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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Empty labs, abandoned research: Coronavirus puts climate science on hold

Grist

Researchers with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, who study the sea-floor of a collapsing glacier in Antarctica that could lead to 10 feet in sea-level rise, were left in the open sea , wondering how they’d get home as countries closed their borders. We got hammered by Hurricane Harvey.

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How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas

Grist

As the earth’s temperature warms, coastal populations around the world are wrestling with how to adapt to rising seas. Coastal armoring refers to the construction of hard structures like seawalls along coasts, and nearly 14 percent of American coastline is already armored.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An Awe-Inspiring Place The Arctic, also affectionately called the North Pole and home to Santa Claus, has always been a magical place that captivated our imagination. When there is no sea ice and no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet, it is commonly referred to as greenhouse Earth.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It's also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. He bought a plot of land on the edge of town and built a home, finished by the time his fourth child was born, he said. "I In many ways, Maleta Kimmons defines her neighborhood by what it lacks.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

“But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year. Hiatt said.