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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/10/15


    -Research suggests that humanity is exceeding Earth’s ecological limits

    - A global shift to sustainable, plant-rich diets could halve cattle production by 2050

    - Fungi are gaining long-overdue recognition as a third pillar of nature alongside flora and fauna

    -A new nationwide map identifies U.S. rivers most able to sustain aquatic biodiversity

    -The Dead Sea is shrinking and warming. As water levels fall, salt becomes more concentrated

    -The UN warns that food loss and waste account for 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions

    -Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project will restore 250 acres of farmland into salmon-supporting wetlands

    -A western Wyoming judge sentenced three men for abusing an infirm moose

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/10/15


    -Earth's life-support systems are in peril — and they're getting worse

    -A Kelvin wave so severe it could raise sea levels along California by up to a foot


    -178 major fossil-fuel and cement producers have already caused the majority of global warming


    -The herbicide atrazine contaminates roughly 860,000 miles of U.S. rivers


    -Aral Sea’s catastrophic drying up and shrinkage has released vast amounts of carbon dioxide once locked in lake-bottom sediments


    -Tulare Lake in Calif, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi has returned to exceptional rainfall


    -The U.S. Department of Energy has announced financial support for 21 next-generation geothermal projects


    -The endangered thick-billed parrot, once found in Arizona and New Mexico is making a comeback


    -Florida is using solar-powered robotic rabbits to help combat invasive Burmese pythons

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/10/15


    -Research suggests that humanity is exceeding Earth’s ecological limits

    - A global shift to sustainable, plant-rich diets could halve cattle production by 2050

    - Fungi are gaining long-overdue recognition as a third pillar of nature alongside flora and fauna

    -A new nationwide map identifies U.S. rivers most able to sustain aquatic biodiversity

    -The Dead Sea is shrinking and warming. As water levels fall, salt becomes more concentrated

    -The UN warns that food loss and waste account for 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions

    -Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project will restore 250 acres of farmland into salmon-supporting wetlands

    -A western Wyoming judge sentenced three men for abusing an infirm moose

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/09/29

    -Hurricane Polo one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, while a Nor'easter wreaked havoc on the Atlantic coast

    -Global ocean waters outside the polar regions remained at unprecedented average surface temperatures for 100 straight days

    -Europe’s heatwaves and drought have driven the Rhine River to critically low levels

    -NOAA Fisheries has issued 34 priorities supporting the Trump administration’s push to deregulate U.S. commercial fishing

    -A weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the AMOC, could destabilize global weather and food production

    -Two cyclones dumped rain on the empty quarter of Arabia produced 3 generations of millions of Desert Locust


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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/09/29

    -The Mediterranean is warming and becoming saltier at an accelerating rate


    -Greenland and Antarctica have lost about 12.5 trillion tons of ice since 1979


    -The EPA repeals major Biden-era limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.


    -Mining companies quickly moved to stake claims on lands removed from National Parks by Trump


    -Invasive species European green crabs, are spreading across Washington’s Puget Sound


    -Florida recycled 500,000 tons plus of discarded oyster and clam shells into Gulf waters with major positive results

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/09/14

    -August 2026 became Earth’s hottest month on record, driven by human-caused climate change and a strengthening El Niño


    -California faced an unusually rare tropical threat as three key weather conditions align


    -The US reached a major solar milestone in Q2 2026, with installed capacity sufficient to power over 50 million homes


    -The UK found that found flying insect deaths on license plates fell 60% in five years


    -U of Florida researchers track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades using radio transmitters


    -Defending America’s environmental heritage—national parks, public lands, clean air and water—is a profoundly pro-American stance

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/09/10

    -A record-breaking El Niño is developing across the equatorial Pacific, pushing ocean temperatures far above historic baselines.


    -Sea level rise driven by melting ice sheets poses an urgent threat to coastal communities


    -Sea-level rise places over 14 million people at immediate risk of permanent inundation.


    -The Himalayan region faces severe risks from future glacial floods


    -The Iran war has heightened the risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz


    -Trump administration opposes bike lanes arguing lanes worsen traffic and fuel waste


    -Indigenous and community defenders confront expanding oil extraction, mining, and agribusiness at convention

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  • GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    2026/09/02

    -Investigations indicate the deadly flash floods along the Nepal–China border were triggered by a massive rock and glacier collapse due to a warming climate


    -National Park Service states that a landowner is seeking to connect their property with a park service road in Yosemite National Park for commercial development.


    -Federal officials have sharply cut how much water Arizona, California and Nevada can draw from the Colorado River over the next two years


    -Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has quietly sold thousands of protected wild mustangs to buyers who ship them to foreign slaughterhouses


    -Italian scientists have released thousands of farmed octopuses into the Adriatic Sea to combat invasive blue crabs that have devastated local fisheries


    -We are now in the busiest time of year for hornets, yellow jackets, and other types of wasps as well as lantern flies and Ticks


    -For the first time in 100 years, a wild North American river otter has been documented along the Bronx River.

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