BUMMER – Page 41 – Our Fragile Earth

GLACIERS: GOING, GOING, GONE

Partial photo: Chirag Saini Almost all the world’s glaciers (around 220,000 in total) are becoming thinner and losing mass, and[…]

Emails show that fossil fuel trade groups in Louisiana and New Mexico rallied Democratic governors in opposition to Biden’s executive[…]

Annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the US have been greatly underestimated –[…]

Partial photo: Benjamin Lizardo California’s annual burn season has lengthened in the past two decades, and the yearly peak has[…]

Partial photo: Grant Durr The 2020 World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Global Climate said it was one of the[…]

Partial photo: Joshua Peacock Climate change is driving extreme, interconnected events among earth-system elements such as weather and water in[…]

On April 6, the compressor station released 11,430 standard cubic feet (scf) of gas and 3 pounds of volatile organic[…]

Photo: Jose Fontano Dry periods between rainstorms have become longer and more erratic across the West during the past 50[…]

Partial photo: Jay Ruzesky West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier could cross tipping points, leading to a rapid and irreversible retreat.[…]

Partial photo: Chris Abney Total tropical forest lost acreage increased by 12% over all in 2020 compared with 2019, despite[…]