New Delhi — It’s still spring but hundreds of millions of people across South and Southeast Asia have already faced scorching hot temperatures. The summer heat has arrived early, setting records and even claiming lives, and it’s expected to get much worse through May and June as summer actually […] Click here to view original […]
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An oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington, 9 March 2022. Photograph: David Ryder/Reuters Report published Tuesday shows sector’s shift from climate denial to strategy of ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’ The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the dangers of burning oil and gas, experts and Democratic lawmakers testified […] Click here to view original
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Wildfires in September 2020 burned a large swath of the Oregon Cascades. (Photo courtesy Oregon State University) Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers, and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of […] Click here to view original
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Sustainability The Big Story Sen. Whitehouse: Climate change could crash the financial system Climate change’s impact on insurance companies is putting the U.S. in danger of a financial meltdown, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) told The Hill. © Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP via Getty Images The Hill reported […] Click here to view original
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Len Bicknell walks from his house to his garage where his solar energy panels are mounted on the roof in Marshfield, Mass. Bicknell’s home is fitted with both thermal panels for hot water production and electric solar panels for energy production. (AP/Stephan Savoia) The climate bank at MassHousing announced […] Click here to view original
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A climate activist who defaced an exhibit last year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington will spend 60 days in prison. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on Friday, according to a Justice Department news release . On April 27, Smith and a fellow […] Click here to view original
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