Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Trains, cars and poaching have all contributed to a soaring number of fatalities, prompting fears for the grizzlies’ future. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/science/grizzly-bears-deaths.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The legislation, to be introduced Tuesday, has little chance of becoming a law, but the effort shows the increased influence of environmental groups in taking on recycling issues. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/recycling-law.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Dart Container Corporation, which makes foam products, is a manufacturing behemoth and produced a fortune for the family behind it. Environmentalists say its products are polluting the globe. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/dart-foam-recycling.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The size and frequency of thunderstorms has risen along with global temperatures, researchers at the University of Tel Aviv found. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/climate/lightning-africa-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment “This is the foreshadowing of what is to come,” a researcher said. “It’s exactly in line of what we’ve been seeing for decades.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/climate/antarctica-record-temperature.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2020 (ENS) – At least 80 airports around the world could be underwater if climate change causes sea levels to rise just one meter (39 inches), which scientists at the United Nations’ expert climate panel predict is likely to occur by 2100 if greenhouse gas […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Justice Department has told four carmakers that they violated no laws when they negotiated a fuel economy standard with California that is more stringent than Washington’s. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/climate/trump-california-automakers-antitrust.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment To invest while supporting animal welfare, socially conscious funds may support Chipotle, but not Burger King and its Impossible Whopper. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/your-money/vegan-investing-animal-welfare.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Two of the nearly 100 people on a ship stuck in an ice floe for a year explain what it’s like to live in polar darkness while studying how the Arctic’s climate is changing. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/climate/mosiac-mission-arctic-climate-change-photos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Trump administration finalized plans to open land once in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to mining and oil and gas exploration. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/climate/trump-grand-staircase-monument.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, bringing solar power to Navajo homes Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-trillion-trees.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Forests are a celebrated carbon sink. They are also vulnerable in the era of climate change. Europe is a case in point. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/climate/forests-europe-climate-changed.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. In her latest, ‘Weather,’ she uses this small form to address the climate collapse. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/magazine/jenny-offill-weather-book.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Habitat loss, predation by feral cats, and now wildfires wrought by climate change — how long can the world’s strangest mammal survive? Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/science/platypus-australia-wildfires.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service FRANKFURT, Germany, February 4, 2020 (ENS) – Greenpeace Germany supporters protested at global investment firm BlackRock’s German headquarters Monday, to tell the firm to stop investing in coal and financing climate change as the majority shareholder of Siemens, a telecommunications provider for the Adani coal mine in Australia. Read […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As cities across the nation embrace electric power as a cleaner alternative to natural gas, developers are scrambling to keep up. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/all-electric-green-development.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment It was a wildlife haven, a tourist magnet and an agricultural center — before half of it burned. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/world/australia/kangaroo-island-fire.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, February 3, 2020 (ENS) – New York State Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general and the City of Philadelphia, is suing the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, for gutting safeguards for those exposed to dangerous chemical accidents. Read […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Habitat loss and pesticides are threatening firefly populations, a new study has found. It also cited a problem unique to glowing bugs: light pollution. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/fireflies-mating-light-pollution.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As many as 22 new coal plants—one of the dirtiest power sources—will arise at 17 sites across Japan, just as the world must slash emissions to fight warming. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukushima.html?emc=rss&partner=rss