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GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Hurricane Milton destroys 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost
-“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency
-Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble
-Pesticides aren't always necessary
-United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane 
-Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered.
-India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs
-12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say  must address climate change

GaiaGram #230 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Torrential rain in south of France last week, caused severe flooding
-Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time
-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60%
-Nature is disappearing reports the Living Planet Report 2024
-PestiSCAND device checks for pesticide residues on produce at home
-New self-regulating water desalination system runs on solar power

GaiaGram #231 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-UN ...To end the climate crisis means it is “crunch time for real”
-California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic
-Once thought extinct the Atlantic Gray whale makes comeback
-Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale
-Clean energy jobs grew more  twice the rate of the overall economy

GaiaGram #232 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Cyclone pounds Chinese province of Hainan with flooding
-Fed’s give 3 Billion for infrastructure  and reduce diesel air 
  pollution.
-Atlantic cod quickly eat over 10 million capelin fish at one time
-Calif. Republicans want delay in carbon reduction policies
-137 organizations that are actively involved in promoting climate 
   disinformation

GaiaGram #233 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Delhi’ India’s  air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily
-Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland, flooding, downed trees, power outages nationwide.
-U S Northwest battered by storms
-Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop.
-Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield
-10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea
-Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, works against climate agreement

GaiaGram #236 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

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GaiaGram #232 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

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