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Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds

NYTimes - Environment - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 03:03
A nearly 2,000-year-old stash pouch provides the first evidence of the intentional use of a powerful psychedelic plant in Western Europe during the Roman Era.
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Climate Change Made an Early Heat Wave in West Africa 10 Times as Likely

NYTimes - Environment - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 00:01
Temperatures in the region rose above 40 degrees Celsius in February, with humidity pushing the heat index even higher.
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Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 19:12
The groups, which are springing up across the country, allow people to talk through their emotions around environmental change.
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The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:11
For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop.
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New Rules Will Still Push Carmakers to Sell More Electric Cars

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 12:01
New Biden administration auto rules are less forceful than an earlier proposal but will still add to market pressure for cheaper electric vehicles.
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What to Know About the Clean Auto Rule: It’s Not a Ban on Gas Cars

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:08
The measure aims to encourage sales of electric vehicles and hybrids. Here’s how it works.
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Geologists Make It Official: We’re Not in an ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 09:22
The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history.
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Extreme Heat Wave Pushes South Sudan to Close Schools

NYTimes - Environment - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 05:12
Climate change already worsened floods and droughts in the young nation. Now, soaring temperatures are forecast for two weeks.
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Biden’s Climate Law Has Created a Growing Market for Green Tax Credits

NYTimes - Environment - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 14:44
New Treasury Department data shows companies have registered 45,500 projects for possible sale on a new tax-credit marketplace.
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U.S. Bans the Last Type of Asbestos Still in Use

NYTimes - Environment - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 13:19
The United States joins more than 50 other countries that have banned the deadly carcinogen, although the phaseout will take more than a decade.
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Making the Case for Capitalism

NYTimes - Environment - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 12:54
A new book argues that short-term profit incentives can deliver long-term changes to benefit the climate.
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Afghanistan’s Drought in Photos: Barren Fields and Empty Stomachs

NYTimes - Environment - Tue, 03/19/2024 - 02:31
In a country especially vulnerable to climate change, a drought has displaced entire villages and left millions of children malnourished.
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All but 7 Countries on Earth Have Air Pollution Above WHO Standard

NYTimes - Environment - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 22:01
New research found that fewer than 10 percent of countries and territories met World Health Organization guidelines for particulate matter pollution last year.
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Washington’s Cherry Blossoms Reach Near-Record Early Bloom

NYTimes - Environment - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 14:32
A warm winter ushered the blossoms through the bloom cycle faster than usual, a spokesman for the National Park Service said.
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Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs

NYTimes - Environment - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 13:29
The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy.
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Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time

NYTimes - Environment - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:46
To decarbonize the electrical grid, companies are finding creative ways to store energy during periods of low demand.
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Climate Protesters Disrupt Broadway Play Starring Jeremy Strong

NYTimes - Environment - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 07:21
A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by protesters who shouted “no theater on a dead planet.”
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For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm

NYTimes - Environment - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 17:59
Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests.
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In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act

NYTimes - Environment - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 15:18
Organizers of the Games promise to slash greenhouse gas emissions by re-using historic buildings, adding bike lanes, even putting solar panels on the Seine. Will it work?
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Court Temporarily Halts S.E.C.’s New Climate Rules

NYTimes - Environment - Fri, 03/15/2024 - 17:52
Two fracking companies had challenged requirements that some businesses disclose more information about the risks they face from climate change.
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