"Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity"
"When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 02/01/2022
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Count Estimates Earth Has 73,000 Tree Species – 14% More Than Reported
"There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species."
Source: Guardian, 02/01/2022
"‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams"
"A new generation of pesticides promoted as safe alternatives to compounds shown to endanger the environment and public health are turning up in California streams at toxic levels, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022
"Georgia Power Plans To Double Renewables, Ditch All Coal"
"Southern Co.’s Georgia Power utility announced a plan yesterday to double its renewable energy footprint by 2035 as it maps out a path to close the rest of its coal fleet in that time."
Source: E&E News, 02/01/2022
"Biden Begins Crackdown On Power Plant Pollution"
"Biden administration officials are kicking off a crackdown on power plant pollution, aiming to shift the nation’s electricity supply to cleaner energy in the face of congressional resistance and a Supreme Court that could limit the federal government’s ability to tighten public health standards."
Source: Washington Post, 02/01/2022
"Deadly Colorado Blaze Renews Focus On Underground Coal Fires"
"A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state’s first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.”
Source: AP, 01/31/2022
"Mexican Town Protects Forest From Avocado Growers, Cartels"
"Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the pine-covered mountains of western Mexico, where loggers clear entire hillsides for avocado plantations that drain local water supplies and draw drug cartels hungry for extortion money."
Source: AP, 01/31/2022
"Manchin Sits on Foundation Board With Lobbyists"
"As he chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Manchin's board mates seek to influence him on energy policy for their coal industry clients."
Source: Sludge, 01/31/2022
"Yellowstone Looks At New Bison Plan, Less Focus On Slaughter"
"Emphasizing the importance of bison hunts outside the park and the transfer of live bison to tribes, Yellowstone National Park is developing a new bison management plan to update a 20-year-old document."
Source: AP, 01/31/2022
"Biden Gets ‘Strong Prod’ on Climate With Ruling on Gulf Leases"
"A federal court ruling canceling 80 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to force the Interior Department to ensure it looks twice at oil drilling’s effect on global climate change, lawyers say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/31/2022
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