"Khaled Taleb steps out of his vehicle high on a mountainside in northern Lebanon, and surveys the charred remains of the cedar forest he fought to save. A black carpet of the trees' burned needles crunches underfoot."
"Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic city market, remembers climbing onto the table at her grandmother’s booth downtown when the floodwaters rushed by."
"No, we haven't reached a climate "point of no return." That's the overwhelming message from climate scientists in response to an alarming climate study that many experts described as flawed when it splashed across social media last week."
"When Category 5 Hurricane Iota roared over the small Colombian island of Providencia in the early hours of Monday morning, Yeisler Chamorro and his wife hunkered down underneath a mattress in their bedroom."
"One of Joe Biden’s boldest campaign pledges was to ban “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters,” part of a sweeping agenda aimed at curbing greenhouse gases that are warming the planet and threatening life on Earth. Transforming that promise into reality, however, will be tough."
"A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans."
"A Biden administration won’t be able to untangle the legal and regulatory “mess” under part of the Clean Water Act that determines which streams, wetlands and other waters get federal protection, legal scholars and litigators say."
"Nearly 90 Democratic lawmakers wrote to the White House to protest a recent shakeup at the agency charged with organizing a key assessment that helps the government consider how to respond to climate change."
"The White House may not be preparing to transition to a Biden administration, but Wall Street is." "The president-elect has said he would require publicly traded companies to disclose emissions and financial risks associated with global warming."
"Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.) announced Wednesday that he plans to become the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, a move that would vacate his leadership role on the Environment and Public Works panel."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-closes-lebanons-iconic-cedar-trees
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/middle-east
[7] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/22/935885394/climate-change-closes-in-on-lebanons-iconic-cedar-trees
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/charleston-weighs-wall-seas-rise-and-storms-strengthen
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[11] https://apnews.com/article/technology-climate-climate-change-floods-storms-1242b6a15b45464f9e084115210f2ca7
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/science-doomsday-climate-study-debunked-researchers
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[15] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063719007
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/they-repair-iotas-damage-colombian-survivors-vow-rebuild
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/central-america-caribbean
[19] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-iota-colombia/as-they-repair-iotas-damage-colombian-survivors-vow-to-rebuild-idUSKBN2810NV
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-vowed-ban-new-drilling-public-lands-it-won-t-be-easy-0
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[25] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/19/biden-climate-change-drilling/
[26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nasa-satellite-measure-global-sea-level-rise
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
[28] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/933038332/nasa-satellite-to-measure-global-sea-level-rise
[29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/federal-water-rule-expected-stay-murky-through-biden-term
[30] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/federal-water-rule-expected-to-stay-murky-through-biden-term
[31] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lawmakers-condemn-trumps-politicizing-moves-climate-assessment
[32] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/526747-lawmakers-condemn-trumps-destabilizing-and-politicizing-moves-on
[33] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wall-street-bets-climate-related-financial-regulation-coming-under-biden
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[35] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112020/climate-wall-street-biden-transition
[36] https://www.sej.org/headlines/barrasso-seek-top-spot-energy-and-natural-resources-committee
[37] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/526525-barrasso-to-seek-top-spot-on-energy-and-natural-resources-committee
[38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=1
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=3
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=4
[41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=5
[42] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=6
[43] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=7
[44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=8
[45] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change?page=774