As Amherst, Mass., writes its rules for where to put solar, some local environmentalists worry about farmland and forests getting lost to solar projects. Other local environmentalists worry that overly restrictive solar rules would limit the town's ability to fight climate change.
This map shows highlighted in orange the lands owned by the Nature Conservancy in New York State. Click on the lands for details.
I was reading that Deep Water Horizon spill cold be seen from space in the archives, and I thought it would be interesting to make a map. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(satellite)#/media/File:Gulf_Oil_Spill_Creeps_Towards_Mississippi_Delta.jpg
This interactive map shows all of the operable power plants in New York State. Not all of them ran in 2016 or some only ran occasionally, but they could be brought online at least part of the year to generate electricity.
Data Source: EIA Form 860. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
Global temperatures are likely to soar to record highs over the next five years, driven by human-caused warming and a climate pattern known as El Ni?o, forecasters at the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday.
The record for Earth’s hottest year was set in 2016. There is a 98 percent chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed that, the forecasters said, while the average from 2023 to ’27 will almost certainly be the warmest for a five-year period ever recorded.
“This will have far-reaching repercussions for health, food security, water management and the environment,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the meteorological organization. “We need to be prepared.”
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