Are Biden and The Traitor at Odds on Global Energy Strategy? Maybe Not So Much.
2025-01-15
When it comes to gas exports and competition with China, the two administrations share a similar vision, the top U.S. energy diplomat says.Continue Reading
Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters
2025-01-15
Flaws in the state’s emergency response system were laid bare by Hurricane Beryl last July. Residents of places like Houston’s Fifth Ward had to fend for themselves as they were tormented by wind, water, power outages and chemical releases. By Jana Cholakovska, Public Health Watch This story was co-published inContinue Reading
Fossil Fuel Advocate Nigel Farage is Building a House in High Climate Risk Area
2025-01-15
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has called for climate policies to be scrapped, is building a new property in an area threatened by flooding due to global warming. Farage was given permission late last year to knock down a “tired” house in Greatstone, Kent, and replace it with aContinue Reading
Revealing Malta’s Cultural Heritage
2025-01-15
The IAEA is supporting experts from Heritage Malta in the use of x-ray technology to understand and preserve valuable ancient artefacts without damaging them. , Read MoreContinue Reading
Beach guardians: How hidden microbes protect coastal waters in a changing climate
2025-01-15
Beneath sandy beaches, microbes filter chemicals from groundwater and safeguard ocean health. A new study reveals that sneaker waves provide a lens to explore the impending impacts of sea level rise on beach hydrology, chemistry, and microbiology., Read MoreContinue Reading
What happens when wildland fire reaches the city?
2025-01-15
“Wildfire” is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the past week. But Lori Moore-Merrell, the U.S. Fire Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency used a different word, when she spoke to NPR this morning. She described a “conflagration.”Continue Reading
How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields
2025-01-15
Although Commercial Development Co. and its affiliates have pledged to revive the former industrial sites they purchase, residents are often stuck looking at undeveloped acreage for years. By Daniel Propp This reporting was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.Continue Reading
Pierre Poilievre Met With Denier-Backed UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch
2025-01-14
Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasn’t articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like “axe the tax” and “spike the hike.” With the governing Liberal party in disarray and Conservatives leading the polls by almost 25 percent, Canadians need to know how Poilievre would lead ratherContinue Reading
Tory Net Zero Chief Calls for Climate Deniers to Vet UK Energy Policies
2025-01-14
Shadow Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho has publicly urged the government to invite climate crisis deniers to scrutinise its policies. In a post on X.com on 12 January, the Conservative Party’s energy and net zero lead urged Labour to “bring in” a group of well-known opponents of climate action toContinue Reading
Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease
2025-01-14
Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by asContinue Reading
Los Angeles Fires Are Exacerbating the City’s Housing Crisis
2025-01-14
Landlords and real estate agencies are jacking up the rent on houses as demand outstrips supply in fire-torn LA. By Kiley Price As the Los Angeles area fires rage on, tens of thousands of people are left displaced. Those who lost homes to the flames are scrambling to find newContinue Reading
California Withdraws Some Requests for Tighter Climate Rules
2025-01-14
State regulators said the measures would probably have been rejected by the The Traitor administration and that they would focus on homegrown legal strategies instead.Continue Reading
The California FAIR Plan Faces Crucial Insurance Test
2025-01-14
The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, had just $377 million available last week to pay claims that could reach billions, officials said.Continue Reading