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Working from home is erasing carbon emissions — but for how long?

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Kate Yoder | 0 Comments

Two months into a worldwide pandemic, it’s looking like office jobs are going the way of the dinosaurs — well, at least the “office” part. Employees at Google and Facebook were told they could work from home for the rest…

Megaraptor: Fossils of 10m-long dinosaur found in Argentina

Posted on May 19, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Palaeontologists have found the fossils of a new megaraptor in Patagonia, in the south of Argentina. Megaraptors were large carnivorous dinosaurs with long arms and claws measuring up to 35cm (14in) in length. They also had powerful legs…

Siberia experiences hottest spring on record, fueling wildfires

Posted on May 19, 2020 by elizabethalberts | 0 Comments

A few hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle, the small town of Boguchany in Siberia, Russia, had its hottest April on record. On April 25, the temperature soared to 31° Celsius (87.8° Fahrenheit), even though it should be much…

How a changing climate threatens Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies (commentary)

Posted on May 19, 2020 by dilrukshi | 0 Comments

As climate change impact dramatically alters the world we live in, the biodiversity around us is also experiencing rapid and alarming changes. For dragonflies and damselflies (odonates), having an amphibious life cycle with an exclusively aquatic larval stage and a…

Saving Chaco: As coronavirus consumes New Mexico, drilling threatens sacred land

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Yvette Cabrera | 0 Comments

The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed tribal communities in New Mexico, where Native Americans comprise about 11 percent of the state’s population but a staggering 56 percent of its recorded COVID-19 cases. Last week the Navajo Nation, whose territory stretches across…

Has the Pandemic Cleaned Up Our Air? Answers Could Lie on Your Doorstep

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Susan Phillips | 0 Comments

Fewer cars, less coal-powered electricity, and industrial shutdowns combined with a cool and breezy spring has improved air quality in many areas. The post Has the Pandemic Cleaned Up Our Air? Answers Could Lie on Your Doorstep appeared first on…

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Posted on May 18, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

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Will social distancing kill car-free culture?

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Eve Andrews | 0 Comments

When I gave up my car nearly four years ago, I anticipated it would come with certain challenges: hauling groceries by hand, navigating bus transfers, squeezing into crowded subway cars. But one I did not anticipate was not being able…

Who’s financing deforestation in Papua New Guinea? A new report follows the money.

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Rachel Ramirez | 0 Comments

Papua New Guinea has one of the largest expanses of tropical rainforest on the planet. But in recent years the island nation just north of Australia has seen a surge in deforestation from logging and mining, which has threatened to…

Cities aren’t doomed to repeat the bad old days

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Henry Grabar | 0 Comments

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Trains and buses are running half-empty, abandoned by frightened commuters. Fortune 500 companies are fleeing downtown, saying they don’t want expensive, centrally…