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I let you down.
—Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, speaking in his State of the State address last night, apologizes to the residents of Flint for the lead-tainted water crisis.
President Obama’s ambitious goal for electric car sales is falling short. -
The president hoped a million plug-in cars would hit the road by 2015. So far, only 400,000 of the vehicles have been sold. The cars usually come with a high price tag—and when you pair that with super cheap gas prices, they’re a tough sell. Reuters
The rate of ocean warming has doubled in recent years. -
A new study finds the global heat uptake of the oceans has doubled since 1997, and the percentage of heat accumulation stored in deeper waters—rather than close to the surface—is on the rise, too. Washington Post
From this God’s-eye-view, I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the Earth is. I’m hopeful for its future. And so, I’m going to work tomorrow.
—Writing in an op-ed in the New York Times, climate scientist and former astronaut Piers J. Sellers explains why a terminal cancer diagnosis hasn’t deterred him from thinking about the challenges of climate change
Dozens of beached whales die in Tamil Nadu. -
More than half of the 81 short-finned pilot whales that became stranded onshore in the southern Indian state died this week. Scientists aren't sure why the marine mammals turned up, but say the animals were disoriented, with several returning to land after wildlife officials had pushed them back to sea. Al Jazeera
Oklahoma had nearly a millennium's worth of earthquakes in just two years. -
Historically speaking, the state gets an average of two quakes a year registering above 3.0 on the Richter scale. But 842 such quakes shook Oklahoma last year, following 585 in 2014. Oil and gas operations in the state have triggered a dangerous surge in manmade tremors. The Guardian