Category: Environment
Amazon and others commit to net zero carbon by 2040 and 100% renewable energy by 2030
Amazon makes the pledge – “Setting Goal to Meet the Paris Agreement 10 Years Early”
NASA funds $2.3M for Aviation, Planetary, Space Research university graduate fellowships
#California #Minnesota #New Mexico #Texas #Maryland #Washington #MontclairStateUniversity #Florida #New Mexico #Hawaii #Ohio #Pennsylvania #Georgia #NASA
Funding tripled, Florida expands python fight and doubles number of Burmese Python Hunters
“Why did it have to be snakes?”
Hurricane Dorian: Warning and update for Indian River County, Florida
Indian River County is currently under a Hurricane Warning; Mandatory Evacuations are in effect for affected areas.
Florida woman who hid gator in her pants during traffic stop sentenced
In addition to pulling an alligator out of her pants, she also had 42 striped mud turtles and a softshell turtle stashed in a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” backpack
Momoa: ‘Sorry Warner Bros: We can’t shoot Aquaman 2 because Jason got run over by a bulldozer’
The ‘Aquaman’ star is leading protests against construction of the TMT atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea
Cops issue ‘Meth-Gators’ warning: Flushing drugs in toilet could create meth alligators
Don’t flush your drugs, including prescription pills. Worst case scenario? A methed up gator
Actress Lee Yeol-eum charged in Thailand for catching and eating endangered giant clams
Producers of Lee’s reality TV show said they didn’t know the giant clams were endangered; but the man in charge of the marine park said the show was informed about all the regulations
Fecal parasite ‘Crypto’ in swimming pools on the rise, leading cause of disease outbreaks
CDC report: fecal parasite ‘Crypto’ outbreaks from 2009 – 2017 resulted in 7,465 illnesses, 287 hospitalizations and one death
Dragonfly Mission: NASA planning mission to Titan to search for origins and signs of life
The Dragonfly craft will take advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere – four times denser than Earth’s – to become the first vehicle ever to fly its entire science payload to new places for repeatable and targeted access to surface materials
