"Now, so little water remains in some villages near the Euphrates River that families are dismantling their homes, brick by brick, piling them into pickup trucks — window frames, doors and all — and driving away."https://t.co/bPxDu3Ke9L
— Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) July 31, 2023
Category: Environmental
Oh good
The collapse of Atlantic Ocean currents predicted to occur mid-century could lead to massive climate upheaval across the world, according to a study published Tuesday. @ARiquelmy https://t.co/FhtxtOCoZl
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) July 25, 2023
I feel guilty every time I turn it on
While at the same time, I am tremendously grateful:
The climate paradox of air conditioning https://t.co/U9PhqjV9kz
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 19, 2023
The world is heating up
Footage shows firefighters in Greece scrambling to put out multiple fires that have broken out amid hot, dry conditions. Residents used water hoses to try to douse parched land in the seaside resorts south of Athens as thick smoke billowed above. https://t.co/r6pALgn7kX pic.twitter.com/0XLHJvuQH9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 18, 2023
We’re never getting a break, are we?
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
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