or municipality in the state from adopting legislation aimed at protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat, prompting many to call out lawmakers for being “cruel” to the “most vulnerable workers”."
Source: Guardian, 03/12/2024"Canada, U.S. Launch Intl. Inquiry Into Southeast B.C. Mine Pollution"
"Nearly 12 years after Ktunaxa Nation first urged the Canadian and U.S. governments to task an international body with investigating the mine pollution coursing through its territory, the two countries have agreed to a step the nation says is key to addressing contamination from B.C.’s Elk Valley coal mines."
Source: The Narwhal, 03/12/2024‘Catastrophic’: California Salmon Season To Be Restricted Or Shut Down — Again
"California’s fishing industry is bracing for another bad year as federal managers today announced plans to heavily restrict or prohibit salmon fishing again, after cancelling the entire season last year."
Source: CalMatters, 03/12/2024"Europe Unprepared For Rapidly Growing Climate Risks, Report Finds"
"Europe is not prepared for the rapidly growing climate risks it faces, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said in its first risk assessment."
Source: Guardian, 03/12/2024"Adapt, Move or Die? Plants and Animals Face New Pressures in a Warming World"
"The world continues to hit alarming records. Last year was the warmest since record keeping began in 1850. And the 10 warmest years have all occurred in the past decade. The implications for life on Earth are vast. More than 1 million species are already at risk of extinction — a number that’s likely to increase with climate pressures."
Source: The Revelator, 03/12/2024"Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Finalized Methane Rule"
"The state of Texas on Friday sued the Biden administration over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule restricting methane emissions finalized earlier Friday morning."
Source: The Hill, 03/12/2024"Has Geothermal’s Moment Finally Arrived?"
"No matter where you stand on Earth, there is heat beneath your feet. It's closer in some places, and there's generally more of it deeper down, but it's always there, smoldering away since our planet's creation 4.5 billion years ago."
Source: Sierra, 03/12/2024
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