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Coca-Cola, Nestle To Privatize World’s Second Largest Aquifer in Brazil | Elliott Gabriel  | MintPressNews.com

Coca-Cola, Nestle To Privatize World’s Second Largest Aquifer in Brazil | Elliott Gabriel  | MintPressNews.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it

A concerted push is underway in South America that could see one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water soon fall into the hands of transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola and Nestle. According to reports, talks to privatize the Guarani Aquifer – a vast subterranean water reserve lying beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – have already reached an advanced stage. The deal would grant a consortium of U.S. and Europe-based conglomerates exclusive rights to the aquifer that would last over 100 years.

Named after the Guarani indigenous people, the Guarani Aquifer is the world’s second largest underground water reserve and is estimated to be capable of sustainably providing the world’s population with drinking water for up to 200 years. Environmental groups, social movements, and land defenders warn that the exploitation of the freshwater reserve could see the 460,000-square mile (1.2 million sq. km.) reservoir sacrificed for the short-term profits of agribusiness, energy, and food-and-drink giants.

For global behemoths like U.S.-based Coca-Cola and Swiss Nestle, the extraction and sale of drinking water – a finite resource and a basic necessity for all living beings – is especially lucrative. Water intended for public use is enriched with various minerals or combined with cheap sweeteners and other ingredients before being bottled and sold at a massive profit.


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SpaceX alums beat RV establishment to first electric camper van in US | NewAtlas.com

Winnebago has shown two different iterations of Ford Transit-based eRV prototypes, but an actual all-electric production camper van available for sale has remained elusive in the American market. That's set to change with a little push from outside the old guard in Elkhart (and Minnesota). Founded just last year by ex-SpaceX and Tesla engineers, Detroit-based Grounded RVs has presented a Ford E-Transit camper van it plans to have ready for delivery in a few weeks' time. More than just a silent, zero-emissions camping coach with loads of solar power, the Grounded G1 is an impressive smart RV with a modular interior design that lets buyers customize their ideal floor plan before heading off on a cleaner style of road trip.

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Whose Test Results Should East Palestine Believe? | by Gabrielle Gurley | The American Prospect | Prospect.org

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 5 office tweeted that 24/7 air monitoring was ongoing at 23 stations in the East Palestine community. The agency’s Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer bus tests air emissions near the derailment soil removal site. The agency had announced the deployment of the TAGA bus to East Palestine on February 28—that is, 25 days after the Norfolk Southern derailment. That is “way too late,” says Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator during the Obama administration. “The TAGA bus should have been there the first week.”

 

Delay has been the EPA’s default reaction throughout the series of decisions that ceded the federal agency’s emergency authority and superior expertise to ill-prepared Ohio local and state officials. The EPA took 18 days to order Norfolk Southern to pay for cleanup operations and ten days to send a small team of six agency officials and 16 contractors to the site—a decision that Enck called “late” and “limited.”

 

Local residents and visiting researchers continue to suffer from exposure to the toxic chemical burn-off. 

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California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse | by Jane Bittle | Wired.com

California is no stranger to big swings between wet and dry weather. The “atmospheric river” storms that have battered the state this winter are part of a system that has long interrupted periods of drought with huge bursts of rain—indeed, they provide somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of all precipitation on the West Coast. 

 

The parade of storms that has struck California in recent months has dropped more than 30 trillion gallons of water on the state, refilling reservoirs that had sat empty for years and burying mountain towns in snow.

 

But climate change is making these storms much wetter and more intense, ratcheting up the risk of potential flooding in California and other states along the West Coast. That’s not only because the air over the Pacific will hold more moisture as sea temperatures rise, leading to giant rain and snow volumes, but also because warming temperatures on land will cause more precipitation to fall as rain in the future, which will lead to more dangerous floods.

