Climate and Environment News

--- tags: Nature, climate news, wrong direction --- # Climate and Environment News  A random list of readings on climate and environment. Is the flood of negative news just the usual crop of chance events amplified by concerned reporting or does it show the beginning of a long economic decline accelerated by global warming and depletion of natural resources? [Podcasts](https://hackmd.io/@alexhkurz/BkrbTBegs) ## 2023 - [Global Wildlife Populations Suffer Catastrophic Collapse](https://www.statista.com/chart/22845/decline-in-monitored-vertebrate-species-populations/), Statista, 2020 - [Water contamination at Barrick’s Veladero mine threatens health and human rights](https://miningwatch.ca/blog/2022/12/2/water-contamination-barrick-s-veladero-mine-threatens-health-and-human-rights), Dec 2, 2022. - [Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe) ## 2022 - [HOW TO PROFIT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE](https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-profit-from-climate-change/), Nov 11 - [20 climate photographs that changed the world](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/05/20-climate-photographs-that-changed-the-world), Nov 5. - [Global sea levels set to rise higher than previously predicted - 2-meter rise by 2100 and 5 meters by 2150, if global warming gas emissions continue to climb](https://www.timesofisrael.com/sea-levels-set-to-rise-higher-than-previously-predicted-research/), Sep 20. - [Facing Rapid Rise in Sea Levels, Israel Could Lose Large Parts of Its Coastline by 2050](https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/climate-change/2022-09-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/facing-rapid-rise-in-sea-levels-israel-could-lose-large-parts-of-its-coastline/00000183-577f-d3b0-a9bf-f77f87500000). Sep 20. - [Video: Mississippi River crisis losses could reach $20 billion](https://www.yahoo.com/now/mississippi-river-crisis-losses-could-231828048.html), Oct 21. - [Climate Change Is Strangling the Mighty Mississippi. So Try Saving It.](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-21/climate-change-impact-on-mississippi-river-has-mighty-repercussions?leadSource=uverify%20wall), Oct 21. - [Reimagine Mining](https://events.northernminer.com/reimagine-mining-2022/?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CMJ-Reimagine+Mining+2022), Oct 12. "Topics to be discussed include: ESG, Water Management, Automation, De-carbonization, Digitization, and the role of New Technologies." - [UN secretary general says ‘polluters must pay,’ calls for extra tax on fossil fuel profits](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/20/uns-guterres-says-polluters-must-pay-calls-for-tax-on-fossil-fuels.html), Sep 20. - [Colombia’s President slams ‘addiction to irrational power’ and calls to end war on drugs in fiery first UNGA speech](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/americas/unga-colombia-petro-speech-intl-latam/index.html), Sep 20. - [As oil companies push to criminalize dissent, they’re also making the case that climate denialism is protected speech, not fraudulent advertising](https://theintercept.com/2022/09/16/fossil-fuel-industry-climate-free-speech/), Sep 16. - [Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/oil-companies-exxonmobil-chevron-shell-bp-climate-crisis), Sep 17. - [Extreme hunger soaring in world’s climate hotspots, says Oxfam](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/16/extreme-hunger-soaring-in-worlds-climate-hotspots-says-oxfam), Sep 16. - [Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/us-west-megadrought-climate-disaster), Sep 12 - [Worst drought ‘in living memory’ threatens the world’s olive oil supply](https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/09/business/olive-oil-shortage-drought-cnnphotos/), Sep 9 - [The Electricity Industry Quietly Spread Climate Denial for Years](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/electric-utilities-downplayed-climate-change/671361/), Sep 7. - [Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030](https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture-executive-summary), Sep 2019 - [Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/05/large-parts-of-amazon-may-never-recover-major-study-says), Sep 5 - [Four out of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ have now been crossed](https://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-issue-stark-warning-as-earth-passes-into-danger-zone/), Jan 2015 - [This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-hot-summer-is-one-of-the-coolest-of-the-rest-of-our-lives/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=earth&utm_content=link&utm_term=_featured-this-week&spMailingID=72026042&spUserID=NTQxNTA1OTMwODgzS0&spJobID=2252758746&spReportId=MjI1Mjc1ODc0NgS2), Aug 