"Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic"
"Soaring temperatures are rapidly thawing permafrost, leading to huge sinkholes called thermokarst. Northern fires are making the situation even worse."
Source: Wired, 01/05/2022
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"US Judge Blocks Work At Nevada Geothermal Plant For 90 Days"
"A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to temporarily block any construction work for 90 days at a proposed geothermal power plant in Nevada that opponents said would destroy a sacred tribal site and could result in extinction of a rare toad being considered for endangered species protection."
Source: AP, 01/05/2022
"Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On"
"Rarely does a country get a chance to lay out its ideals as a nation and write a new constitution for itself. Almost never does the climate and ecological crisis play a central role. That is, until now, in Chile, where a national reinvention is underway. After months of protests over social and environmental grievances, 155 Chileans have been elected to write a new constitution amid what they have declared a “climate and ecological emergency.”"
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Source: NYTimes, 01/04/2022
"Jackpile Mine Toxic Legacy Continues At Laguna Pueblo"
"In the village of Paguate as June Lorenzo’s grandmother knew it growing up, orchards and fields of wheat and corn carpeted nearby hillsides. Streams traversed a verdant valley where people hunted and grazed sheep near the small farming community in Laguna Pueblo. This was before a massive mine cratered the nearby land and altered the skyline. Lorenzo has looked for old photos of that landscape, but they’re hard to find. That place exists now only in stories from elders."
Source: Indian Country Today, 01/04/2022
"Hawaii Upholds Order Requiring Navy To Drain Fuel Tanks"
"Hawaii’s Department of Health on Monday upheld the governor’s order requiring the Navy to drain massive World War II-era fuel tanks after oil leaking from the aging facility contaminated Pearl Harbor’s tap water."
Source: AP, 01/04/2022
"Ormat Nevada Geothermal Project Approval Before a Federal Judge"
"The Bureau of Land Management will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to allow Ormat Nevada’s geothermal project to proceed over objections from an American Indian tribe and an environmental group."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/04/2022
"Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan"
"The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc’s plans for a climate-friendly future."
Source: AP, 01/04/2022
"China Fires Up Giant Coal Power Plant In Face Of Calls For Cuts"
"China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the first 1,000-megawatt unit of the Shanghaimiao plant, the biggest of its kind under construction in the country."
Source: Reuters, 01/03/2022
"Germany Shuts Down Half Of Its 6 Remaining Nuclear Plants"
"Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power."
Source: AP, 01/03/2022
"Powerful Methane Cloud Seen by Satellite Came From Georgia Pipe"
"Williams Cos., one of the biggest transporters of natural gas in the U.S., said an intentional release of a powerful greenhouse gas detected by satellite was caused by work on one of its pipelines."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/03/2022
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