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Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic - Inside Climate News Energy analysts and environmentalists say diesel generators are expensive, noisy, highly polluting and exempt from Clean Air Act regulations in times of energy “emergencies.”

"In order to ensure five nines, data center developers secure power in various ways: They’ll seek to connect to the grid, build out or buy their own behind-the-meter power supply—typically in the form of gas-fired generation—and lastly, host multiple backup generators on site."  buff.ly/Id0CUrs

A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100 At 104, Betty Reid Soskin has had the most extraordinary life, from protest singing to civil rights activism to meeting the Obamas. She reflects on what it takes to stay strong and keep going

"'[W]hat gets remembered is determined by who’s in the room doing the remembering'. At the time, she joked that her job was almost 'like I’m running a federally funded revolution ... I was very aware that I was in my 90s and I really didn’t have time to waste,' she says."

Mapped: Countries That Eat the Most Meat Per Capita Discover the countries that eat the most meat per capita, based on data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

"In this graphic, we visualize the countries that eat the most meat at a per capita level based on data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO)."

Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection Forests Forever discusses how we might learn to live with forests without destroying them.

Forests Forever discusses how we might learn to live with forests without destroying them. It treats principles of sustainable forestry and talks about how the damage done to forests by decades of destructive mismanagement and careless overuse can be reversed.

Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. - Inside Climate News Long-polluted waterways near Chicago are part of a system of natural and manmade barriers keeping invasive crustaceans at bay, a recent study suggests.

"Scud is a general term for the small crustaceans common in aquatic environments around the world. While there are some varieties of scud native to Lake Michigan and Illinois’ waterways, A. lacustre is an invasive species." buff.ly/rLvYM3a

Pennsylvania to Leave RGGI as Part of an Overdue Budget Deal - Inside Climate News A years-long fight over its membership in the emissions-cutting initiative prevented Pennsylvania from ever participating. Advocates say it’s a “huge blow” to climate action in the state.

“'They didn’t offer it as a free-standing bill, which would have been easier to vote against, but as part of a must-pass budget bill,' said David Masur, executive director of the advocacy group PennEnvironment.” buff.ly/3I4Qo69

In this Brazilian state, a new push to track cattle is key to slowing deforestation By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be sold legally.

"Brazil has lost about 339,685 square kilometers of mature rainforest since 2001 — an area roughly the size of Germany — and more than a third of that loss was in Para, according to Global Forest Watch. Para alone accounts for about 14% of all rainforest loss recorded worldwide..."

California's Bioregions Every place on the Earth’s surface lies within a bioregion. One way to define the term is to say that a bioregion is a watershed area– the drainage basin of a stream or river. But this is not the…

The bioregionalism movement calls for defining areas based not on ecologically meaningless political boundaries but instead on natural geographic boundaries and characteristics.

US families’ ‘mind blown’ with cuts to solar rooftop funds Many US families had been adopting solar panels for their homes to bring down electricity costs which have shot up.

"It is one of several federally funded renewable energy projects that have been scrapped or will end early, veering off the country’s planned shift to renewable energy, also making it harder to meet climate goals."

One Year After Trump’s Election, This Group Is Celebrating Their Sway Over U.S. Energy Policy - Inside Climate News At the America First Policy Institute’s Global Energy Summit, speakers derided climate action and heralded their efforts to reverse key environmental initiatives.

"The administration is also aiming to reverse the EPA’s key finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health, which serves as the basis for its ability to regulate emissions from motor vehicles, power plants and oil and gas operations." buff.ly/mx43ZQK

The Trump administration didn't send a delegation to COP30. How the US is maintaining a presence at the climate summit The U.S. is maintaining a presence at COP30, despite the Trump administration declining to send an official delegation to this year's climate conference in Brazil.

"Whitehouse accused the current administration of representing the fossil fuel industry, 'most particularly the big fossil fuel donors who contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump's political campaign.'"

Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it

"That promise had no timetable attached or details on how it could be achieved, and although it was passed unanimously, some countries have since attempted to disavow the pledge. Attempts last year to elaborate on what it would mean in practice were stymied by petrostates..."

Save the Roadless Rule, wild forests! Tell your members of Congress to vigorously oppose this senseless and destructive action, which would represent a giant leap backward in efforts to resolve the climate and biodiversity crises.

Urge your elected officials to co-sponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act and fight against the administration's plan to rescind the Roadless Rule!

We can still stop this forest-destroying bill! FOFA would fast-track deforestation and weaken or cast aside laws currently ensuring that bona fide science enters the decisionmaking process.

The "Fix Our Forests Act" exploits the public's justifiable fear of wildfire danger by palming off the idea that more logging is the best solution. A lot more logging.

Contact your U.S. senators today and urge them to oppose the so-called Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA)!

