Environmental Library Archive

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The Archive here hosts the articles that we shared years ago. An even larger offsite repository is available in the link at the bottom of this page.

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Climate Change ​​

1/2022-12/2022

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• 1/10/22: “The last eight years have been the warmest on record, researchers say” WaPo

• 12/1/22: WaPo "We looked at 1200 Possibilities for our planet's future: this is what we found"

• 11/18/22: "Our leaders had a final chance to halt climate breakdown. They failed each and every one of us" Monbiot in the Guardian

• 11/18/22: "Greenwashing Governments and Oil Companies Turned COP27 Into a Climate Disaster"

• 11/12/22: "The 1.5C climate target is dead – to prevent total catastrophe, Cop27 must admit it"

• 11/10/22: "636 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm Climate Talks, Up 25% From Last Year’s COP26"

• 11/7/22: Guardian, "Why scientists are using the word scary over the climate crisis"

• 10/31/22: "What Lula’s Victory in Brazil Means for Climate" NYT

• 10/27/22: "Shell and Total, Oil Giants, Report Huge Profits on High Energy Prices"

• 10/27/22: World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies, Guardian

• 10/27/22: "World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says"

• 10/27/22: "Climate-warming methane emissions rising faster than ever, study says" WaPo

• 10/26/22: "Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View By David Wallace-Wells: NYT Magazine (also audio)

• 10/22/22: "Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy"

• 10/20/22: NOAA forecasts mild, dry winter for southern U.S., expanding drought, WaPo

• 10/19/22: "Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next" WaPo

• 10/4/22: "‘The World Can’t Wait’: UN Chief Calls for More Climate Ambition From Wealthy Countries Ahead of COP27"

• 10/4/22: "Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds"

• 10/6/22: "Is the energy transition taking off—or hitting a wall?" NoC

• 9/15/22: "European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy" NYT

• Sept. 11, 2022, NYT Opinion, Ezra Klein, “All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live”

• 9/11/22: "The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World" CNET

• 9/9/22: Brookings, "The SDGs will need action, bonding, and ritual: Lessons from collective intelligence"

• 9/10/22: "New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages" Naked Capitalism

• 9/6/22: "A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought" WaPo

• 9/5/22: "Dangerous Mountain Valley Pipeline Has No Place in Manchin’s Deal With Democrats" Truthout

• 8/22/22: "Whether you’re a climate ‘doomer’ or ‘appeaser’, it’s best to prepare for the worst" Guardian

• 8/22/22: NYT, "Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here’s How."

• 8/24/22: "Report of an ancient methane release raises questions for our climate future" WaPo

• 8/10/22: "A victory at whose expense? Climate activists grapple with political compromise." WaPo

• 8/4/22: "These Communities Are Trapped in Harm’s Way as Climate Disasters Mount" Mother Jones

• 7/26/22: Guardian: "“We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction”- Youth activists involved in End Fossil: Occupy!"

• 7/15/22: NYT: "The Worst Place in the World to Drill for Oil Is Up for Auction"

• 7/14/22: "70,000 Acres of Federal Land Were Just Handed to the Fossil Fuel Sector" Truthout

• 6/27/22: "Project Drawdown updates world’s leading set of climate solutions—adding 11 new solutions for addressing the climate crisis"

• 6/24/22: "Stretching of the continents caused extreme global warming"

• 6/13/22: "Scientists discover RNA viruses may shape ocean carbon capture" Axios

• 6/7/22: "Carbon dioxide in atmosphere reaches highest levels in millions of years, NOAA warns"

• 6/7/22: "World Has 42% Chance of Breaching 1.5 Degrees if Emissions Stopped Today, New Study Finds"

• 6/1/22: "We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist"

• 5/17/22: "Study Warns Many Fossil Fuel Sites Must Be Shut Down to Avert Climate Disaster" Truthout

• 5/13/22: "Climate Activist Peter Kalmus Calls for a Global Earth Rebellion"

• 5/8/22: "Utilities push back against growth of rooftop solar panels" NBC

• 4/26/22: Group Sues White House Over Oil & Gas Report That Didn't Mention Climate Change, GIZMODO