31. - [Climate crisis forces China to ration electricity](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/its-getting-extremely-hard-climate-crisis-forces-china-to-ration-electricity), Aug 30. - [Ahead of major flooding expected in Mississippi, Jackson's mayor urges people to "get out now"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-flooding-jackson-minnesota-tornado-oregon-wildfire-severe-weather-us/) ... [More Than 150,000 People Are Trying To Survive Without Reliable Clean Water](https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-150-000-people-jackson-003934556.html), Aug 30. - [Catastrophic flooding devastates Pakistan](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/in-photos-catastrophic-flooding-devastates-pakistan), Aug 29. [Channel 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTR2nDTDRx4). - [Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y), Aug 23. (pluralistic ignorance, false social reality: "Supporters of climate policies outnumber opponents two to one, while Americans falsely perceive nearly the opposite to be true") - [Valley fever: The disease that can be contracted by breathing California’s air](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/california-valley-fever-disease-climate-crisis), Aug 30. - [NASA’s Going to the Moon — Why Going to the Moon and Mars Matters in an Age of Extinction](https://eand.co/nasas-going-to-the-moon-and-it-might-be-what-we-need-here-on-earth-d99f33ada59e), Aug 29. - [Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/major-sea-level-rise-caused-by-melting-of-greenland-ice-cap-is-now-inevitable-27cm-climate), Aug 29. - [The Coming Hunger](https://www.monbiot.com/2022/08/22/the-coming-hunger/), Aug 22. - [Europe’s disappearing rivers](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-08-21/europes-disappearing-rivers-illustrate-multiple-converging-catastrophes), Aug 21. - [Ethiopia’s worsening drought sees hunger numbers soar](https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2022/08/17/drought-Ethiopia-hunger-pastoralism-climate-change), Aug 17. - [The world can reach a 100% renewable energy system by or before 2050](https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/science-and-technology/22012-researchers-agree-the-world-can-reach-a-100-renewable-energy-system-by-or-before-2050.html), Aug 10. - [Worktime reductions are only natural in a growing economy](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2022/07/15/worktime-reductions-are-only-natural-in-a-growing-economy/), Jul 15. - [Drought brings big worries for farmers across northern Europe](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/drought-brings-big-worries-farmers-across-northern-europe-n896096), Aug 1. - [Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climatechange scenarios](https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2108146119), March 2022. - [It's Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling](https://www.newsweek.com/its-earth-overshoot-day-future-generations-are-calling-opinion-1728512), Jul 28. - [Tiny turtle pooed ‘pure plastic’ for six days after rescue from Sydney beach](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/tiny-turtle-pooed-pure-plastic-for-six-days-after-rescue-from-sydney-beach), Jul 30. - [The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs](https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs?utm_source=pocket-newtab), Jun 29.  - [The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation](https://grist.org/accountability/the-supreme-courts-climate-decision-came-out-of-a-decades-long-campaign-to-kneecap-regulation/), Jun 30. - [Why millions of people across Africa are facing extreme hunger](https://www.rescue.org/article/why-millions-people-across-africa-are-facing-extreme-hunger?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email), May 11. - [These five people could make or break the Colorado River](https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-06-16/these-five-people-could-make-or-break-the-colorado-river-boiling-point), June 16. - [Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are ‘off the scale’ and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/new-data-reveals-extraordinary-global-heating-in-the-arctic), June 15. - [One of the most treasured rivers in Europe is being killed by intensive livestock farms](https://www.monbiot.com/2022/06/15/shit-creek/), June 15. - [Satellites zoom in on cities’ hottest neighborhoods](https://theconversation.com/satellites-zoom-in-on-cities-hottest-neighborhoods-some-10-degrees-hotter-to-help-combat-the-urban-heat-island-effect-182925), June 14. - [Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/world/africa/somalia-drought-hunger.html), June 11. - [Microplastics discovered in Antarctic snow for the first