A Tom Steyer Debate Spot Is in Limbo. His Money Is Poised to Upend 2020 Anyway.

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The billionaire former investor is an unlikely populist, but he is poised to be a deeply disruptive figure in the Democratic primary. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/politics/tom-steyer-debate.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Heat Deaths Jump in Southwest United States, Puzzling Officials

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The number of heat-related deaths has more than tripled in Arizona and Nevada since 2014, new data show, raising concern about the limits of adaptation. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/climate/heat-deaths-southwest.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Trump Disrupts France’s Effort to Green the G7 Summit

Published by the Environmental News Service BIARRITZ, France, August 26, 2019 (ENS) – The seven industrialized countries that make up the Group of Seven (G7) – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – had an ambitious environmental agenda mapped out before their meeting August 24-26 in Biarritz, a  beach […]

Summer on the Swollen Great Lakes

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The lakes rose this year to levels not seen in decades. A 1,234-mile drive around one of them revealed what all that water has left behind — vanishing beaches, closed roads, new islands. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/us/great-lakes-water-levels.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

As the Amazon Burns, Europe Leads the Charge on Climate

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With the Trump administration nearly silent, European leaders have energetically stepped in to take up the mantle of leadership. A trade deal could be at stake. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/world/europe/climate-brazil-europe-trump-g7.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Democratic Field Shrinks to 21: This Week in the 2020 Race

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Jay Inslee and Seth Moulton are out, John Hickenlooper is in (a Senate race), and candidates released plans for labor and the environment. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/us/politics/2020-democratic-presidential-candidates.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Fires Destroy Amazon Rainforest at Record Pace

Published by the Environmental News Service BRASILIA, Brazil, August 23, 2019 (ENS) – South America’s Amazon rainforest is burning in many places, blazing away so fiercely that the fires are visible from space. Smoke from the fires, mostly burning in southern Brazil, has reached Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, more than 1,700 miles away. Read […]

‘It’s Gratifying’: Jay Inslee Finally Gets His Moment

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Washington governor and self-described climate candidate told us what it was like to achieve national recognition — after leaving the presidential race. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/politics/jay-inslee.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Amazon Fires Prompt Alarm in Europe, and Anger at Brazil’s Government

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Emmanuel Macron of France accused President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil of lying about climate change, and said he would try to kill a major trade deal. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/world/americas/amazon-fires-brazil.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Governments Protect Giraffes at CITES Meeting

Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2019 (ENS) – Giraffes will now be protected against trade in their body parts for the first time. Delegates from 183 countries to the tri-annual Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species decided to add giraffes to an endangered species list, voting to regulate the […]

How to Rebound After a Disaster: Move, Don’t Rebuild, Research Suggests

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A paper in the journal Science makes a case that, sometimes, retreating from nature instead of fighting it can open up new opportunities for communities. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/sea-level-managed-retreat.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Will a ‘Fashion Pact’ Make Fashion Greener?

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The French luxury billionaire François-Henri Pinault will unveil a new Fashion Pact to the G7 leaders in coming days. But does it go far enough? Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/fashion/environment-crisis-pact-kering-g7.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Workers at Big Government Lab Sue Over Exposure to a Toxic Chemical

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Former technicians at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York say the were sickened by exposure to a toxic cleaning compound. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/tce-exposure-lawsuits-brookhaven.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Bernie Sanders’ ‘Green New Deal’: A $16 Trillion Climate Plan

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Mr. Sanders’s climate change proposal calls for the United States to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050. “We must be extraordinarily aggressive,” he said in an interview. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Jay Inslee, Dropping Out of 2020 Race, Will Run for Governor Again

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment He ran on a message of fighting climate change, but failed to find much support in the polls. Now he intends to seek another term as governor of Washington. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/jay-inslee-2020-campaign.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

Fires in Amazon Rain Forest Have Surged This Year

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The fires, most of which have been set by farmers clearing their land, are raging in uninhabited areas of rain forest and intruding on populated areas in the country’s north. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/world/americas/amazon-rainforest.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

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