• 4/23/22: "Protesters Amass at White House, Demanding Action on Climate" NYT

• 4/16/22: “To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough” WaPo

• 4/6/22: "The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead" Atlantic

• 4/6/22: "ExxonMobil announces $10 billion oil investment the same day IPCC signals end for fossil fuels"

• 4/5/22: "IPCC Report Is a Prescription for Fixing the Climate Crisis—'It's Now or Never'"

• 4/5/22: "5 Takeaways From the U.N. Report on Limiting Global Warming" NYT

• 4/4/22: NYT "Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns"

• 3/24/22: "Methane Leaks in New Mexico Far Exceed Current Estimates, Study Suggests" NYT

• 3/23/22: "International Energy Agency Issues 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use" Treehugger

• 3/20/22: "After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever"

• 3/18/22: "It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted" WaPo

• 3/1/22: "These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike" NYT

• 2/28/22: NYT: "Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns"

• 2/28/22: "Urgent Action Needed on Climate Change Before Nature Is Unable to Adapt, New UN Report Warns" EcoWatch

• 2/28/22: "Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change" NYT

• 2/28/22: "ALEC Is Driving Laws to Blacklist Companies That Boycott the Oil Industry" the Nation

• 2/28/22: Truthout: "Irreversible Impacts on the Climate Are Getting Locked In, IPCC Warns"

• 2/23/22: "A Serious Climate Scenario" Medium (data)

• 2/12/22: "Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France"

• 2/23/22: “How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom” WaPo

• 2/18/22: "Energy-Hungry Bitcoin is Bringing Old Fossil Fuel Plants Back on Line"

• 2/16/22: "World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds" Guardian

• 2/15/22: "California Returns as Climate Leader, With Help From the White House" NYT

• 2/14/22: "The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud"  MIT

• 2/13/22: "Most Mega-Corporations’ Net-Zero Pledges Are Hollow, Report Finds" Truthout

• 2/13/22: "Trump-Appointed Judge Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s Climate Efforts" Mother Jones

• 2/10/22: "Scientists fear soaring methane levels show climate feedback loop has arrived" NOC

• 2/9/22: "EXCLUSIVE New York pension fund to divest half its shale companies"  Reuters

• 2/9/22: "Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap" Atlantic

• 2/3/22: "More than two dozen major lawsuits are putting a price tag on the climate damage caused by fossil fuel companies" NoC

• 2/1/22: "NYT: "Meet the People Who Are Getting Paid to Kill the Planet" (15 minute video)

• 1/31/22: "Western Nations Are Climate Hypocrites, Emitting More Carbon in a Week Than Many Countries Do in a Year"

• 1/27/22: "Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands" WaPo

• 1/24/22: "Aerial surveys detect dozens of methane 'super-emitters' in Permian"

• 1/24/22: "400 Canadian Scientists and Academics Oppose Carbon Capture Tax Credits" Treehugger

• 1/21/22: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions" WaPo

• 1/20/22: "‘Stuck in perilous moment’: Doomsday Clock holds at 100 seconds to midnight" Guardian

• 1/10/22: "U.S. emissions surged in 2021, putting the nation further off track from its climate targets" WaPo

• 1/10/22: "The last 7 years have been the warmest on record as planet approaches critical threshold" CNN

• 1/9/22: "Biden faces delays in undoing Trump’s war on efficient dishwashers, dryers and lightbulbs that made him ‘look orange’"

 

1/2021-7/1/2021

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• 12/28/21: "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On" NYT

• 12/27/21: "As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past" NYT

• 12/16/21: WaPo: "The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb"

• 12/14/21: "Arctic Report Card: Climate change transforming Arctic into ‘dramatically different state’" NOAA

• 12/14/21: "Trends in Arctic Report Card: ‘Consistent, Alarming and Undeniable’" NYT

• 12/14/21: "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years"

• 12/14/21: "The Biden administration said its drilling-lease spree in the Gulf was court-ordered. It wasn’t." Grist

