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The Coronavirus Crisis

COVID-19 Could Hit Hardest in Places With the Most Air Pollution
Studies have shown how lungs are more susceptible to pollution, and that people in polluted areas are more susceptible to respiratory infections.

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Even as COVID-19 Poses Huge Challenges to Responders, the Risks for Natural Disasters Are Rising
An increased risk of natural disasters is the last thing we need in the age of COVID-19. But as we move into spring and summer, that's the unfortunate forecast.

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Inside One Company’s Quest to Develop a COVID-19 Antibody Treatment: A Q&A with Regeneron’s George Yancopoulos
While teams race to develop a vaccine, Regeneron’s treatment would use antibodies to give patients short-term immunity.

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• American Climate Video: When a School Gym Becomes a Relief Center

• The Baller

American Climate Video: When a School Gym Becomes a Relief Center
After the Midwest floods, a 6th-grader found his calling helping neighbors with clothes, toys and household supplies.
BY KATELYN WEISBROD

The seventh of 21 stories from the American Climate Project, an InsideClimate News documentary series by videographer Anna Belle Peevey and reporter Neela Banerjee.

SEE ALSO:
Floods and Climate Change
The Common Language of Loss
American Climate: In Iowa, After the Missouri River Flooded, a Paradise Lost
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The Baller
Can attitude help save the planet? A frightened climate reporter meets an ex-basketball player with a serious game plan.
BY AUDREY GRAY

This article first appeared in The Delacorte Review, a journal devoted to narrative nonfiction that is published three times a year in cooperation with the Columbia Journalism School and The Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism. It is reprinted here with permission.

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— William Makepeace Thackeray

Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry

10 Evidence-Based Benefits of Green Tea

India’s Air Pollution Plummets in COVID-19 Lockdown

Here’s How to Clean Your Groceries During the COVID-19 Outbreak

9 Ways to Boost Your Body's Natural Defenses

Record Ozone Hole Forms Over Arctic

Category 5 Cyclone Harold Slams Vanuatu

 

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COVID-19 could make this year’s wildfire season more dangerous

Firefighting and pandemics don’t mix.

 

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putting many things on hold i imagine
quite incredible considering none of us expected that say 6 months ago huh


Coronavirus puts Arctic climate change research on ice
Coronavirus lockdowns have been touted on social media as helping to fight climate change. But in the Arctic Circle the virus is disrupting climate science. It could leave important gaps in our understanding.

Every year 150 climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland's largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The EastGRIP project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into the ocean, and how this contributes to rising sea levels. But this year the drills will be silent. The ice streams will go unmeasured.

The reason is the coronavirus. The fallout from measures to contain the outbreak have made the research impossible. Greenland is closed to foreigners. Its government is worried any outbreak could be particularly dangerous to its indigenous population and rapidly overwhelm its health services.

Even if the country were open, it just isn't practical to bring an international team of scientists together, 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away from the nearest airport, in case one of them is sick. The transport planes that normally fly in the teams and resupply them have also been grounded. Nobody wants to be responsible for bringing small, isolated communities into contact with the virus.

Read more: Rapid Greenland ice loss to amplify sea level rise

Fallen silent: EastGRIP's drills will not manage the final 500 meters to the bedrock

Going without results

The scientists are missing out on a lot. They were hoping to complete the 2,660-meter (8,727-feet) hole they have been drilling for the past five years, and finally access the ice streams they've been hunting for.

"We were actually hoping to reach the bedrock this year, which is super exciting, as we are down where the ice stream flow really is important," explains Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor of Ice, Climate and Earth at the University of Copenhagen and chairperson for EastGRIP's steering committee.

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (r.) with former Danish Research Minister Tommy Ahler

"How does this ice actually flow? That really is what we have been waiting for for five years, what was going to happen this year. All of that has now been put back. We will have to live without the results."

Damaged equipment

 

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not often ozone mentioned these days

Ozone hole three times the size of Greenland opens over the North Pole


By Brandon Specktor 9 hours ago

Ozone holes open over the South Pole every year. Holes at the North Pole are much, much rarer.

A satellite image shows the new ozone hole spreading over the North Pole.
(Image: © European Space Agency)
Scientists have detected what may be the largest hole in the ozone layer ever recorded over the North Pole.

The ozone hole covers an area roughly three times the size of Greenland, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement, and could expose people living at far northern latitudes to high levels of ultraviolet radiation if it grows much larger. Fortunately, the hole looks likely to close on its own in the next few weeks, the ESA researchers said.


Holes form in the ozone layer — which is a sheet of gas in Ea

 

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DESMOG often interesting factual articles


Pipeline Progress in a Pandemi

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
— By Sharon Kelly (12 min. read) —
Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to double the amount of oil that flows through the state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 million barrels a day. The utilities board, which also announced it had waived a hearing on the matter, made its move over the objections of environmental organizations and other civic groups opposed to DAPL operator Energy Transfer’s expansion plans.

