The First Day of Summer, also known as the Summer Solstice, takes place when either of the Earth's poles reaches their maximum tilt towards the Sun. This happens twice a year, once in each hemisphere. The First Day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is on the June solstice, with the season running until the September equinox, while the First Day of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere is on the December solstice, with the season running until the March equinox.
The
president just unraveled years of work on tribal rights,
salmon and clean energy. So what happens next?
Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden
announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented
commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been
devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the
Pacific Northwest...The agreement is now just another of those
broken promises.
Washington’s
climate pollution data slow to see light of day, despite new
law
In Washington state, it is hard to know how well climate solutions
are working. The state takes up to four years to disclose whether
it is keeping its promise—and legal mandate—to slash its
climate-damaging pollution.
Wildfire
Smoke May Be Disrupting Ocean Carbon Storage
New research from the University of British Columbia reveals that
wildfires could be fundamentally altering how our oceans store
carbon, potentially turning a crucial climate ally into a source
of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Many
Hoped Senate Republicans Would Save Clean Energy. They Mostly
Didn’t.
A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a
House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits
for clean power.
A
Canadian company is first in line as Trump vows to fast-track
deep-sea mining
The bottom of the ocean is rich with minerals — as well as life
forms scientists haven’t even named yet. Vancouver-based The
Metals Company is asking for American permission to mine in
international waters.
Banning
plastic bags works to limit shoreline litter, study finds
Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found
that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags
littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.
The protection of Mar Menor was a huge step for the pioneering Rights of Nature movement. But three years on, little has changed.
New documentary follows a scientist on a mission to prove industrial forestry is implicated in a cycle of flooding, landslides and drought. Jacqueline Ronson reports.
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