Environmental Library

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Our collection is divided into four sections: Climate Change, Southern California, In the Biosphere, Solutions and Advances, and Environmental Activism. Articles are from a wide range of reputable sources, including the New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian. They are arranged chronologically, with the newest on top.

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Climate Change ​​​​
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• 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 Work

• 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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• 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

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• 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​​
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• 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)

 

 

Environmental Activism:​​​
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• 8/25/20 "Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite"

• Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

• The Environmental Burden of Generation Z 2/23/20

• Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science is Better Science

• Six Books to Read on Climate Crisis

• TED talk: Why I became a climate activist—and why you should too

• Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster 9/13/19

• 6 Environmentalists Inspiring Climate Action RSN 7/17/19

• Greta Thunberg and OPEC GUA 7/5/2019

• It's Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change MED 6/3/2019

• Sierra Club activists challenge LADWP on gas fired power plants

• Climate Despair ​VICE 7/11/2019

• How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change 5/16/19

• Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask to what do we devote ourselves? TRTH 5/6/2019

• To stop global catastrophe we must believe in humans again, McKibben GUA 4/23/2019

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