by Beth Holmes | May 1, 2023 | Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
Oil company appeals are being turned away by the Supreme Court, allowing lawsuits to proceed against energy companies that may be contributing to climate change. Five cases are involved, of lawsuits brought by cities and municipalities in Colorado, Maryland,...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 24, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Cloud seeding is becoming big business in drought-stricken areas like the Rockies, despite dubious research. Cloud seeding as it’s practiced today works like this. Seeders, either tower-mounted or by airplane, shoot silver iodide into clouds. The particulates...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 29, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
Spain is being warned not to expand irrigation near a valuable and threatened wetland, as the EU threatens to take measures. The Doñana wetlands are a UNESCO world heritage site, one of the key biospheres of Europe. They sit on the coast in the southwest of Spain,...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 20, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Green Energy, Sustainability
Decarbonization projects are getting $6 billion in federal funding as the Biden Administration offers grants to pollution-heavy industries. On Wednesday, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of the Industrial Demonstrations Program, a grant program...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 13, 2023 | Conservation, Sustainability
A unified treaty to protect open ocean biodiversity has been signed by the nations of the UN, for the first time. In 1944, the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea was enacted, protecting international rights at sea and putting into place a few environmental laws,...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Columbia University experts are raising their voices about extreme weather, after a too-hot 2022 and wild disasters. According to Radley Horton, a research professor from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, human-induced climate change has raised...
