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Oct 19

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever after scientists discovered an unprecedented decline in crab numbers.

The number one suspect: climate change trib.al/2Lbn0Pp

The decision to cancel both the Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab seasons came as a devastating blow for local fisheries in a state where the seafood industry is an economic cornerstone trib.al/2Lbn0Pp

It’s not entirely clear what happened to all the snow crabs, but the animals are "sensitive to the loss of sea ice and really warm temperatures," an expert says trib.al/2Lbn0Pp

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Oct 18

Clean energy is about to go mainstream.

From solar power and electric cars, to grid-scale batteries and heat pumps—the world is crossing into a mass-adoption moment for green technologies trib.al/Aj17qEM

Bloomberg Green has identified 10 of those tipping points and analyzed which countries have crossed the threshold and how quickly those markets then expanded trib.al/Aj17qEM

It all starts with the transition to clean energy.

Now, 87 countries are drawing at least 5% of their electricity from wind and solar. The US hit 5% in 2011 and surged past 20% renewable electricity last year trib.al/Aj17qEM

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Sep 18

Car executives have finally made cheap EVs ... on paper.

They aren't sending many to the factory.

Here's what you need to know if you are shopping for an electric car in the US 🧵 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The vast majority of electric cars and e-trucks are now expensive, high-trim versions packed with extra features.

Here's a look at the yawning gap between starting prices and average sticker prices

For example, in July, Ford's electric F-150 "Lightning" was priced at $80,400 on average — that's more than double the base price (and that's before dealership "market adjustment" fees)

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Sep 16

The farming technology company Plenty is gearing up to build its biggest indoor complex yet.

The $300 million facility will grow multiple crops, including strawberries, leafy greens and tomatoes.

How will it work? 🧵 bloom.bg/3BpxVKj

Plenty says that its 30-foot vertical towers maximize light for crops, producing 350 times the yield per acre of traditional farms

The new farm aims to produce 20 million pounds of food, starting with Driscoll's strawberries that will find their way to plates across the US

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Aug 26

Waterways are drying up due to droughts and heat waves that owe their origins to climate change.

These photos reveal what lies beneath normal water levels 🧵 bloom.bg/3RiwmEp

The world is fully in the grip of accelerating climate change, and it has a profound economic impact.

Losing waterways means a serious risk to shipping routes, agriculture, energy supplies — and drinking water

In Europe, rivers that have been critical to commerce for centuries are now shriveled, threatening the global movement of fuel, food and other commodities

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Aug 24

An extreme summer has taken a toll on Asia’s longest river.

The Yangtze flows about 3,900 miles through China and feeds farms that provide much of the country’s food and massive hydroelectric stations, including the Three Gorges Dam trib.al/zeg4enJ

A year ago, water lapped almost as high as the riverbank.

Now, the level is at the lowest for this time of year since records began in 1865, exposing swathes of sand, rock and oozing brown mud that reeks of rotting fish trib.al/zeg4enJ

Wan Jinjun, a 62-year-old retiree who has swum the Yangtze almost every day for the past decade in Wuhan, said he’s never seen a drought like this before with water levels increasingly lower.

“And it keeps going down,” he said
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