time](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/8/microplastics-discovered-in-antarctic-snow-for-the-first-time), Jun 8. - [How financial investors, law firms and arbitrators are profiting from the investment arbitration boom in Spain](https://www.tni.org/en/publication/from-solar-dream-to-legal-nightmare), May 31. "Spain has been ordered to pay more than €1.2 billion in compensation for the cases it has lost, which is equal to the country’s entire spending commitment to fight the climate crisis - or five times what it spent to alleviate energy poverty in 2021" - [The coming food catastrophe](https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe), May 19. - [WMO update: 50:50 chance of global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C threshold in next five years](https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-update-5050-chance-of-global-temperature-temporarily-reaching-15%C2%B0c-thresholds), May 9. - [How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions](https://theconversation.com/how-treaties-protecting-fossil-fuel-investors-could-jeopardize-global-efforts-to-save-the-climate-and-cost-countries-billions-182135), May 5. - [New drought rules limit outdoor watering to once a week](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-drought-rules-limit-outdoor-watering-to-once-a-week-what-you-need-to-know/ar-AAWDlBQ), Apr 26. - [California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3](https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/04/california-grid-set-record-with-97-percent-renewable-power-april-3/), Apr 20 - [Wind and solar generated 10% of global electricity for the first time](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60917445), Mar 30. - [Heat waves hit Arctic and Antarctica at the same time](https://www.livescience.com/arctic-and-antarctica-simultaneous-heatwaves), Mar 20. - [Climate change is biggest 'dealbreaker' on popular dating app](https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/597723-climate-change-is-biggest-dealbreaker-on-popular-dating-app), Mar 10. - [California Is About to Test Its First Solar Canals](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/california-is-about-to-test-its-first-solar-canals-180979637/), Feb 25. - [The world produces twice as much plastic waste as it did 20 years ago--and only 9 percent of it gets recycled](https://www.oecd.org/environment/plastic-pollution-is-growing-relentlessly-as-waste-management-and-recycling-fall-short.htm), Feb 22. - [America’s largest inland port is running out of water](https://grist.org/cities/water-pipeline-joliet-illinois), Feb 24 - [London’s National Portrait Gallery cuts ties with BP](https://grist.org/beacon/art-gallery-yes-to-oil-paintings-no-to-oil-funding/), Feb 24 - [To keep Earth habitable, we must reimagine a politics beyond the nation-state](https://www.noemamag.com/the-planet-is-a-political-orphan/), Feb 3 - [World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/17/world-spends-18tn-a-year-on-subsidies-that-harm-environment-study-finds-aoe), Feb 16 - [Hydrogen in road transport: it’s not going to happen](https://medium.com/enrique-dans/hydrogen-in-road-transport-its-not-going-to-happen-1b232155135d), Feb 6. - [Apple CEO against the right to repair](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/): "factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including [...] customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements" ... "Our profitability and cash flow generation are strong, and we expect to exit the quarter with approximately $130 billion in net cash." - [Nanoplastic pollution found at both of Earth’s poles for first time](https://grist.org/science/nanoplastic-pollution-found-at-both-of-earths-poles-for-first-time/), Jan 31 - [Enshrine the rights of nature and Indigenous protections into law](https://grist.org/climate/chile-mining-boom-new-constitution-prevent-environmental-catastrophe/), Jan 28. - [Oil Industry Faces Skeptical Judges in Baltimore Climate Case](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/oil-industry-faces-skeptical-judges-in-baltimore-climate-case), Jan 25. - [BlackRock’s Greenwashing](https://www.dailyposter.com/midday-poster-blackrocks-greenwashing/), Jan 19. - [EV sales overtake diesel, tipping point in the decarbonization of transport?](https://medium.com/enrique-dans/as-ev-sales-overtake-diesel-in-europe-are-we-finally-reach-the-tipping-point-in-the-716bf564d81e), Jan 18. - [Nearly half of GDP in cities at risk of disruption from nature loss](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590023-nearly-half-of-gdp-in-cities-at-risk-of-disruption-from-nature-loss), Jan 17. - [Scooters with swappable batteries: the solution for urban mobility?](https://medium.com/enrique-dans/scooters-with-swappable-batteries-the-solution-for-urban-mobility-e55cbdd9853f) Jan 