October 2023 – Page 2 – Climate Desk

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Canada's National Observer

Canada is going all in on carbon capture. Is anyone paying attention to the risks?

When a CO2 pipeline fails, it fails catastrophically, putting the lives of people at risk. Will there be a reckoning with safety as governments plot a massive expansion of CO2 pipes?

John Woodside · October 13, 2023
Guardian

Climate crisis will make Europe’s beer cost more and taste worse, say scientists

Experts say hop yields and quality will continue to drop by 2050 if farmers don’t adapt to higher temperatures

Ajit Niranjan · October 13, 2023
Grist

The Supreme Court rejected a Republican challenge to Biden’s climate math

The social cost of carbon quantifies the hidden price of emitting CO2, from flood damage to health effects.

Kate Yoder · October 12, 2023
Inside Climate News

USFWS is creating a frozen library of biodiversity to help endangered species

Biobanking enables researchers to preserve genetic diversity in wildlife by freezing and storing living cells.

Kiley Price · October 11, 2023
Grist

Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama

Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.

Lylla Younes · October 11, 2023
YaleEnvironment360

As waters rise, a community must decide: do we stay or go?

The Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future.

Jon Hurdle · October 11, 2023
Guardian

California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

Measure signed into law by Gavin Newsom on Saturday is strong blueprint for national climate accountability, experts say

Dharna Noor · October 9, 2023
Canada's National Observer

What deer poop can teach us about environmental health

A researcher has seen how severe burns from record-breaking wildfires can affect everything, including winter feed for deer.

Matteo Cimellaro · October 6, 2023
Guardian

At least 20 California public university board members linked to fossil fuels

Universities may have divested from fossil fuels – but board members still have industry ties, new analysis finds

Dharna Noor · October 4, 2023
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In defense of the rat

Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them?

J. B. MacKinnon · October 3, 2023
Guardian

Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to climate crisis

Rapid attribution study finds storm 10-20% wetter after city experienced a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours on Friday

Oliver Milman · October 3, 2023
Inside Climate News

Apple goes a step too far in claiming a carbon neutral product

A recent claim about its new line of Apple Watches may be “climate-wash,” an environmental research organization says.

Phil McKenna · October 3, 2023