November 27, 2024
Michigan officials declare the Lake Superior lake trout species have officially been recovered, seven decades are invasive species and overfishing drove them to near extinction. (Kelly House/Bridge Michigan)
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A new United Nations (U.N) report finds the planet will warm as much as 3.1 degrees Celsius under current policies by the end of the century. (Cristen Hemingway Jaynes/EcoWatch)
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Scientists say they have discovered the world’s largest coral colony in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands. (Greta Cross/USA Today)
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service introduced a proposal that classifies three populations of giraffes as endangered for the first time ever. (Dino Grandoni/The Washington Post)
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President Biden became the first sitting president to visit the Amazon, pledging financial help to protect the world’s largest tropical rainforest. (Ana Ionova, Michael D. Shear/The New York Times)
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The former famed ocean liner SS United States will become the world’s largest artificial reef. (George Petras, Jennifer Borresen/USA Today)
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The Biden Administration announced a new rule fining oil and gas companies for emitting methane for the first time. (Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer/The New York Times)
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Data from NASA satellites show a drastic drop in global freshwater that’s persisted since 2014. (Paige Bennett/EcoWatch)
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A new study shows extreme weather is contributing to undocumented migration between Mexico and the United States (Dorany Pineda/The Associated Press)
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Here’s how president elect Trump’s staff choices fossil fuel industry ties could have far reaching consequences for the climate. (Kiley Price/Inside Climate News)
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Then there’s this…
Across the country schools are replacing pavement with turf and greenspaces to combat extreme heat. (Anna Phillips/The Washington Post)
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