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The massive redwood trees that dot the landscape of Northern California have survived through countless earthquakes and natural disasters. Yet the climate crisis may threaten their livelihood as the latest California wildfires have encroached upon the ancient trees, as NPR reported.
—Norm Holy
The Earth has lost thirty-one trillion tons of ice in just twenty-three years, and the climate crisis is largely to blame.
—Norm Holy
Greenland’s ice sheet has reached the point of no return and would continue to melt even if the climate crisis were halted, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, used more than three decades of satellite data to determine that the ice sheet would continue to shrink even if surface melting decreased.
—Norm Holy
Located twenty-five miles north of Las Vegas, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge is the largest such refuge in the lower forty-eight states. Now the US Air Force wants to expand its bombing range within the refuge by three hundred thousand acres on land that has long been considered sacred to the Southern Paiute Nation.
—Linda Greene
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality recently authorized construction of the state’s first new coal mine in decades. Coal burning is one of the major contributors to the climate crisis, and coal-burning power plants are under tremendous pressure to shut down permanently.
—Linda Greene
Bomb disposal teams arrived at—and personnel were evacuated from—the Sellafield nuclear power site in the UK recently after a routine inspection revealed the presence of unstable, dangerous and potentially explosive chemicals on site.
—Linda Greene
The New York Times has reported that the Trump administration formally weakened a major climate-change regulation, effectively freeing oil and gas companies from the need to detect and repair methane leaks.
—Norm Holy
Nuclear power plants aren’t a good investment. A new report from Moody’s Investors Services finds that dozens of U-S nuclear power plants “will face growing credit risks” in the next ten to twenty years because of their physical vulnerability to the ever-worsening extremes of the climate crisis.
—Linda Greene
The Democratic party made the curious move of removing a ban on fossil fuel subsidies from its platform last week as its convention kicked off. The move, which also backtracked from a clean energy commitment, raised the ire of environmental activists.
—Norm Holy
