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UK Agency Developing Early Warning System for Major Climate Tipping Points

UK Agency Developing Early Warning System for Major Climate Tipping Points

The United Kingdom’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) plans to invest 81 million pounds in the development of an ambitious early warning system designed to detect climate tipping points. The new system will use drones, plankton bloom patterns and cosmic ray detection combined with artificial intelligence and detailed, cutting-edge computer models, reported The Guardian. […]

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    ‘Into the Thaw’: Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska

    ‘Into the Thaw’: Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska

    With each new federal administration, energy priorities shift. With the election of Donald Trump in 2024, one of his administration’s key promises, enforced by an executive order on January 20 this year and as promised in Project 2025, was to try to ramp up oil and gas drilling in the continental U.S. A key location […]

    ‘Wild Concerto’ by Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Blends Nature Sounds With Music

    ‘Wild Concerto’ by Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Blends Nature Sounds With Music

    In a new collaboration between former Police drummer Stewart Copeland and British naturalist Martyn Stewart — titled Wild Concerto — the chirps of Arctic terns blend with other wildlife calls and orchestral music to create a multi-layered soundscape. The unique composition by Copeland, a seven-time Grammy award-winner, drew on Stewart’s field recordings, reported The Guardian. […]

    Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

    Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

    According to a new report by independent research group Climate Central, the climate crisis has driven weeks of hot temperatures in West Africa’s “cocoa belt,” where roughly 70% of the cocoa in the world is produced, impacting harvests and likely causing record chocolate prices. Between July of 2022 and February of last year, cocoa prices […]

    Pennsylvania Governor Sues Trump Administration Over Frozen IRA Funds

    Pennsylvania Governor Sues Trump Administration Over Frozen IRA Funds

    Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald Trump’s administration for freezing funding made available through the Inflation Reduction Act. As Utility Dive reported, Trump ordered a freeze to IRA funds in an executive order made his first day in office. According to the governor’s office, Pennsylvania state agencies have not […]