This summer’s worldwide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. As will be the next few years, according to a new study. Using a new method, the study shows that at the global level, 2018-2022 may be an even hotter period than expected based on current global warming.
Source: CNRS Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180815105319.htm
The federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past several decades, even as U.S. manufacturers increased production, a study by two University of California, Berkeley, economists has shown.
Full article at Environmental News Network
The Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California is now the largest in state history, scorching 283,800 acres, Cal Fire reported Monday.
The 11-day-old blaze in mainly mountainous terrain near Clear Lake topped the Thomas Fire, which was the state’s largest for about eight months after burning through 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in December 2017 and January 2018.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article216163950.html#storylink=cpy
Kelvin Droegemeier is vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma and a climate change scientist. His selection was widely welcomed.
BY MARIANNE LAVELLE
From Inside Climate News
Former energy lobbyist Andrew Wheeler said he will continue the deregulatory course set by Scott Pruitt, without the scandals that plagued his predecessor.
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN
From Inside Climate News
Global Witness today reveals that at least 207 land and environmental defenders were killed last year – indigenous leaders, community activists and environmentalists murdered trying to protect their homes and communities from mining, agribusiness and other destructive industries
The dense network of cables that make up the Internet is likely to be inundated with saltwater as sea levels rise, a new analysis suggests, putting thousands of miles of critical infrastructure along U.S. coastlines underwater in the next 15 years.
From NPR:
What must it be like to live in the Siberian town of Norilsk on a “bad air day”?
They say the local smelting industry produces 1% of all the sulphur dioxide (SO₂) going into the air globally, something close to two million tonnes a year.
SO₂ is particularly unpleasant if breathed in; but it also washes out of the sky as “acid rain”, damaging plant-life and denuding the quality of water in streams and rivers.
The extent of Norilsk’s pollution problem is captured in remarkable new maps from Europe’s Sentinel-5P satellite.
From BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44705268
Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre
The Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, contributes to a growing body of evidence showing the need for ramped up climate action to limit global warming.
From Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705114129.htm
