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To Cope with Extreme Heat, Paris Will Swap Parking Spaces for Trees.

Paris aims to replace 60,000 parking spaces across the city with trees by the end of this decade. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/paris-trees-parking-spaces

A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers.

In rich nations, just a fraction of trashed electronics is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game. #ClimateChange

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/11/demand-critical-metals-e-waste-recycling-clean-energy-climate-vince-beiser-book-power-metal/

Shell defeats landmark climate ruling ordering cut in carbon emissions.

Oil and gas company had challenged 2021 ruling that it must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/12/shell-wins-appeal-against-court-ruling-ordering-cut-in-carbon-emissions

Is Daylight Saving Time good for the climate?

Scientists are divided over the potential environmental benefits of the hotly contested time change. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://theweek.com/science/is-daylight-saving-time-good-for-the-climate

Jobs in wind, solar, and energy storage are booming. Is your state keeping up?

These two states are leading the way. #ClimateChange

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/jobs-in-wind-solar-and-energy-storage-are-booming-is-your-state-keeping-up/

As the UK appoints a nature envoy, how successful have her European counterparts been in government?

The UK is one of the “most nature-depleted countries on Earth”, with one in six species at risk of extinction. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/21/as-the-uk-appoints-a-nature-envoy-how-successful-have-her-european-counterparts-been-in-go

How do solar railways work? Startup gets green light for pilot project in Switzerland.

Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has been given the green light for a three-year pilot project in the western canton of Neuchâtel, with work to begin in spring 2025. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/14/solar-panels-could-be-installed-in-the-spaces-between-railway-tracks-in-world-first

Catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of global wildlife populations in just 50 years reveals a ‘system in peril’.

The steepest drops recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean (95%), Africa (76%) and Asia–Pacific (60%), followed by North America (39%) and Europe and Central Asia (35%). #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73-decline-in-the-average-size-of-global-wildlife-populations-in-just-50-years-reveals-a-system-in-peril

Everything you need to know about wildfire smoke.

Climate change is exposing more people to smoke, and it has dangerous effects on human health. #ClimateChange

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wildfire-smoke/

In the Fight to Decide the Fate of US Steel, Climate and Public Health Take a Backseat to Politics.

The potential sale to Nippon Steel has become a political football. But no one is listening to long-term concerns about pollution, health and global warming. #ClimateChange

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29092024/us-steel-sale-climate-public-health-politics/

Sign up for this great event on October 17th. FREE on Zoom! #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-6rpjsqGNZjXju7K65BDBdMH8En6bOM?_x_zm_rtaid=eOyJYaJ5RR22Lig3airdng.1727269698520.bb2e4d20ac742f2748f0fb55de477143&_x_zm_rhtaid=466#/registration

As Millions of Acres Burn, Firefighters Say the U.S. Forest Service Has Left Them With Critical Shortages.

Those on the front lines say the agency is understating how badly depleted their ranks are. #ClimateChange

https://buff.ly/4g2BwBz

Governor of New York heralds start of construction on major offshore wind project: 'Green energy is the future of America'

"We're growing New York's green economy" #ClimateChange

https://buff.ly/3T6HdVk

California is considering a bill that would ban synthetic food dyes in public schools due to concerns about their potential impact on children's behavior. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://www.ehn.org/california-bill-may-ban-synthetic-food-dyes-in-schools-2669080704.html

What microscopic fossilized shells tell us about ancient climate change.

New research from Utah geologists links rapid climate change 50 million years ago to rising CO2 levels. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://attheu.utah.edu/research/what-microscopic-fossilized-shells-tell-us-about-ancient-climate-change/

As ‘Doomsday’ Glacier Melts, Can an Artificial Barrier Save It?

Relatively warm ocean currents are weakening the base of Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites glacier, whose demise could raise sea levels by as much as 7 feet. #ClimateChange

https://buff.ly/3Xj5GsG

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate.

As tropical forests are degraded and decline at increasing rates the world over, the fate of these forests’ largest trees remains unknown. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/are-the-amazons-biggest-trees-dying-forest-coroners-investigate/

Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops.

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in the U.S., due in part to pesticides, climate change, invasive plants and diminished habitats. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://theconversation.com/fewer-bees-and-other-pollinating-insects-lead-to-shrinking-crops-228685

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water.

A new study finds that the mining and processing of the metal critical to EV batteries and renewable energy storage projects depletes and contaminates surface water, often in already vulnerable communities. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072024/lithium-crital-to-energy-transition-at-expense-of-water/

Scam Alert: Forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found.

Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought by oil and gas giant BP in 2020, is responsible for more than a quarter of the US’s total carbon credits. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/11/finite-carbon-forest-offsets-analysis