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PBS Nature

The year is 2013. The Cayman Crown was given protected status in 2020 by Belize and Guatemala, but there is still much to be done to ensure its conservation. The post About appeared first on Nature. In the waters of Belize and Guatemala, a desperate fisherman takes his small boat into the open ocean in search of fish.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I have spent the better part of the last 12 years writing about lies. During this stretch, I have written more than 200 articles and columns, and most of them were either about CEOs who lie, experts who lie, scientists who lie, attorneys general who lie, legislators who lie, or a president who lies.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

I was not fully aware of this issue until roughly a year ago, when I wrote a column about it, and I’ve been working for environmental organizations for 25 years. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. The EPA estimates that about 6.5 What accounts for that? percent threshold.

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Can GoGreen Advance California’s Home Decarbonization Goals?

Legal Planet

Residential buildings are responsible for about 10 percent of state greenhouse gas emissions, and home decarbonization routinely ranks among the most challenging of our many emissions reduction challenges. Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission released a report evaluating the state’s GoGreen home energy financing program.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Even though gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children in the United States, overtaking car accidents in 2020, the use of federal funding has been prohibited to investigate the role of gun violence or possible means of reducing death and injuries from guns. Cars vs. guns. graphic: cdc.gov.

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The Global Methane Pledge

Legal Planet

I have written before about the importance of taking action quickly to reduce and eliminate methane emissions, including here. Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030.

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