"Bar-Tailed Godwit Sets World Record With 13,560Km Continuous Flight"
"Satellite tag data suggests five-month-old migratory bird did not stop during voyage which took 11 days and one hour to reach Tasmania".
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2022
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"Oil Companies Helping Fund Republican Takeover Plans"
"If Republicans take the House or Senate majority in next month’s midterm elections, they’ll have the oil and natural gas industry to thank — at least to an extent."
Source: E&E News, 10/26/2022Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks Likelier
"Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future marked by more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves and species extinction, according to a report issued Wednesday by the United Nations."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2022Climate Change Threatens Emperor Penguins With Extinction: USFWS
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted federal protections to the world’s tallest and heaviest penguin species Tuesday".
Source: Washington Post, 10/26/2022Private Equity Buying Aging Oil, Gas and Coal Assets As Fossil Firms Divest
"Environmentalists fear the sell-offs could keep those facilities operating for years into the future, worsening climate change."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/26/2022"From E. Coli to Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Floodwaters Are a Health Nightmare"
"Floodwater often contains pollutants and pathogens that can sicken and kill people in the aftermath of a storm."
Source: Earther, 10/26/2022"Rich Countries Keep Funding Our Demise"
"The most powerful countries in the world keep ratcheting up public funding for fossil fuel projects and increasing emissions—despite the fact that continued investment in dirty fuels could push us beyond the warming targets laid out in the Paris Agreement."
Source: Earther, 10/26/2022"U.S. Groups Urge Kerry To Back Climate Compensation Fund"
"Over 100 U.S. environmental groups on Monday urged top U.S. climate diplomat John Kerry to support the creation of a fund that would compensate countries that have experienced economic and physical loss from climate change, a key demand of vulnerable countries at the upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2022"Forest Service Backs Arrested ‘Burn Boss’"
"The Forest Service is defending the manager of a prescribed fire that went astray in Oregon, resulting in the employee’s arrest by a local sheriff."
Source: E&E News, 10/26/2022"Opponents Of US Carbon Pipeline Draw Lessons From Prior Pipeline Fights"
"Landowners hoping to block proposed carbon pipeline projects in the U.S. Midwest are getting help from some of America's most prominent anti-pipeline campaigners, including groups that fought the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2022"Future Of Pipelines, Black School Hinge On Court NEPA Fight"
"An upcoming federal appeals court battle could reset the rules for environmental reviews of major projects like power plants and highways — and determine the fate of a historic Virginia school built to educate Black children during the Jim Crow era."
Source: E&E News, 10/26/2022"‘He’s A Believer’: Will Sunak Rebuild Green Agenda Torn Up By Truss?"
"Environmental groups see new PM as welcome relief but restoring climate credentials will be difficult".
Source: Guardian, 10/25/2022None of 380 Million Tons Of Plastic Made Per Year Is Truly Recyclable
"No plastic is truly recyclable — not even the water bottles and milk jugs that people usually toss into their blue bins."
Source: Grist, 10/25/2022"Cyclone Lashes Bangladesh Killing Nine, Flooding Low-Lying Areas"
"A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees and disrupting road, power and communication links, officials said."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2022Emissions From China-Funded Overseas Coal Plants Equal To Whole Of Spain
"Carbon dioxide emissions from China-invested power plants overseas now stand at an estimated 245 million tonnes per year, about the same as the annual energy-related CO2 emissions from Spain or Thailand, new research showed on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2022
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