Environmental Library

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Our collection is divided into five sections: Climate Change, Southern California, In the Biosphere, Solutions and Advances, and Environmental Activism. Articles are from a wide range of reputable sources, including the New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian. They are arranged chronologically, with the newest on top.

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• 1/27/22: "Environmental education is falling short. Activism can help"

• 11/15/21: "California Community Colleges deserve more support" CalMatters

• 1/18/23 "Age Matters: Community colleges gained dual-enrollment students but lost recent high school grads and adult learners at high rates". Inside Higher Ed

• 5/6/22: SEI article in Academically Speaking, DAS

• 1/10/23: Governor Newsom releases 2023-24 state budget proposal; Here’s what is proposed for water and climate spending, Maven’s Notebook

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(older articles are archived here)

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Climate Change ​​​​ 

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• 8/11/24: NYT: "How Close are the Planet's Climate Tipping Points?"

• 8/8/24: Berkeley Earth: Environmental science, data, and analysis of the highest quality. Independent, non-governmental, and open-source

• 6/28/24: LAT: California’s first-ever ‘climate information system’ falls victim to budget ax"

• 12/8/2023: NYT OpEd: "Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us From Climate Change"

• 10/2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment, Report in Brief

• 7/31/23: Guardian: More than 50m Americans under alert as heatwave persists.

• 7/12, 2023, NYT: "How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit"

• 6/20, 2023, NYT: "How extreme heat affects workers and the economy"

• 6/22, 2023, Guardian, "Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected.."

• ​7/8, 2023, WaPo: "Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years.  Here's How we know"

• 7/19, 2023, the Guardian, "We are Damn Fools" James Hansen,

• 7/19, 2023, WaPo: "With record heat expected..."

• 6/15, 2023, The Crucial Years, McKibben, "The Mercury is Off the Charts" (5pp + data)

• 7/25, 2023: NYT: "Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a tipping point."

• 7/20, 2023, Atlantic Weekly Planet: "Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast"

• ​7/26, 2023: EcoWatch; Gulf Stream Could Collapse Between 2025 and 2095

• 3/30, 2023, BBC: "Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse"

• 1/17/23: “Warning of ‘Off the Chart’ Temperatures as El Niño Set to Return in 2023”, EcoWatch

• 1/16/23: “Let’s face reality. Fossil fuel interests have destroyed the Cops – we need something new”, Bill McGuire, Guardian

• 1/10/23: “The last eight years have been the warmest on record, researchers say” WaPo

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Los Angeles and Southern California​​​​
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• 1/18/23: “Los Angeles County’s Black Residents Are Most at Risk in Major Floods” NYT
• 1/10/23: Governor Newsom releases 2023-24 state budget proposal; Here’s what is proposed for water and climate spending, Maven’s Notebook
• 12/15/22" CalMatters: "California’s residential solar rules overhauled after highly charged debate"
• 11/18/22: "From the air, scientists map ‘fast paths’ for recharging California’s groundwater" LAT

• 10/27/22: LAT: "Oil giants sell thousands of California wells, raising worries about future liability"

• 10/20/22: NOAA releases California winter weather predictions, KTLA News

• 10/20/22: "A single, devastating California fire season wiped out years of efforts to cut emissions" LAT

• 10/17/22: "‘Up in Smoke’: How 2020’s Wildfires Negated 18 Years of California Climate Policy"

• 10/10/22: "A California city’s water supply is expected to run out in two months" WaPo

• 10/9/22: "It’s official: Driest three years ever in California" LAT

• 9/15/22: "Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill To Fund Free Transit For California Students" LAist

• 9/9/22: "Facing criticism, state amps up its climate change blueprint" CalMatters

• 8/28/22: "Mojave Desert tribes aim to turn a sacred mountain into a national monument" LAT

• 8/12/22: "The Coming California Megastorm" NYT 

• 8/12/22 "If not by drought then by megaflood: Climate change may have doubled risk of disastrous flooding in California"

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In the Biosphere

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• 8/3/2023: Amazon Summit: Oil projects keep flowing despite civil society opposition

• 1/22/23: "Polar Bears Going Extinct" NYT

• 11/18/22: "Shark fin trade regulated at last in landmark decision" Guardian

• 11/16/22: "Deforestation Brings Bat-Borne Virus Home to Roost" NYT

• 10/25/22: "North Atlantic right whale population drops to about 340, worrying scientists" WaPo

• 10/12/22: "More Than Half of U.S. Bird Populations Are Shrinking", Smithsonian

• 10/8/22: "In California, Where Trees Are King, One Hardy Pine Has Survived for 4,800 Years"

• 9/29/22: EcoWatch: "Central Banks, Including Fed. Reserve, Are Funding Deforestation"

• 9/27/22: "Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts"

• 9/10/22: "U.S. declares disaster for tribal salmon fisheries on the West Coast" WaPo

• 9/2/22: "Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic"

• 8/30/22: "A failure of enforcement Deforesters are plundering the Amazon. Brazil is letting them get away with it." WaPo

• 8/23/22: WaPo "As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction"

