April 2023 – Page 2 – Climate Desk

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Grist

Want to Protect Your Health? Start by Protecting Indigenous Land.

Protecting Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon could prevent millions of respiratory diseases and billions in healthcare costs.

Lyric Aquino · April 12, 2023
Grist

A Tax Break on Clean Energy Projects is Coming to Coal and Oil Towns

The Biden administration wants to give the "energy communities" of coal country and beyond an economic boost while promoting renewable energy.

Katie Myers · April 11, 2023
Undark

How New Zealand’s Pesky Pigs Turned Into a Cash Cow

The animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island.

Bill Morris · April 10, 2023
Inside Climate News

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

As relentless drought dries out subsistence farmers’ wells, vast eucalyptus and pine plantations, remnants of the Pinochet dictatorship, are torching their communities.

James Whitlow Delano · April 9, 2023
Guardian

Green Groups Sue to Stop Ohio from Leasing State Parks for Oil and Gas Drilling

New law – condemned as ‘illegitimate giveaway to the oil and gas industry’ – requires state parks to be leased to interested parties.

Nina Lakhani · April 7, 2023
Wired

Insect Farming Is Booming. But Is It Cruel?

More than a trillion insects are raised each year as high-protein, low-carbon animal feed, but the practice might have an ethical blind spot.

Matt Reynolds · April 6, 2023
Grist

Warming Temperatures Trigger Earliest Spring on Record in Parts of Eastern US

Unseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on allergies, disease vectors, and agriculture.

Zoya Teirstein · April 5, 2023
Grist

From Peak to Plummet in 15 years: Coal Continues its Precipitous Decline

"This is not an economic cycle that is simply going to go away. It is a real phaseout across the industry of the use of coal."

Max Graham · April 4, 2023
Mother Jones

Mitt Romney Said That Bike Lanes Increase Emissions. Really?

His argument makes no sense.

Abigail Weinberg · April 3, 2023
Inside Climate News

Las Vegas Is Counting on Public Lands to Power its Growth. Is it a Good Idea?

As Nevada and other Western states look to spread out across more federal land, environmentalists and advocates of “smart growth” worry about sustainability.

Wyatt Myskow · April 2, 2023
Guardian

‘Why Mine So Close?’: The Fight to Protect the Pristine Okefenokee Swamp

An Alabama company wants to mine near the 440,000-acre Georgia swamp, but locals and scientists fear it could be irreparably harmed.

Oliver Milman · April 1, 2023