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Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains
Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains, Exposing Millions of Americans To Extreme Pollution Levels
Wildfire smoke now exposes millions of Americans each year to dangerous levels of fine particulate matter, lofting enough soot across parts of the West in recent years to erase much of the air quality gains made over the last two ( Read more... ) -
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company To Fight Climate Change
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company To Fight Climate Change
A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away.
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Ethanol not the answer.
Ethanol Plants Are Allowed To Pollute More Than Oil Refineries
In 2007, the U.S. Congress mandated the blending of biofuels such as corn-based ethanol into gasoline. One of the top goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But today, the nation's ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution, per gallon of fuel production ( Read more... ) -
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Among the addresses that received "notices of exceedance" was an $18 million Hidden Hills property, which exceeded its allocated water budget in June by more than 1,400% - or 90,000 gallons.https://t.co/qqmRahxsH9
- Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 22, 2022
As with much of the world, California is currently experiencing one of the worst water ( Read more... ) -
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Over the weekend I was reading about the heatwave in Europe and the drought revealing famine waening stones in river beds
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Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described
Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows
The rapid warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is occurring even faster than previously described, researchers in Finland said Thursday. From a report: Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the ( Read more... )
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