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How Alaska’s Coastal Communities Are Racing Against Erosion | DailyYonder.com

How Alaska’s Coastal Communities Are Racing Against Erosion | DailyYonder.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
This story was originally published by Grist. A sandy bluff towers above the beach in Dillingham, Alaska. Every year, Alaska Native resident Ken Shade
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Antarctic snowfalls found to affect short-term sea level rises | NewAtlas.com

Antarctic snowfalls found to affect short-term sea level rises | NewAtlas.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Based on a 25-year record of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, a team of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have shown that changes in snowfall over Antarctica can have significant short-term effects on global sea level rises.
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Report: Surging population, rising seas could lead to more of Florida being paved over | WLRN.org

Report: Surging population, rising seas could lead to more of Florida being paved over | WLRN.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
The joint report from the University of Florida and 1000 Friends of Florida found a 23 percent increase in population and just under a foot of sea rise by 2040 could wipe out a million acres of undeveloped land.
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MA: Big Blue Conference to Highlight Coastal Economy | CapeCod.com

MA: Big Blue Conference to Highlight Coastal Economy | CapeCod.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
HYANNIS – Registration is open for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Big Blue Conference, a two-day event May 2 and 3 highlighting economic opportunities for the region’s water resources. …
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FL: They marched to end modern day slavery in the agricultural fields | WGCU.org

FL: They marched to end modern day slavery in the agricultural fields | WGCU.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Farmworkers share stories of life in the Florida agricultural fields
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FL Environmental groups suing over slowing gopher tortoise protections | WUSFNews.WUSF.USF.edu

FL Environmental groups suing over slowing gopher tortoise protections | WUSFNews.WUSF.USF.edu | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
They say the federal government has previously agreed to added protections for the species, but has since backtracked.
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55-year-old water taxi goes solar-electric for eco-friendly harbor tours | NewAtlas.com

55-year-old water taxi goes solar-electric for eco-friendly harbor tours | NewAtlas.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Back in 2019, Canadian startup Ride Solar launched a Kickstarter aimed at converting a 52-year-old water taxi into a solar-powered cruise vessel for sight-seeing tours of Prince Edward Island. The campaign was unsuccessful but the idea lived on, and now the refitted and renamed Islola Solaretto is…
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MA: Local Experts Weigh in on Biden Climate Plan | CapeCod.com

MA: Local Experts Weigh in on Biden Climate Plan | CapeCod.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
HYANNIS – Local marine experts are applauding President Joe Biden’s announcement of the U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP) that they say acknowledges the essential role the ocean plays in …
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Biden officially designates new monuments in Nevada and Texas at conservation summit | IdahoCapitalSun.com

Biden officially designates new monuments in Nevada and Texas at conservation summit | IdahoCapitalSun.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Biden announced the designation of new national monuments: Nevada's Avi Kwa Ame National Monument and Texas' Castner Range National Monument.
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Climate activists in Boston call on big banks divest from fossil fuel companies | WBUR News | WBUR.org

Climate activists in Boston call on big banks divest from fossil fuel companies | WBUR News | WBUR.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
The Boston protest is one of 102 climate demonstrations organized Tuesday all over the U.S.
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Seabirds That Swallow Ocean Plastic Waste Have Scarring in Their Stomachs – Scientists Have Named This Disease ‘Plasticosis’ | The Conversation | DCReports.org

As a conservation biologist who studies plastic ingestion by marine wildlife, I can count on the same question whenever I present research: “How does plastic affect the animals that eat it?”

 

This is one of the biggest questions in this field, and the verdict is still out. However, a recent study from the Adrift Lab, a group of Australian and international scientists who study plastic pollution, adds to a growing body of evidence that ingesting plastic debris has discernible chronic effects on the animals that consume it. This work represents a crucial step: moving from knowing that plastic is everywhere to diagnosing its effects once ingested.

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The Fight to Expose Corporations’ Real Impact on the Climate | by Gregory Barber | Wired.com | 

SAY YOU ARE a maker of computer graphics cards, under pressure from investors questioning your green credentials. You know what to do. You email your various departments, asking them to tally up their carbon emissions and the energy they consume. Simple enough. You write a report pledging a more sustainable future, in which your trucks are electrified and solar panels adorn your offices.

