The latest environmental news on planet earth

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Hurricane Beryl Hits Mexico headed to U.S.
-Scorching temperature fry U.S. west
-52% rise in days when temperature is 95 degrees
-Temps are below zero overnight in many places in Australia
-63 coastal communities in Panama to relocate
-Native American tribe removes of 2 ecosystem-disrupting dams. 
-The EU has passed a law to restore 1/5th of its land and sea  
-13 young Hawaiian plaintiffs groundbreaking settlement

GaiaGram # 215  Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Over a million homes and businesses remained without power in Texas 
-California ties or breaks heat records this week 
- heatwave is forecast to continue across Europe 
-Melting of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated
-Bridgeport’s Seaside Beach closed due to bacteria levels 
-Shell documents point to company knowledge of Climate change
-UK’s new Labour Government increasing solar power deployment.

GaiaGram #216 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-June 2024 was the warmest June since 1850.
-Climate change drought affecting worlds crops negatively 
-Seven out off ten people want to switch to clean energy
-Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuel companies
-EPA is weighing controversial geoengineering ocean experiment
-Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative to plant 100 million Mangrove trees

GaiaGram # 217 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Earth has warmest two days on record globally since   1940,
-US will miss emission reduction goals
-Twenty-five states ask Supreme Court to stay coal pollution rules
 -South Africa enacts Climate Change Bill
 -Key Largo tree cactus goes extinct in US
 -Atlantic sturgeon back in Swedish Rivers due to conservation
-Federal government to phase out plastics

GaiaGram #218 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Tropical storm Debby
-Philippines capital flooded from Typhoon
-Dragonflies swarm beachgoers  in Rhode Island
-Oil-well blowout in Kazakhstan spews methane
-New rules for methane emissions at landfills
-First US solar-covered canal coming
-Brazil’s proposal for a 2% wealth tax on billionaires

GaiaGram # 219 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Debby rains bring New Jersey flooding
-Law suit win on mass spraying insecticides  
-Record-breaking heat wave in Antarctica
-Glacial lake outburst floods Juneau Alaska
-Glaciers supplying water disappearing 
-Jane Goodall says It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

GaiaGram #220 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Tropical Storm Debby swamped Florida’s sewage systems
-Climate warms Artic permafrost releasing ancient Mercury
-U.S. DoE awards $147 million  for world’s storage facility in Maine
-Ebron Solar will invests $942 million in New Mexico’s solar  
-U.S. Government to fund $1.45 billion to solar manufacturer 
-Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world
-China to accelerate cutting greenhouse gasses by 2035

GaiaGram # 221 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Catastrophic flooding hits southwestern CT
-North Carolina beachfront falls into the Atlantic Ocean
-Mediterranean Sea reaches highest recorded temperature
-Phoenix has been over 100 degrees F for 77 straight days
-Current and future human health and wellbeing  at serious risk
-Greece is facing a severe water shortage problem
-IRS is offering rebates up to a 30% on clean energy products

GaiaGram # 222 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a record speed 
-The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change
-Farmer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects
-Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom
-New solar utility-scale operations are largest source of electricity
-Electric car sales growing fastest 
-Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy

GaiaGram #223 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Weedkiller Dacthal serious health risks to unborn babies, banned.
-Record-setting heat wave in the west
-221 thousand pounds  of dead fish in Greek port
-Worst droughts sweeping across southern Africa
-Multimillion-dollar estates sliding into Pacific Ocean
-Legos, changing its plastics formula to be environmentally friendly.
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GaiaGram # 224 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-A surge in giant sinkholes in Turkey.
-Alaskan  land would be protected from mining interests
-Missouri to ban most exports of water from the state.
-Drones used to fire "seed missiles" to grow trees
-Replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen and electricity not enough
-U.S. voters support legal action against plastics/fossil fuels   
-McDonald’s is set to reduce plastic waste

GaiaGram #225 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Typhoon Yagi most powerful typhoon to hit Asia this year.
-Severe drought in Cuba
-Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average
-Lead ammunition poisonous to scavenging animals
-Critical shortfall in pollination affecting world’s food crops,
-EPA gives $4B in funding for clean energy projects
-EV sales have not fallen, cooled, or slowed 
-New solar-charging Truck bed Power System

GaiaGram # 226 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Record 2024 Central European floods
-Multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal 
-North Carolina saw historic rainfall
-Vast areas of the Brazil on fire
-Atlantic hurricane season poses increased risks
-California’s closes plastic bag waste loophole
-In Norway electric vehicles surpass gas automobiles
-Gen Z & millennial workers back sustainability priorities

GaiaGram # 227 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Hurricane Helene Devastation
-Vienna reduced impact of flooding caused by Storm Boris
-Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border 
-Germany embraces "balkonkraftwerk", or balcony solar
-Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative was launched-
-How much warmer is the Earth going to get?

GaiaGram #228 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal
-90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded
-Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems
-24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies: 
-Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change
-Home insurance companies pulling   out of risky states.
-Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

GaiaGram # 229 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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