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Weekly Climate News

October 1, 2020

  • Land grabbers in the Amazon’s Indigenous territories advanced after encouragement from Bolsonaro. 

  • Eight new projects have been funded by NASA that explore the connections between the environment and COVID-19. 

  • Over one-third of food in the U.S. is either lost or wasted, which equates to about $161 billion annually, and this problem has been exacerbated by the global pandemic. Read this article about how to reduce food waste. 

  • The Trump administration released a plan to open the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest U.S. national forest, to logging. 

  • As summers in the Arctic are warming due to climate change, northernmost landscapes are changing, becoming greener with increased plant growth.

  • Recent research papers claim that a new compact nuclear fusion reactor is “very likely to work.” This suggests that producing energy in the same way the sun does might be achievable.

  • A digital clock in Manhattan now shows the time left for critical action to be taken before the effects of global warming become irreversible.

  • Under the COVID-19 lockdown, India experienced its longest recorded period of clean air. This came to an end in September resulting primarily from New Delhi, as the burning of crop waste by farmers caused a deterioration in air quality.