CO2 emissions last year - SUVs, if a country, would be the world's fifth largest emitter.

IEA: '30 million SUVs with internal combustion engines were added to the global fleet in 2023, comparable to the total number of electric cars on the roads today' iea.org/commentaries/s…

The Brave Little State of Vermont on verge of 'groundbreaking' legislation to make climate polluters pay for the damage they caused. And the smallest shall lead them. Elizabeth Kolbert has the details. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Why you should be worried if you live on the Atlantic or the Gulf: 'The extent of marine heat has never been greater heading into a hurricane season, outpacing by wide margins...one of the most active and destructive hurricane seasons in modern history.' yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-y…

Listen up, world! The court of the seas has spoken: nytimes.com/2024/05/21/wor…

An enraging corporate science-coverup story in the classic form, assiduously reported by Sharon Lerner: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

The record profits they enjoyed under Joe Biden weren't enough for the oil and gas industry, so now they're going after him. Bad news not just for the climate, but, well, pretty much everything: nytimes.com/2024/05/21/cli…

'There is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign.' The great EJ Dionne on Trump's anti-climate agenda and the politics of distraction: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

A book about climate change that's sort of like a children’s book – and amazingly, given the topic, fun to read – Elizabeth Kolbert on 'H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z' – on The Nation podcast w/ Jon Wiener bit.ly/3UMgfCj Simon & Schuster

Nearly 63% of the world's coral is suffering from 'crazy' hot ocean water in a global bleaching event that is nearing record levels. World oceans have now set heat records 13 months in a row. One scientist: We're watching an ecosystem die in our lifetime apnews.com/article/coral-…

Eels are at once a familiar part of European cuisine and a mystery to everyone who has studied them.

No one has ever seen eels mating in the wild, or learned to breed them on farms, a fact that is now hindering their conservation.
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OMG. nytimes.com/2024/05/15/ups…

Sustainable aviation fuels have been hyped by airlines and lavished with subsidies, but a new report claims they are nowhere near cutting carbon pollution from flying and are just a 'greenwash' that could even worsen the climate crisis theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Another day, another alarming statistic: theguardian.com/environment/ar…

When an existential crisis meets an existential election: wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

'I could not feel greater despair over the future.' theguardian.com/environment/ar…

“At a social cost of carbon of $190 a ton, the utility industry averaged damages more than twice its profits. Materials manufacturing, energy and transportation industries all had average damages that exceeded their profits.” apnews.com/article/climat…

The 14th consecutive month of record-breaking warm ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic is in the books... 📈🥵

Much of the nickel found in EV batteries is dug up in Indonesia's rainforests and refined using coal power.

Indonesia currently produces half the world's nickel. Under a new strongman president, it is set to mine even more.
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Great talking to The Boston Globe's Shirley Leung and Anna Kusmer: bostonglobe.com/2024/04/26/sci…

European eels are imperiled by warming, pollution, disease, fishing, and river dams.

To save the iconic eel, a staple of European cuisine, scientists are calling for a total ban on fishing.
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