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Audubon Florida Climate and Energy News Roundup

Today we share news about climate change affecting air turbulence, unexpected benefits from wind farms, a new way to obtain lithium, and more.

Air Turbulence: A Growing Threat to Passenger Safety Amid Climate Change

From the Express Tribune

“Severe turbulence incidents are on the rise, with climate change altering jet stream patterns and making flights bumpier. Recent cases, including a deadly incident on an Air Europa flight, highlight the dangers of turbulence, which has become a significant concern for both passengers and airlines.”

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How Rural Families Are Saving Thousands With Electric Vehicles

From Yale Climate Connections

“Some people thought Juliana Dockery and her husband Sean were being impractical when they bought an electric vehicle in 2022. Why? Like one in five Americans, they live in a rural area — Grass Valley, California — where charging stations are few and far between. And with a bustling household including three kids, it would be their family’s only car…Like most EV drivers, Dockery charges her car mostly at home and uses apps to plan her longer trips around charging station availability.”

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Researchers Reap Unexpected Benefits After Implementing 'Wind Park' That Can Revolutionize Energy Production: 'Huge Potential'

From Yahoo News

“Offshore wind farms can provide us with clean, renewable energy to power our homes. But they can also provide us with delicious seafood, as researchers in Denmark have shown. Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall and Aarhus University in Denmark have teamed up to create the world's first offshore wind farm that doubles as an underwater seafood farm, Euronews reported.”

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Sieving Lithium Out of Salty Waters Get a Boost From a Nature-inspired Membrane

From Anthropocene.com

“Lithium is key to our electric, low-carbon future. The best known rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage rely on the silvery metal. But the supply of lithium is uncertain. An efficient, sustainable new lithium extraction technology could help combat the lithium shortage. Researchers have designed a membrane that can quickly separate lithium from salt-lake brines. The membrane, reported in the journal Science Advances, draws inspiration from the tiny channels that separate ions in biological tissue.”

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Mount Rainier White-tailed Ptarmigan Listed as Threatened by Climate Change

From the Seattle Times

“The Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan — found atop the Cascades from Canada to southern Washington — is officially listed as a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday. The ptarmigan are about a foot long and weigh just a pound. They’re threatened by the dwindling mountain snowpack, brought on by climate change and our continued reliance on fossil fuels. The small birds spend their entire lives on top of the mountains.”

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These Supreme Court Decisions Just Made it Harder to Solve Climate Change

From Grist.com

“The Supreme Court on Monday weakened a law protecting federal regulations from lawsuits, granting the companies governed by those rules more time to challenge them. The move effectively eliminates any statute of limitations on rules issued by a wide range of federal agencies, potentially placing even long-standing regulations in legal peril…These decisions, coupled with two others issued last week, could sharply curtail the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to limit air pollution, govern toxic substances, and set climate policy.”

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