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In the Gulf of Maine, Scientists Race to Save Seabirds Threatened by Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

The project today spreads over seven islands in the Gulf of Maine, one of the fastest warming bodies of ocean on Earth. Water that is too warm drives seabird prey too deep or too far away to catch. An adult puffin brings back haddock to its chicks But warm water can quickly flip variety into scarcity.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 2.13.24

PA Environment Daily

. -- EPA Objects To Allegheny County's Air Quality Permit For The US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant [PaEN] -- WESA/The Allegheny Front: EPA Orders Allegheny County To Include Stronger Testing In US Steel Thomson Plant Permit -- Beaver County Times: Shell CEO Puts Beaver County Petrochemical Plant Price Tag At $14 Billion -- Southwest PA Municipal Project (..)

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Adapting to climate change will only get more expensive

A Greener Life

Over time, as the climate warms, the costs of rebuilding from the impacts of climate change will soar. As the climate warms, the price of adapting homes and infrastructure to cope with increasing temperatures, heavier rainfalls, stronger storms, and rising seas will be staggering. By Michael Allen.

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Confronting the Climate Crisis with Scientist Activism: the Essential Role of Rule Breakers

Union of Concerned Scientists

they tend to face far-lower personal stakes than their civil rights predecessors, though this cannot be said for less-privileged activists, especially Black, Indigenous, and other activists of color, and in the global South, people have been targeted and killed for their activism. In the U.S., We proved the house is on fire.

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Sustainable Finance 101: The Impact of Climate Change on Your Money

Enviromental Defense

The global financial system operates under the assumption that fossil fuel assets will continue to be valuable for decades to come – it’s why so many pension funds, loans and investments are put into fossil fuels. Financial assets often rely on physical infrastructure.

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Two potential solutions to cool down the Arctic

Edouard Stenger

Desch and his team have put forward the scheme in a paper that has just been published in Earth’s Future , the journal of the American Geophysical Union, and have worked out a price tag for the project: $500bn (£400bn). Half a trillion over a decade to help slow down global warming doesn’t look like a lot of money after all.

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Environmental groups enter legal fight over regulation of plastics pollution

Enviromental Defense

Ashley Wallis, Plastic Campaigner, Oceana Canada said: “According to the United Nations, plastic pollution is the second most ominous threat to the global environment after climate change. We won’t end the growing global plastic disaster by relying on voluntary industry-led initiatives or fragmented local bans.