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CNBC
Record-setting rain, floods and wildfires are examples of the rising risks to the U.S. housing market from climate change. Mortgage lenders and investors are woefully unprepared not only to mitigate their risk but to even gauge that risk, according to a new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America. …
Wired
LAST WEDNESDAY, REFUGIO Manuel Jimenez Jr. was called before the Superior Court of San Bernardino County, just over a year after a smoke bomb at his unborn child’s gender reveal party sparked the El Dorado fire that consumed almost 23,000 acres in California. Jimenez and his wife face 30 felony and misdemeanor charges, including involuntary manslaughter in the case of an elite firefighter who died battling the blaze. Together, the charges could add up to three decades in prison. …
Vox
On November 11, 2019, volunteers planted 11 million trees in Turkey as part of a government-backed initiative called Breath for the Future. In one northern city, the tree-planting campaign set the Guinness World Record for the most saplings planted in one hour in a single location: 303,150.
TechCrunch
The ocean is important to countless industries, but we still only have a rough idea of what it’s like as a whole at any given time. To foster a new generation of ocean-monitoring floats and other devices, Sofar Ocean Technologies and DARPA are publishing an open hardware standard called Bristlemouth so that researchers will have an off-the-shelf option rather than wasting their precious grant dollars solving the same engineering problems from scratch. …
Inside Climate News
Natural gas prices have surged, reverberating across the energy economy. U.S. gas prices hit $5 per million BTUs this month, about double the price of six months ago and the highest September price since 2008. I reached out to some experts to get a sense of whether the recent trend is just a hangover from the pandemic that will quickly resolve or a sign that we are entering a new era of higher prices. …
CNN
The COP26 international climate talks in Glasgow this November couldn’t come at a more crucial time.A state-of-the-science report published by the UN in August showed that the world is warming faster than scientists previously thought, and that slashing greenhouse gas emissions by at least half this decade is crucial to staving off the more catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis.This past year of deadly wildfires and floods in many parts of the world has left little doubt tha…
Fast Company
There’s one clear antidote for climate anxiety: If you can take strategic steps to address climate change, it begins to feel like it actually might be solvable. The challenge is that few of us know where to begin. Society has to transform at an unprecedented scale and speed to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, and countries still aren’t planning to move fast enough. We’re already seeing climate impacts play out in real time, from heat waves and wildfires to floods and drought. But …
Canary Media
New York City needs a lot of clean power to meet its zero-carbon goals. Upstate New York produces a lot of clean power, and so does Canada. But right now, there isn’t enough transmission grid capacity to connect these areas.
Canary Media
Environmental justice advocates laid the groundwork with years of grassroots organizing, then hashed out details with labor, renewables companies and lawmakers.
New York Times
The Biden administration on Thursday finalized its first major regulation to directly limit greenhouse gases, part of an effort to show America’s progress on global warming before a crucial climate summit in Glasgow in November.
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