By Mitchell Beer, Corporate Knights Canada’s draft regulations promise a 75% cut in oil and gas industry methane emissions, but will the province with most oil and gas wells actually enforce them? Canada became the first country to promise a 75% reduction in oil and gas industry methane emissions during …
Rare Animal Thought to Be Extinct Suddenly Found by Dog on Beach
By Anna Skinner, Newsweek A dog made the discovery of a lifetime when it discovered an animal believed to be extinct after it wasn’t seen for nearly 90 years. The collie had been deployed by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) as a scent detection dog in a yearslong and nearly …
Are You Suffering From Shifting Baseline Syndrome?
By Reagan Pearce, Earth.Org Do you suffer from Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS)? Well, the answer is that everyone probably does. While SBS is not an actual medical condition, it has been gaining traction across environmental disciplines, as well as featuring in modern environmental literature, as seen in Isabella Tree’s Wilding: The Return …
In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot
By Amy Green, Inside Climate News Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane. ORLANDO, Fla.—It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. …
Michigan Poised to Join States Requiring 100 Percent Clean Electricity
By Dan Gearino and Aydali Campa, Inside Climate News A suite of bills headed to the governor’s desk will also give the state, instead of local governments, the authority to approve industrial-scale renewable energy projects. Michigan is likely about to take its place among states with aggressive plans to cut …
This New Satellite can Measure CO2 Emissions at Power Plants from Space
By Adele Peters, Fast Company GHGSat already measures methane pollution from space. Now it’s tackling CO2. [Source Photo: GHGSat] A new satellite that launched today is the first to be able to accurately measure how much CO2 is being emitted from a specific power plant or factory. Companies will be …
AI Could Give Coral a Fighting Chance in Rapidly Warming Oceans
By Todd Woody, Bloomberg Robots, 3D printers and other machinery fill a building on a pier in San Francisco. It seems an unlikely place to save coral reefs from climate change. But over the past four years, an Australian coral scientist has been collaborating with technologists at the industrial design …
South America’s Lake Titicaca Nears Record Low Water Level as El Niño Bites
By Marco Aquino, Reuters LIMA, Nov 3 (Reuters) – The water level at Lake Titicaca on the Peru-Bolivia border is edging towards a record low, exacerbated by the weather phenomenon known as El Nino that is expected to get still more intense in coming months. The waters of the sprawling …
Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas
By Martha Pskowski and Peter Aldhous, Inside Climate News An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade. Oil and gas lawyer Sarah Stogner visits Lake Boehmer in Pecos County where abandoned wells have …
Lessons from the ‘White Gold’ Rush in Latin America’s Lithium Triangle
By Natalie Alcoba, Corporate Knights Can three countries in the most lithium-rich place on Earth use the green revolution to break free from the extractive patterns of the past that leave little behind? It is quiet and lonely on the mountainous range of Argentina’s Catamarca Province, where llama-like vicuña graze …