Beavers: "Native Americans Promote Resurgence Of 'Nature's Engineers'"
"The rodents are often considered ‘nuisance animals’, but they can play a vital role in maintaining healthy landscapes".
Source: Guardian, 02/23/2021
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"Texas Blackouts Point to Coast-to-Coast Crises Waiting to Happen"
"Even as Texas struggled to restore electricity and water over the past week, signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country."
Source: NYTimes, 02/22/2021Abbott Appointees Cut Power Reliability Team Before Deadly Storm
"Late last year, as winter approached and power companies prepared for cold weather, Gov. Greg Abbott’s hand-picked utility regulators decided they no longer wanted to work with a nonprofit organization they had hired to monitor and help Texas enforce the state’s electric reliability standards."
Source: Houston Chronicle, 02/22/2021Texas Freeze Led To Release Of Tons Of Air Pollutants As Refineries Shut
"The largest U.S. oil refiners released tons of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this past week, according to figures provided to the state, as refineries and petrochemical plants in the region scrambled to shut production during frigid weather."
Source: Reuters, 02/22/2021"Oil Spill Off Israel Reaches South Lebanese Beaches"
"Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab said on Monday he was following up on an oil spill that may have originated from a ship passing near the Israeli coast and has now reached the southern shores of Lebanon."
Source: Reuters, 02/22/2021Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues for Haaland
"The Interior nominee would be the first Native American cabinet secretary if she wins Senate confirmation following hearings that begin Tuesday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/22/2021Climate Change Cost? Biden Expected to Raise Carbon’s Dollar Value
"The administration is expected to temporarily increase the “social cost” of carbon, at least to the level set by Obama, but climate-concerned economists say that's not high enough."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/22/2021"Water Leaks Indicate New Damage At Fukushima Nuclear Plant"
"Cooling water levels have fallen in two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant since a powerful earthquake hit the area last weekend, indicating possible additional damage, its operator said Friday."
Source: AP, 02/22/2021"4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels"
"Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come."
Source: HuffPost, 02/22/2021'Piecing Together A Broken Heart': Tribes Rebuild Territories They Lost
"More than six decades after a 1,705-acre patchwork of meadows, wetlands and timberland in southern Oregon was taken from the Klamath Tribes, the Native American community has found its way back to the territory – by way of the real estate market."
Source: Guardian, 02/22/2021Seagrass Is A Vital Weapon Against Climate Change, But We’re Killing It
"Seagrasses don’t get as much attention as coral reefs, but these “hidden forests” store carbon, keep the water clear and are a vital habitat for marine life."
Source: HuffPost, 02/22/2021"Lights Come Back On In Texas As Water Woes Rise In The South"
"Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back, but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, with many people lacking safe drinking water."
Source: AP, 02/19/2021"U.S. Needs To Brace Itself For More Deadly Storms, Experts Say"
"This week’s storms — with more still heading east — fit a pattern of worsening extremes under climate change and demonstrate anew that local, state and federal officials have failed to do nearly enough to prepare for greater and more dangerous weather."
Source: AP, 02/19/2021"Supreme Court Loads Up On Environment Cases"
"When the Supreme Court returns from its winter recess, the justices will have an unusually heavy load of environmental cases to sift through — and potentially more to come."
Source: E&E News, 02/19/2021"UN: Huge Changes In Society Needed To Keep Nature, Earth OK"
"Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.
Source: AP, 02/19/2021
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