
Environmental Library
Our collection is divided into five 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.
Climate Change
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1/21/21: WaPo: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions: the new president is unwinding Trump’s climate change legacy while forging his own"
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1/12/21: "The carbon skyscraper: A new way of picturing rapid, human-caused climate change" WaPo
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The "good, the bad and the ugly" from the UN climate Report 12/9/20
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12/9/20: NYT, McKibben, " "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil"
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12/4/20: WaPo "Denmark becomes first major oil-producing nation to set deadline to end extraction"
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12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns
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11/20/20: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
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10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
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10/14/20: The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
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8/7/20: Earth is overheating. Millions are already feeling the pain. NYT
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8/28/20: UCSD free online course attempts to reach a worldwide audience to educate on climate.
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8/17/20: "'Canary in the Coal Mine': Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds"
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7/14/20: "Methane levels have hit a scary record high, new studies say"
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7/13/20: "Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years"
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Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather
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Bill McKibben on the death of fossil fuels and the legacy of oil wells 3/10/20
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Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels 2/19/20
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Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
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2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo, 1/15/20)
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COP25 climate summit ends in staggering failure of leadership
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Paris Agreement Targets Need to Be 5 Times Stronger to Actually Work
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Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History 11/30/19
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Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations
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In bleak report UN says drastic climate action needed now 11/26/19
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As Sea Levels Rise, so do the Ghost Forests of the Eastern Seaboard NYT 10/8/19
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Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
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Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
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Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world WaPo 9/11/19
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We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough 9/6/19
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Frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and gun violence? Divest 8/30/19
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The University of California is Ending its Investments in Fossil Fuels (Vox, 9/18/19)
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Climate Scientists Drive Stake Through the Heart of Skeptics' Arguments
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YouTube: Did You Know the State of Sea Level Rise (2019)? (30 mins)
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We've Exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the First Time Since the Pliocene (RSN 5/13/19)
Los Angeles and Southern California
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8/28/20: "Extreme wildfires make their own dangerous weather"
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8/28/20: ProPublica: "They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?"
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8/26/20: "The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California" MotherJones
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8/25/20: "‘The forest is not gone’: California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires" Guardian
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California wildfires reach historic scale and are still growing WaPo 8/22/20
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LA County: We Need More Air Quality Management District Monitoring Stations
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The Toxic Legacy of Southern California oil wells, LAT 2/7/20
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The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim LAT
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Super-Emitters’ In California Release A Third Of The State’s Methane
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How climate change will affect California's birds. Audubon Report, 28pp) 10/30/19
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Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows 7/21/19
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Maps show where wildfires have burned over and over again in LA county CurbedLA 1/22/2019
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The shot hole borer beetle could kill 38 percent of all trees in LA LAT 11/30/2017
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The LA River and the future of LA LAT 4/12/2018
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LA's tap water rated better than bottled water LAist 4/12/2017
In the Biosphere
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1/13/21: "Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather"
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1/13/21: California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years, Mongabay
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11/21/20: "A Plan to Save Wildlife May Have Done More Harm Than Good"
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11/11/20: "Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest from 'brink of collapse'"
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10/19/20: Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia
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Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply
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Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
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We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril 8/13/19
Solutions and Promising Advances
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11/24/20: WaPo, "An ancient people with a modern climate plan"
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Is BlackRock Announcement "Beginning of the End for Fossil-fuel System?" 1/21/20
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Indigenous Blockades Don’t Just Decry Destruction — They Affirm Life
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The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo
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How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)
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Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy? 7/25/19
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Massive Tree planting and climate reversal WEF 7/8/19
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Tree Planting and Climate Crisis GUA 7/4/2019
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Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)
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The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen WEF 5/7/2019
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LA is on the verge of becoming 100% renewable! CityWatch 6/13/2016
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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"
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Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens
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TED talk: Why I became a climate activist—and why you should too
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Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster 9/13/19
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6 Environmentalists Inspiring Climate Action RSN 7/17/19
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Greta Thunberg and OPEC GUA 7/5/2019
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It's Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change MED 6/3/2019
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Sierra Club activists challenge LADWP on gas fired power plants
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Climate Despair VICE 7/11/2019
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How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change 5/16/19
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Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask to what do we devote ourselves? TRTH 5/6/2019
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To stop global catastrophe we must believe in humans again, McKibben GUA 4/23/2019
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