Iowa’s approval landed just two days after a federal judge in North Dakota found that the project must undergo a full environmental review in a March 25 order, throwing the pipeline’s legal status into question.


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COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
— By Julie Dermansky (10 min. read) —
Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ago. They have wondered what effect the industrial pollution might have on them and their son and daughter — even more so now with the COVID-19 pandemic — but with no money to pick up and relocate, they have remained in their home.

Their worries escalated early in the morning on January 21, when a pipe transporting oil field wastewater at a WPX Energy production site exploded, dousing the family, their home, and land.


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Trump Admin Bypasses Congress, Offers Backup Storage to Boost Troubled Oil Industry
— By Dana Drugmand (10 min. read) —
After Congress declined to allocate $3 billion of the recent economic stimulus package to fill the government’s emergency stockpile of oil, the Trump administration has taken its own steps to provide short-term relief to the U.S. petroleum sector.

The Department of Energy announced last week it would be making arrangements to immediately store 30 million barrels of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), a backup reserve created in the 1970s as a buffer against oil supply disruptions. Now, instead of supply shortages, oil markets are facing what consulting firm Rystad Energy is calling “one of the biggest oil supply gluts the world has ever seen.”


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Workers and Climate Must Be Priority in Aviation Industry Bailouts, Campaigners Say
— By Jocelyn Timperley (5 min. read) —
Any public money used to bailout airlines must ensure that workers and the climate are put first, says an open letter backed by over 250 organisations in 25 countries.

The campaign, launched yesterday by the Stay Grounded network, is urging governments to avoid rushing into bailouts which lack social and environmental conditions or proper protection for workers.


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Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
— By Justin Mikulka (7 min. read) —
There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activism is currently on hold during the pandemic, impacts on oil prices abound.

The latest numbers show that U.S. oil-by-rail volumes are down 11 percent versus where they were a year ago, which is likely just the beginning of the decline in volumes.


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For Trump’s EPA, Back to Normal Means More Pollution
— By Judith Lewis Mernit, Capital & Main (6 min. read) —
If you, like me, tote an albuterol inhaler throughout your city’s smoggy summers and inversioned winters, you might have noticed an ironic, upbeat side effect of the nation’s mass grounding: It’s noticeably easier to breathe. It’s also easier, in this time when many of us have nowhere to go, to get to places. Traffic maps of typically congested U.S. cities show ribbons of green from one sunrise to the next: Rush hours have evaporated; sig alerts — a regular feature for California commuters — are suddenly rare.


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From the Climate Disinformation Database: Fred Singer

S. Fred Singer was a former space scientist and government scientific administrator who founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project, a nonprofit “educational group” focusing on global warming denial. According to leaked documents, in 2012 Singer had been receiving $5,000 a month from the climate science denial group the Heartland Institute. With the help of Craig Idso, Singer helped develop the Heartland Institute's “Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),” an initiative that mirrors the name and look of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body of thousands of climate scientists who assemble comprehensive assessments on climate change. Singer recently passed away at 95.

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Today's Climate
04/13/2020

Methane Levels Reach an All-Time High

A preliminary estimate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that levels of atmospheric methane, a gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat, have hit an all-time high this year. The findings pose a major challenge to international climate goals.

(Scientific American)

Easter Storms Sweep South, Killing At Least 19 People

Tornadoes and heavy rain swept across the South late Sunday through early Monday, killing at least 19 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Eleven people were killed in Mississippi, and six more died in northwest Georgia. Two other bodies were pulled from damaged homes in Arkansas and South Carolina.

(Associated Press)

Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis

For the third time in five years, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has seen widespread bleaching from overheated waters, confirming for many scientists that the world's reefs are in big trouble. "Coral reefs are probably going to be the first globally distributed ecosystem wiped off the face of the Earth by humans," said one coral reef ecologist.

(InsideClimate News)

American Climate Video: When a School Gym Becomes a Relief Center

Instead of shooting hoops in their school gym, the children in Hamburg, Iowa, were forced to play outside while the gymnasium was used as a donation center for flood victims in the aftermath of the 2019 Midwestern floods. "It happened really fast," sixth grader Gabe Richardson recalled.

(InsideClimate News)

Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production

Oil-producing nations on Sunday agreed to the largest production cut ever negotiated, in an unprecedented coordinated effort by Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States to stabilize oil prices and, indirectly, global financial markets. It's unclear, however, whether the cuts would be enough to bolster prices.

