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CLIMATE WATCH - Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smokestacks, and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.
DRINKABLE WATER - The California Coastal Commission tonight rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate.
CLIMATE WATCH - The planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline.
CLIMATE POLITICS - As energy- and climate-related legislation passes through committees in the California legislature, some lawmakers are refusing to vote on bills critical to the state’s transition from fossil fuels.
CLIMATE WATCH - America’s western metropolises are thriving in the midst of the fiercest drought in over 1,000 years.
THE ENVIRONMENT - The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean,
CLIMATE WATCH - This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its starkest assessment of prospects for climate mitigation to date.
CLEAN ENERGY - Over 520 organizations told President Joe Biden on Wednesday to urgently "end the fossil fuel era" and commit to a rapid renewable energy transition rooted in justice and a more peaceful world.
CLIMATE WATCH - The United States is facing two grim prospects in 2022:
CLIMATE WATCH - It ought to be clear by now that President Biden’s commitment to combating climate change comes with some brutal caveats.
GLOBAL WARMING - The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms.
PLANNING WATCH - The new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could not have been starker.
GREEN ENERGY - It is no surprise that capitalism, a system that prioritizes private profit before all else, is destroying our planet.
CLIMATE WATCH - Recognizing the existential threat posed by climate change, California resolved to become carbon neutral by 2045,
CALIFORNIA GREEN - California’s energy mix was powered 97% by renewable energy on Sunday, April 3 at at 3:39 p.m.,
CLIMATE CHANGE - As I write this, it’s 83 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, DC, and I can’t help but long for those years when I was a kid, when spring felt like spring and seasons were demarcated.
CLIMATE WATCH - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released April 4, warns that global emissions must peak in just three years to stay below the 1.5°C warming ceiling for a livable future.
CLIMATE WATCH - Activists condemned Friday's announcement by the Biden administration that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume oil and gas lease sales on public lands as yet another betrayal of President Joe Biden's promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the climate emergency.
CLIMATE WATCH - A revolutionary slogan by climate scientists “1.5C is Dead – Climate Revolution Now!”
OIL INDUSTRY - In the wake of a United Nations report that activists said showed the "bleak and brutal truth" about the climate emergency,
ECOSYSTEM - "Five bouts of mass bleaching since 1998 have turned the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) into a checkerboard of reefs with very different recent histories,
FOSSIL FUEL POLITICS - A transition to renewable energy that is both fast and fair is eminently possible.
CLIMATE OF WAR - One of the many lousy effects of the Russia/Ukraine war has been on the climate.
CLIMATE WATCH - The wood-pellet industry has full-scale operations smack dab in the heart of British Columbia’s Inland Temperate Rainforest, the last rainforest of its kind in the North.
CLIMATE WATCH - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in many respects, is a Delphic institution whose reports are a function of political discretion,
CLIMATE - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-1 Monday to propose regulations that, for the first time, require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions as well as their exposure to climate change risks.
CLIMATE WATCH - Extreme climate hits Antarctica, smashing records, shocking scientists as temperatures soar 50F to 90F degrees above normal. Welcome to climate change’s newest upheaval.
CA DROUGHT - Californians used 2.6% more water in January compared to before the drought emergency was declared, a sign that urban residents are ignoring the state’s pleas to take the drought seriously and cut back.
CLIMATE WATCH - Current strategies to combat climate change aren't working.
PLANNING WATCH - Since February 24, 2022, when Russian troops moved on the Ukraine, there have been a flurry of articles calling for the reduced use of fossil fuels.
CLIMATE WATCH - In the year 2021 methane (CH4) concentration in the atmosphere exceeded 1,900 ppb for the first time in human history recorded by Global Monitoring Laboratory, Earth System Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Dr. Ben-Meir and Dimitris Eleas, AI developed picture.
Downtown LA: Tents for the homeless near expensive residential towers.
Shower of Hope trailer burns outside the Echo Park Access & Navigation Center on June 9, 2026. Subsequent inquiries yielded no response and no available fire report.
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