"Climate Change: 'Sand Battery' Could Solve Green Energy's Big Problem"
"Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time."
Source: BBC News, 07/05/2022
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"Cement Carbon Dioxide Emissions Quietly Double In 20 Years"
"Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows."
Source: AP, 06/28/2022
"New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead"
"Researchers are developing ways to predict how much land will burn out West and where ocean heat waves will occur up to a year in advance".
Source: Washington Post, 06/28/2022
"Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge’"
"Millions of Americans are once again in the grips of dangerous heat. Hot air blanketed Europe last weekend, causing parts of France and Spain to feel the way it usually does in July or August. High temperatures scorched northern and central China even as heavy rains caused flooding in the country’s south. Some places in India began experiencing extraordinary heat in March, though the start of the monsoon rains has brought some relief."
Source: NYTimes, 06/27/2022
"Summer Swelter: Persistent Heat Wave Breaks Records, Spirits"
"From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more resembled the dog days of August."
Source: AP, 06/24/2022
"In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change"
"For years, research journals devoted to the earth sciences have warned of the dire consequences that could result from global warming and pollution going unchecked. Now, one of the nation’s oldest medical journals has committed itself to increasing the public’s knowledge about the health effects of the planet’s changing climate."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/21/2022
"Unhoused in Phoenix’s Perilous Heat: ‘If I Don’t Keep Cool, I’ll Die’"
"Phoenix is the US’s deadliest city for heat fatalities while its urban sprawl makes it a concrete heat island".
Source: Guardian, 06/21/2022
"How Millions Of Lives Can Be Saved If The US Acts Now On Climate"
"Researchers have now calculated how many people could be saved from heat-related death if the US takes meaningful action".
Source: Guardian, 06/17/2022
More Than 20 Million US Farm Animals Die On Way To Abattoir Every Year
"Tens of millions of farm animals in the US are dying before they can be slaughtered, according to a Guardian investigation exposing the deadly conditions under which animals are transported around the country."
Source: Guardian, 06/15/2022
"How Extreme Heat Kills, Sickens, Strains and Ages Us"
"Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don’t make the problem worse."
"When W. Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, began studying how extreme heat harms humans, his research focused on workers inside the disaster-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear plant, where temperatures were as high as 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Source: NYTimes, 06/15/2022
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