(The New York Times)

Basketball Player Turned Architect Has Ambitious Plan to Reduce Emissions from Buildings

Ed Mazria saw the climate crisis the way architects see problems, as something they can simply identify, study and design around. So, on a dreary day in Chicago in 2019, the ex-basketball player gathered the greatest minds in architecture together to make an ambitious plea: Commit to drastic, immediate reductions in the carbon emissions from new buildings and renovations.

(InsideClimate News)

Trump Administration Says No Widespread Royalty Cuts for Public Lands Drilling

The Interior Department confirmed to the House on Friday that it does not plan to issue widespread royalty cuts for companies that drill for oil and gas on public lands and waters, instead continuing to use "long-standing regulatory tools" like allowing companies to apply for royalty relief on a case-by-case basis, The Hill reports.

(The Hill)

S. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95

Derided by climate scientists as a "Merchant of Doubt," S. Fred Singer spent decades trying to refute the evidence of global warming and other environmental risks. The University of Maryland physicist died on April 6 at a nursing facility at the age of 95, The New York Times reports.

(The New York Times)

 

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How to help your neighbors when a pandemic hits? Exhibit A: Museums.

"All of this pain and suffering will force us all to ask very difficult questions about who we are."

Locusts and coronavirus: A Biblical nightmare strikes the horn of Africa

Locust swarms are multiplying in eastern Africa as farmers plant their next harvest and the coronavirus threat grows.

Turns out, traffic spreads like the coronavirus

Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.

‘The Super Bowl of birding’

Spring springs eternal, even during the time of COVID-19.

Shifting gears: The climate protest movement in the age of coronavirus

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future, the youth climate campaign, was seeing numbers of protesters decline. Now, the movement is recalibrating its strategies.

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What storytelling means in times of crisis

Crises test our character, and what drives my reporting is the desire to understand how humans survive these tests.

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Monday, April 13, 2020

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Now No. 1 in World

Europe's Hot Summer Weather Could Worsen the Effects of COVID-19

Arctic Warming Endangers Ringed Seals

"They're Crooks": Coal Industry Aims to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis to Cut Payments to Miners With Black Lung

Delicate Flowers Have Remarkable Ability to Recover From Injury, Scientists Find

 

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AJs take on CV and Animals
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Hospital Visits Declined After Sulfur Dioxide Reductions from Louisville-Area Coal Plants

At a time when the EPA has been attacking the science used to establish federal air pollution regulations, a new study shows how reducing air pollution can achieve speedy and tangible health benefits. Just a year after closing a coal power plant and installing new pollution controls on two others, Louisville, Kentucky, saw 400 fewer hospitalizations related to asthma, the study found.

(InsideClimate News)

Nation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increased in 2018, EPA Says

After four years of continuous decline, the nation's greenhouse gas emissions increased by about 3 percent in 2018, according to a new report from the EPA. The agency attributed the increase to greater fossil fuel use tied to heating and cooling during a colder winter and hotter summer than in 2017.

(The Hill)

Climate Change Turns the Tide on Waterfront Living

Waterfront cities like Norfolk, Virginia, are beginning to plan what they call a managed retreat from the coastline as rising seas make certain areas too expensive to live in, The Washington Post reports. One neighborhood along the Lafayette River is predicted to see flooding twice daily as high tides swell the river's water beyond its banks.

(The Washington Post)

Amazon Fires Two Climate Organizers Who Criticized Warehouse Conditions

Amazon has fired two employees known publicly for criticizing the company's environmental policies, and who had expressed support for workers protesting warehouse conditions they said put them at risk of catching Covid-19, The Hill reports. A spokesperson for the online retailer said the employees had been fired "for repeatedly violating internal policies."

(The Hill)

How Covid-19 Could Ruin Weather Forecasts and Climate Records

As the coronavirus, and the global response to it, continues to sideline research, many climate and ecological monitoring projects will soon contain gaps in their data—some for the first time in 40 years, the journal Nature reports. The gaps could prove to be a major loss for climate research and weather forecasting.

(Nature)

‘Hole in the Data’: Coronavirus Fight Puts Minnesota’s Environmental Fieldwork on Hold

Covid-19 has hobbled field research at a critical time for species facing endangerment and extinction, the Star Tribune reports. Monarch butterflies, gray wolves and redheaded woodpeckers, to name a few, will go largely unmonitored this spring as researchers shelter in place, leaving a hole in vital, long-term conservation data.

(Star Tribune)

A U.S. Tribe’s Uphill Battle Against Climate Change

From rising sea levels flooding villages to vital populations of salmon disappearing, Fawn Sharp has seen her tribe on the coastline of Washington state—the Quinault Indian Nation—lurch from crisis to crisis. Now she's planning to move the tribe to higher ground, restore the fishery, and diversify its economy.

