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The climate disaster movie isn’t new. It also hasn’t changed that much.
As the world warms and water becomes increasingly scarce, this highly adaptable single-celled organism just might become a prime player on your dinner plate.
Federal data reveal the plan does little to stop drilling and may push future development into Indigenous communities.
Carbon dioxide emissions aren’t the only way aviation warms the planet. Exhaust contains a host of polluting particles, from soot to nitrogen oxides.
The so-called “exchange contract” has created a surreal split-screen effect: One group of farmers has ample water. Another has almost none.
A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
But 1.5 degrees, the world’s most ambitious goal, still looks out of reach.
We’ve got a lot of old oil and gas infrastructure, and it’s leakier than we thought.
A draft plan says it could be done by 2045, but only with the help of significant carbon capture projects.
