Environment

Northern California region Rio Dell, which is still healing after a strong earthquake last month, was hit by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that occurred 15 km (9.3 miles) southeast of it, Reuters reported. The most recent […]

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Driving snow and plummeting temperatures have formed a storm that spans some 2,000 miles, knocking out power from Texas to Maine. The storm is being described as a “once-in-a-generation type event.”  About two-thirds of the U.S. […]

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Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference reached a historic deal that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s nature.  The global framework strives to protect the world’s lands and oceans and […]

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The Keystone oil pipeline leak that occurred last week in the United States has not yet been fully investigated, according to Canada’s TC Energy, which also declined to provide a timetable for when the pipeline […]

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As emergency teams worked to clean up in nearly freezing weather and investigators looked for signs of what caused the spill, locals living near the scene of the biggest U.S. oil pipeline leak in a […]

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John Kerry, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, issued a warning on Thursday that the world’s switch to renewable energy is not proceeding quickly enough, Fox News informed. Kerry said during a Washington Post-sponsored event […]

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A last-ditch effort to ultimately weaken environmental protections and fast-track fossil fuel projects has failed.  The Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, a fossil-fuel-friendly lawmaker from West Virginia, attempted to latch the controversial deregulation onto a must-pass […]

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Aluminum plants in the United States are releasing tons of highly potent greenhouse gas, unlike their counterparts abroad, NBC news reports. A Century Aluminum plant in Kentucky and a recently closed Alcoa plant in Washington […]

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The United States is increasing spending on Native American tribes in one of the biggest efforts ever to relocate communities that are facing an urgent threat of climate change.  The White House announced that the […]

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While the midterm elections have resulted in a split Congress, experts say that they believe the White House’s climate policy agenda will still survive.  The midterm elections did not deliver the typical historic blow for […]

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After putting off discussing the matter for years, the COP27 United Nations climate summit has come to a provisional agreement for a “loss and damage” fund for countries facing the most severe effects of climate […]

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The annual United Nations climate summit was extended an additional day to Saturday as talks remained gridlocked, BBC reported. The two-week talks, known as COP27, took place in Egypt and were supposed to conclude on […]

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The toll of climate change across the U.S. continues to rise. A new report measures what parts of the country have suffered the greatest number of federally declared disasters. The designation is reserved for only disasters […]

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US special climate envoy John Kerry noted Sunday that few countries have resisted mentioning the global warming goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in whatever official agreement emerges from the COP27 summit in […]

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Saudi Arabia will contribute $2.5 billion to a green initiative in the Middle East over the next 10 years. Speaking from the UN climate change summit COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia’s Crown […]

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The United Nations climate summit Cop 27 began Monday in Egypt. Humanity is on a “highway to climate hell”, the UN secretary-general warned world leaders at the COP 27 opening.  António Guterres said the fight for […]

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The United Nations annual climate conference is quickly approaching, and with it, a focus on greenwashing. Greenwashing is an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into believing a company’s products are environmentally friendly or have a […]

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The White House announced on Friday that President Biden will go to the COP27 international climate change forum that is taking place in Egypt, The Hill reported. “On November 11th, President Biden will attend the […]

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Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, making way for a chaotic future with more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves, and species extinction.  A new […]

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Alligators exposed to “forever chemicals” may be experiencing adverse clinical and autoimmune effects, a new study found.  A study of alligators in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River found the animals had elevated levels of 14 […]

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The worst drought in 1,200 years has hit California. California regulators unanimously approved a $140 million desalination plant in order to produce a guideline for how the state can convert ocean water into drinking water.  It […]

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New Zealand is set to introduce a world-first scheme that will require farmers to pay for the greenhouse gas emissions coming from their agriculture.  This includes methane that is released by cows and nitrous oxide […]

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Pointing out that extreme weather could push poorer nations to the brink of disaster, the United Nations warned in a new report that climate change-fueled scorching heatwaves could leave some areas of the world virtually […]

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In its efforts to help combat sea-level rise, a dozen scientists in California look at numerous different ways, and oysters reefs in San Diego Bay are one of the tools to do that. Eileen Maher, […]

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