Tag: Climate Protest
Fire and Rain: West to get more one-two extreme climate hits.
A new study reveals that the Western United States will experience more frequent extreme climate events, with wildfires increasingly followed by heavy downpours. By 2100, regions like the Pacific Northwest, California, and Colorado could see up to eight-fold increase in fire-flood combinations, driven by human-caused climate change and rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions rose in Rhode Island.
[Rhode Island saw a 8.2% rise in greenhouse gas emissions from 2017-2018, primarily from transportation and electricity sectors, potentially jeopardizing state's climate reduction targets.]
Activists stage global climate protest, slam Ukraine war.
Climate activists from Indonesia to Europe and the US staged global protests, calling for stronger environmental policies and an end to the Ukraine war. The Fridays for Future movement, inspired by Greta Thunberg, organized demonstrations demanding systemic changes to combat climate change.
