"How to Hit the Trail With Nothing but Amtrak and a Bicycle"
"From Idaho to Alabama to Maine, adventure outdoors without taking a single car ride or plane trip".
Source: Sierra, 04/09/2024
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US Braces For Cicadas By The Trillion As Two Periodic Broods Coincide
"They look a little like cockroaches and have bulging orange eyes, and trillions of them are about to erupt from the earth in much of the midwestern and eastern United States. The emergence of two groups of cicadas will assemble a chorus of the insects not seen in several hundred years, experts say."
Source: Guardian, 04/09/2024
"Colombia Capital Bogota To Ration Water As Reservoirs Dry"
"Colombia's capital Bogota will start rationing water this week to alleviate droughts wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country's dry season and caused reservoir levels to fall, Mayor Carlos Galan said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 04/09/2024
"Groups Go To Court To Get Wolves Relisted In Montana, Idaho And Wyoming"
"A prediction, several years in the making, came true on Monday when an alliance of nearly a dozen conservation groups filed suit against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, seeking to restore protections for gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming arguing that the states’ aggressive hunting policies imperils the populations."
Source: States Newsroom, 04/09/2024
"PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Pervasive in Water Worldwide, Study Finds"
"A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31 percent of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: NYTimes, 04/09/2024
"Researchers Say Pathways Alliance Misleading Public With Greenwashing"
"Canada’s largest oilsands companies are “misleading” the public about their industry’s environmental impact, according to new peer-reviewed research."
Source: The Narwhal, 04/09/2024
Biden Agencies Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure
"It was a key pledge in President Joe Biden’s effort to show renewed international leadership on climate change: The U.S. government, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world, would require its contractors and suppliers to disclose their carbon emissions and climate risks."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/09/2024
"Climate-Warming Gases Being Smuggled Into Europe, Investigation Says"
"Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 04/09/2024
"Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands"
"When it was time to outline their vision for managing America’s federal lands under a future Republican presidency, pro-Donald Trump conservatives turned to a man who has spent his career advocating for those very lands to be pawned off to states and private interests."
Source: HuffPost, 04/09/2024
Scientists Confirm Record Highs For 3 Most Important Heat-Trapping Gases
"The levels of the three most important heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs again last year, US scientists have confirmed, underlining the escalating challenge posed by the climate crisis."
Source: Guardian, 04/09/2024
