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Category Archives: Climate Change
America’s endangered rivers
America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2022: “Catastrophic drought. Disastrous floods. Fish and other freshwater species nearing extinction, as rivers heat up. Many people in the United States have imagined climate change as a problem in the future. But it is here now, and the primary way that each of us is experiencing climate change is… Continue Reading
AreaHub website shows local environmental dangers
Cornell Chronicle: “A new database allows users to search any U.S. ZIP code, city name or even an address to learn about extreme weather concerns like hurricane or wildfire exposure, and nearby environmental industrial hazards such as Superfund sites, neighborhood brownfields or problematic nuclear reactors. Pick a place: Type in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for example, to… Continue Reading
NYC Climate Dashboard
New York City Comptroller Brad Landner: “The climate crisis is one of the greatest risks facing New York City. As an agency tasked with identifying and confronting risks to NYC’s government and residents, the Comptroller’s Office is committed to advancing a just transition toward a more equitable, low-carbon, and resilient city. Tackling the climate crisis… Continue Reading
Kurzgesagt – We WILL Fix Climate Change!
Via YouTube – In a Nutshell – by Kurzgesagt – We create beautiful videos to share our passion for knowledge. This video is on Climate Change: “Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit… Continue Reading
Visualizing Climate Change
Center for Data Innovation: “Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, has created a visualization depicting changes in temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2021. For each year, a spiral is drawn representing the degree to which temperatures increased or decreased in each month relative to a base period of 1951 to 1980.… Continue Reading
The Earth Is Facing a Nitrogen Shortage Due to Climate Change, Study Says
Vice/Motherboard: “Nitrogen is one of the most important elements for life on Earth: It’s the main component of the air we breathe, a key building block for proteins, and the magic ingredient in agricultural fertilizers that are essential to feeding the global human population. But in recent decades, experts across a range of different disciplines… Continue Reading
The U.S. Power Sector and Climate Policy
An InfluenceMap Report April 2022: “This report analyzes the climate policy engagement of the 25 largest investor-owned electric utilities in the U.S., covering over 80% of the total market cap of publicly listed utilities. The results show a wide spectrum of engagement with climate policy, indicating a highly fractured sector in terms of climate policy… Continue Reading
Can switching banks cut your carbon footprint?
Quartz: “Most major US and European banks have set long-term goals to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from their lending portfolios, yet remain tied to fossil fuel companies, which make up a big share of their business. As an average customer of one of these banks, a portion of your deposit is destined to make its… Continue Reading
Big electric trucks and SUVs are the new gas guzzlers
Quartz: “New lines of electric trucks and SUVs are hitting the roads. Automakers are marketing vehicles like Tesla’s Cybertruck, Ford’s F-150 Lightning, Rivian’s R1T pickup truck, and GMC’s Hummer EV to customers who prefer driving big vehicles, no matter their fuel efficiency. These new EVs promise drivers the same heavy-duty performance as a combustion engine… Continue Reading
Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications
CRS Report – Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications, April 8, 2022: “Blockchain, generally, is a database technology that records and stores information in blocks of data that are linked, or “chained,” together. Data stored on a blockchain are continually shared, replicated, and synchronized across the nodes in a network—individual computer systems or specialized hardware that communicate… Continue Reading
How to use the Civil Society Foresight report
“Who makes the future? The futures in this report offer glimpses of three alternative worlds in 2036: worlds where the most important things are belonging, care, and repair. They are neither utopian nor dystopian but somewhere in between; a little like real life, but fifteen years ahead. Each future, or imaginary, is an invitation to… Continue Reading