• 12/3/21: "Lawmakers demand oil and gas firms divulge methane leak data" WaPo

• 12/9/21: Banksliding and CalPERSiflage, McKibben and CalPERS/STRS

• 11/20/21: "A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution" NYT

• 11/19/21: "Biden's Infrastructure Law Is Good for the Climate But Not Enough" Treehugger

• 11/6/21: WaPo: "At COP26, 100,000 march for climate justice"

• 11/2/21: There’s Only One Way to Save the World from a Climate Armageddon" Earth Island Journal, Michael Klare

• 11/1/21: "How Much Are Countries Pledging to Reduce Emissions?" NYT (lots of interactive data)

• 11/1/21: Guardian: "After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic"

• 10/29/21: "Five Important Questions About COP26 Answered" Smithsonian

• 10/27/21: NYT It's Time for COP26

• 10/27/21: Al Jazeera: "Arctic ground ‘literally collapsing’ amid abrupt thaw"

• 10/21/21: DW: "Leaks Show Attempts to Weaken UN Climate Report, Greenpeace Says​"

• 10/21/21: "Fossil Fuel Companies Receive $11 Million a Minute in Subsidies, New Report Reveals"

• 10/15/21: "It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side", Bill McKibben

• 10/13/21: "Private Equity Funds, Sensing Profit in Tumult, Are Propping Up Oil" NYT

• 10/12/21: "China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions" Guardian

• 10/11/21: "Who’s who at Cop26: the leaders who hold the world’s future in their hands" Guardian

• 10/10/21: "Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Bills Pending in Congress" NYT

• 10/8/21: "Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say" NYT

• IUCN Conservation Congress Marseille, 2021, "Natural allies, Climate and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin"

• 9/27/21: "Mainstream Media Attention to IPCC Report Neglected Real Cause of Emissions"

• 9/24/21: "The “Most Important Question” on Earth: How Soon Will China Quit Coal?”

• 9/24/21: "Fridays for Future global climate strike – in pictures" Guardian

• 9/18/21: "Biden Administration Says IPCC 'Does Not Present Sufficient Cause' to End Offshore Drilling" Gizmodo

• 9/17/21: "As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius" WaPo

• 9/13/21:"25 Cities Produce More Than Half of World's Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions" Treehugger

• 9/7/21: "Activists push for delay of U.N. climate summit, as heads of churches issue unprecedented joint statement" WaPo

• 9/7/21: "Human Rights and the Environment: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur David R. Boyd" (Harvard Univ.)

• 9/5/21: "More than 200 health journals call for urgent action on climate crisis" Guardian

• 9/1/21: "IPCC Findings Illustrate Need for Banks and Insurers to Divest From Fossil Fuels"

• 8/26/21: "Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds" WaPo

• 8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT

• 8/21/21: "Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress Must Step In."

• 8/19/21: "Thwaites Glacier: Significant Geothermal Heat Beneath The Ice Stream"

• 8/18/21: "CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists" BBC

• Cities are the key to fighting climate change, curated by Flipboard

• 8/13/21: "July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History" NPR

• 8/10/21: "The solutions to the climate crisis no one is talking about" Robert Reich (short video 8 mins)

• 8/9/21: "'Not a Report to Despair Over': IPCC Gives Humanity Clear Directive to Act Boldly and Urgently"

• 8/9/21: "Climate Change 2021; The Physical Science Basis" the full IPCC report

• 8/9/21: "Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief"

• 8/9/21: "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" WaPo

• 8/9/21: "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us"  NYT

• 8/9/21: "Summary report, 26 July – 6 August 2021

• 8/8/21: "When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen"

• 8/3/21: "Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Includes $25 Billion in Potential New Subsidies for Fossil Fuels" Intercept

• 7/28/21: "How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers" Guardian

• 7/26/21: "Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report" BBC

• 7/26/21: "It's Time for an Urgent Intervention in the Food System Ruining Our Climate"

• 7/25/21: "Chinese satellite reveals global net carbon has reached six gigatons"

• 7/21/21: "Climate Change Comes for Rich Countries" NYT

• 7/18/21: "Opinion: The E.U. is getting serious about climate. Can the U.S. follow suit?" WaPo

