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‘Into the Thaw’: Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska

‘Into the Thaw’: Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska

With each new federal administration, energy priorities shift. With the election of Donald Trump in 2024, one of his administration’s key promises, enforced by an executive order on January 20 this year and as promised in Project 2025, was to try to ramp up oil and gas drilling in the continental U.S. A key location […]
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Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

According to a new report by independent research group Climate Central, the climate crisis has driven weeks of hot temperatures in West Africa’s “cocoa belt,” where roughly 70% of the cocoa in the world is produced, impacting harvests and likely causing record chocolate prices. Between July of 2022 and February of last year, cocoa prices […]
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NOAA Imposes Restrictions on Scientists, Raising Concerns Over Global Forecasting

NOAA Imposes Restrictions on Scientists, Raising Concerns Over Global Forecasting

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has placed new restrictions on scientists that those inside the agency have said could hamper the availability and quality of global weather forecasts. Current and former high-level scientists with the federal agency said the new rules have created unease and caused alarm with partners at European […]
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