Environmental Library Archive
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.
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
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12/1/22: WaPo "We looked at 1200 Possibilities for our planet's future: this is what we found"
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11/18/22: "Greenwashing Governments and Oil Companies Turned COP27 Into a Climate Disaster"
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11/12/22: "The 1.5C climate target is dead – to prevent total catastrophe, Cop27 must admit it"
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11/10/22: "636 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm Climate Talks, Up 25% From Last Year’s COP26"
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11/7/22: Guardian, "Why scientists are using the word scary over the climate crisis"
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10/31/22: "What Lula’s Victory in Brazil Means for Climate" NYT
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10/27/22: "Shell and Total, Oil Giants, Report Huge Profits on High Energy Prices"
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10/27/22: World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies, Guardian
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10/27/22: "World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says"
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10/27/22: "Climate-warming methane emissions rising faster than ever, study says" WaPo
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10/20/22: NOAA forecasts mild, dry winter for southern U.S., expanding drought, WaPo
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10/19/22: "Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next" WaPo
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10/4/22: "Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds"
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10/6/22: "Is the energy transition taking off—or hitting a wall?" NoC
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9/15/22: "European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy" NYT
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Sept. 11, 2022, NYT Opinion, Ezra Klein, “All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live”
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9/11/22: "The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World" CNET
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9/10/22: "New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages" Naked Capitalism
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9/6/22: "A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought" WaPo
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9/5/22: "Dangerous Mountain Valley Pipeline Has No Place in Manchin’s Deal With Democrats" Truthout
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8/22/22: NYT, "Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here’s How."
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8/24/22: "Report of an ancient methane release raises questions for our climate future" WaPo
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8/10/22: "A victory at whose expense? Climate activists grapple with political compromise." WaPo
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8/4/22: "These Communities Are Trapped in Harm’s Way as Climate Disasters Mount" Mother Jones
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7/15/22: NYT: "The Worst Place in the World to Drill for Oil Is Up for Auction"
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7/14/22: "70,000 Acres of Federal Land Were Just Handed to the Fossil Fuel Sector" Truthout
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6/24/22: "Stretching of the continents caused extreme global warming"
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6/13/22: "Scientists discover RNA viruses may shape ocean carbon capture" Axios
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6/7/22: "Carbon dioxide in atmosphere reaches highest levels in millions of years, NOAA warns"
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6/7/22: "World Has 42% Chance of Breaching 1.5 Degrees if Emissions Stopped Today, New Study Finds"
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6/1/22: "We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist"
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5/17/22: "Study Warns Many Fossil Fuel Sites Must Be Shut Down to Avert Climate Disaster" Truthout
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5/13/22: "Climate Activist Peter Kalmus Calls for a Global Earth Rebellion"
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5/8/22: "Utilities push back against growth of rooftop solar panels" NBC
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4/26/22: Group Sues White House Over Oil & Gas Report That Didn't Mention Climate Change, GIZMODO
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4/23/22: "Protesters Amass at White House, Demanding Action on Climate" NYT
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4/16/22: “To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough” WaPo
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4/5/22: "IPCC Report Is a Prescription for Fixing the Climate Crisis—'It's Now or Never'"
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4/5/22: "5 Takeaways From the U.N. Report on Limiting Global Warming" NYT
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4/4/22: NYT "Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns"
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3/24/22: "Methane Leaks in New Mexico Far Exceed Current Estimates, Study Suggests" NYT
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3/23/22: "International Energy Agency Issues 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use" Treehugger
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3/20/22: "After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever"
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3/1/22: "These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike" NYT
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2/28/22: NYT: "Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns"
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2/28/22: "Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change" NYT
