Headline News:
- “How Beavers Are Quietly Tackling Europe’s Raging Wildfires And Helping Burnt Landscapes Recover” • Beavers build dams, dig channels, and transform small streams into broad wetland areas. This helps keep plants lush and green, even through long periods of drought. When a wildfire ignites, the green vegetation near the beaver ponds is hard to burn. [Euronews]
Small beaver dam (Patti Black, Unsplash)
- “Why Sixth-Generation Wildfires Are More Dangerous And How To Fight Them” • The wildfires that broke out over the past week in France and Spain, are the latest examples of what the operational and scientific community has come to describe as “sixth-generation fires.” Driven by climate change, they cannot be fought by normal means. [Euronews]
- “Lake Mead And Lake Powell Nearing Record Low Levels, Data Shows” • Water levels at the two largest reservoirs in the country, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are still dwindling, according to data from the US Bureau of Reclamation. Lake Mead is less than one foot from its record low, and Lake Powell is barely doing better than that. [ABC News]
- “In Germany, Wind And Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels” • Wind and solar together generated 44% of Germany’s electricity, while fossil fuels generated roughly 43%, according to data from the Energy Institute, a London think tank. The data are a milestone for the German push to ramp up renewable energy and phase out gas, coal, and nuclear power. [Yale E360]
- “Appeal Challenges Public Lands Data Center in Nevada” • The BLM approved a 167-MW data center proposed by Skylar Capital Management through an unorthodox permitting procedure that avoided any environmental review or public participation. It is the first data center ever approved on public lands. An appeal has been filed by environmental groups. [CleanTechnica]
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