"Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest"
"Scientists are unearthing a quiet truth about the woods: Where trees grow, or don’t, depends in part on the quirky decisions of small mammals."
Source: NYTimes, 11/28/2022
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"Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?"
"The worst of the worst included a coal-fired power plant in Alabama, a coal mine in Pennsylvania and a nylon plant in Florida, recent EPA data shows."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/23/2022"How China, The World’s Top Polluter, Avoids Paying For Climate Damage"
"United Nations still considers China, now the world’s second-largest economy and biggest annual polluter, a developing country".
Source: Washington Post, 11/23/2022"Uncertainties About Climate Compensation Fund Trigger Skepticism"
"A newly agreed “loss and damage” fund in which developed countries would pay for climate damages suffered by vulnerable developing counterparts lacks both details and actual funding, raising question about whether it’s merely a symbolic breakthrough."
Source: The Hill, 11/23/2022"UN Climate Boss Settles For No Cuts On Emissions"
"Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he’ll settle for a lack of new emissions-cutting action coming out of the now-concluded climate talks in Egypt.."
Source: AP, 11/23/2022Longer Australian Bushfire Seasons, More Wild Weather Seen As Climate Warms
"Australia's climate conditions will worsen in the years ahead, two national agencies said on Wednesday, warning of quicker changes in weather patterns and more frequent extreme climate events."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2022"Vietnam Boosts Coal Use Plan For 2030 As G7 Climate Offer Stalls"
"Vietnam has increased its coal power target for 2030 under a revised draft energy plan, government documents seen by Reuters show, while renewables goals were scaled back, in a potential blow to rich nations' funding initiatives for cleaner energy."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2022"U.S. Aims To Sanction Brazil Deforesters, Adding Bite To Climate Fight"
"The United States is looking to crack down on environmental criminals behind surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, using penalties such as Magnitsky sanctions to tackle climate change more aggressively, U.S. sources and officials told Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2022"Public Utility To Pipe Water To Residents Of ‘Gasland’ Town"
"A new water line will deliver something that residents of a rural Pennsylvania community have gone without for the last 14 years — a clean, reliable supply of drinking water — after a public utility on Tuesday released the first details of a plan to mitigate the damage that a gas driller is charged with causing."
Source: AP, 11/23/2022BLM Announces New Proposed Oil And Gas Lease Sales In Nevada, Utah
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Monday announced two proposed oil and gas lease sales for nearly 100,000 acres of land in Nevada and Utah."
Source: The Hill, 11/23/2022"Politics, Climate Conspire as Tigris and Euphrates Dwindle"
"Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says."
Source: AP, 11/23/2022"How Vulnerable Countries Finally Got A Fund For Climate Damage"
"The world’s most climate-threatened countries won an historic first at climate talks here Sunday — securing a fund that would pay them for the damage wrought by global warming. But the victory came at a price."
Source: E&E News, 11/22/2022"Coal Emissions On Pace For Record-Setting 2022"
"Global emissions associated with coal burning are on track to hit a new record in 2022, underscoring the challenge of phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fuel."
Source: E&E News, 11/22/2022"Democratic Gains Embolden State Lawmakers Eyeing Climate Action"
"Newly elected Democratic lawmakers are planning bolder climate action in states where their party wrested legislative majorities and governors’ mansions from Republicans."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/22/2022"In War-Torn States Hurt By Climate, Scant Hope For New Funds"
"In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes. .... But they have little or no access to climate financing."
Source: AP, 11/22/2022
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