Cloudy With A Chance of Plastics: Microplastics Are Everywhere
The average human inhales a credit-card-sized amount of plastic every week, according to new research. New research proves the plastic we breathe in, stays in.
Water
Unprecedented Temperature Anomalies in 2023 — Hottest Year On Record
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air temperature, sea ice cover and hydrological variables. All the reported … [continued]
Biden–Harris Administration $80 Million Investing in America Agenda to Improve Flood Prediction
Funding supports NOAA’s efforts to upgrade the National Water Model and expand Flood Inundation Mapping services Last month, the Department of Commerce and NOAA’s Office of Water Prediction awarded the Next Generation Water Prediction Capability contract to Raytheon, an RTX Business. The $80 million, four-year contract will transform water prediction … [continued]
NYC Gets Month’s Worth of Rain in Just Hours
New York City came to a standstill last week after intense rainfall caused flash flooding across much of the city. Almost 8 inches of rain fell on JFK Airport on Friday, the most rainfall in one day since record-keeping began in 1948, while CNN reports that Brooklyn got a month’s … [continued]
Fresh Water Is In Critically Short Supply — Desalinization Could Help
Two groups of researchers have devised new ways of desalinization that rely solely on the power of sunlight to make fresh water.
Houston Wants Feds To Waste Billions On Dike To Protect It From Climate Change
The Oil Belt will join the Rust Belt in the economically withered parts of America. Throwing money at protecting it makes no sense.
Reflecting America’s Accelerating Shift to Clean Energy, Interior Department Announces Fewest Offshore Oil & Gas…
Plan phases down oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico; will enable offshore wind program to continue to rapidly grow. Proposed program includes zero oil and gas lease sales in the Atlantic, Pacific and Alaskan waters.
The Story of the Historic Cleanup & Revitalization of the Thea Foss Waterway, Tacoma’s Waterfront
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series on this story. Watch this entire documentary on one of the earliest and most effective waterway cleanups in North America. “It was old industrial wasteland. It wasn’t just contaminated. It was dangerous,” Marv Coleman recounts while discussing the extensive history of the … [continued]
Louisiana’s Saltwater Problem Shows Us How Climate Change Can Have Complex, Unanticipated Consequences
According to news reports like this one, southern Louisiana is having some serious problems with water that are only going to get worse in the coming weeks. Let’s first take a look at the chain of events that caused this. Today’s problem is that salty water from the ocean is … [continued]
Could Hawaii Repurpose Pearl Harbor’s Fuel Storage For Pumped Hydro?
Someone should look seriously at Red Hill and do more than this napkin math. 140 MWh of high-efficiency storage that reuses existing infrastructure isn’t something that should be dismissed out of hand.
