Tsinghua University in Beijing researchers conducted a sound wave-based experiment in Tibetan Plateau and found promising results. The use of water has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. Water scarcity has also begun affecting every continent and the threat of drought is increasing. But a team... Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency told lawmakers on Wednesday he will consult with states and other stakeholders as the agency determines how to deliver on the administration’s plans to tackle climate change and clean up pollution hotspots. The comments came during an unusually cordial Senate confirmation... Continue Reading →
Biden’s EPA pick assures lawmakers he will listen to states in climate fight
A 30-year high in East African rainfall during 2018 and 2019 resulted in rising water levels and widespread flooding. The new study shows that emissions of methane - the second most important greenhouse gas - from flooded East African wetlands were substantially larger following these extreme rainfall events. The study, led by Dr Mark Lunt... Continue Reading →
Huge methane emission rise follows extreme rainfall in East Africa
The case for a national clean electricity standard. Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned on a bold climate plan that included cleaning up America’s electricity system by 2035 with a federal Clean Electricity Standard (CES). A national CES, which would require utilities increase their share of renewable and carbon pollution-free electricity, is an old... Continue Reading →
This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list
Democratic progressives introduce legislation to mandate action by Biden. 2/4/2020 - Special Alert Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, introduced legislation today that would mandate President Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” The bill compares the action needed on the climate crisis to the wartime mobilization... Continue Reading →
“It’s past time to declare a climate emergency.”
Cheaper solar power means low-income families can also benefit – with the right kind of help Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could afford. But prices have dropped, thanks mostly to falling costs for hardware, as well as price declines for installation and other “soft” costs. Today... Continue Reading →
Cheaper solar power means low-income families can also…
As President Biden continues to roll out executive orders prioritizing climate change, it is increasingly clear that there will be a relatively rapid U.S. shift toward renewable energy from the sun, wind and other sources. Indeed, many states are already pushing ahead with ambitious renewable and clean energy policies. These policies will reduce air pollution,... Continue Reading →
Localizing the green energy revolution
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When life around the globe returns to normal, our world cannot return to business-as-usual. Our global community has been shocked by the largest global crisis in a generation. COVID-19 has shown us the necessity of thinking ahead, but the next crises are already on their way. Climate change, species loss, pandemics and massive natural disasters... Continue Reading →
Earth Day (.org) News & Stories… (also) Faces of Restoration
New measures of success needed to avoid catastrophic breakdown, landmark review finds The world is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the rapid depletion of the natural world and needs to find new measures of success to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a landmark review has concluded. Prosperity... Continue Reading →
Economics’ failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’
A landmark review has called for transformational change in our economic approach to nature. The long-awaited review by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, of the University of Cambridge, says prosperity has come at a "devastating" cost to the natural world. The report proposes recognising nature as an asset and reconsidering our measures of economic prosperity. It... Continue Reading →
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