15. - [Top Global Brands and Asset Managers Still Lack Adequate Anti-Deforestation Policies, Report Finds](https://www.desmog.com/2022/01/13/top-global-brands-and-asset-managers-still-lack-adequate-anti-deforestation-policies-report-finds/), Jan 13. - [China’s Artificial Sun Just Broke a Record for Longest Sustained Nuclear Fusion](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chinas-artificial-sun-reactor-broke-record-for-nuclear-fusion-180979336/), Jan 10. ## 2021 - ['The world's richest are plundering the planet'](https://news.sky.com/story/the-worlds-richest-are-plundering-the-planet-billionaires-huge-carbon-footprints-prompt-call-for-action-12460623), Nov 5. - [How a debate over carbon capture derailed California’s landmark climate bill](https://grist.org/politics/carbon-capture-why-california-cant-fill-the-net-zero-gap-in-its-climate-strategy/), Dec 15. - [16th annual Arctic Report Card](https://theconversation.com/2021-arctic-report-card-reveals-a-human-story-of-cascading-disruptions-extreme-events-and-global-connections-172136), Dec 14. - [The Antarctic Circumpolar Current](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/climate/antarctic-climate-change.html). - [Cambridge University received more than £14m from oil giants, while Oxford University got almost £8m including donations to Oxford’s Said Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/british-universities-slammed-for-taking-90m-from-oil-companies-in-four-years/), Dec 11. - [Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/13/revealed-biden-administration-was-not-legally-bound-to-auction-gulf-drilling-rights), Dec 13. - [California water districts to get 0% of requested supplies in unprecedented decision](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/california-water-districts-zero-water-requested-supplies), Dec 2. - [Canadas oil capital declares a climate emergency](https://grist.org/beacon/canadas-oil-capital-declares-a-climate-emergency/), Dec 1. - [Forests are shifting to scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S.](https://grist.org/climate/climate-change-forest-loss), Nov 29. - [Permafrost Thaw in Siberia Creates a Ticking ‘Methane Bomb’ of Greenhouse Gases](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ticking-timebomb-siberia-thawing-permafrost-releases-more-methane-180978381/), Aug 2021. - [Carbon inequality in 2030](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621305/bn-carbon-inequality-2030-051121-en.pdf), Nov 2021, "the world’s richest 1% drove twice the carbon emissions of the poorest half of the global population" - [COP26 leaves too many loopholes for the fossil fuel industry](https://theconversation.com/us/cop26), Nov 11. - [COP26: Fossil fuel industry has largest delegation at climate summit](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59199484), Nov 8. - [AXA goes less than half the distance on oil & gas](https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2021/10/29/axa-goes-less-than-half-the-distance-on-oil-gas/), Oct 29. - [Britain lobbies governments to increase oil and gas production](https://declassifieduk.org/britain-courts-fossil-fuel-lobbying-governments-to-increase-oil-and-gas-production/), Nov 2. - [Toxic fracking waste is leaking into California groundwater](https://grist.org/accountability/fracking-waste-california-aqueduct-section-29-facility/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily), Oct 26. - [How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action](https://www.tni.org/en/publication/global-climate-wall), Oct 25. - [The cement industry announced a concrete goal to decarbonize](https://grist.org/beacon/a-concrete-plan-to-decarbonize-cement/), Oct 20 - [Extremists are being pitted against moderate centre-right voters in the next chapter of the culture wars](https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2021/oct/20/populist-right-covid-conspiracists-moderate-culture-wars), Oct 20. - [The climate is changing faster than cities are adapting](https://theconversation.com/cities-worldwide-arent-adapting-to-climate-change-quickly-enough-169984), Oct 20. "In 2020 the U.S. experienced a record-breaking 22 weather and climate disasters that each caused at least US$1 billion in damage. So far in 2021, the count stands at 18." - [Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined](https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycled-batteries-good-as-newly-mined), Oct 15. - [Bitcoin energy consumption](https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption). 