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“Global temperatures hit the highest levels in recorded history on Monday — breaking a record set only 24 hours earlier,”
#globalwarming#climatechange
https://t.co/mzsvH6vSQ4
“Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuel companies this week, alleging that the oil and gas giants have misled the public about climate change and delayed a transition to clean energy.”
#fossilfuels#energytransition
https://t.co/VJ9KdxHXPa
“The PacWave South testing site being built off the coast of Newport is the first pre-permitted, utility-scale, grid-connected wave energy test site in the U.S.,”
#energytransition#renewableenergy
https://t.co/tFwX36gtRu
“Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all,”
#whales#renewableenergy#windenergy
https://t.co/GaVlg0L6pB
“Global study reveals dirty air is second only to malnutrition as cause of death among under-fives,”
#airpollution#atmosphere#health
https://t.co/STw5HfWRq5
“The nature restoration law is among the EU's biggest environmental policies, requiring member states to introduce measures restoring nature on a fifth of their land and sea by 2030.”
#nature#environment#conservation
https://t.co/dUsr76vtwD
“Protecting biodiversity in the high seas in the face of climate change is an ongoing chess game. Coordination across jurisdictions �� including national and international boundaries and the high seas — will be crucial.”
#climatechange #highseas
https://t.co/jriluxhekg
“They could simultaneously gather energy from the sun and shade the water, reducing evaporation — an especially welcome bonus where droughts are getting worse.”
#solarpower#water#GlobalSolutions
https://t.co/yIb1h6snGX
“the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday that there's an 80 percent chance at least one of the next five calendar years will exceed a 1.5 C average. Nearly a decade ago — in 2015 — that chance was nearly zero.”
#globalwarming#WMO
https://t.co/LJWjTJnBsn
“It is the country’s 16th national marine sanctuary and will celebrate the area’s Indigenous and maritime history while providing new opportunities,”
#conservation#marine#NOAA
https://t.co/AULyLzsTXG
“Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.”
#climatechange#ice#Venezuela
https://t.co/vUnSnQoJ13
“Nearly two-thirds of the world's coral reefs have been subjected to heat stress bad enough to trigger bleaching over the past year,”
#coralreefs#globalwarming
https://t.co/KfMIv0wnPw
“renewable energy now exceeds more than 30 percent of the world’s electricity supply, following a fast rise in solar and wind power.”
#Renewableenergy#EnergyTransition
https://t.co/Ah2XXauFNi
“Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F).”
#climatechange#globalwarming
https://t.co/p99uBvoFCM
“In efforts to move towards using clean energy, transportation service Watt EV chose Bakersfield to launch their 115-acre electric truck charging depot.”
#electricvehicle#renewableenergy
https://t.co/MPts8Yqorr
“the researchers found that about two-thirds of the studied conservation actions at minimum slowed biodiversity declines or led to improved biodiversity.”
#conservation#biodiversity
https://t.co/4QmMMlSul4
“startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.”
#ocean#cdr#GlobalSolutions
https://t.co/cxFH415UKK
“By the end of Tuesday, more than 142 millimeters (5.59 inches) of rainfall had soaked Dubai over 24 hours. An average year sees 94.7 millimeters (3.73 inches) of rain,”
#climatechange#extremeweather
https://t.co/SlbshBnNvR
“many of the world's colorful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists said on Monday amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades.”
#coralreef#globalwarming#ocean
https://t.co/bDittIkBK5
“EPA takes action for first time in 27 years against ‘forever chemicals’ feared to be contaminating water for over 200 million,”
#water#chemicals#EPA
https://t.co/N339yHCkTG