Paul Rauber
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ICYMI: Baby Orca, Putin-Free Energy & Mystery Lumps
A new calf is born to the K-pod of orcas, now traveling off the coast of Oregon, the first in 11 years. Denmark is planning two enormous new wind projects—one on an artificial island in the North Sea—as it seeks to become “free of Russian fossil fuels.” In the Netherlands, surging output from wind and solar facilities plus a nuclear power plant coming back online send the price of energy below… → Read More
ICYMI: Cheeto-Loving Javelina, Smudge-Stick Plague & Ban on Gas-Powered Cars in California?
Trying to get at a bag of Cheetos, an Arizona javelina locks itself in a Subaru station wagon. If all the parties to the Glasgow Climate Pact keep their net-zero pledges, peak global warming can be kept below the 2°C mark. Staying below 1.5° would take much steeper emission declines this decade. In an effort to reduce the soaring price of gasoline, President Joe Biden signs an emergency waiver… → Read More
ICYMI: It’s Raining Fish, Carbon Emissions Are Back Up & Mongoose Are on the Loose
Despite torrential rain and snowstorms that raise California’s snowpack to 150 percent of average, the state adopts tough new drought regulations that ban hosing down drives and sidewalks, washing cars without a shut-off nozzle on the hose, and watering lawns and gardens too soon after a rain. Global carbon emissions, which dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020, rebounded to near pre-pandemic… → Read More
ICYMI: Tireless Elk, Tuskless Elephants, Muskless California
Colorado wildlife officers remove the car tire an elk had around its neck for two years The Biden administration drops its ambitious, $150 billion clean energy program because of opposition from West Virginia senator Joe Manchin. Between July and October 2021, Manchin received more than $400,000 in donations from fossil fuel companies. The EIA says that coal-generated power will increase by 22… → Read More
ICYMI: Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers Extinct, Bumblebees Not So Good Either & No More Swimming With Dolphins
The US Fish and Wildlife Service officially declares the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, as well as the Bachman’s warbler and 21 other species. The Biden administration restores protections for migratory birds weakened under Trump. Long before chickens were domesticated, people in New Guinea 18,000 years ago attempted to raise cassowaries, “the world’s deadliest bird.” American bumblebee… → Read More
ICYMI: Keystone Canceled, New CO₂ Record, Trippy Desert Toads
President Biden suspends oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were granted in the last days of the Trump administration and reverses Trump’s efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa observatory hits 419 parts per million, a new record. The 2020 Castle Fire in California’s Southern Sierra killed up to 14… → Read More
ICYMI: First Music, Polar Bear Scramble & Sharks in the Pool
The first musical note to have sounded on Earth was an E natural. Gorillas beat their chests not to bluff but to indicate how big they are. Researchers find rat poison in the blood of 82 percent of 133 bald and golden eagles they tested. Idaho Republicans push a bill to more than double the registration fees for electric vehicles, to $300. A new Gallup poll finds that only one-third of… → Read More
ICYMI: Mask Deniers, Mandatory Meat, Gorilla Guardians & More
People who don't wear masks or practice social distancing to protect themselves from COVID-19 are also less likely to believe in climate change. Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls the social distancing measures in California, where he has a large factory, "fascist." US deaths from COVID-19 surpass 60,000, more than all US casualties in Vietnam. More than 1 million Americans have been infected. Worldwide… → Read More
Trump's Interior Department Doesn’t Care What You Think
In major cases, Interior rolls back environmental protections despite opposition → Read More
ICYMI: Farmer Trump, the Amazon Burns, Vomiting Vultures & More
President Donald Trump keeps eight goats at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club so he can call it a farm and pay taxes of $6 an acre instead of $462. Workers at a Shell petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania have to choose between attending a Trump speech there or not being paid. The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate. Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, suggests without… → Read More
ICYMI: Tardigrades Rule Moon, Hottest July Ever, Missing Orcas—and Boys
When the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed on April 11, 2019, it carried a box containing thousands of tardigrades—microscopic but incredibly tough creatures that may now be alive on the moon. The average temperature in Alaska in July, 2019, is 5.4ºF. above average and 0.8º warmer than the previous record high from 2004. One quarter of the world’s population lives in regions facing high… → Read More
ICYMI: Uranium Mystery, Greenland Burns & Penguins Love Sushi (Duh)
Police in Guthrie, Oklahoma, have “quite a few unanswered questions” after a traffic stop of a stolen car reveals an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey, a timber rattlesnake, and a canister of uranium. President Trump’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommends that it perform fewer inspections at US nuclear facilities, a move promoted by the nuclear industry. Berkeley, California, bans gas… → Read More
Radical Cycle Storage: Don't Lock It
What’s stronger than kryptonite? Trust. → Read More
What's Killing the Whales?
Gray whales are washing up on West Coast beaches. Most of them starved to death. → Read More
ICYMI: Rights for Lake Erie, Killer Balloons, Kidnapped Otters & More
The people of Toledo, Ohio, vote to grant Lake Erie—the drinking water source for 11 million people—the right to a healthy life. Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, cuts down a dozen mature trees and dumps them in the Potomac River, creating a hazard for kayakers and other boaters—for which Loudon County fines the club $600. The US Fish and Wildlife Service wants to remove… → Read More
ICYMI: Osprey vs. Eagle, Climate Amnesia & Pooh’s Forest Burns
A tussle over a dead fish between an osprey and a bald eagle interrupts a college baseball game in Jacksonville, Florida. The Senate confirms former coal-industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the EPA. Security footage supports an AP reporter’s claim that she was shoved out of the EPA lobby by a guard while attempting to cover a meeting on drinking-water contaminants. President… → Read More
ICYMI: Lunar Cotton, Wayward Polar Bear, Big-Ass Shark & More
Cotton seeds sprout aboard China’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander, becoming the first plants to germinate on the moon. Wildfires now burn so intensely that they create their own thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Clearing all the trees that could fall on power lines and spark deadly wildfires, says California utility Pacific Gas & Electric, could cost $150 billion. Following a year in… → Read More
ICYMI: Bulldozing Butterflies & More
Bulldozers will clear a large swath of the National Butterfly Center in Texas for construction of a portion of President Trump’s border wall. Thirty-two “cold-stunned” Kemp’s ridley sea turtles rescued from their hypothermic state off Cape Cod are flown to the Florida Keys to warm up. The Trump administration proposes to severely limit which “waters of the US” are covered by the Clean Water Act.… → Read More
Charlotte City Council prepares to tackle climate crisis
We’ve seen two terrifying reports recently about how climate change is destroying the air, water and land we all need to live, and that the window for us to fight it is closing fast. → Read More
Exposed: Right-Wing Activist Tries to Infiltrate Sierra Club
Volunteer for Angeles Chapter linked to James O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” → Read More