As the weekly Earth Matters series has been removed from the Front Page at Daily Kos, and I’ve yet to decide whether to continue the series as a community diary, I’ve put together an archive to make it easier for anyone so inclined to find the 116 past editions. The archive entries are arranged oldest first. It should be noted that headlines only relate to two or three of the dozen or so items contained in each edition.
2024
Earth Matters: Kim Stanley Robinson & Michael Mann on doom; 33 green transition myths zapped (April 7, 2024)
Earth Matters: Funding gap hurts UN climate body; Ohio to host largest US agrivoltaic solar farm (March 31, 2024)
Earth Matters: GOP 'energy week' blasts Biden on climate; taxes subsidize polluting plastic makers (March 24, 2024)
Earth Matters: Republican energy-transition saboteurs; Biden's eco-work; are EVs truly green? (March 17, 2024)
Earth Matters: 25 states sue EPA over soot rule; weatherization gets big boost (March 10, 2024)
Earth Matters: No technological miracles needed to address climate; Green New Deal push relaunches (March 3, 2024)
Earth Matters: 5 new monuments would boost Biden's '30 by 30' plan; FEMA gives green grants (February 11, 2024)
Earth Matters: Studies say climate messaging is an election winner, but with what specific message? (February 4, 2024)
Earth Matters: VP Harris on $1 trillion in climate spending; Michael Mann gets his day in court (January 28, 2024)
Earth Matters: Endangering the Endangered Species Act; 'new denial' on climate change at YouTube (January 21, 2024)
Earth Matters: Haley no climate friend; largest renewables project in U.S. history now being built (January 14, 2024)
Earth Matters: Biden's IRA plan extends solar to low-income people, EVs surge (January 7, 2024)
2023
Earth Matters: 44,000 species at risk of extinction; denier Myron Ebell quits; a few takes on COP28 (December 17, 2023)
Earth Matters: $3bn Green Climate Fund pledge Harris announced will be tough to pry out of Congress (December 10, 2023)
Earth Matters: With 100% clean energy mandate, Michigan Democrats show elections have consequences (December 3, 2023)
Earth Matters: States still block Native water rights; LNG depot opposed; pachyderms ponder puzzles (November 12, 2023)
A scene from the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Earth Matters: U.S. wind takes some blows; Mike Johnson thinks the Rapture will solve climate change (November 5, 2023)
Earth Matters: Deforestation rose 4% in 2022; IEA says 50% of new energy will be renewables by 2030 (October 29, 2023)
Earth Matters: Administration celebrates launch of hydrogen hubs, but critics are seriously unhappy (October 22, 2023)
Earth Matters: 1000s interested in Climate Corps; IRS rule will help lower-income people afford EVs (October 15, 2023)
Earth Matters: Calif. looks into building roadside solar; maybe gov't should come for your burger (October 8, 2023)
Earth Matters: Slick talk from the fox in the COP28 henhouse; bringing back redwoods and grizzlies (October 1, 2023)
Earth Matters: Calif. case against deceptive Big Oil could be definitive; UAW strike could be, too (September 24, 2023)
Earth Matters: 20 firms plan 90% of new oil & gas projects through 2050; 188,000 EV jobs created (September 17, 2023)
Earth Matters: Oil subsidies at $7 trillion; PragerU Texas claim busted; UAW meets electrification (August 27, 2023)
Earth Matters: Campaigning Democrats should follow Biden's lead with two-pronged IRA message (August 20, 2023)
Earth Matters: Tribes cheer Biden on new natl monument; more bad Antarctica news, but read it anyway (August 13, 2023)
Earth Matters: Mike Huckabee pushes climate BS on kids; garden at former Texas coal mine feeds 2,000 (August 6, 2023)
Earth Matters: In place of a farm bill, we need an agrarian reform act; hope for Pacific gray whales (July 6, 2023)
Wind turbines in Iowa
Earth Matters: Good news—installation of renewables soars, but obstacles bar us from a faster pace (June 15, 2023)
Earth Matters: Republicans seek to sabotage climate action as world burns through 'carbon budget' (June 8, 2023)
Earth Matters: James Hansen warned us about climate change 35 years ago this month (June 1, 2023)
Earth Matters: Texas Republicans tried to ax renewables; gallows humor as climate anxiety therapy? (May 25, 2023)
Earth Matters: Lake Powell and Lake Mead are rising, but experts warn water crisis is far from over (May 18, 2023)
Earth Matters: Shell oil makes another $10 billion profit; 14,000 'orphan' oil wells need plugging (May 11, 2023)
Earth Matters: Dems rip GOP climate cuts at Senate budget hearing; USPS's new EV vans are delayed (May 5, 2023)
Earth Matters: EPA's proposed standards push EVs; bird apocalypse; Colorado River options for cuts (April 14, 2023)
Some Indigenous Pataxó people of Brazil, like the four shown here, have become more aggressive against plantation owners who continue to take over pieces of ancestral land that the Pataxó have waited in vain for the presidential decree that would demarcate their territory. Former President Jair Bolsonaro said during his term that he will never demarcate more Indigenous land. Meanwhile, mining, ranching, and illegal logging continues to contribute to Brazil's rising deforestation.
