The prospects for renewable energy look good in 2021. The mood around the world has shifted. At opposite ends of the Earth, China has adopted a target to cut net carbon emissions to zero by 2060, while US President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on his first day in office. And here in the... Continue Reading →
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is not climate change, though it will likely end much of what we experience today, but rather our war on bio-diversity. Bio-diversity is under attack from a swelling human population that... Continue Reading →
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
New research shows global warming caused by human activity is to blame for a shrinking Andean glacier that threatens to flood 120,000 people and could be used to establish legal liability for polluters. The study, published in Nature Geoscience on Thursday by scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of Washington, found human... Continue Reading →
Melting Glacier Study Could Establish Legal Liability for Climate Polluters
Measure Backed by Hundreds of Climate, Justice Organizations WASHINGTON— Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill today that would require President Joe Biden to use the power he already has to declare a climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act. Under such... Continue Reading →
Congressional Bill Urges Biden to Declare Climate Emergency
Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick. On his first day in office, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order that stops the Keystone XL pipeline and pauses oil lease sales in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But behind these... Continue Reading →
Biden Moves to Dial Down America’s Soaring Methane Emissions
Clean Cars 2030 Gains Legislative Momentum, Reflects Urgent Need to Confront Climate Crisis While Addressing Pollution and Health Inequities Legislation to accelerate vehicle electrification is an opportunity for Washington State to lead on the global stage. SEATTLE, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Cars 2030, a bill reintroduced in the Washington legislature with 27 co-sponsors... Continue Reading →
Clean Cars 2030 Gains Legislative Momentum…
Scientists say $2 trillion investment can decarbonize energy by 2050, paid for with a carbon tax In the primaries, Joe Biden wasn’t the first choice of most climate hawks. For, example, the youth-led Sunrise Movement, which supports radical climate proposals, graded the top three candidates, putting Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in first and second place,... Continue Reading →
Scientists say $2 trillion investment can decarbonize energy by 2050…
Unlike other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted directly into liquid fuels, called "biofuels," to help meet transportation fuel needs. The two most common types of biofuels in use today are ethanol and biodiesel, both of which represent the first generation of biofuel technology. The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is collaborating with industry to... Continue Reading →
Biofuels Basics
The European Fund for the Balkans has started a new campaign called “Balkans United for Clean Air” to call upon governments and citizens to prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths caused by pollution every year. Most of the cases of health issues and mortality are caused by exposure to particulate matter which is caused... Continue Reading →
Campaign Launched to Hold Politicians to Account Over Air Pollution and Premature Deaths
Iceland Is Sucking Carbon Dioxide From the Air and Turning It Into Rock OSLO, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone deep below ground, in a radical — but expensive — way... Continue Reading →
Iceland Is Sucking Carbon Dioxide From the Air and Turning It Into Rock
For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallized parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what we’re feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max St John, 41, had experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past. After reading the global... Continue Reading →
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