Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover of Twitter has caused confusion on the platform, with mass layoffs of employees and impersonations of accounts such as Eli Lilly, which resulted in the pharmaceutical company’s stock drop, according to NBC News. An NBC News timeline of the saga explains that this all began in April 2022, when Musk first started purchasing shares of the social media platform.
Weekly Climate News
Feb. 18, 2021
Air pollution has been confirmed to result in 1 in 5 deaths annually around the world.
A NASA research team is going back to researching cloud formations after being impeded by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are working to understand how variations in aerosol particles from human and natural sources affect clouds.
A winter storm hit Texas, leaving many in frigid temperatures without power and electricity.
Elon Musk announced a four-year-long carbon capture contest that will award $100 million funding for the development of carbon removal technology.
U.S. government scientists said that America has the potential for a carbon-free future by 2050 if projected changes to wind and solar power are made.
Disha Ravi, a climate activist in India, was placed in jail for sharing information about the farmers’ protest with Greta Thunberg.
The U.K. government put a stop to construction plans for a deep coal mine after accusations of hypocrisy in regard to its current climate action arose.
Protests began in northern Minnesota to halt the progress of Line 3, an oil pipeline from the U.S. to Canada.