As rapid #climate warming drives larger, longer & more severe #wildfire seasons across boreal biome, overwintering fires becoming more common. Concerns by fire managers, scientists are rising. #wildfirescanada @queenofpeat @Laurier @CUBoulder @VUamsterdam https://t.co/U7TRXFYJsz
— Nathan Howes TWN (@HowesNathan) July 15, 2023
Category: Environmental
140 degrees
The End of the World: A Series.
60C is 140F. https://t.co/EFhgV2309x
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) July 12, 2023
Oh boy
I had a friend who was in Europe the last time and couldn’t fly out for days:
And so it begins – yet again #volcano #eruption #volcaniceruption #reykjanes #iceland pic.twitter.com/Kre14ecLYU
— Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) July 10, 2023
Not. Enough. Water.
Very good news, if very late: "Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the future housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions…"https://t.co/B7oLR3iUdg
— Matt Bell (@mdbell79) June 1, 2023
Oh swell
I don’t think folks realize how much the debt-ceiling deal may have doomed the “good” part of permitting reform — the effort to make it easier to build big new power lines.
There’s a good chance transmission reform is now dead. I wrote about it: https://t.co/ADFczMaKXb
— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) May 31, 2023
Guess which five?
Five members of the Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to the Clean Water Act, rewriting the word "adjacent" in the law to mean "adjoining," thus leaving unprotected from pollution, and EPA oversight, vast swaths of wetlands.https://t.co/EGbNHDDJG4
Justice Elena Kagan: pic.twitter.com/n9XbH8mfWK
— Cristian Farias (@cristianafarias) May 25, 2023
Makes sense
The EPA has proposed that chemical plants nationwide measure certain hazardous compounds that cross beyond their property lines and reduce them when they are too high. https://t.co/voSP4J6XFM
— ABC News (@ABC) April 7, 2023
Recycling
Overall, only about 15% of used clothes and other textile waste is recycled in the U.S., according to EPA data. Here’s how to make sure your old clothes have the best impact. https://t.co/OgBCQCp1jD
— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) April 6, 2023
Good
DOJ sues Norfolk Southern over East Palestine derailment https://t.co/bNpL06ksI6 via @politico
— Melissa Denis (@melissadenisx) March 31, 2023
Swell
Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have more impact on global warming than all the well-meaning actions of signatories to a pledge to cut pollution, writes @davidfickling https://t.co/vMt4vy3FOE
— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) March 23, 2023