January 2024 – Climate Desk

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The dark side of ocean cleanup technology

Some marine biologists think the trash-collecting machines are harming more ocean organisms than they’re helping.

Kiley Price · January 31, 2024
Grist

Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

“Nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”

Zoya Teirstein · January 31, 2024
Guardian

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show

Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak.

Oliver Milman · January 31, 2024
Mother Jones

Farmers could be the nation’s leading environmentalists

Just tweak their subsidies.

Tom Philpott · January 31, 2024
High Country News

As glaciers melt, potential salmon habitat collides with outdated mining laws

In Alaska and British Columbia, climate change may open new rivers to fish – and to gold mines.

Maya L. Kapoor · January 30, 2024
Inside Climate News

Will Biden’s temporary pause of gas export projects win back young voters?

Growing criticism of the president, in part because of broken climate promises, could cause some voters to skip this year’s election.

Kristoffer Tigue and Keerti Gopal · January 29, 2024
Grist

Human Rights Watch blames Louisiana regulators for low birth weights in Cancer Alley

In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.

Lylla Younes · January 26, 2024
Guardian

Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities

Brazil’s president inspired hope a year ago but approval of a new highway shows he remains a concrete-and-oil state builder

Jonathan Watts · January 25, 2024
Grist

Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds

“The bottom line is that plastic bag bans work.”

Joseph Winters · January 24, 2024
Inside Climate News

Groundwater levels around the world are dropping quickly, often at accelerating rates

Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater trends so far shows.

Liza Gross · January 24, 2024
Grist

Oil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back — to mine for lithium.

Fossil fuel companies are turning to rural communities for critical minerals, raising familiar hopes and fears.

Katie Myers · January 23, 2024
Inside Climate News

Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley says climate change is real

Is she proposing anything to stop It?

Phil McKenna · January 22, 2024