Climate Change

Group Is Spreading Misinformation To Stop Solar Projects In Rural America

"Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres."

Source: Floodlight/NPR, 02/20/2023

"Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’"

"Recent climate projections may be underestimating the pace of global warming in an atmosphere damaged by greenhouse gas emissions, because the interaction of powerful climate feedback loops that can accelerate warming are not well-represented in key climate models, an international team of scientists concluded in a study published today in the journal One Earth. "

Source: Inside Climate News, 02/20/2023

"Biden E.P.A. Reinstates Mercury Limits Weakened Under Trump"

"The Biden administration on Friday restored the legal foundation of an Obama-era regulation governing mercury, a pollutant from power plants that can damage brain development in babies and cause heart disease in adults."

Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2023

First Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest

"On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees. These weren’t just any trees, though: Some of the seedlings being nestled into the soggy soil had been genetically engineered to grow wood at turbocharged rates while slurping up carbon dioxide from the air."

Source: NYTimes, 02/17/2023

"Great Lakes Ice Cover Plummets To Record Mid-February Low"

"In the midst of an unusually warm winter across much of the northern United States and southern Canada, the Great Lakes now have the least ice cover on record for the middle of February, which is typically when the ice begins to reach its maximum extent for the season."

Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2023

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