January 2021 - Page 9 of 10 - EnviroLink Network

Pennsylvania is on the cusp of a solar energy boom. Some communities want to fight it.

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Rachel McDevitt | 0 Comments

Another front in the debate over energy emerges in Pennsylvania: Leasing land for clean energy versus living next to hundreds of solar panels. The post Pennsylvania is on the cusp…

Episode for January 8, 2021

Posted on January 8, 2021 by The Allegheny Front | 0 Comments

Pennsylvania is on the cusp of a solar boom, but are some against rows of solar panels in their backyards. Efforts in Ohio to create heavier penalties for trespass of…

A good year for the Philippine eagle in 2020, but not for its supporters

Posted on January 8, 2021 by leilani | 0 Comments

MINDANAO, Philippines — Efforts to conserve the critically endangered Philippine eagle, one of the rarest raptors in the world, soared high even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the global havoc…

Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Morgan Erickson-Davis | 0 Comments

The Siona are a binational people, their territory straddling two countries: Sucumbíos province in northeastern Ecuador and in the Putumayo department in southeastern Colombia. But the forest they depend on…

Can we really end our reliance on natural gas? These moms have a plan — and the ear of utilities.

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Brianna Baker | 0 Comments

Natural gas infrastructure is akin to an enormous tree, its roots branching out across all 50 states. That analogy, passed on to her by a colleague, is always in the…

Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Maddie Stone | 0 Comments

On December 16, three 40 foot-long wind turbine blades were delivered via truck from a wind farm in Belfast to the Cork Institute of Technology in southern Ireland. For the…

FERC may finally help the public understand WTF it does

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Emily Pontecorvo | 0 Comments

If you’ve heard of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, commonly referred to as FERC, but have no idea what it does, I don’t blame you. FERC is one of the…

Greener planes of the future… or just pretty plans?

Posted on January 7, 2021 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Sharenoclose Share pagelinkCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightAirbus At an undisclosed location Airbus has spent months testing a radical looking plane. At 10ft (3m) wide, it is only small,…

Climate change could take weather patterns back to the Pliocene

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Nathanael Johnson | 0 Comments

The West Coast drinks from the wind. When westerly gales carry humid air from the Pacific Ocean into the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade mountain ranges, the West turns green,…

How 100% clean energy could power our cities and towns

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Daniel Penner | 0 Comments

View the video in your browser We built this tiny model town to show what it would look like if we tried to transition to 100% clean energy. It wasn’t easy,…