Did Massive Kraken-Like Octopus Prowl Seas During The Age Of Dinosaurs?
"The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus."
Source: AP, 04/27/2026
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"Georgia Wildfires Updates: 87 Homes Destroyed, Fires Largely Uncontained"
"The two largest wildfires in southern Georgia have burned tens of thousands of acres combined." "A total of 87 homes had been destroyed as of Thursday by wildfires sweeping across parts of Georgia."
Source: WSBTV, 04/24/2026"A New Bureau Will Oversee Both Offshore Drilling and Seabed Mining"
"The Trump administration is creating a new office that critics say could weaken the environmental oversight of oil drilling and seabed mining in territorial waters." "The new federal office will undo a change made after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Critics say it could reduce environmental oversight."
Source: NYTimes, 04/24/2026"World Food Systems ‘Pushed To The Brink’ By Extreme Heat, UN Warns"
"Extreme heat is threatening the world’s food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril, the UN has warned."
Source: Guardian, 04/24/2026"Corpus Christi Plans to Declare a ‘Water Emergency.’ What Does That Mean?"
"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year."
Source: Inside Climate News/KUT/KEDT, 04/24/2026Major Livestock and Dairy Firms Make Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping
"A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/24/2026"Feds Fine Durham-Based Energy Efficiency Company $722 Million"
"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Durham, N.C.-based American Efficient $722 million and ordered the company to repay more than $410 million in “unjust profits” for alleged fraud in its energy efficiency program."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/24/2026Gas-Fired Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
"A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year."
Source: WIRED, 04/24/2026Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Dept. Budget Irk Senate Dems
"Although the department’s overall budget will increase in 2027, the amounts dedicated to environmental management, research and renewable energy infrastructure face significant hits."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/24/2026Waste-To-Energy Plant Proposed For Vuda Point In Fiji Sparks Fierce Backlash
"A proposed waste-to-energy facility in Fiji has been labelled as "waste colonialism" by opponents of the plant. The $900 million venture, backed by Australian billionaire Ian Malouf, would burn hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year at a site built near a popular tourist destination."
Source: Australian ABC, 04/24/2026"Republicans Had an Earth Day Plan to Limit Species Protections. It Flopped."
"House Republicans had big plans for Earth Day this year: They would pass a bill to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. It didn’t work out that way."
Source: NYTimes, 04/24/2026"Alarm As Acting CDC Director Delays Report Showing Covid Vaccine Benefits"
"A Trump administration appointee has delayed publication of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that shows benefits related to the Covid vaccine, leading to concerns that the administration is engaging in behind-the-scenes tactics to undermine vaccines."
Source: Guardian, 04/23/2026Nearly Half Of US Kids Breathe Unhealthy Air: Report. Here's Best, Worst
"For 152 million Americans, including nearly half of the nation's children and teens, just breathing air in the places they live can be harmful. According to the American Lung Association's latest State of the Air report, 44% of the U.S. population reside in areas with unhealthy levels of pollution, including 33 million who are younger than 18."
Source: CBS News, 04/23/2026"What a 5,000-Mile-Long Marine Heat Wave Means For Summer In The U.S.
"It could worsen heat and humidity in the West this summer, and also boost the risks of Pacific hurricanes as well as wildfires in the region."
Source: Washington Post, 04/23/2026"Judge Tosses Kash Patel's Defamation Suit Against Former MSNBC Contributor"
"A federal judge in Texas has tossed a defamation suit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel against former FBI assistant director-turned-MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi."
Source: NBC News, 04/23/2026
