A serious bird flu infection in Canada, a troubling projection of future plastic waste and dispatches from a global climate convention.
, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s get the week started by catching up on a few science stories you might have missed.
The reason we’re seeing the drought in the East right now is because we’ve just had a prolonged period where we haven’t really gotten much rain. That’s been particularly true in the Northeast. We have recently seen some rain hit in a few places, particularly from Louisiana up into the Ohio River Valley.
has a reporter there on the ground, so here he is with some key takeaways from the meetings as of Friday.My name is Alec Luhn. I’m a Pulitzer Center reporting fellow covering the COP29 climate summit. The goal of this year’s summit is to increase international climate finance from $100 billion per year to $1 trillion per year or more. But it’s been ill-fated from the very start.
We just found out that emissions continued to rise this year. They haven’t started to come down yet despite almost 30 years of these climate summits. And a stark reminder of that is another report that came out, which I covered for, which found that even if we stopped emitting carbon tomorrow, a certain amount of sea level rise is probably already locked in from the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
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