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BREAKING: The Commerce secretary threatened to fire NOAA officials in a fight over President Trump's incorrect warnings about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian. nyti.ms/2UIjZVX
Greta's crew: school-age climate activists strike across Europe. Last Sunday, an estimated 80,000 took part in French cities — more than turned out for the “Yellow Vest” protests the day before.
The disaster raised fears of what is to come: Scientists, who said the breaking of a glacier in the middle of the winter appeared to be a result of climate change, have warned that rising temperatures are melting the Himalayan glaciers at an alarming pace.
The number of Americans who feel passionately about climate change is rising sharply, and the issue appears likely to play a more important role in this year’s election than ever before, a new survey shows. nyti.ms/3aTL14O
President Biden is restoring three national monuments that had been severely shrunk by former President Donald J. Trump: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and the National Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the coast of New England.
“It turns out my release of six crypto-artworks consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” wrote Joanie Lemercier, a French artist. “It felt like madness to even consider continuing that practice.”
Cold, you say? What about climate change? Here ya go.
The Trump administration on Monday relaxed strict Obama-era standards for how coal-fired power plants dispose of wastewater laced with dangerous pollutants like lead, selenium and arsenic.
Ethiopia aims to plant four billion trees before the fall to combat climate change and deforestation. It said it planted over 350 million seedlings on Monday alone.
The E.P.A. is easing restrictions on lead, mercury and other toxic discharges from coal plants into waterways.
"if you look at must-pass legislation, this Congress is engaged in climate denial,” says
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Driving is down, so emissions are down — so much that satellites can see the difference.
“We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.” nyti.ms/2DacHls
If Americans would extend the life of their cellphones by one year, for instance, it would be the climate-saving equivalent of taking 636,000 cars off the road, or about the amount of passenger vehicles registered in the state of New Mexico.
