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The Atlantic The West Can End the Water Wars Now Far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal. Instead, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world. Share In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved. This is not entirely their fault. Federal and state governments have made lots of promises to people in the West, or to their parents or grandparents. Some people were promised that their land would not be taken, while other people were promised free land. Some were told that they could withdraw wa...

JAKARTA, May 15 (Bloomberg): Ancient paintings of humans and animals made between 25,000 and 45,000 years ago in Indonesia are deteriorating fast because of climate change. Seasonal rainfall, combined with increasing drought, is threatening the conservation of cave art in the Maros-Pangkep site on the island of Sulawesi, researchers led by archaeologist Jillian Huntley said in a paper published in Nature on Thursday. The area is home to the oldest known hand stencil and to possibly the earliest narrative scene in prehistoric art. Man-made climate change is leading to more freq...

ADVERTISEMENT House Committee on Energy and Commerce democrats on March 2 introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act, which sets a goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. The bill also sets an interim target of reducing GHG pollution by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. A statement released by the committee explains the targets come from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has said carbon pollution must be cut to net-zero by 2050 to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of clim...

2020 Ties for the Hottest Year in the Hottest Decade in History January 29, 2021 One of the first things on  President Biden’s  agenda was to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.  Just yesterday, he announced executive actions to address climate change, emphasizing the importance of job creation in “green” industries and establishing goals to achieve a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035. His efforts to re-involve the U.S. on the global climate stage come at an important time.  The average global temperature has risen about two degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s, when record ke...

Biden To Name Gina McCarthy, Former EPA Chief, As Domestic Climate Coordinator at 3:37 pm NPR President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Gina McCarthy as his White House climate coordinator, a source familiar with the decision said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect private conversations. Updated at 7 p.m. ET McCarthy has an ambitious assignment: coordinating efforts across the entire federal government aimed at drastically — and quickly — lowering the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. During his campaign, Biden promised to put the U.S. ...