Climate Change

15/10/24
Author: 
Natalie Donback, Next City
photo: Ed Lallo / Getty Images via Grist.

Oct. 8, 2024

Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations and neighborhood EV chargers.

Could New York do it too?

13/10/24
Author: 
Grist
Stylized version of The Thinker

Oct. 9, 2024

The vision

“Our planet is transforming in a way that will make life much harder for most people. It already has brought suffering to millions and millions of people. And in the United States, most of us are learning about the scale and significance of this crisis at a point when there is not a whole lot of time to shift course. That realization carries both a mental toll and an emotional reckoning.”

13/10/24
Author: 
Frances Vinall and Allyson Chiu
A male Guam kingfisher is seen in an enclosure at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita. The species is native to Guam, but an invasive snake has made the bird endangered. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Oct. 9. 2024

The Living Planet Index tracks thousands of vertebrate species globally and found the worst declines were in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Earth’s wildlife populations have fallen on average by a “catastrophic” rate of 73 percent in the past half-century, according to a new analysis the World Wildlife Fund released Wednesday.

11/10/24
Author: 
Thom Hartmann
Jill Stein, the 2024 Green Party presidential candidate, during an event with Workers Strike Back and the "Abandon Harris" campaign at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, MI on Friday, Oct. 6, 2024. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Oct 10, 2024 

Running for president and keeping an iron grip on the once-noble Green Party has become Stein’s singular mission. And she’s killing the Party — and its once-sterling reputation — in the process.

Jill Stein doesn’t give, as the old saying goes, a flying f*ck about democracy. Instead, she’s all about how famous she can become and how much money she can grift off her repeated presidential campaigns. It’s a damn dangerous game.

06/10/24
Author: 
Brad Plumer
The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan will reportedly be awarded a $1.5 billion federal loan, aimed at restarting operations after a 2022 closure. The federal funding could bolster state efforts to keep nuclear power on the grid, as leaders seek to transition to carbon-free electricity (Courtesy of The Herald-Palladium).

Sept. 30, 2024

No one has ever restarted an American nuclear reactor that was seemingly closed for good. But with electricity demand spiking, interest is growing.

The Energy Department said on Monday that it had finalized a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan — the latest sign of rising government support for nuclear power.

03/10/24
Author: 
Adriana Zuniga-Teran

Oct. 3, 2024

Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass façades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heatwave, as the Houston area experienced in July 2024 after Hurricane Beryl, these buildings can become unbearable.

Yet, for millennia, civilizations knew how to shelter humans in hot and dry climates.

03/10/24
Author: 
David Carrigg
Crude oil tankers SFL Sabine, back left, and Tarbet Spirit are seen docked at the Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal, where crude oil from the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline is loaded onto tankers, in Burnaby on June 10, 2024 Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Aug. 21, 2024

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion drives 900 per cent increase in tanker traffic

The number of oil tankers travelling under the Lions Gate Bridge and into Vancouver harbour has increased from around two a month to around 20 since the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was completed, according to a local researcher.

29/09/24
Author: 
Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor
Province of B.C./flickr

Sept. 25, 2024

Right across North America, sky high insurance rates are straining affordable housing providers and the millions who depend on them for shelter, while pushing new housing developments and retrofits out of reach.

23/09/24
Author: 
John Woodside
Justin Trudeau - Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Sept. 23, 2024

Any hope the Liberal Party had that their signature climate policy would cease to be an albatross has been dashed, as allies of the carbon price drop like flies and opponents ramp up attacks. For Liberal strategists, there’s little room left to manoeuvre. 

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