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 →
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…
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 →
Manage Climate Change Anxiety With These Cold-War Coping Techniques
Market Statistic, LLP has recently published a study report on the global Waste to Energy Market. The report illustrates the market thoroughly and has offer a structural evaluation analysis of the market. This research report showcases the graphical representations of the Waste to Energy industry. ‘Global WTE Market comprises of basic market dynamics like the... Continue Reading →
Waste to Energy (WTE) Market Statistics…
After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit. “It was very, very heavy,” said Dr. Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School... Continue Reading →
Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It
There has been much controversy surrounding the COVID-19 mask requirements for the past year. Particularly given that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization (WHO) originally stated masks were not only unnecessary but potentially unhealthy, only to reverse course. This would be one of many examples of Dr. Fauci contradicting himself, a more recent... Continue Reading →
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