GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency Colombia’s cancels a joint venture between state energy company and Occidental Petroleum South Florida’s wealthiest  communities elevating streets above flood water levels. The Greenland ice sheet  is cracking more rapidly The Aral Sea now forms the Aralkum desert. U.S. real estate market could a trillion doll...

Trump reversing progress steps to regulate toxic PFAS  Swiss Farmers suing their government for failing to act on climate change Researchers propose method making ammonia without emissions. 15-year-old from N C  designs a home that withstands category-four hurricane-force winds China broke its own records for renewable energy installation in 2024,  Wind and Solar Generated More US Energy Than Coal...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress Six largest banks in the U .S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System  Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization   Spain's flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields,  Las Veg...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress Six largest banks in the U .S. leave Net Zero Banking Alliance U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System  Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization Spain s flooding in October severely impacted the natorangeion's crop yields,  Las Vegas...

-The latest on the LA fires, -Climate change fueled LA fires intensity - FIREAID an “evening of music and solidarity

California has no blackouts when wind, water and solar electricity exceeded 100% of demand  Montana Supreme Court upholds a landmark victory for youth climate activists Portugal  is now home to Europe's largest Marine Protected Area network China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates its own energy. The UK to stop producing electricity from burning coal - ending its 142...

In 2024 Earth sent clear signals that its climate is warming and tipping into unknown territory Climate change is making Earth wobble and spin more slowly Earth consistently surpassed 1.5 C of warming. Global carbon emissions reached all-time highs.  Atlantic Ocean currents known as  the  (AMOC), could collapse   Cuts in emissions from shipping have accidentally accelerated global warming  Oklahom...

Montana Supreme Court gives youth activists climate victory Pacific Northwest and Northern California hit by  atmospheric rivers , E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning Cutting-edge onshore wave energy technology comes to the United States The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a is on the move New research shows unprecedented human-caused warming

Ice free Arctic could occur as early as the summer of 2027. Climate blamed catastrophic rainfall and droughts in Mediterranean area microplastics might be affecting planet's weather and climate.  Enacting 4 policies could eliminate 91 percent of world’s plastic waste   Southeast Louisiana is losing 100 yards of land every 100 minutes Europe’s native oyster reefs have collapsed Texas faces rising s...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance. Animal populations are dwindling at an alarming rate. Lower Basin states California, Nevada and Arizona to slash  Colorado River water use   Extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans. Pesticides aren't always necessary. H uman activity is behind a decline in soil quality  

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates  energy. COP29 is now over with modest deal  COP29 makes international carbon market a reality Brazilian cattle industry contributing to illegal deforestation of Amazon. Wildfires  burned across the Northeast, due to unseasonably warm and dry weather.  Washington State, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in U...

-Delhi’ India’s  air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily -Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland with flooding, downed trees and power outages nationwide. -U S Northwest battered by storms -Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop. -Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield -10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea -...

-Costa del Sol region of Spain gets extreme rain and flooding -Chinese city sets record for consecutive summer days -House lawmaker Lee Zeldin of New York to run the EPA -Exxon Mobil, cautions President-elect not to leave Paris Agreement -Saudi Arabia's sun-baked deserts get first snow -African small-scale fisheries declining -Salmon are once more returning to spawn in Oregon  creeks -No sign the...

-This past October was the driest on record in New Jersey & Connecticut  -10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004 caused by the burning fossil Fuels -The world headed for a destructive 3 degrees Celsius of warming - Florida homeowners are selling their flood-damaged properties using words like "as is, -Multiple bodies of water" in Long Island have seen algae blooms forming -Tornado warnings...

- Valencia, Spain faced unprecedented flooding and deaths -Cyclone pounds Chinese province of Hainan with flooding -Fed’s give 3 Billion for infrastructure  and reduce diesel air pollution. -Atlantic cod quickly eat over 10 million capelin fish at one time -Calif. Republicans want delay in carbon reduction policies   -137 organizations that are actively involved in promoting climate disinformation

UN says To end the climate crisis means it is “crunch time for real” California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic Once thought extinct in the Atlantic Ocean Gray whale makes comeback Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale Clean energy jobs grew more than twice the rate of the overall economy  Homeowners happy with rooftop solar

-Torrential rain lashed the south of France last week, causing severe flooding - Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time -Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60% -Nature is disappearing repoetedfrom the Living Planet Report 2024 -PestiSCAND device checks for pesticide residues on produce at home -New  self-regulating water desalination...

Hurricane Milton destroys up to 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost “2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble Pesticides aren't always necessary United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane   Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered. India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs 12% of Rep’s, and 59%...

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal -90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded -Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems -24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies:  -Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change -Home insurance companies pulling   out of risky states. -Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

-Hurricane Helene Devastation -Vienna reduced impact of flooding caused by Storm Boris -Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border  -Germany embraces "balkonkraftwerk", or balcony solar -Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative was launched- -How much warmer is the Earth going to get?

-Record 2024 Central European floods -Multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal  -North Carolina saw historic rainfall -Vast areas of the Brazil on fire -Atlantic hurricane season poses increased risks -California’s closes plastic bag waste loophole -In Norway electric vehicles surpass gas automobiles -Gen Z & millennial workers back sustainability priorities

-Typhoon Yagi most powerful typhoon to hit Asia this year. -Severe drought in Cuba -Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average -The lead ammunition poisonous to scavenging animals -Critical shortfall in pollination affecting world’s food crops, -EPA gives $4B in funding for clean energy projects -EV sales have not fallen, cooled, or slowed  -New solar-charging Truck bed Power System

 -A surge in giant sinkholes in Turkey. -Alaskan  land would be protected from mining interests -Missouri to ban most exports of water from the state. -Drones used to fire "seed missiles" to grow trees -Replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen and electricity not enough -U.S. voters support legal action against plastics/fossil fuels    -McDonald’s is set to reduce plastic waste

-Weedkiller Dacthal serious health risks to unborn babies, banned. -Record-setting heat wave in the west -221 thousand pounds  of dead fish in Greek port -Worst droughts sweeping across southern Africa -Multimillion-dollar estates sliding into Pacific Ocean -Legos, changing its plastics formula to be environmentally friendly.

- The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a record speed  -The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change -F armer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects -Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom -New solar utility-scale operations are largest source electricity -E lectric car sales growing fastest  -Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy