BUSINESS: Toyota to build futuristic ‘Woven City’ with no gas cars
Toyota Motor Corp. launched an ambitious smart city demonstration project this week that the 83-year-old automaker hopes will accelerate its transition from a climate laggard to a clean technology and mobility leader.
EXTREME WEATHER: State officials slam FEMA plan to reduce disaster aid
A Texas emergency management official yesterday assailed a federal proposal to reduce disaster relief in future years, saying it would be “devastating” to the state and its communities.
FINANCE: SEC to toughen climate rules on companies
The acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is expanding the agency’s efforts to push public companies to be transparent about the threats they face from climate change.
POLITICS: Fringe weatherman advised Abbott before deadly Texas storm
Days before a historic snowstorm crippled his home state, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sought advice from an unusual source: Joe Bastardi, the go-to weather forecaster of Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Astrophysicists design âradically differentâ world map
You know the old problem of how to portray the round globe of Earth on a flat map? Now a trio of map experts has worked together to solve this problem. Their new map is 2-sided and round.
Vuelve ‘cambio climático’ y sale ‘extranjero ilegal’. Con Biden cambia el lenguaje del gobierno
Ahora, el gobierno de Biden está revirtiendo explícitamente esa posición. El 12 de febrero, los funcionarios de los Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración, la agencia que gestiona la ciudadanía, dijeron que los empleados no deberían utilizar la palabra “alien” en…
VERIFY: Is the extreme winter cold of 2021 the result of climate change? – WQAD.com
Record-breaking cold crippled much of the Midwest during the month of February, stretching all the way to the Texas coast. Is this a sign of climate change? MOLINE, Ill — The recent cold spell turned our hometowns and much of…
See Incredible Photos and Hear Martian Winds From the Red PlanetâThanks to Perseverance Rover
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. NASA and the world just celebrated the fifth American rover to land on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover brings with it a host of research equipment meant to examine the planet’s surface for signs of ancient […]
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Fossils may hold clues to climate change, says BGSU paleobiologist – Newswise
Newswise — A Bowling Green State University paleobiologist‘s research into the life and death of an ancient mollusk might uncover clues about the next global warming event on Earth. Dr. Margaret “Peg” Yacobucci, a BGSU geology professor in the School of Earth, Environment…
Biden Admin Approves A Pipeline For Russian Energy After Killing Keystone
President Biden blocked the Keystone pipeline from Canada to the U.S., ostensibly due to environmental concerns and claims about global warming, even though the long-planned project had cleared all environmental hurdles. Yet the Biden State department just effectively approved an energy pipeline…
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