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The U.S. is finally making serious efforts to adapt to climate change » Yale Climate Connections

Like an approaching major hurricane whose outer spiral bands are only just beginning to hit, an approaching climate change storm has begun and...

‘Now dive in’: significant step as Labor wades in to Global Ocean Treaty

SYDNEY, 24 JUNE 2024 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed the Labor government’s first steps towards ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty by tabling...

NASA Asteroid Planetary Defence Exercise Reveals Big Gaps in Readiness – Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall Even with a hypothetical 14 year warning, we’re still not ready to deflect dangerous incoming space rocks. Planetary Defence:...

Mountaintop coal mine in Kentucky to become a solar farm » Yale Climate Connections

Across Appalachia, coal mines are closing. And people are trying to figure out what to do with former mine lands, including mountaintops that...

Exposing the Absurdity of “Sustainability” at the Olympics – Watts Up With That?

We covered to original decision to forego air conditioning here. The 2024 Paris Olympics are shaping up to be an event filled with athletic...

Flash floods hit Mexico, coastal flooding reaches Texas as Alberto makes landfall » Yale Climate Connections

The center of lopsided Tropical Storm Alberto pushed ashore just before dawn Thursday, June 20, near Tampico, Mexico. Alberto’s top sustained winds were...

Nonprofit helps bring solar to the Puerto Rican island of Vieques » Yale Climate Connections

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, the small island of Vieques – just off the coast of the main island –...

Experts: What is causing food prices to spike around the world?

Spiking food prices have made headlines around...

In Case You Think Someone Has the Answer To New York’s Looming Energy Disaster – Watts Up With That?

From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN Francis Menton In this post last week, I took note that New York’s electric grid system operator, NYISO, has recently issued...

How the recycling symbol lost its meaning » Yale Climate Connections

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re...

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