Climate Change

19/01/21
Author: 
Naveena Sadasivam
Image - pipeline protest - Grist / Kryssia Campos / spooh / Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Earlier this week, with national attention focused on accountability for the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building in Washington, D.C., Ohio quietly became the 13th state since 2017 to legislate harsher penalties for trespassing on or otherwise interfering with energy and industrial infrastructure — a move that activists and civil liberties groups say is a transparent attempt to criminalize nonviolent protest.

18/01/21
Author: 
Seth Klein
Justin Trudeau’s long-awaited bill seeking to embed new greenhouse gas reduction targets into law provides virtually nothing in the way of robust accountability. Photo by Al.T Photography

January 15th 2021

“Winning slowly on climate is just another way of losing.”

— Bill McKibben, climate writer and co-founder of 350.org

 

15/01/21
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Firefighters look out over a burning hillside in Yorba Linda, California, on 27 October 2020. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Jan. 14, 2021

Due to different methods, US Noaa judged year as fractionally cooler than 2016 while UK Met Office put 2020 in close second place

Last year was by a narrow margin the hottest ever on record, according to Nasa, with the climate crisis stamping its mark on 2020 through soaring temperatures, enormous hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires.

14/01/21
Author: 
Phoebe Weston
Smoke and flames rise from an illegal fire in the Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty

Jan. 13, 2021

Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis

The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to an international group of scientists, who warn people still haven’t grasped the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises.

09/01/21
Author: 
Eric Doherty
Aerial view of a biofuel crop harvested in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, on March 5, 2018. Photo by Forest and Kim Starr/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 US)

January 5th 2021

On Dec. 16, the B.C. government released the CleanBC 2020 Climate Change Accountability Report, which revealed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation, the single biggest source in B.C., have risen by 23 per cent since 2007, and six per cent in 2018 alone.

06/01/21
Author: 
CBC News

New study finds 'committed warming' is 2.3 C, higher than previous estimates; but it can be delayed

The Associated Press · 
 
06/01/21
Author: 
Burgess Langshaw-Power
small modular reactors - U.S. Department of Energy

Jan. 4, 2021

For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was a big part of our childhoods. The series is filled with strange new worlds, futurist politics, and advanced technology that is almost indistinguishable from magic. Yet even as a child I knew the show was a work of science fiction. Warp speed, transporters, and phasers were all gadgets I could comprehend, but in my rational mind I knew they would never exist within my lifetime.

05/01/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Installing solar panels - Peteonline22/Wikimedia Commons

JANUARY 4, 2021

A Minnesota regional planning agency is turning to the power of the sun to help improve a desperately tight housing market for low-income renters in the Twin Cities.

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