Chicago ranked second among major U.S. cities with the worst air pollution in 2023, its average annual concentration of dangerous fine particulate matter almost three times global guidelines, according to a recent report. Even as national standards have tightened, pollution levels in the city still surpassed old regulations. At one point last summer, Chicago had…
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How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.
Supported by How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers. A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot. Over the last century, governments around the world have drawn boundaries to shield thousands of the world’s most valuable…
Should you not have kids because of climate change? It’s complicated. – The Washington Post
“I wanted to have a child, but I was also looking at the planet and thinking: ‘Well, what kind of future will we have if there’s more of the same?’ ” she said. She thought about the diapers, the party favors, the toys, and the billions of tons of carbon emissions warming the planet every…
Farmers are getting billions for climate change. Their votes still may not shift : NPR
Soybeans pour from a combine during harvest in a field in Rippey, Iowa, in 2019. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption Soybeans pour from a combine during harvest in a field in Rippey, Iowa, in 2019. If you ask Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt about the federal dollars he’s received over the last few years to help…
Monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered due to habitat loss and climate change | Daily Mail Online
North America’s monarch butterfly is have been classified as endangered after experts sadly found the western butterfly’s population experienced a devastating 99.9 percent decline due to a loss of habitat, increased use of herbicides and pesticides for agriculture and climate change. Monarch butterflies are major pollinators that migrate across the continent. They carry with them seeds…
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Announces 2022 Sustainability Award Winners
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards program recognized a class of seven exceptional farms, businesses and partnerships for their socially responsible, economically viable and environmentally sound practices and technologies that have a broad and positive impact. This year’s winners displayed excellence in areas such as methane and other greenhouse gas reduction practices as…
A growing battle over carbon capture and climate change riles Iowa
In September, Bonnie Ewoldt and her husband received certified letters from a company called Summit Carbon Solutions telling them that their 170-acre soybeans-and-corn farm in Crawford County, Iowa, was in the path of a pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide from ethanol plants across the Midwest to an underground storage site in North Dakota. They’d…