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2/28/22: "ALEC Is Driving Laws to Blacklist Companies That Boycott the Oil Industry" the Nation
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2/28/22: Truthout: "Irreversible Impacts on the Climate Are Getting Locked In, IPCC Warns"
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2/12/22: "Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France"
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2/23/22: “How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom” WaPo
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2/18/22: "Energy-Hungry Bitcoin is Bringing Old Fossil Fuel Plants Back on Line"
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2/16/22: "World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds" Guardian
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2/15/22: "California Returns as Climate Leader, With Help From the White House" NYT
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2/14/22: "The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud" MIT
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2/13/22: "Most Mega-Corporations’ Net-Zero Pledges Are Hollow, Report Finds" Truthout
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2/13/22: "Trump-Appointed Judge Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s Climate Efforts" Mother Jones
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2/10/22: "Scientists fear soaring methane levels show climate feedback loop has arrived" NOC
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2/9/22: "EXCLUSIVE New York pension fund to divest half its shale companies" Reuters
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2/9/22: "Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap" Atlantic
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2/3/22: "More than two dozen major lawsuits are putting a price tag on the climate damage caused by fossil fuel companies" NoC
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2/1/22: "NYT: "Meet the People Who Are Getting Paid to Kill the Planet" (15 minute video)
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1/27/22: "Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands" WaPo
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1/24/22: "Aerial surveys detect dozens of methane 'super-emitters' in Permian"
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1/24/22: "400 Canadian Scientists and Academics Oppose Carbon Capture Tax Credits" Treehugger
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1/20/22: "‘Stuck in perilous moment’: Doomsday Clock holds at 100 seconds to midnight" Guardian
1/2021-7/1/2021
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12/28/21: "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On" NYT
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12/27/21: "As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past" NYT
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12/14/21: "Trends in Arctic Report Card: ‘Consistent, Alarming and Undeniable’" NYT
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12/14/21: "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years"
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12/3/21: "Lawmakers demand oil and gas firms divulge methane leak data" WaPo
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12/9/21: Banksliding and CalPERSiflage, McKibben and CalPERS/STRS
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11/20/21: "A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution" NYT
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11/19/21: "Biden's Infrastructure Law Is Good for the Climate But Not Enough" Treehugger
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11/6/21: WaPo: "At COP26, 100,000 march for climate justice"
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11/1/21: "How Much Are Countries Pledging to Reduce Emissions?" NYT (lots of interactive data)
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11/1/21: Guardian: "After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic"
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10/29/21: "Five Important Questions About COP26 Answered" Smithsonian
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10/27/21: Al Jazeera: "Arctic ground ‘literally collapsing’ amid abrupt thaw"
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10/21/21: DW: "Leaks Show Attempts to Weaken UN Climate Report, Greenpeace Says"
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10/21/21: "Fossil Fuel Companies Receive $11 Million a Minute in Subsidies, New Report Reveals"
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10/13/21: "Private Equity Funds, Sensing Profit in Tumult, Are Propping Up Oil" NYT
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10/12/21: "China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions" Guardian
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10/11/21: "Who’s who at Cop26: the leaders who hold the world’s future in their hands" Guardian
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10/10/21: "Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Bills Pending in Congress" NYT
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10/8/21: "Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say" NYT
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9/27/21: "Mainstream Media Attention to IPCC Report Neglected Real Cause of Emissions"
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9/24/21: "The “Most Important Question” on Earth: How Soon Will China Quit Coal?”
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9/24/21: "Fridays for Future global climate strike – in pictures" Guardian
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9/13/21:"25 Cities Produce More Than Half of World's Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions" Treehugger
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9/5/21: "More than 200 health journals call for urgent action on climate crisis" Guardian
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9/1/21: "IPCC Findings Illustrate Need for Banks and Insurers to Divest From Fossil Fuels"
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8/26/21: "Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds" WaPo
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8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT
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8/21/21: "Methane Is Flaring Out of Control. Biden Administration, Congress Must Step In."
