Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since the earliest days of the current pandemic, Italy has been the scary member of the family that you absolutely don’t want to emulate, the one cousin that gets into really bad trouble. The Italians have the highest rate of deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus, and their numbers continue to…
LONDON — For European governments battling to brace economies pummeled by the coronavirus, there might be no better time to go green. Read More
über As Europe fights coronavirus and climate, is ‘green stimulus’ the way? — Financial Post
The question faced by our elected officials, starting with the President and the nation’s fifty governors, is how much longer can they shut down the economy to fight this insidious virus, and is it prudent to continue? The post America faces a COVID-19/Economic crossroads appeared first on CFACT.
(Bloomberg) — Senators are negotiating the final sticking points in a roughly $2 trillion stimulus bill to help the U.S. economy get through the coronavirus pandemic. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Democrats for blocking two procedural votes that pushed back the timeline for passing the relief package. Read More
über Democrats Seek Clean Energy Link to Oil Reserve: Congress Update — Financial Post
Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors https://ift.tt/2wk8v3a University of Colorado at Boulder Sea ice at the North Pole in 2015. Credit: Christopher Michel The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising the risk of more widely transporting pollutants like microplastics and oil, according to new […]
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NASA Flights Detect Millions of Arctic Methane Hotspots https://ift.tt/2VijHrl Feature | February 18, 2020 The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News Team The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on the planet. As temperatures […]
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming, the diversity of sources on the ground, and the behavior of the gas as it moves through the atmosphere. 16 weitere Wörter
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