• 8/3/22: "Global Forest Area Declined by 60% Since 1960, Study Finds" Ecowatch

• 7/15/22: "Scientists rush to save 1,000-year-old trees on the brink of death" the bristlecone pines of the White Mountains

• 6/2/22: "Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon’s destruction" AP

• 6/1/22: "‘Consequences will be dire’: Chile’s water crisis is reaching breaking point" Guardian

• 5/13/22: "Invasive Insects Will Kill 1.4 Million Urban Trees by 2050"

• 5/5/22: "Amazon Syndrome"

• 5/3/22: "Condors soar again over Northern California coastal redwoods"

• 4/28/22: "Deforestation Remains High, Despite International Pledges" NYT

• 4/27/22: From King Cobras to Geckos, 20 Percent of Reptiles Risk Extinction, NYT

• 4/28/22: NYT Warning on Mass Extinction of Sea Life: ‘An Oh My God Moment’

• 3/25/22: "‘Can’t Cope’: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Suffers 6th Mass Bleaching Event" NYT

• 3/7/22: "Amazon Is Less Able to Recover From Droughts and Logging, Study Finds" NYT

• 2/3/22: "Who Is Responsible for the 27-Mile Oil Spill in Peru?" NYT

• 7/5/19: In France, ancient forests are resurging — growing bigger every year

• 4/7/22: "Right-wing Supreme Court justices ‘just further poisoned your water’"

• 2/15/22: "Can the Vaquita, the World’s Smallest Marine Mammal, Be Saved From Extinction?"

• 2/16/22: "There are fewer than 10 tiny vaquita porpoises left. Can they be saved?" Guardian

• 2/16/22: "Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest"

• 2/11/22: "Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes an Unprecedented $1.1 Billion for Everglades Revitalization"

• 2/9/22: "Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation"

• 2/8/222: "Ancient trees form bloodlines that bolster forests for thousands of years"

• 2/7/22: "How overfishing threatens the world's oceans—and why it could end in catastrophe" NatGeo

• 1/28/22: "Monarch Butterfly Numbers Soar in California After Dramatic Losses" Smithsonian

• 1/20/22: How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction" Bloomberg

• 1/13/22: "Scientists Search for 10 Elusive Bird Species That Have Been Lost for Years" 

• 12/2/22: Forest fight: Germany invented “scientific” forestry. But a huge dieback triggered by climate change has ignited a fierce debate over how the nation should manage its trees" SCIENCE​​

 

 

Solutions and Promising Advances​​
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• 9/15/23: California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception: Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a special fund to pay for recovery.

• 8/23/23: Ecuador Votes to Keep Yasuní Oil in the Ground in Historic Referendum, Angélica María Bernal and Joshua Holst, NACLA

• 8/21/23: New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here's how it's going. (NPR) By Seyma Bayram,  

• 8/17/2023: Montana youth activists win historic climate change lawsuit.
This ruling “may inspire similar lawsuits around the world."  By  Dana Drugmand, - 
(The Biden Administration tried to block this suit!)

• 7/28/23: New report predicts wind and solar to produce a third of power worldwide by 2030, The RMI report said that by 2030, solar and wind are "predicted to generate 12,000 to 14,000 terawatt hours of power" or three to four times the capacity of 2022 levels.  By Ashley Curtin -12/12/22: Nature “Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help”

• 10/14/22: "India’s energy future is looking green, report says" AP

• 8/24/22: "B Corp Cultivates Future Environmentalists and Helps Companies Diversify Their Workforces"

• 8/22: "Renewables Are Just Getting Started"

• 7/13/22: "Service and conservation programs can lead to infrastructure careers" Brookings

• 5/30/22: "The Japanese carbon capture method is 99 percent efficient and twice as fast"

• 5/23/22: "Electric Cars and Lithium Extraction Threaten to Drive Even More Climate Harm"

• 2/8/22: "Why is permaculture gardening so popular?" INHabitat

• 12/12/21: "The Problems with the pro-nuclear left (CounterPunch)

• 12/8/21: "Nuclear Fusion: Why the Race to Harness the Power of the Sun Just Sped Up"

• 12/3/21: "Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)" NYT

• 10/28/21: "Chomsky and Pollin: COP26 Pledges Will Fail Unless Pushed by Mass Organizing" Truthout

• 10/22/21: "This Sleek Wind Turbine Wall Lets You Harness Enough Energy to Power Your Home"

• 10/21/21: "Global Concrete Industry Releases Road Map to Net-Zero Carbon"

• 10/11/21: "Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade Promises to End Wind Power Waste"

• 10/6/21: "Biden Administration to Restore Climate Criteria to Landmark Environmental Law"

• 10/7/21: "'Historic moment': Why the WHO endorsed the first malaria vaccine" Nat Geo

• 9/6/21: "‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers" Guardian

• 9/8/21": "Biden officials trumpet how solar can provide nearly half of the nation’s electricity by 2050" WaPo

• 9/8/21: "From 4% to 45%: Energy Department Lays Out Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Power" NYT

• 8/30/21: "Breaking ammonia: A new catalyst to generate hydrogen from ammonia at low temperatures by Tokyo Institute of Technology"

