"Outdoor Afro: Celebrating Black Joy in Nature"
"Black people like nature, too. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at outdoor magazines — at least not before Outdoor Afro got started."
Source: The Revelator, 11/17/2022
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"A Clash Over Degrees: How Hot Should Nations Allow the Earth to Get?"
"The mantra has been: Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk climate catastrophe. But at COP27, there are hints of backsliding."
Source: NYTimes, 11/16/2022"New Measure of Climate’s Toll: Disasters Are Now Common Across U.S."
"The rising toll of climate change across the United States has been measured in lives lost, buildings destroyed and dollars spent on recovery. But a report released on Wednesday uses a different measure: Which parts of the country have suffered the greatest number of federally declared disasters?" "A new report found that 90 percent of all counties nationwide have suffered a major disaster since 2011."
Source: NYTimes, 11/16/2022"Insurance Fund For Climate Impacts Announced At UN Talks"
"The Group of Seven leading economies launched a new insurance system Monday to provide swift financial aid when nations are hit by devastating effects of climate change."
Source: AP, 11/16/2022"Oil Pollution In Egypt Threatens One Of World's Few Thriving Coral Reefs"
"As Egypt hosts world leaders to discuss action over climate change, an oil terminal is dumping toxic wastewater on the country's Red Sea coast, an investigation by BBC News Arabic has found. A rare form of coral, that offers hope for preserving ocean life as the planet warms, could be a casualty.:
Source: BBC News, 11/16/2022Enviros Sue Army Corps Of Engineers Over Okefenokee Swamp Protections
"The Southern Environmental Law Center is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its summer decision to remove Clean Water Act protections from almost 600 acres of wetlands next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge."
Source: Savannah Morning News, 11/16/2022"A Proposed Lithium Mine Presents A Climate Versus Environment Conflict"
"As world leaders meet for another climate summit in Egypt, the U.S. is pushing to mine more lithium for electric vehicle batteries at home. EVs will help cut pollution from transportation, the nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But there's a tradeoff, as residents have learned near Charlotte, where a big open-pit mine is proposed."
Source: NPR, 11/16/2022"Toxic Wildfire Smoke Raises Health Risks Across The Country"
"State public health officials and experts are increasingly concerned about residents’ chronic exposure to toxin-filled smoke."
Source: Washington Post, 11/16/2022"Wealthy Nations Ink $20B Deal To Move Indonesia Off Coal"
"A group of wealthy countries secured a deal Tuesday with Indonesia that would shift the major emitter’s power generation from coal to clean energy. The $20 billion deal financed by governments and financial institutions would be one of the largest public investments ever made to shutter fossil fuel plants."
Source: E&E News, 11/16/2022"US Offshore Wind Energy Industry Faces Blowback From Locals"
"It’s just one cable meant to bring electricity from an offshore wind farm to a former coal-burning power plant in southern New Jersey, but it symbolizes a big challenge facing the renewable energy industry."
Source: AP, 11/16/2022"Hippos, Sharks Up For Protection At UN Wildlife Conference"
"Hippos poached for their skin and teeth, sharks targeted by the fin trade and a tiny frog with translucent skin are among the hundreds of species that could get greater protection at a United Nations wildlife conference opening Monday."
Source: AP, 11/16/2022"U.S. and China Restart Climate Talks"
"President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China agreed on Monday to restart talks between their countries as part of international climate negotiations, a breakthrough in the effort to avert catastrophic global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 11/15/2022"COP27 Considers 'Loss And Damage' Fund, But Has Yet To Commit - Draft Text"
"The United Nations on Monday published a draft text setting out what the COP27 climate summit could agree on "loss and damage" financing for countries ravaged by climate impacts. The negotiating text will be debated and reworked by diplomats and ministers from nearly 200 countries before its hoped-for adoption at the end of the summit, negotiatiors said."
Source: Reuters, 11/15/2022Weak GOP Showing in Midterms Blunts Possible Attacks on Biden Climate Agenda
"Even if Republicans eke out a narrow majority in one or both chambers of Congress, the fossil fuel industry will need to win Democrats to advance their top agenda item—speeding permitting of pipelines, ports."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/15/2022"Brazil, Indonesia and Congo Sign Rainforest Protection Pact"
"The three countries that are home to more than half of the world’s tropical rainforests — Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo — are pledging to work together to establish a “funding mechanism” that could help preserve the forests, which help regulate the Earth’s climate and sustain a variety of animals, plants, birds and insects."
Source: NYTimes, 11/15/2022
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