"Denmark Sources Record 47% Of Power From Wind In 2019"
"Denmark sourced almost half its electricity consumption from wind power last year, a new record boosted by steep cost reductions and improved offshore technology."
Source: Reuters, 01/02/2020
Search results
"Austrian Conservatives And Greens Strike New Year's Coalition Deal"
"Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz struck a coalition deal on Wednesday with the Greens to ensure his return to power and bring the left-wing party into government for the first time, three months after Kurz won a parliamentary election."
Source: Reuters, 01/02/2020
Trump-Picked Science Panel Says E.P.A. Rollbacks Lack Scientific Rigor
"A top panel of government-appointed scientists, many of them hand-selected by the Trump administration, said on Tuesday that three of President Trump’s most far-reaching and scrutinized proposals to weaken major environmental regulations are at odds with established science."
Source: NY Times, 01/02/2020
Australia Govt Steers Mass Evacuation As Wildfires Raze Holiday Towns
"Tens of thousands of holiday makers fled seaside towns on Australia’s east coast on Thursday ahead of advancing bushfires, as military ships and helicopters began rescuing thousands more trapped by the blazes."
Source: Reuters, 01/02/2020
"Jim Beam Fined In Massive Bourbon Spill That Killed Fish"
"Jim Beam was fined $600,000 earlier this month after a July warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile plume of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish."
Source: AP, 12/31/2019
Mozambique Racing To Adapt To Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning
"In early March, people who live along Mozambique's long coastline began to hear rumors about a cyclone."
Source: NPR, 12/31/2019
"Plenty of Contaminants Found At Detroit-Area Industrial Site"
"High levels of multiple contaminants have been found in soil and groundwater at an old industrial site in suburban Detroit, state regulators said, after an inspection that was triggered by the discovery of a yellow-green substance along a major interstate."
Source: AP, 12/31/2019
Mississippi Sues Fed Over Spillway Opening Harm to Wildlife, Localities
"Officials in Mississippi are trying to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Commission to consult with them before opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana again and flooding the region with polluted river water."
Source: AP, 12/31/2019
Climate Change and Chaos: A Deadly Mix in Honduras Dengue Epidemic
"CHOLOMA, Honduras — More than 400 people died this year as one of the worst dengue epidemics on record swept through Central America — a type of outbreak that some scientists and public health officials are warning is likely to become more frequent and more widespread because of climate change."
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2019
Law Requires Probe Of Island Nuclear Dump Threatened By Rising Seas
"Congress is demanding that the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands."
Source: LA Times, 12/31/2019
