Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy In recent months, utilities have repeatedly raised rates to cover the skyrocketing costs of the coal and gas needed to run their plants as well as the energy they had to buy from the grid when some of those plants unexpectedly …
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Eco Report – August 27, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. A study published in the journal Nature found that in fifteen years the Amazon could turn from a carbon absorber into a carbon emitter, due to wildfires, deforestation and the excess greenhouse …
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