• 8/30/21: "Can the Soil Really Save Us? This Company Intends to Find Out"

• 8/29/21: "Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power" Guardian

• 8/22/21: "Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way" Guardian

• 8/21/21: "Experts are terrible at predicting the falling cost of clean energy

• 8/18/21: "Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow global warming" New Scientist

• 8/12/21: 'Biochar Study Highlights Efficacy in Global Drawdown"

• 8/10/21:"Hundreds of U.S. cities adopted climate plans. Few have met the goals, but it's not too late" USA Today

• 7/27/21: "Employment in the energy sector will dramatically expand as economies decarbonize"

• 7/21/21: "California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it" LAT

• 7/14/21: "Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature" Guardian

• 6/29/21: "I Wrote About This Environmental Injustice Decades Ago. It Hasn’t Changed" Robert Bullard NYT

• 7/11/21: "More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future" NYT

• 6/22/21: "Legal experts worldwide draw up ‘historic’ definition of ecocide"

• 6/17/21: "Renewables Are the Cornerstone of Decarbonization, Report Says"

• 6/14/21: "The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining"

• 6/10/21: "Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy" LAT

• 6/8/21: "To Combat Climate Change, Researchers Want to Pull Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean and Turn It Into Rock"

• 5/28/21: "Where Wind and Solar Power Need to Grow for America to Meet Its Goals" NYT

• 4/22/21: "The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements — here’s what organizers can do about it"

• 4/6/21: "The United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings"

• 3/29/21: "Wind and solar power generated a tenth of the world's electricity in 2020"

• 3/15/21: "Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment: By Margaret Renkl, NYT

• 2/26/21: "This EPA mapping tool could reshape environmental justice"

• 2/21: "Kenyan woman’s startup recycles plastic into bricks that are stronger than concrete"

• 2/1/21: "Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020"

• 1/28/21: "New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy"

• 11/3/20:"A Greenland Shark Living Today Could Have Been Alive in 1620"

• 11/24/20: WaPo, "An ancient people with a modern climate plan"

• The Drawdown Project: Climate Solutions (PDF report)

• Is BlackRock Announcement "Beginning of the End for Fossil-fuel System?" 1/21/20

• Indigenous Blockades Don’t Just Decry Destruction — They Affirm Life

• The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work 9/29/19

• The winning conservative climate solution 1/16/20 WaPo

• The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo

• Georgetown University Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment

• Stiglitz on capitalism and climate: Fighting the climate crisis need not mean halting economic growth 12/9/20

• 3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy

• Towards a circular economy, Piketty

• 4 fastest growing green jobs pay up to 90K a year​

• What Wall St. wants- A way to price carbon

• The climate solution Democrats aren’t talking about 9/12/19

• How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)

• Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem 8/21/19

• Agroecology as Innovation 8/7/19

• Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy? 7/25/19

• Massive Tree planting and climate reversal WEF 7/8/19

• Tree Planting and Climate Crisis GUA 7/4/2019

• The trouble with tree planting as a climate solution 7/5/19

• NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air 8/4/19

• Electric food of the future (10/18 Guardian)

• UN revises population projections downward 6/24/2019

• Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)

• The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen WEF 5/7/2019

• LA is on the verge of becoming 100% renewable! CityWatch 6/13/2016

• The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYT 5/13/19)

• Kenya court votes down a coal fired power plant (6/29/19.350.org)

 

 

Environmental Activism:​​​
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• 10/6/21: "‘Eco-anxiety’: fear of environmental doom weighs on young people"

• 10/8/21: "Biden becomes first president to issue proclamation marking Indigenous Peoples' Day"

• 9/24/21: "Young global climate strikers vow change is coming – from the streets" Guardian

• 9/18/21: "The toll of environmental racism" Axios

• 9/8/21: "California Recall Vote Could Weaken the State’s Aggressive Climate Policies" NYT

• 8/11/21: "Why we shouldn’t give in to climate despair" WaPo

• 7/23/21: "How to Calm Your Climate Anxiety" NYT

• 5/13/21: "Why I Am Not a Climate Doomist" Patrick Mazza

• 4/22/21: "10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How it Works"

• 2/27/21:"Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes'"

• 12/14/20: Greta Thunberg: 5 Years After Paris Agreement, World Is “Speeding in the Wrong Direction” on Climate

• 8/25/20 "Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite"

• Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

• 6/20. "Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist"

• The Environmental Burden of Generation Z 2/23/20

• Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science is Better Science

• Six Books to Read on Climate Crisis

• TED talk: Why I became a climate activist—and why you should too

• Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster 9/13/19

• 6 Environmentalists Inspiring Climate Action RSN 7/17/19

• Greta Thunberg and OPEC GUA 7/5/2019

• It's Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change MED 6/3/2019

• Sierra Club activists challenge LADWP on gas fired power plants

• Climate Despair ​VICE 7/11/2019

• How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change 5/16/19

• Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask to what do we devote ourselves? TRTH 5/6/2019

• To stop global catastrophe we must believe in humans again, McKibben GUA 4/23/2019

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