By Sean Reilly 20 June 2017 (E&E News) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to clean house at a key advisory committee, signaling plans to drop several dozen current members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), according to an email yesterday from a senior agency official.All board members whose three-year […]
By Sam Jones 8 July 2017 Malpartida de Plasencia, Extremadura (The Guardian) – […] This is not a good year in Extremadura or elsewhere on the Iberian peninsula. Once again, drought has struck, devastating cereal crops, threatening the olive and grape harvest and leaving livestock short of food and water. “This is an awful year […]
By Maryse Zeidler 8 July 2017 (CBC News) – The province of British Columbia has declared a state of emergency, as wildfires burn out of control throughout most of the Interior. “The extended weather forecast is calling for continued hot, dry weather, with risks of thunderstorms in many parts of the province,” the province said […]
2 July 2017 (PBS) – In the latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has recruited a team of researchers to challenge climate science. Emily Holden, who broke the story for E&E News’s ClimateWire, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington, D.C. EPA launching program to […]
By Dr. Jeff Masters 8 July 2017 (Wunderground) – After suffering through the most intense heat wave ever to affect the region so early in the year during mid-June, the Southwest U.S. is once again roasting in record heat. On Friday, Death Valley, California hit 127°–a tie with 20 June 2017 as the hottest temperature […]
Irvine, California, 29 June 2017 (UCI) – The world’s open grasslands and the beneficial fires that sustain them have shrunk rapidly over the past two decades, thanks to a massive increase in agriculture, according to a new study led by University of California, Irvine and NASA researchers published today in Science.Analyzing 1998 to 2015 data […]
By Mike Carlowicz 25 June 2017 (NASA) – Wildfires spread across southern Siberia in late June 2017. According to Russian state media, at least 27,000 hectares (100 square miles) were burning in the Irkutsk Oblast region. Another 27,000 hectares burned in neighboring states and regions. More than 200 firefighters were sent to control the blazes. […]
By Stephanie Leutert 21 June 2017 (Lawfare) – Last Thursday and Friday, the United States and Mexico co-hosted top officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and other countries for the “Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America.” As the name suggests, the gathering aimed to spur a wide-ranging conversation for improving the region’s economic […]
By Matthew Brown And Katy Daigle 26 June 2017 BEIJING (AP) – The world’s biggest coal users – China, the United States, and India – have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate […]
BY Tristan Baurick 20 April 2017 (The Times-Picayune) – Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday (April 19) officially declared Louisiana’s coastal land loss an emergency, a move he hopes will expedite a host of restoration projects mired in federal permitting. “The Louisiana coast is in a state of crisis that demands immediate and urgent action […]