• 7/10/21: "The science of heat domes and how drought and climate change make them worse" WaPo

• 7/8/21: "Pacific Northwest heat wave would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change, experts say" CBS News

• 7/6/21: "Another intense heat wave to roast Western U.S., southwest Canada" WaPo

• 7/5/21: "The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system"  WaPo

• 7/2/21: "Australia ranks last on climate action in U.N. report" WaPo

• 6/30/21: "In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action" NYT

• 6/28/21: Northwest "heat dome" signals global warming's march"

• 6/26/21: "Global warming makes extreme weather a regular event: Earth's climate has drastically shifted in three decades" Axios

• 6/25/21: "Bill McKibben: It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity" New Yorker Climate Crisis Newsletter

• 6/24/21: "Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life"

• 6/16/21: "Earth is now trapping an ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, NASA says" WaPo

• 6/17/21: "To save planet, solve twin crises of climate change and species loss together, say UN scientists"

• 6/13/21: "David Attenborough Warns Humans ‘On Verge Of Destabilising The Entire Planet’

• 6/3/21: "Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists" Guardian

• 6/7/21: "Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Hits Record High Despite Pandemic Dip" NYT

• 5/27/21: "Warren Proposes $1.9T in Investments in Energy Research, American Manufacturing"

• 5/27/21: "Exxon, Shell, and Chevron All Lose Big on Climate Battles"

• 5/26/21: "Oil giant Shell ordered to halve greenhouse gas emissions"

• 5/26/21: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions" WaPo

• 5/25/21: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change" WaPo

• 5/24/21: "West Virginia’s coal mine cleanup process is an underfunded ‘house of cards'"

• 5/24/21: "World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica"

• 5/24/21: "Can We Fight Climate Change by Just Electrifying Everything?"

• 5/21/21: "G7 nations vow to phase out international financing for coal projects" WaPo

• 5/22/21: "The fight for the soul – and the future – of ExxonMobil: Three giant pension funds are set to vote against the oil titan’s management and in favor of new directors"

• 5/18/21: "A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears" New Scientist

• 5/17/21: "$1.5 trillion for 1.5°C: a back-of-the-envelope budget to save the planet" (lots of charts) Medium

• 5/17/21: "Part of the Greenland ice sheet may be close to a tipping point"

• 5/12/21: "Climate emissions shrinking the stratosphere, scientists reveal: Thinning indicates profound impact of humans and could affect satellites and GPS" Guardian

• 4/28/21: "Climate has shifted axis of Earth, says study"

• 4/20/21: "What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were this high"

• 4/14/21: "Carbon dioxide levels now higher than at any time in past 3.6 million years"

• 4/13/21: "Sea levels are going to rise by at least 20ft. We can do something about it"

• 4/12/21: "Glacier Is Surging Down Denali Mountain in Alaska"

• 4/7/21: "Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever"

• 4/3/21: Bill McKibben, "The Powerful New Financial Argument for Fossil-Fuel Divestment"  New Yorker

• 4/12/21: The Search for Environmental Hope: Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism?

• 4/22/21: Overcoming climate anxiety could be the secret to real change WaPo

• 4/20/21: "An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change"

• 3/31/21: "Biden plan eliminates billions in fossil fuel subsidies"

• 3/24/21: "One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study" Guardian

• 3/23/21: "New Report: World’s 60 Largest Banks Have Poured $3.8 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Agreement; Climate Groups Sound Alarm as Financing for Fossil Fuel Expansion Continues to Rise"

• 3/9/21: "3/9/21: "Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies" Scientific American"

• 3/17/21: "Why a powerful planet-warming gas is surging in Earth's atmosphere" (CH4)

• 3/8/21: "China's Five-Year Plan 'Underwhelming' on Climate"

• 3/5/21: "Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff"

• 3/4/21: "In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers" NYT Storymap with detailed graphics"

• 3/2/21: Guardian: "Fossil fuel emissions in danger of surpassing pre-Covid levels, International Energy Agency data shows steady climb over second half of 2020"

• 3/1/21: "How the United States can return to credible climate leadership" Brookings

• 2/25/21: "We Need 4 Waves of Climate Action"

• 2/25/21: "Michael Klare, Heating the Planet Through a New Cold War"

• 2/22/21: "Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal" Naomi Klein, Opinion, NYT

• 2/10/121: "The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency"

• 2/2/21: "American cities under-reporting greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 20%, research says, Up to 75 per cent of all carbon emissions produced by burning fossil fuels coming from cities"

• 2/3/21: "The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record: Our climate models could be missing something big."