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Governor Ralph Northam approved the Virginia Clean Economy Act on Sunday, making the state the first in the South to set a 100 percent clean energy standard.



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Amid pandemic, wildfires close in on abandoned Chernobyl nuclear site

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How to help your neighbors when a pandemic hits? Exhibit A: Museums.

"All of this pain and suffering will force us all to ask very difficult questions about who we are."

 

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It's not all sunshine and happy chickens

“We will disappear as an industry”: Texas considers a last-ditch effort to save oil producers

At a hearing on Tuesday, Texas formally considered statewide cuts in oil production for the first time since the 1970s.

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Saturday, April 18, 2020

China Revises Coronavirus Death Toll in Wuhan up 50%

Southwest Drought Could Be Worst in 1,200 Years, Due to the Climate Crisis

Fed's Corporate Debt-Buying Could Mean Billion-Dollar Big Oil Bailout

Addressing the Climate Crisis Strengthens Economies, New Research Finds

Sea Shepherd Suspends Efforts to Protect Endangered Vaquitas Due to Coronavirus

 

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From New York to Saipan, one family weathers coronavirus

It was bad enough when Super Typhoon Yutu struck my childhood home of Saipan. Now the coronavirus is reviving that trauma.

What Do You Trust? Climate, Science, and COVID-19 Uncertainty

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Oakland opened up 74 miles of city streets to pedestrians and cyclists

Oakland’s “slow streets” initiative sets aside up to 10 percent of the city’s streets for recreation.

Coronavirus has wiped out 106,000 clean energy jobs so far. Can the US get them back?

Half a million clean energy workers could lose their jobs by the end of June, according to a new analysis.

Meet five artists creating new responses to climate change

These artsy Fixers are bringing climate issues to museums and theaters around the country.

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Environmental groups sue EPA over ‘reckless’ response to coronavirus

"We will not let this outrageous order stand."

How can I avoid wasting food during coronavirus quarantine?

Eat your food, save the climate. Sort of.

 

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As cities and states begin to report who exactly is being hit hardest by the coronavirus, health experts are hearing a common refrain: The communities being most impacted by the virus are also the most vulnerable to climate change. Take a look at Port Arthur, Texas, a community predominantly populated by people of color that has been hit with hurricanes, carcinogenic chemicals and now coronavirus.

At a time when the EPA has been attacking the science used to establish federal air pollution regulations, a new study shows how cleaner air can achieve speedy and tangible health benefits. Just a year after closing a coal power plant and installing new pollution controls on two others, Louisville, Kentucky, saw 400 fewer hospitalizations related to asthma, the study found.

As spring approaches, natural disasters like floods, hurricanes and wildfires are on the horizon. The coronavirus outbreak complicates emergency preparedness, as first responders attempt to protect their own health while confronting both the pandemic and more intense weather events related to climate change.

Covid-19 and Climate Change Threats Compound in Minority Communities
BY: KRISTOFFER TIGUE
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For Emergency Personnel, Disaster Planning Must Now Factor in Covid-19
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Hospital Visits Declined After Sulfur Dioxide Reductions from Louisville-Area Coal Plants
BY: JAMES BRUGGERS
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As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy

Responding to intense pressure from investors and environmental activists, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, signaled in January that it would reduce investments in coal for energy generation. Other fossil fuel investments would come under scrutiny as well. “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote in […]
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How to prevent the next COVID-19? Conservationists weigh in

As the death toll and economic cost of the COVID-19 crisis mounts, calls are mounting to ban the trade in wild animals for human consumption, believed to have sparked the pandemic. It is born out of a pressing concern: How to prevent another pandemic like COVID-19? The novel coronavirus has infected more than 2 million […]
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Wireless grids and towers of power: Engineering our way out of dirty energy

Julian Hunt is tasked with scouring the Earth, its libraries, and his own mind to engineer a way to cleaner energy. At the multi-government-funded International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria, he has spent his third year of postdoctoral work diving into the ideas he had been exploring since earning his engineering science […]
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Decades-old mine in Bougainville exacts devastating human toll: Report

On satellite images, the Panguna mine yawns amid the otherwise green mountain forests of central Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, a silty river valley tracing a jagged path from the mine south and west to Empress Augusta Bay. For 17 years in the 1970s and 1980s, the mine was one of the world’s largest […]
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The world's energy order is changing — and China is set to reap the strategic benefits
Historians will look back on this period as an epoch in capitalism, when oil-producing nations were powerful because they were necessary to keep the whole engine running. But the global shift towards renewable energy will change all that, Gareth Hutchens writes.

Opinion: US and China have both shown they're not up to global leadership
If the current coronavirus crisis has taught taught Washington and Beijing anything, it's that even great powers can't lead if they're sick at home, write Ashley Townshend and Matilda Steward.

 

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