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8/19/21: "Thwaites Glacier: Significant Geothermal Heat Beneath The Ice Stream"
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8/18/21: "CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists" BBC
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Cities are the key to fighting climate change, curated by Flipboard
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8/13/21: "July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History" NPR
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8/10/21: "The solutions to the climate crisis no one is talking about" Robert Reich (short video 8 mins)
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8/9/21: "Climate Change 2021; The Physical Science Basis" the full IPCC report
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8/9/21: "Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief"
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8/9/21: "Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds" WaPo
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8/9/21: "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us" NYT
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8/8/21: "When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen"
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7/28/21: "How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers" Guardian
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7/26/21: "Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report" BBC
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7/26/21: "It's Time for an Urgent Intervention in the Food System Ruining Our Climate"
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7/25/21: "Chinese satellite reveals global net carbon has reached six gigatons"
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7/18/21: "Opinion: The E.U. is getting serious about climate. Can the U.S. follow suit?" WaPo
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7/10/21: "The science of heat domes and how drought and climate change make them worse" WaPo
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7/6/21: "Another intense heat wave to roast Western U.S., southwest Canada" WaPo
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7/5/21: "The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system" WaPo
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7/2/21: "Australia ranks last on climate action in U.N. report" WaPo
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6/30/21: "In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action" NYT
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6/28/21: Northwest "heat dome" signals global warming's march"
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6/25/21: "Bill McKibben: It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity" New Yorker Climate Crisis Newsletter
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6/24/21: "Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life"
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6/16/21: "Earth is now trapping an ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, NASA says" WaPo
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6/13/21: "David Attenborough Warns Humans ‘On Verge Of Destabilising The Entire Planet’
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6/3/21: "Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists" Guardian
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6/7/21: "Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Hits Record High Despite Pandemic Dip" NYT
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5/27/21: "Warren Proposes $1.9T in Investments in Energy Research, American Manufacturing"
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5/27/21: "Exxon, Shell, and Chevron All Lose Big on Climate Battles"
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5/26/21: "Oil giant Shell ordered to halve greenhouse gas emissions"
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5/25/21: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change" WaPo
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5/24/21: "West Virginia’s coal mine cleanup process is an underfunded ‘house of cards'"
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5/24/21: "World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica"
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5/24/21: "Can We Fight Climate Change by Just Electrifying Everything?"
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5/21/21: "G7 nations vow to phase out international financing for coal projects" WaPo
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5/18/21: "A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears" New Scientist
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5/17/21: "Part of the Greenland ice sheet may be close to a tipping point"
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4/20/21: "What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were this high"
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4/14/21: "Carbon dioxide levels now higher than at any time in past 3.6 million years"
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4/13/21: "Sea levels are going to rise by at least 20ft. We can do something about it"
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4/12/21: "Glacier Is Surging Down Denali Mountain in Alaska"
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4/7/21: "Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever"
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4/3/21: Bill McKibben, "The Powerful New Financial Argument for Fossil-Fuel Divestment" New Yorker
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4/12/21: The Search for Environmental Hope: Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism?
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4/22/21: Overcoming climate anxiety could be the secret to real change WaPo
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4/20/21: "An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change"
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3/31/21: "Biden plan eliminates billions in fossil fuel subsidies"
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3/24/21: "One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study" Guardian
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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"
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3/9/21: "3/9/21: "Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies" Scientific American"
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3/17/21: "Why a powerful planet-warming gas is surging in Earth's atmosphere" (CH4)
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3/8/21: "China's Five-Year Plan 'Underwhelming' on Climate"
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3/5/21: "Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff"
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3/4/21: "In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers" NYT Storymap with detailed graphics"
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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"
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3/1/21: "How the United States can return to credible climate leadership" Brookings
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2/25/21: "We Need 4 Waves of Climate Action"
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2/25/21: "Michael Klare, Heating the Planet Through a New Cold War"
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2/22/21: "Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal" Naomi Klein, Opinion, NYT
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2/10/121: "The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency"
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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"
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2/3/21: "The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record: Our climate models could be missing something big."
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2/2/21: "Sea level rise could be worse than feared, warn researchers"
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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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2020:
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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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2019
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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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6/22/22: "Heal the Bay Releases Annual Beach Report Card & River Report Card 2022"
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6/24/22: "California’s largest reservoirs at critically low levels – signaling a dry summer ahead"
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6/15/22: "Is recycled wastewater the answer to California’s drought?"
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6/3/22: "State officials draw fire after approving new oil wells in L.A. neighborhood" LAT
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5/14/22: "THE COLORADO RIVER IS IN CRISIS, AND IT’S GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY"
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5/13/22: "California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren't fading away yet" NPR
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5/11/22: "California braces for extreme summer drought after dismal wet season" WaPo
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5/5/22: "Caltech breaks ground on sustainability research center"
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4/31/22: "California lawmakers want to build more clean energy — and faster" LAT
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4/20/22: "State faces heavy lifting to become carbon neutral, but it can be done" CalMatters
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4/19/22: "Angelenos are alarmed by air pollution and extreme heat. Poll finds they want action" LAT
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3/23/22: "The deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater" NatGeo
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2/17/22: "‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires"
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2/14/22: "How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study Finds." NYT
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2/1/22: LAT: "Could the L.A. River dry up? Fears grow as cities work to recycle more wastewater"
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1/31/22: "Biden administration to give states $1.15 billion to plug orphaned wells" WaPo
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1/12/22: "LA Has Ignored Its Urban Forest. Who Will Pay The Price For This Negligence?"
