Starbucks Revives Reusable Cup Use After Pandemic Pause
Starbucks on Tuesday announced that customers can start using reusable cups again at their company-owned cafes after it paused the program due to Covid-19.
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George P. Bush Announces Run for Texas Attorney General
George P. Bush has announced his plans to run for Texas Attorney General against current AG Ken Paxton.
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Study: California Fire Killed 10% of World's Redwood Trees
At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.
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Forecast: 40% Chance Earth Soon Surpasses Paris Accord's Temperature Limit
A new world weather agency forecast says it’ll likely be so hot in the next five years that there’s a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.
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NOAA Predicting ‘Above-Normal' 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an “above-normal” 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13-20 named storms expected. Of those named storms, six to ten are expected to be hurricanes and three to five could be major hurricanes, according to acting NOAA administrator Ben Friedman, who delivered the outlook ... -
Feds Approve Country's First Major Offshore Wind Farm in Mass.
An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes, was approved by the federal government. The Vineyard Wind project, south of Martha’s Vineyard near Cape Cod, would be the first utility-scale wind power development in federal waters. The $2 billion project was approved Tu... -
Giant Sequoia Found Still Smoldering From 2020 California Wildfire
A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year.
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Hundreds of Thousands in South Florida Threatened as Sea Level Rises
NBC 6 Investigators reviewed data from the U.S. Census and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and found 416,536 people in 196,981 homes in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties are in jeopardy when the sea level rises two feet.
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Senate Votes to Restore Obama-Era Regulation of Methane, a Climate-Warming Gas
The Senate vote on methane is the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration.
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Epicurious Is No Longer Publishing Beef Recipes for More ‘Sustainable Cooking'
In an effort to help their audience of at-home cooks be more environmentally friendly, digital magazine Epicurious will no longer share recipes made with beef.
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Summit Catapults World Ahead in Crucial Year to Curb Warming
America’s climate summit propelled the world forward on a path toward limiting the worst of global warming
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Tiny Smoke Particles Could Make Wildfires Particularly Harmful to Human Health
A growing body of work illustrates how wildfire seasons made worse by climate change threaten not just immediate destruction but also long-term health
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‘We're Gonna Do This': Biden Closes Global Summit on Climate
World leaders have joined President Joe Biden in closing his virtual climate summit. They shared stories Friday of their own drives to break free of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The summit showcased Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene lamps to geothermal power and Israeli start-ups scrambling to improve battery storage.
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Mexico's Drought Reaches Critical Levels as Lakes Dry Up
Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico
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Biden to Restore California's Power to Set Pollution Rules
The Transportation Department is moving to reverse former President Donald Trump’s bid to end California’s ability to set its own auto pollution standards.
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Biden Taps Montana Environmentalist for US Public Lands Boss
A longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide has been nominated by President Joe Biden to oversee roughly a quarter-billion acres of federally owned land in Western states.
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World Leaders Pledge Climate Cooperation Despite Other Rifts
China and Russia have joined the United States in pledging climate cooperation at a global summit led by President Joe Biden. The U.S. convened Thursday’s summit, which is being held virtually by livestream because of the pandemic, with an ambitious pledge to cut by at least one-half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that America ... -
Biden Pushes for Momentum as US Returns to Climate Fight
President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a two-day summit aimed at rallying the world’s worst polluters to do more to slow climate change