• 2/2/21: "Sea level rise could be worse than feared, warn researchers"

• 1/21/21: WaPo: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions: the new president is unwinding Trump’s climate change legacy while forging his own"

• 1/12/21: "The carbon skyscraper: A new way of picturing rapid, human-caused climate change" WaPo​

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2020:

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• The "good, the bad and the ugly" from the UN climate Report 12/9/20

• 12/9/20: NYT, McKibben, " "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil"

• 12/4/20: WaPo "Denmark becomes first major oil-producing nation to set deadline to end extraction"

• 12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns

• 11/13/20: "Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study"

• 11/20/20: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?

• 11/25/20: NASA and California Team up on Climate Research

• 11/3/20: Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan

• 10/30/20: :"In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning"

• 10/29/20: How "Net Zero" Targets Disguise Climate Inaction

• 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified

• 10/14/20: The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown

• 8/7/20: Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain. NYT

• 8/28/20: UCSD free online course attempts to reach a worldwide audience to educate on climate.

• 8/24/20: "8/24/20: "The End of Oil Is Near:  The pandemic may send the petroleum industry to the grave" Sierra Club

• 8/17/20: "'Canary in the Coal Mine': Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds"

• The Climate Crisis – A Race We Can Win (United Nations)

• 7/14/20: "Methane levels have hit a scary record high, new studies say"

• 7/13/20: "Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years"

• 7/14/20: "Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High" NYT

• Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather

• Bill McKibben on the death of fossil fuels and the legacy of oil wells 3/10/20

• 10 Myths about climate change that need debunking.  ​​

• Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels 2/19/20

• Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why

• 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo, 1/15/20)

• COP25 climate summit ends in staggering failure of leadership

• Summary of the Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference COP25

• Paris Agreement Targets Need to Be 5 Times Stronger to Actually Wo​rk

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2019

• Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History 11/30/19

• Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations

• How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

• Nature-Tipping points-too risky to bet against 11/28/19

• In bleak report UN says drastic climate action needed now 11/26/19

• ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency

• As Sea Levels Rise, so do the Ghost Forests of the Eastern Seaboard NYT 10/8/19

• Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100

• LAT Editorials on Climate, 3 parts, 9/15/19

• Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’

• Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world WaPo 9/11/19

• We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough 9/6/19

• Frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and gun violence? Divest 8/30/19

• The University of California is Ending its Investments in Fossil Fuels (Vox, 9/18/19)

• Climate Scientists Drive Stake Through the Heart of Skeptics' Arguments

• Alaska's Sea Ice Has Completely Melted Away 8/5/19

• There is time to avoid the worst of climate change 8/5/19

• Historic Greenland Melt Is a “Glimpse of the Future” 8/2/19

• YouTube: Did You Know the State of Sea Level Rise (2019)? (30 mins)

• We've Exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the First Time Since the Pliocene (RSN 5/13/19)

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Los Angeles and Southern California​​​​

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• 7/14/22: LAT, "Environmental groups allege L.A. River Master Plan was approved without proper review"

• 7/1/22: EdSource: Local organizations bring STEM programs to Los Angeles Unified: The L.A. STEM Collective includes museums, aquariums and more from across Los Angeles County."

• 6/22/22: "Heal the Bay Releases Annual Beach Report Card & River Report Card 2022"

• 6/24/22: "California’s largest reservoirs at critically low levels – signaling a dry summer ahead"

• 6/15/22: "Is recycled wastewater the answer to California’s drought?"