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12/29/21: "A national 'climate corps'? California is leading the way" NatGeo
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12/16/21: "Everything you need to know about California’s plan to slash solar incentives" LAT
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12/11/21: LAT: "State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed"
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12/6/21: "Column: Has Biden moved to finally kill California’s most farcical water project?"
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12/7/21: "Integrate California Native history and culture into state’s social studies curriculum"
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10/27/21: "Los Angeles is aiming to be first major carbon-free U.S. city, but obstacles loom" WaPo
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10/22/21: "California releases new proposal to ban oil drilling near communities"
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10/8/21: "Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills" Nat Geo
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10/5/21: "Mapping California’s Oil Spill: Aging Pipes Line the Coast" NYT
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10/4/21:"‘Zombie’ Urchins Are Destroying Kelp Forests. Can’t We Just Eat Them?"NYT
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8/23/21: "Drought worsens in Southern California, with Ventura County in worst category" LAT
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7/9/21: "Reservoirs are drying up as consequences of the Western drought worsen" WaPo
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6/28/21: "How much water goes into oil fracking in drought-stricken California?" SFGate
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6/28/21: "An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave"
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6/21/21: "How Cows Destroyed an Entire Marine Ecosystem in California"
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6/19/21: "‘If You Move Out Here, You Make a Deal With Nature’: Life in a Fire-Prone Canyon" NYT
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6/18/21: "The drought in US south-west is the worst in 1,200 years. It might be here to stay"
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6/18/21: "How a heat dome is pushing extreme temperatures to new heights in the West" WaPo
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5/26/21: "In California’s Drier Future, What’s the Best Investment for Securing Water?"
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3/10/21: LAT: "Deep-sea ‘Roombas’ will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina"
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2/2/21:"Mapping Los Angeles’s Unequal Covid-19 Surge" NYT Map
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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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11/11/21: "Biden Admin Largely Restores Habitat for Threatened Owls, Reversing Trump’s Deep Cuts"
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11/10/21: "Winged warning: Migrating birds hit hard by California’s drought"
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11/5/21: Smithsonian: "Spring Soundscapes Are Changing as Bird Populations Continue to Decline"
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10/24/21: "New Study: After Years of Poaching, Elephants Change Their Evolutionary Trajectory"
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9/29/21: "Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species" WaPo
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9/24/21: "Two New Studies Say Our Planetary Crisis Looks A Lot Like “The Great Dying”" Medium
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8/26/21:"Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds" WaPo
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7/29/21: "Earth Overshoot Day Moves Forward By Nearly a Month" DW
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5/30/21: "May 30, 2021 Finding the Mother Tree, An Interview with Suzanne Simard"
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5/27/21: "Brazil aerial photos show miners’ devastation of indigenous people’s land" Guardian
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4/19/21: "New Study Pushes Origins of Human-Driven Global Change Back Thousands of Years"
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4/20/21: "Humans Have Altered 97 Percent of Earth’s Land Through Habitat and Species Loss"
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4/20/21: "The world is 'on the verge of the abyss’, says UN"
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3/11/21: "There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way." NYT
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3/9/21: "'Frightening' New Data Reveals Humanity Has Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest"
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2/25/21: "Australian scientists warn urgent action needed to save 19 'collapsing' ecosystems"
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1/28/21: "50 Countries Join Ambitious Plan to Protect 30% of Earth by 2030"
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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
6/2019-6/2021
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6/22/21: "Legal experts worldwide draw up ‘historic’ definition of ecocide"
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6/17/21: "Renewables Are the Cornerstone of Decarbonization, Report Says"
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6/14/21: "The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining"
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6/10/21: "Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy" LAT
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5/28/21: "Where Wind and Solar Power Need to Grow for America to Meet Its Goals" NYT
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4/6/21: "The United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings"
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3/29/21: "Wind and solar power generated a tenth of the world's electricity in 2020"
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3/15/21: "Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment: By Margaret Renkl, NYT
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2/26/21: "This EPA mapping tool could reshape environmental justice"
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2/21: "Kenyan woman’s startup recycles plastic into bricks that are stronger than concrete"
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2/1/21: "Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020"
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1/28/21: "New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy"
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11/3/20:"A Greenland Shark Living Today Could Have Been Alive in 1620"
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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)
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