Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:16:24 +0000
Last night, the California Assembly worked overtime to secure passage of the largest climate bill in state (any state’s) history. The bill will surely be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, who has long pushed for climate action. It includes $54 billion in spending over 5 years on things like electric vehicles, infrastructure, and resilience to […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:00 +0000
While hydropower provides about 16% of global electricity generation today, climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that could translate into a spectrum of risks for hydropower production. A recent study published in the journal Water estimates 61% of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:50:08 +0000
My grandfather told me an interesting story once. When he was a kid, he realized that the desert was, in fact, quite dry in the Southwest. He remembers asking his dad (who I was fortunate enough to actually know a little as a kid) how all the new people moving in were going to get […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:48:12 +0000
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Rachel Cleetus Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires — around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. It’s fueling “Danger Seasons,” when these impacts are at their […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:32:55 +0000
The Colorado River wasn’t really on my mind as I was scrolling through TikTok the other night looking for cat videos, gem videos, and interesting smoothie recipes to try. The TikTok algorithm had other plans, however. To the surprise of Vanessa Keating, her video highlighting the decline of the Colorado River went viral. Her video […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:09:07 +0000
Drought in California could nearly halve the state’s hydroelectric generation this summer, pushing up wholesale power prices in the West, and forcing the state to rely on natural gas generation and out-of-state imports, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects in a new analysis. The EIA suggests in a supplement to its May 2022–released Short-Term Energy Outlook […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 20:10:17 +0000
An unprecedented array of risks—ranging from capacity shortfalls, extreme weather, extended drought, supply chain issues, cybersecurity, solar PV tripping, fuel constraints, to wildfires—could imperil the reliability of nearly every North American bulk power system (BPS) region west of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) this summer, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) warns in […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:05:39 +0000
You have to hand it to the Americans. They’ve spent most of the last century being particularly great at weaving fantastical dreams in Hollywood, building cartoon castles, golf courses in the sand around Palm Springs, Venice-style canals in Vegas and condos on Florida swamp land.
Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:55:01 +0000
What can the US Bureau of Reclamation do to mitigate the effects of climate change on hydropower?
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 19:31:57 +0000
Here’s your weekly roundup of climate change news for the week of April 4 to April 10, 2022.
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