1800 kWh per transaction in 2021 compared to [300kWh in 2018](https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2542435118301776?token=83F8D46BE9A41189C49BF780BE1582FC22A0E20DF754B5ACD578BC9A00E9743604DF7E79F89BF3E7E2B71946414FF5AD&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20211012191150) ... [FAQ](https://cbeci.org/faq). - [Since Mendes’s murder, nearly 1 million sq km of the Amazon, an area roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, have been destroyed](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/07/the-amazon-rain-forest-is-losing-200000-acres-a-day-soon-it-will-be-too-late), Oct 7. - [Work on Earth’s Climate Earns Nobel Prize in Physics](https://www.quantamagazine.org/pioneering-climate-modelers-earn-nobel-prize-in-physics-20211005/), Oct 5. - [CEO of Mars on Net Zero Emissions](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/05/mars-ceo-grant-reid-net-zero-emissions-business), Oct 5. - [Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron](https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/01/six-month-sentence-lawyer-who-took-chevron-denounced-international-outrage), Oct 1. - [Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/apple-amazon-microsoft-disney-lobby-groups-climate-bill-analysis), Oct 1. - [Record $5bn donation to protect nature could herald new green era of giving](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/record-5bn-donation-to-protect-nature-could-herald-new-green-era-of-giving-aoe), Sep 29. - [Protected Too Late: U.S. Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/climate/endangered-animals-extinct.html), Sep 28. - [The climate crisis inside our heads](https://blog.datawrapper.de/climate-change-grief-anxiety/), Sep 23. - [We can lift people out of poverty without blowing our climate energy budget](https://grist.org/equity/no-eradicating-poverty-is-not-gonna-mess-with-climate-goals/), Sep 20. - [Santa Ana, California, declared a climate emergency last week](grist.org/equity/santa-ana-california-climate-emergency-lead-remediation), Sep 16. - [Clean energy bill, making Illinois national leader in climate change](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092021/inside-clean-energy-illinois-clean-energy-bill-debate/), Sep 16. - [227 land and environmental defenders from across the globe were murdered in 2020](https://grist.org/protest/2020-was-the-deadliest-year-for-environmental-activists-heres-why/), Sep 15. - [Clothing company Mammut addresses emissions from fossil-fuel-powered ships](https://grist.org/economics/can-a-tiny-clothing-company-force-the-shipping-industry-to-clean-up-its-act/). Aug 30. - [Gatwick airport plans to carry on as if the world is not burning all around us](https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2021/08/26/gatwick-airport-plans-to-carry-on-as-if-the-world-is-not-burning-all-around-us/). Aug 26. - [Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2021.1947636). Aug 25. - [Experts Clash over Cost of Carbon](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-clash-over-cost-of-carbon/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=earth&utm_content=link&utm_term=2021-08-25_top-stories&spMailingID=70544130&spUserID=NTQxNTA1OTMwODgzS0&spJobID=2183608278&spReportId=MjE4MzYwODI3OAS2). Aug 24. - [Carbon Dividends: A Win-Win for People and for the Climate](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-dividends-a-win-win-for-people-and-for-the-climate/). Aug 23. - [Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook), Aug 23. - [Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/brazil-amazon-deforestation-report-bolsonaro-climate). Aug 20. - [Air pollution reduces cognitive ability](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pollution-brain/). Aug 11. "If you have an important test today, you might want to consider rescheduling." [Air Quality Index](https://www.iqair.com/usa/california/orange). - [July was Earth’s hottest month on record](https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record). Aug 13. - [‘Amazon Chernobyl’ lawyer Steven Donziger who won huge damages against Chevron is now facing the ‘first corporate prosecution in America’](https://wallofcontroversy.wordpress.com/2021/06/14/amazon-chernobyl-lawyer-steven-donziger-who-won-huge-damages-against-chevron-is-now-facing-the-first-corporate-prosecution-in-america/), Jun 14 - [China’s Bitcoin mining ban](https://digiconomist.net/how-chinas-bitcoin-mining-ban-affects-energy-consumption-estimates/), Jun 2. - [New momentum reduces emissions gap, but huge gap remains](https://climateactiontracker.org/press/new-momentum-reduces-emissions-gap-but-huge-gap-remains-analysis/), Apr 23. - [Israeli Startup Solves Problem of Bee Colony Collapse](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-the-israeli-startup-that-solved-a-170-year-old-problem-1.9620722). Mar 16. - [What gives billionaires such a massive carbon footprint](https://theconversation.com/private-planes-mansions-and-superyachts-what-gives-billionaires-like-musk-and-abramovich-such-a-massive-carbon-footprint-152514), Feb 16.   ---