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E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electric Car Sales Tenfold

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Europe Is Drying Up

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The drought in parts of France is so bad right now that some authorities have banned new home-building projects—for the next four years. Despite a severe housing shortage in France, new homes just aren’t worth the drain on water resources that construction, and eventual new residents, would cause, say nine communes in the south of the country.

It’s just one of many signs that Europe is running dry. “What we are looking at is something like a multiyear drought,” says Rohini Kumar of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Unusually low rainfall and snowfall was recorded this winter not just in France but also in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, and parts of Italy and Germany. The current predicament follows European droughts in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

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Wind and solar now generate record 12% of global electricity

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Royal Bank the No. 1 financier of fossil fuel development in the world, new report finds

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Volcanic microbe eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly’, say scientists

Discovery of carbon-capturing organism in hot springs could lead to efficient way of absorbing climate-heating gas

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Thai authorities issue extreme heat warnings for dozens of provinces

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In the Bagna district of Bangkok, the temperature reached 42 degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit), while the heat index – which includes relative humidity and measures what the temperature feels like – hit a record 54 C (129 F), according to the meteorological department.

Authorities warned residents to avoid outdoor activities and be wary of the danger of heat stroke.

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How peatlands on the Prairies are at risk from climate change

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TDPS: EU Stalls Plan to Ban Dangerous Chemicals, Europe Exports Banned Chemicals to Brazil

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Supreme Court won’t hear appeals from fossil fuel firms in climate change lawsuits

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear five appeals from the fossil fuel industry seeking to move climate change lawsuits it faces to the federal courts. The decision opens the door for Baltimore and other cities, states, and counties to pursue their claims for damages from climate-related extreme weather events, flooding, and sea-level rise in state courts.

Since the localities began filing their climate suits six years ago, they have, for the most part, seen state courts as the appropriate, and more advantageous, jurisdiction for seeking damages caused by climate change using product liability, deceptive advertising, and nuisance statutes.

They have contended that the industry has known for decades that burning fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that warm the planet—harming local jurisdictions, their infrastructure, and, ultimately, their citizens.

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Deadly African drought not possible without climate change, study finds

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In millions of years the GQP will be the oil and gas for whoever survives the mess they left.

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As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking

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Climate scientists already know that the East Coast of the United States could see around a foot of sea-level rise by 2050, which will be catastrophic on its own. But they are just beginning to thoroughly measure a “hidden vulnerability” that will make matters far worse: The coastline is also sinking. It’s a phenomenon known as subsidence, and it’s poised to make the rising ocean all the more dangerous, both for people and coastal ecosystems.

As seas rise, the weight of the water also sinks the land, making seas rise higher.

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Massive West Nile Virus outbreak in Arizona shattered records, killed 101

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The cause is unclear, but climate change and the pandemic likely played roles.

The news industry is broken. 10 people get shot and killed, it makes the news worldwide. 100 people get bit by a mosquito and die. . . crickets.

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Wind and solar now generate record 12% of global electricity

I just noticed this post. That's quite surprising (in a good way) and I'm sure it will continue to increase.