• 6/3/22: "State officials draw fire after approving new oil wells in L.A. neighborhood" LAT

• 5/23/22: "Activists and residents slam Sacramento for gutting a bill to shut SoCalGas in Aliso Canyon"

• 5/20/22: "California’s New Climate Plan" (Medium)

• 5/14/22: "THE COLORADO RIVER IS IN CRISIS, AND IT’S GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY"

• 5/13/22: "California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren't fading away yet" NPR

• 5/11/22: "California braces for extreme summer drought after dismal wet season" WaPo

• 5/7/22: "The two largest reservoirs in California are already at 'critically low levels' and the dry season is just starting" CNN

• 5/5/22: "Caltech breaks ground on sustainability research center"

• 4/31/22: "California lawmakers want to build more clean energy — and faster" LAT

• 4/20/22: "State faces heavy lifting to become carbon neutral, but it can be done" CalMatters

• 4/19/22: "Angelenos are alarmed by air pollution and extreme heat. Poll finds they want action" LAT

• 3/23/22: "The deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater" NatGeo

• 2/17/22: "‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires"

• 2/14/22: "How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study Finds." NYT

• 2/1/22: LAT: "Could the L.A. River dry up? Fears grow as cities work to recycle more wastewater"

• 1/31/22: "Biden administration to give states $1.15 billion to plug orphaned wells" WaPo

• 1/12/22: "LA Has Ignored Its Urban Forest. Who Will Pay The Price For This Negligence?"

• 1/10/22: "Funding for schools, community colleges to break $100 billion in Gov. Newsom’s proposed budget" EdSource

• 1/5/22: "California’s Forever Fire" ProPublica

• 12/29/21: "A national 'climate corps'? California is leading the way" NatGeo

• 12/24/21: WaPo: "The Grueling struggle of being a California firefighert in the age of climate change"

• 12/16/21: "Everything you need to know about California’s plan to slash solar incentives" LAT

• 12/11/21: LAT: "State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed" 

• 12/6/21: "Column: Has Biden moved to finally kill California’s most farcical water project?"

• 12/7/21: "Integrate California Native history and culture into state’s social studies curriculum"

• 11/8/21: "One Planet: The health hazards of neighborhood oil & gas drilling in California" podcast from KALW-FM, San Francisco

• 11/6/21: "Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions" LAT

• 11/4/21: "As climate talks put focus on water crisis, the Colorado River provides a stark example" LAT

• 10/27/21: "Los Angeles is aiming to be first major carbon-free U.S. city, but obstacles loom" WaPo

• 10/22/21: "California releases new proposal to ban oil drilling near communities"

• 10/11/21: "Why Southern California fears too much water conservation; What water restrictions mean for CA’s businesses; California’s wildly inequitable water rights system; Current reservoir and water conditions; and more …" Maven's Water Notebook

• 10/8/21: "Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills" Nat Geo

• 10/5/21: "Mapping California’s Oil Spill: Aging Pipes Line the Coast" NYT

• 10/2/21: "2021 Southern California Oil Spill" USC SeaGrant

• 10/4/21:"‘Zombie’ Urchins Are Destroying Kelp Forests. Can’t We Just Eat Them?"NYT

• 9/8/21: "Burned trees and billions in cash: How a California climate program lets companies keep polluting" LAT

• 8/30/21: "Climate Progress Is On Fire: California’s emissions reduction program is going up in smoke because regulators severely underestimated the impact of climate change-fueled wildfires"

• Tracking Wildfires in the West, NYT Interactive

• 8/23/21: "Drought worsens in Southern California, with Ventura County in worst category" LAT

• 7/12/21: UCLA IoES, LA County Report Card: Biodiversity

• 7/9/21: "Reservoirs are drying up as consequences of the Western drought worsen" WaPo

• 6/28/21: "How much water goes into oil fracking in drought-stricken California?" SFGate

• 6/28/21: "An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave"

• 6/21/21: "How Cows Destroyed an Entire Marine Ecosystem in California"

• 6/19/21: "‘If You Move Out Here, You Make a Deal With Nature’: Life in a Fire-Prone Canyon" NYT

• 6/18/21: "A Northern California reservoir is expected to fall so low that a hydro-power plant will shut down for first time"

• 6/18/21: "The drought in US south-west is the worst in 1,200 years. It might be here to stay"

• 6/18/21: "How a heat dome is pushing extreme temperatures to new heights in the West" WaPo

• 6/17/21: "‘Mega-heat wave’ is peaking in the West, breaking records and intensifying drought, fires" WaPo

• 5/26/21: "In California’s Drier Future, What’s the Best Investment for Securing Water?"

