https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/01/our-laundry-is-fouling-arctic-seawater-with-microplastics/This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Arctic is “pervasively” polluted by microplastic fibers that most likely come from the washing of synthetic clothes by people in Europe […]
https://wildearthguardians.org/brave-new-wild/news/last-trump-sale-of-public-lands-for-fracking-prompts-outrage-hope-that-president-elect-biden-to-follow-through-with-oil-and-gas-leasing-moratorium/ Trump has made it a goal to sell as much public land as possible for fracking over the last four years, but thankfully after today, the administration’s pro-fossil fuel, climate and science denying, anti-public […]
https://njtrees.org/green-infrastructure-combats-climate-change-flooding-in-cities/Climate change is causing an increase in flooding, rising sea levels, and new weather patterns. These changes have a massive negative impact on older urban cities. In an urban environment, flooding is particularly an issue, […]
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/environmental-organizations-remain-overwhelmingly-white/From heat waves to flooding, climate change disproportionately harms communities of color. But Andrés Jimenez, executive director of the nonprofit Green 2.0, says that among organizations working on climate solutions, “when you look around the […]
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/13/latest-lawsuit-challenges-trump-sale-of-montana-public-lands-for-fracking/Great Falls, Montana Citing the failure of the Trump administration to protect the climate and clean water, a coalition today filed suit to overturn the sale of more than 58,000 acres of public lands for fracking in […]
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-peat-bogs-climate-revive-forgotten.htmlBogs, mires, fens and marshes—just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they can build […]
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-two-thirds-earth-pace-climate.htmlThe world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid […]
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/drought-stricken-colorado-river-basin-could-see-additional-20-drop-in-water-flow-by-2050/Colorado is no stranger to drought. The current one is closing in on 20 years, and a rainy or snowy season here and there won’t change the trajectory. This is what climate change has brought. […]
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-climate-billions-dollars.htmlIn a new study, Stanford researchers report that intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States over the past three decades, totaling almost $75 billion of the estimated $199 […]
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-acidification-climate-bioluminescence-species-glowA more acidic ocean could give some species a glow-up. As the pH of the ocean decreases as a result of climate change, some bioluminescent organisms might get brighter, while others see their lights dim, […]
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