 

Good start, your investors say. But what about the mines that produced the tantalum or palladium in your transistors? Or the silicon wafers that arrived via a lengthy supply chain? And what of when your product is shipped to customers, who install it in a laptop or run it 24/7 inside a data center to train an AI model like GPT-4 (or 5)? Eventually it will be discarded as trash or recycled. Chase down every ton of carbon and the emissions a company creates are many times times higher than it first seemed.

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Humans Have Created a New Natural Disaster | by Emily Atkin | NewRepublic.com

“Beach, eat, drink, dance, repeat.” These are Rihanna’s favorite things to do in Barbados. In a June 7 interview with Conde Nast Traveller, the pop star gushed over her home country, a small island nation in the middle of the Caribbean. “When I’m in Barbados, all is right with the world,” she said. But not all was right with Barbados. 

 

The same day, the local The Daily Nation newspaper reported on an “invasion of the Sargassum seaweed”—a brown, leafy algae that had washed up in thick mats on the white-sand beaches of the island’s eastern shores. The next day, the country’s government declared it a national emergency. Seen from afar, the bloom looked like a coppery oil spill slicking the sea. But a closer look revealed dead wildlife entangled within it.

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Kentucky Floods' Devastation Increased by Rural Inequities | DailyYonder.com

Kentucky Floods' Devastation Increased by Rural Inequities | DailyYonder.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
As severe weather events increase, so does danger to rural communities. Plans are in place to address the urban observation bias in national weather prediction, but the other piece — reliable broadband — could still be years away for places like Eastern Kentucky.
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Wood-derived powder could remove dye from textile industry wastewater | NewAtlas.com

Wood-derived powder could remove dye from textile industry wastewater | NewAtlas.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
In countries such as India, a great deal of toxic dye waste from the textile industry is released directly into waterways, potentially harming people and the environment. A new filtration media could remove much of that dye from wastewater streams – and it's derived from wood.
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Biden Advances Mine That Will Destroy Sacred Native Site | TheIntercept.com

Biden Advances Mine That Will Destroy Sacred Native Site | TheIntercept.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
In court, the feds said Oak Flat would be in the hands of mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP by early summer.
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U.N. report finds 1 in 4 people don't have access to clean drinking water | NPR.org

U.N. report finds 1 in 4 people don't have access to clean drinking water | NPR.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
A new U.N. water report warns the world is headed toward a global water crisis if human-caused climate change and population growth aren't addressed.
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New tropical mosquito is buzzing across Florida | NPR.org

New tropical mosquito is buzzing across Florida | NPR.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Little is known about the mosquito species known as Culex lactator. But it belongs to a group of mosquitoes known to carry diseases and researchers are worried about what will happen.
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Secrets behind beetle butt hydration could save world crops | NewAtlas.com

Secrets behind beetle butt hydration could save world crops | NewAtlas.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
One in five animal species on the planet are beetles, with around 400,000 species officially described but scientists believing there could be as many as 1.5 million different types of these resilient little bugs on Earth. And with short lifespans of between a few weeks to a few years, they’ve…
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Climate protesters call on banks to divest from fossil fuels | NPR.org

Climate protesters call on banks to divest from fossil fuels | NPR.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
Across the U.S. on Tuesday, people gathered outside major banks demanding that financial institutions shift away from investing in fossil fuel projects.
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FL CFO Jimmy Patronis on Biden Veto of ESG Repeal in Pension Funds | MyFloridaCFO.com

FL CFO Jimmy Patronis on Biden Veto of ESG Repeal in Pension Funds | MyFloridaCFO.com | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
CFO Jimmy Patronis said, “With this veto, Joe Biden has notified asset managers that they are to ignore returns and focus on reengineering society. If ESG is such a great investment – it would not need a government regulation to protect it.
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MA: Report led by BC researchers calls for plastics regulation to protect people's health | WBUR News | WBUR.org

MA: Report led by BC researchers calls for plastics regulation to protect people's health | WBUR News | WBUR.org | @The Convergence of ICT, Climate Change, EV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy | Scoop.it
The report calls for international caps on plastic production and reductions in the toxicity of chemicals in plastics.
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