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Climate Realism (Heartland) 7/10 ?

No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Modern Heat Waves

The New York Times (NYT) claims in “Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’” that the recent Northeastern U.S. heat wave could not have occurred without human-caused clima...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

JAKARTA — Indonesian lawmakers have called for a government fact-finding probe into a long-running conflict between an Indigenous community in Borneo and an industrial timber company linked to one of ...

Manhattan Contrarian 6/10 ?

Battery Storage For Grid Backup: Better Keep Working On It

* Advocates of generating electricity mostly with intermittent wind and sun, when challenged on how they would deal with a calm night, are always ready with the obvious answer: energy stor...

Watts Up With That 7/10 ?

I Once Pushed for Strict Climate Targets as an MEP But I Changed My Mind: Here’s Why

I find this situation surrealistically insane. Only a special kind of stubborn orthodoxy prevents many from seeing and saying it aloud. We are starting to reinvest in deterrence and defence across Eur...

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

Plague-like swarms of flying, giant ants descend on the UK, triggering mistaken rain alerts on radar

Biblical swarms of giant, flying ants have been impacting parts of the UK, at times even being mistaken for rain by weather radar.

CO2 Coalition 7/10 ?

G7 Climate Realism Signals Policy Progress

By Vijay Jayaraj The June G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, marked a major pivot. Driven by severe energy and commodity shocks stemming from the conflict in the Middle East—specifically transit di...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Worldwide, roads act as both death traps and barriers for wildlife, fragmenting the landscapes animals need to survive. However, ecologists and engineers are working to “reconnect the wild” through th...

Watts Up With That 7/10 ?

Solar Tax Credits: 1978–2026 (never enough)

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”– Milton and Rose Friedman, Tyranny of the Status Quo (1983), 115.The postSolar Tax Credits: 1978–2026 (never enough)appeared first onWatts ...

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

Which country will land on the moon next as the space race enters a critical phase

More than 50 years after humanity's last Moon landing, a new space race is underway. This time, the goal isn't just to plant a flag—it's to establish a sustained human presence, with the United States...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Seeking swordfish, catching dolphins and whales: EU pushes to rein in driftnets

Driftnets, vertically hanging nets that drift with ocean currents and can stretch for kilometers, are used to catch large pelagic species such as swordfish and tuna. However, they have long drawn crit...

Watts Up With That 7/10 ?

The Nine Energy Questions That Could Decide America’s Future

California, the 4th largest economy in the world, is growing its dependence on transportation fuels made from refined crude oil at foreign refineries which is becoming a national security risk for Ame...

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

Photos: Mysterious metallic spheres washing up on Australian beach identified

The mysterious silver spheres that have been washing up on a beach in Australia recently were identified, after concern spread that the objects could be dangerous.

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Could a blighted urban inlet become a global beacon of waterway renewal?

VANCOUVER — Two hundred years ago, Talaysay Campo’s ancestors harvested clams and cockles along the shore of Vancouver’s False Creek. “It was a huge aquaculture site,” Campo, a member of the Squamish ...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds

Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.

Watts Up With That 7/10 ?

Requiem for a Civilised Conversation about Climate Change and Politics

"How do we return to that common conversation?" asked President Obama. But for team Obama, there never seems to be an effort to turn that attempt at introspection on themselves.The postRequiem for a C...

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

The summer’s final Manhattanhenge phenomenon is hitting New York City streets—will the weather cooperate?

Manhattanhenge is returning to New York City this weekend, but whether New Yorkers and tourists get a front-row seat to the iconic sunset spectacle will depend on one key factor: the weather.

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

NASA telescope discovers new 'super-Jupiter' exoplanet nearly 40,000 light-years from Earth

NASA's TESS identified a large new exoplanet orbiting far from its host star thanks to ripples in the space-time continuum.

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

New study suggests Earth could escape the sun's fiery demise however humanity's fate remains sealed

What happens to Earth when the sun dies? A groundbreaking study released by Astronomy and Astrophysics reveals a fate far more mind-boggling than the fiery death we always expected.

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

Saharan dust plume to blanket Florida, Gulf Coast with hazy skies into the weekend

The Sunshine State may not have such clear skies this weekend as a plume of Saharan Dust travels more than 5,000 miles through the Caribbean and Atlantic to deliver hazy, dusty skies across the Gulf C...

Fox Weather 6/10 ?

Nearly 1,000 cases confirmed in Michigan as explosive diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak intensifies across US

Reported cases of cyclosporiasis are climbing sharply across the country, with the state of Michigan already reaching nearly 1,000 confirmed cases as of July 8.

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