• 5/7/21: "South L.A. doesn’t have easy access to fresh food. One man wants to change that by turning lawns into microfarms" LAT

• 4/28/21: California Officials Move to Stop Nestlé From Taking Millions of Gallons of Water From Public Streams

• 3/20/21: LAT: Alexis Navarro (ELAC) and his affordable ADUs

• 3/10/21: LAT: "Deep-sea ‘Roombas’ will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina"

• 2/2/21:"Mapping Los Angeles’s Unequal Covid-19 Surge" NYT Map

• 8/28/20: "Extreme wildfires make their own dangerous weather"

• 8/28/20: ProPublica: "They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?"

• 8/26/20: "The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California" MotherJones

• 8/25/20: "‘The forest is not gone’: California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires" Guardian

• 8/24/20: "The Climate Crisis Has Already Arrived. Just Look to California's Abnormal Wildfires" Guardian/RSN

• California wildfires reach historic scale and are still growing WaPo 8/22/20

• LA County: We Need More Air Quality Management District Monitoring Stations

• Against the Current on LA River

• The Toxic Legacy of Southern California oil wells, LAT 2/7/20

• The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim LAT

• Super-Emitters’ In California Release A Third Of The State’s Methane

• How climate change will affect California's birds. Audubon Report, 28pp) 10/30/19

• How Hot is it Going to Get in LA?

• Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows 7/21/19​

• Mayor's Report on Resilient Los Angeles (Jul2018)

• California and the Human Right to Water OEHHA August, 2019

• Online Data Tool for California Water Quality

• Maps show where wildfires have burned over and over again in LA county CurbedLA 1/22/2019

• The shot hole borer beetle could kill 38 percent of all trees in LA​ ​ LAT 11/30/2017

• The LA River and the future of LA LAT 4/12/2018

• LA's tap water rated better than bottled water LAist 4/12/2017

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In the Biosphere

• 11/29/21: "Tracing the Trail of Amazon Deforestation" NYT

• 11/28/21: "Trees and Crops Don’t Have to Compete. Climate Crisis Calls for Agroforestry" Francis Moore Lappé

• 11/11/21: "Biden Admin Largely Restores Habitat for Threatened Owls, Reversing Trump’s Deep Cuts"

• 11/10/21: "Winged warning: Migrating birds hit hard by California’s drought"

• 11/5/21: WaPo: "California condors almost went extinct. Now, scientists say, they are capable of reproducing without males."

• 11/5/21: Smithsonian: "Spring Soundscapes Are Changing as Bird Populations Continue to Decline"

• 10/24/21: "New Study: After Years of Poaching, Elephants Change Their Evolutionary Trajectory"

• 10/8/21: "Earth’s Largest Extinction Event Saw Toxic Algal Blooms at CO2 Concentrations Observed Today"

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2021

• 9/29/21: "Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species" WaPo

• 9/24/21: "Two New Studies Say Our Planetary Crisis Looks A Lot Like “The Great Dying”" Medium

• 8/26/21:"Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds" WaPo

• 7/29/21: "Earth Overshoot Day Moves Forward By Nearly a Month" DW

• 7/21/21: "See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America" NYT

• 5/30/21: "May 30, 2021 Finding the Mother Tree, An Interview with Suzanne Simard"

• 5/6/21: "UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’" UN

• 5/27/21: "Brazil aerial photos show miners’ devastation of indigenous people’s land" Guardian

• 4/19/21: "New Study Pushes Origins of Human-Driven Global Change Back Thousands of Years"

• 4/20/21: "Humans Have Altered 97 Percent of Earth’s Land Through Habitat and Species Loss"

• 4/20/21: "The world is 'on the verge of the abyss’, says UN"

• 3/31/21: "Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020"

• 3/26/21: "Are We Managing Invasive Species Wrong?"

