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Weekly Climate News

April 22, 2021 

  • Alaska’s boreal forests have experienced extreme damage from wildfires, but the regrowth of deciduous trees is helping to sequester more carbon than before. 

  • Climate change has been altering the monsoon season in India, which poses threatening concerns for both Asian countries and the world. 

  • Dust plumes from Africa, like the recent “Godzilla” pushed by winds in June 2020 from the Sahara across the Atlantic to North America, will shrink significantly due to climate change. 

  • U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Earth Day that the United States will cut carbon emissions in half by the end of the decade. 

  • The “Climate Clock” in New York City’s Union Square now shows an estimate of how much of the world’s energy comes from renewable resources. 

  • A recent study found that air pollution in India is costing Indian businesses $95 billion every year. 

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted an invitation from Biden for a virtual climate summit. 

  • Springtime snow and unseasonably harsh frosts in Western Europe are connected to losses of Arctic sea ice.

  • U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haalandrevoked a slew of orders issued under the Trump administration, shifting away from policies in favor of the oil and gas industries.