Climate

Republican-led states had accused financial firms of colluding against coal producers. Vanguard also agreed not to push for action to fight climate change.

Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research. Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role.

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“What we found is that any metric of agricultural intensity was always the best predictor of acceleration of the decline.”

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Two communities seeking cleaner, cheaper energy are resisting pressure to extend deals that bind them to getting power from one of the nation’s dirtiest plants.

Although climate change received no attention during the president’s speech, Americans must continue to find new ways of making progress against the ongoing environmental crisis.

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It wants to lower wholesale prices by reimbursing power generators for the carbon permits they have to buy, and recover the cost directly from customer bills. Consumers would then only be paying the carbon tax on 40 per cent of their consumption instead of 80 per cent. The net benefit for consumers is expected to be about €10/MWh, while the government and gas-fired plants would see little difference.

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Back in December, the retraction of a key climate report was seen as proof that the economic cost of global warming had been overstated. Now, Norway’s wealth fund says its own analysis indicates that would be the wrong conclusion to draw.

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This is above and beyond what overfishing does. Per the article

“Historically, overfishing has been the main driver of biomass declines in many of the world’s fisheries [and] according to the FAO [UN Food and Agriculture Organization] the proportion of overfished stocks globally continues to rise,” said Ortuño Crespo, who was not involved in the study. “The current challenge is that this overfishing crisis is being further exacerbated by ocean warming and deoxygenation.”

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Basically, if implemented, the subsidy displaces the use of biofuels for diesel while costing a lot of money