Biden energy secretary defends praising China on climate change spending in fiery hearing exchange – Fox News
President Biden’s secretary of energy had an intense back-and-forth during a House Appropriations Subcommittee meeting on Friday. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm defended her previous comments praising China’s environmental policy under interrogation by Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler. “Secretary,…
Vermont teens call on lawmakers to act on climate change and pass the Affordable Heat Act – VTDigger
Jenna Hirschman, an Essex High School junior and Youth Lobby activist, speaks in support of statewide climate legislation at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, March 17, 2023. Photo by Natalie Williams/VTDigger As legislators scrambled to meet crossover deadlines for…
Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco’s 15-month jail sentence quashed on appeal
A 15-month jail sentence imposed on a climate protester who blocked one lane on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a truck has been quashed. Deanna “Violet” Coco, 32, was issued with a 12-month conditional release order on Wednesday after district…
How global warming is creating more turbulence on flights – The Washington Post
Research has made it clear: Earth’s warming, the result of the burning of fossil fuels, is increasing the risks of bumpy flights. It has to do with ways warming in the atmosphere influences winds at varying altitudes. But that doesn’t…
Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires rose in 2021 – ABC News
Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer of 2021, but the air was still thick with smoke from the Canadian infernos. “The fires weren’t next…
Demand For More Subsidies Hides the True Costs of Wind Power
Net Zero Watch is highlighting the fact that claims of falling wind power costs are contradicted by demands from wind power operators for additional subsidies on top of existing support. This debate has been in progress since 2017 when research…
Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict – Nature.com
Abstract Climate change and human–wildlife conflict are both pressing challenges for biodiversity conservation and human well-being in the Anthropocene. Climate change is a critical yet underappreciated amplifier of human–wildlife conflict, as it exacerbates resource scarcity, alters human and animal behaviours…
Small asteroid impacts Earthâs atmosphere over France
A small asteroid – about 1 meter (3 feet) wide – safely impacted Earth’s atmosphere over the skies of northern France around 3 UTC on February 13, 2023.
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‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis
The lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher educational college in Britain. The former farm that is Black Mountains College campus…
UK butterflies vanish from nearly half of the places they once flew – study
Butterfly species have vanished from nearly half of the places where they once flew in the UK since 1976, according to a study. The distribution of 58 native species has fallen by 42% as butterflies disappear from cities, fields and…
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