Climate Change

"Hundreds of millions of farmed salmon have perished in mass die-offs over the past decade, say researchers."

"The state's high plains get a month more fire weather now than they did in the 1970s."

"Last year, Americans bought more than one million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country’s transition away from gas-powered vehicles."

"The snowstorms were a ‘tremendous boon’ to the state’s water supply, officials said".

"The federally created body that promotes U.S. exports is continuing to finance fossil fuel projects abroad — even after advisers aligned with President Joe Biden’s climate goals pointed out those investments’ risks."

"In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed last week, the New York Attorney General accused JBS USA—the American arm of the world’s largest meatpacking company—of “fraudulent and illegal environmental marketing practices” surrounding its claims of sustainability."

"A new study of sinking and rising land along American coasts offers a more specific understanding of potential flooding in 32 coastal cities."

"Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer."

"Deadly heat is threatening the lives of America’s ageing incarcerated population, who are trapped in increasingly hot and humid conditions as the climate emergency escalates, new research has found."

"From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests." "In the wake of the hottest year on record, with fossil fuel production increasing and sea levels rising, the stakes for the climate couldn’t be higher in this year’s elections."