“A newly released U.N. World Water Development Report warns that humanity is walking a dangerous path toward losing its most precious resource…. despite the stark warning, the report actually focuses on solutions. A global water crisis is only imminent if not addressed in time, and the good news is we already have a lot of the projects and initiatives we need to tackle the problem”.
Number of monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico for winter is on the decline
The trip remains one of the longest insect migrations known. Eastern monarch butterflies once migrated to a wintering site in Mexico that spanned 45 acres of forest. Their population during the winter months has been on the decline for the last 25 years.
US Sea Levels Could rise 10-12 inches
The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050, as much rise over a 30-year period as the previous 100-year period of 1920-2020, because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday.
Read more….https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/sealevelrise-tech-report.html
See where flooding is expected…https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/0/-8272882.729902666/5072536.016884262/14/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion
Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than It Stores
The study, which found greater depletion of carbon storage in the heavily deforested eastern Amazon, confirmed previous research that used satellites or hands-on measuring techniques.
Getting More Solar On Rooftops
“In the United States, solar permitting is spread across more than 23,000 separate jurisdictions and 3,000 utilities. This makes for a fragmented and unstandardized process, leading to long waits for permits. In some places homeowners wait for months to get their systems on line…..A new online permitting application, SolarAPP+, developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, RMI, solar industry leaders, and local governments, is setting out to change that.“
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Getting More Solar on Rooftops Across the Country