Friday, March 29, 2024

Germany’s new wildflower meadows offer urban safe havens to bees and insects

thanks to wildflower meadows being planted precisely to reverse precipitous declines in insect populations.

2020-2021 honey bee colony loss second highest on record

“These bee losses highlight the disturbing lack of progress from the EPA in the fight to protect pollinators from toxic pesticides.”

‘Horrible and unconscionable betrayal’: Biden DOJ backs Trump Line 3 approval

“You are siding with a handful of corrupt corporate elites over honoring treaty rights, climate, water, and the future of life on Earth.”

Global LNG industry reeling as its image as a climate solution shifts to ‘climate...

Nearly two dozen major LNG projects around the world are struggling to move forward, a new report reveals, as investors grow skittish from poor economics and increasing scrutiny on the industry’s large carbon footprint.

3D printing assisting with the rise of geothermal plants

President Biden plans on expanding all renewable energy sectors, including geothermal plants, as part of his Build Back Better policy.

UNESCO proposes to downgrade Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status; Australian government pushes back

If added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, the Great Barrier Reef would become the first on it because of climate change reasons.

Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems...

We hope the climate assessment will help communities anticipate the complex impacts ahead and start planning for the future.

Legal experts define ecocide, take step toward international criminal law

The draft defines ecocide as, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts."

Arizona to use people in prison to fight its wildfires, pay $1.50 an hour

Incarcerated people clearing brush, in temperatures that hit 115°F in Phoenix for six days in a row last week, will make $1.00 per hour.