• 3/11/21: "There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way." NYT

• 3/11/21: "First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change"

• 3/9/21: "'Frightening' New Data Reveals Humanity Has Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest"

• 2/25/21: "Australian scientists warn urgent action needed to save 19 'collapsing' ecosystems"

• 1/28/21: "50 Countries Join Ambitious Plan to Protect 30% of Earth by 2030"

• 2/6/21: "Insect Invasions Are Destroying our forests" NYT

• 1/13/21: "Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather"

• 1/13/21: "Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption' Guardian

• 1/13/21: "Scientists Sound Alarm About Insect Apocalypse"

• 1/13/21: California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years, Mongabay

• 11/21/20: "A Plan to Save Wildlife May Have Done More Harm Than Good"

• 11/11/20: "Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest from 'brink of collapse'"

• 10/19/20: Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

• Geographers find tipping point in deforestation

• Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply

• North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970

• The EPA's roll back of the Clean Water Act could impact drinking water for millions of Americans 9/13/19

• The Amazon rainforest is burning 8/22/19

• Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19

• We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril 8/13/19

• Trump Weakens the Endangered Species Act 8/12/19

• A Quarter of Humanity is facing a water crisis NYT 8/4/19​

• The Water Risk Atlas WRI/UN

• More of the planet is turning into desert 7/23/19​​

 

Solutions and Promising Advances​​

6/2019-6/2021

• 6/22/21: "Legal experts worldwide draw up ‘historic’ definition of ecocide"

• 6/17/21: "Renewables Are the Cornerstone of Decarbonization, Report Says"

• 6/14/21: "The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining"

• 6/10/21: "Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy" LAT

• 6/8/21: "To Combat Climate Change, Researchers Want to Pull Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean and Turn It Into Rock"

• 5/28/21: "Where Wind and Solar Power Need to Grow for America to Meet Its Goals" NYT

• 4/22/21: "The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements — here’s what organizers can do about it"

• 4/6/21: "The United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings"

• 3/29/21: "Wind and solar power generated a tenth of the world's electricity in 2020"

• 3/15/21: "Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment: By Margaret Renkl, NYT

• 2/26/21: "This EPA mapping tool could reshape environmental justice"

• 2/21: "Kenyan woman’s startup recycles plastic into bricks that are stronger than concrete"

• 2/1/21: "Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020"

• 1/28/21: "New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy"

• 11/3/20:"A Greenland Shark Living Today Could Have Been Alive in 1620"

• 11/24/20: WaPo, "An ancient people with a modern climate plan"

• The Drawdown Project: Climate Solutions (PDF report)

• Is BlackRock Announcement "Beginning of the End for Fossil-fuel System?" 1/21/20

• Indigenous Blockades Don’t Just Decry Destruction — They Affirm Life

• The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work 9/29/19

• The winning conservative climate solution 1/16/20 WaPo

• The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo

• Georgetown University Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment

• Stiglitz on capitalism and climate: Fighting the climate crisis need not mean halting economic growth 12/9/20

• 3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy

• Towards a circular economy, Piketty

• 4 fastest growing green jobs pay up to 90K a year​

• What Wall St. wants- A way to price carbon

• The climate solution Democrats aren’t talking about 9/12/19

• How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)

• Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem 8/21/19

• Agroecology as Innovation 8/7/19

• Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy? 7/25/19

• Massive Tree planting and climate reversal WEF 7/8/19

• Tree Planting and Climate Crisis GUA 7/4/2019

• The trouble with tree planting as a climate solution 7/5/19

• NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air 8/4/19

• Electric food of the future (10/18 Guardian)

• UN revises population projections downward 6/24/2019

• Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)

• The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen WEF 5/7/2019

• LA is on the verge of becoming 100% renewable! CityWatch 6/13/2016

• The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYT 5/13/19)

• Kenya court votes down a coal fired power plant (6/29/19.350.org)​

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