February 2024 – Page 2 – Climate Desk

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Mother Jones

A bunch of new research puts this winter’s wild weather in frightening context

Here are scientists’ big new conclusions on climate change.

Henry Carnell · February 9, 2024
Guardian

‘Life-saving’: EPA tightens US pollution controls on soot

Environmental Protection Agency sets lower limits on fine particle pollution, estimated to cause 85,000 to 225,000 deaths annually.

Dharna Noor · February 9, 2024
Mother Jones

How liquefied natural gas terminals torment the people living nearby

Biden paused new terminal permits—thanks in part to activists like Elida Castillo.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · February 8, 2024
Guardian

‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint

Allies and advisers have hinted at a more methodical second term: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules

Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor · February 6, 2024
Grist

John Podesta is a DC veteran. Can he make climate deals on the world stage?

Podesta takes over for John Kerry at a critical moment for global climate diplomacy.

Jake Bittle · February 5, 2024
Guardian

The suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat

Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction

Phoebe Weston · February 1, 2024