An Oil Company Running Into Rough Waters off the California Coast Is Looking to Trump for Help - Inside Climate News A vote to deny Sable Offshore permits to restart production builds on a series of lawsuits and an accusation of insider trading, but the CEO wants the president to help it overcome its setbacks.

"[T]the company lost a critical courtroom battle with the California Coastal Commission, which had fined Sable $18 million, the largest fine in the agency’s history, for starting pipeline repair work without coastal development permits and then violating cease-and-desist orders." buff.ly/r8i2In1

"The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — known as the AMOC — is a looping system of currents that works like a giant conveyor belt, pulling warm water from the Southern Hemisphere and tropics to the Northern Hemisphere, where it cools, sinks and flows back south."

Ranked: Countries With the Highest Rates of Forest Loss From Brazil to Cambodia, we show the countries with the greatest scale of forest loss over the past decade.

"Deforestation has been most severe in South America and Africa, largely driven by agricultural production. In Brazil, for example, cattle ranching and pasture expansion have played a major role in clearcutting across the Amazon."

A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive - Inside Climate News The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado.

"This mosquito species is native to tropical and subtropical climates, but as climate change pushes up temperatures and warps precipitation patterns, the Aedes aegypti—which can spread Zika, dengue, chikungunya and other potentially deadly viruses—is on the move."   buff.ly/NpYeaDb

5 Forests And Monuments That Are Most Likely To Become America's Next National Park - Islands Craters of the Moon, Chiricahua, and Shawnee are among the top U.S. sites gaining attention as potential future national parks, each offering unique scenery.

"As national parks fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government, the creation of a new one lies with Congress. Unfortunately, this means that the national park creation process is subject to the ever-shifting political winds, delays, and partisanship..."

Total Fertility Rates By Country Global Fertility Trends, 2024 The world’s fertility rate continues its steady decline, averaging 2.25 children per woman, a 6.2% drop from 2019. The map…

"As more countries fall below the population replacement rate of 2.1, the implications for labor forces, ageing populations, and future economic growth are becoming increasingly clear; signaling that the world’s demographic balance is rapidly changing."

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Please give a generous gift today to help our fight to protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California.

Rare Sightings of Critically Endangered Vaquita Spark Cautious Optimism About the Species’ Ability to Recover - Inside Climate News Expert marine mammal researchers spotted up to 10 of the porpoises during a recent survey in the Upper Gulf of California. They warn the species remains at risk of extinction until safer fishing gear…

"[Gillnets] are 'non-selective,' Taylor said. 'They just kill everything.' From sharks and rays to whales, sea lions, dolphins and vaquitas, few animals that cross paths with the gear escape its grip. Most suffocate and drown as they struggle to break free." buff.ly/ZvYzLpY

‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat

"Tamara Galloway, professor of ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter, says microplastics 'overlap with the prey item size of many marine organisms and can enter the food web, with the potential to transfer contaminants into cells and tissues'."

The world’s new US$125 billion rainforest trust fund revives a 1990s idea – and shows its limits Cop30’s flagship Tropical Forests Forever announcement puts investors before rainforests.

"The reasons for this are pretty simple. Many necessary activities simply aren’t 'good' investments. Even commercial renewable energy projects often struggle to offer returns high enough to compete with other assets."

Check out Forests Forever Forests Forever was founded in 1989 during the historic campaign to save the Headwaters ancient redwood forest in Humboldt County, California. Our efforts helped galvanize the broad-based public…

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The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

"This belief has a name: human exceptionalism. It is the conviction that humans are not just different from other life, but morally superior to it – and therefore entitled to first claim on space, speed, resources and survival."

Germany pledges €1 billion to Brazil's rainforest fund – DW – 11/20/2025 Germany’s support for Brazil’s new rainforest protection fund adds momentum to a global effort that will reward forest conservation, penalize deforestation and direct resources to Indigenous and…

"'This is about protecting the tropical rainforests, the lungs of our planet,' German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider and Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan said in a statement."

5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10 The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later

"[E]missions continue to rise. Those leaps are daunting, given that President Donald Trump is once again pulling the U.S. out of the accord and that countries such as China and Saudi Arabia are also still trying to keep fossil fuels in the energy mix."

COP30: Five key takeaways from a deeply divisive climate summit What did we learn from a climate summit that ended in a deal with no new mention of fossil fuels?

"The summit was a reality check on just how much global consensus has broken down over what to do about climate change."

Forests Forever - Restore, Reinhabit, Re-enchant Forests Forever was founded in 1989 during the historic campaign to save Headwaters ancient redwood forest in Humboldt County, California. For over 30 years we have been rallying Californians in…

For over 30 years we have been rallying Californians in defense of the state’s 17 million acres of woodland ecosystems and watersheds. We accomplish this through year-round education, grassroots organizing, occasional litigation and work in elections.