"Federal Office Focused On Climate Change And Health Has Zero Funding"
"Congress has not yet funded the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at the Department of Health and Human Services".
Source: Washington Post, 07/29/2022
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"Climate Migration Growing But Not Fully Recognized by World"
"Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in California, rising seas overtaking island nations and drought exacerbating conflicts in various parts of the world."
Source: AP, 07/29/2022Concerns Over Transparency And Access At Deep-Sea Mining Negotiations
"Delegates of the International Seabed Authority are currently meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, to negotiate a set of rules that would pave the way for a controversial activity: mining the seabed for coveted minerals like manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc. But scientists and conservationists say there are considerable transparency issues at the meetings that are restricting access to key information and hampering interactions between member states and civil society."
Source: Mongabay, 07/29/2022"Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus"
"Toby Kiers took long strides across the spongy forest floor, felt the adrenaline rush in her veins and stopped at the spot she had traveled so far to reach. Into the ground went a hollow metal cylinder. Out came a scoop of soil."
Source: NYTimes, 07/29/2022"Invasive Species Bullfrog And Snake Cost World $16Bn - Study"
"Scientists tallying the economic damage wrought by invasive pests across the world found two species are responsible for more harm than any other. The American bullfrog and brown tree snake have collectively caused $16.3bn (£13.4bn) in global damage since 1986."
Source: BBC News, 07/29/2022Romance and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses
"They’ve roamed free for hundreds of years, but is that freedom harming the ecosystem they call home?"
Source: Hakai, 07/29/2022"Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan"
"Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a key centrist Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to include hundreds of billions of dollars for climate and energy programs and tax increases in a package to subsidize health care and lower the cost of prescription drugs, less than two weeks after abruptly upending hopes for such an agreement this summer."
Source: NYTimes, 07/28/2022"Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change"
"To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout the oil-rich Permian Basin. What’s not visible through the chain-link fence is the plume of invisible gas, primarily methane, billowing from the gleaming white storage tanks up into the cloudless blue sky."
Source: AP, 07/28/2022"Temperatures Could Hit Triple Digits Again In Northwest"
"Heat wave duration records could be broken in the Pacific Northwest this week and authorities are expanding capacity at some cooling centers as temperatures near triple digits are forecast to extend into the weekend."
Source: AP, 07/28/2022"Biden Administration Announces Initiatives To Boost Solar Energy Use"
"The Biden administration is announcing several initiatives aimed at boosting the deployment of solar energy."
Source: The Hill, 07/28/2022Wildfire Pollution May Play Surprising Role in Fate of Arctic Sea Ice
"Scientists say changes in the amounts of wildfire smoke mixing with clouds over the Arctic Ocean may play a key role in determining how fast the Arctic sea ice cover will shrink during the next few decades, and when it will disappear completely in summer."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/28/2022These Hurricane Flood Maps Reveal Climate Future For Miami, NYC and DC
"Rising seas and stronger winds mean the punishing waves pushed ashore by tropical storms and hurricanes will make their way farther and farther inland. That inland march would expose a larger swath of the U.S. coast to the kind of flooding unleashed during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and put more people at risk of drowning, the leading cause of death in hurricanes."
Source: NPR, 07/28/2022DOE Gives Major Loan To Facility For Processing Electric Vehicle Materials
"The Energy Department announced Wednesday that it will give a $102 million loan to expand a processing facility for materials used in electric vehicle batteries."
Source: The Hill, 07/28/2022Largest Audubon Chapter Yet Is Changing Its Name, Rebuking An Enslaver
"One of the largest chapters in the National Audubon Society network is changing its name to distance itself from John James Audubon, the famed naturalist who was also an enslaver and a strong critic of those who sought to free African Americans from bondage."
Source: Washington Post, 07/28/2022"Streaming Service Hulu Is Rejecting Ads About Climate Change"
"The popular streaming service Hulu has been refusing to run ads involving certain topics that the company deems too “controversial,” including abortion rights, gun control and climate change, according to a series of news reports."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/28/2022
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