Earth Matters: Jimmy Carter's unheralded green legacy; Antarctica, Greenland could melt 'scary' fast (April 7, 2023)
Earth Matters: Floating solar could provide 35% of world electricity; the right kind of optimism (March 31, 2023)
Earth Matters: It's act now or never say climatologists; ocean action plan; Black Hills gold rush (March 24, 2023)
Earth Matters: Federal programs promoting 'community solar' need to be enhanced to reach everyone (March 10, 2023)
Earth Matters: Two humongously over-budget Georgia nukes, seven years late, delay startup yet again (February 24, 2023)
Earth Matters: Biden administration announces plans on equity, renewables, environmental justice (February 17, 2023)
Earth Matters: Biden's 30-city tour can boost Dems in '24, which is crucial to expand climate policy (February 9, 2023)
Earth Matters: Colorado River water wars ominous; new model nuke slated for 2028 in North America (February 3, 2023)
Earth Matters: Renewables to make 26% of U.S. electricity in '24; bias in water infrastructure (January 27, 2023)
Earth Matters: A few more unkind words about Exxon's deception; 41% of land animals at risk (January 19, 2023)
2022
Earth Matters: Dire 16th Arctic Report Card released. Tainted salmon harms Indigenous health (December 15, 2022)
Earth Matters: COP27 talks leave us headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of 2.6-2.7 degrees C (December 8, 2022)
Earth Matters: It has been an especially grim week for climate news (October 28, 2022)
Earth Matters: Melting glaciers risk freeing viruses; a land defender is murdered every two days (October 20, 2022)
Earth Matters: Sea-bed mining risks damage; Black people affected worse in 'cancer alley' (October 14, 2022)
Sunset on Big Oil liars cannot come soon enough.
Earth Matters: What new nat'l monuments will Biden create? Vermont funds 'Replace Your Ride' project (October 6, 2022)
Earth Matters: Nations blow past climate pledge deadline; 49% of bird species at risk, solar schools (September 29, 2022)
Earth Matters: Native co-management of some public lands formalized; schools grow hydroponic food (September 25, 2022)
Earth Matters: Surprise! Big Oil's words about how green they're getting aren’t matched by deeds (September 16, 2022)
Earth Matters: CA sets huge offshore wind goal; heat waves hit Black, Latino communities harder (August 17, 2022)
Earth Matters: Climate bill will benefit GOP districts big time; clean energy jobs—state by state (August 11, 2022)
Earth Matters: Brazil's deforestation soars under Trumpy prez; U.S. climate hawks pivot locally (July 22, 2022)
Earth Matters: As Alaska and Siberia blaze, the Arctic is warming faster than previously calculated (July 14, 2022)
Earth Matters: Hate the way things are going environmentally and otherwise? Thank the Kochtopus (July 7, 2022)
Earth Matters: Delay is denial whoever's doing it; drilling permit lawsuit; nine new national trails (June 17, 2022)
Earth Matters: Drought rages across the planet; bear hibernation studies show medical promise (June 3, 2022)
Earth Matters: Pollution's toll on people of color; climate inaction could cost $178 trillion (May 25, 2022)
Earth Matters: Study says eliminating energy-related emissions could save 50,000 U.S. lives a year (May 19, 2022)
Earth Matters: Bears Ears' Native management, Denver's big green rebate, John Oliver on eco-racism (Ma6 6, 2022)
Members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Navajo Nation march in protest against White Mesa uranium mill in Utah.
Earth Matters: Group will monitor Biden's eco-justice promises; U.S. majority backs climate action (April 14, 2022)
Earth Matters: Louisiana and Texas GOP reps reject the whole concept of environmental racism (April 7, 2022)
Earth Matters: Count on Republicans to butcher the climate provisions in Biden's proposed budget (March 31, 2022)
Earth Matters: Grijalva again pushes environmental justice bill; EV sales soar; fusion delusion? (March 25, 2022)
Earth Matters: Declaring a climate emergency; redlining still pollutes; Boston's food justice mayor (March 18, 2022)
Earth Matters: Tribes seek Yellowstone reboot; wind leases go for big money; Amazon cheats (March 3, 2022)
Earth Matters: New nuclear reactors on U.S. agenda; Facebook still lets climate denial slide (February 24, 2022)
Earth Matters: Big Oil's climate pledges a mismatch with truth; VP Harris talks up lead remediation (February 17, 2022)
Earth Matters: Top companies' net-zero plans don't add up to zero; Haaland announces mine cleanup $$ (February 10, 2022)
Earth Matters: Young 'climate creators' make waves; conservation league endorses six Dems for Senate (February 3, 2022)
Earth Matters: Cal. solar proposal follows right-wing ALEC model; redwood forest returned to tribes (January 27, 2022)
Earth Matters: SupCt may gut EPA's regulatory authority; ultra-rightist goes after Liz Cheney's seat (January 20, 2022)
Earth Matters: Climate activists must get bolder; 46% of new electricity plants will be solar in '22 (January 13, 2022)
Earth Matters: Colorado River disaster affects millions; Tesla delivered nearly a million EVs in '21 (January 6, 2022)
2021
Earth Matters: Tribes object to green revolution mining plans; Chile remakes itself over climate (December 30, 2021)
Native activist and Ponca elder Casey Camp-Horinek at a protest in 2017.
Earth Matters: Climate activism needs to be ramped up; pollution hits people of color harder (December 23, 2021)
Earth Matters: Inslee pushes big state EV credit, bugs eat plastic, grim Arctic Report Card released (December 16, 2021)
Earth Matters: Solar costs plunge, Ohio extremists seek Senate, Utah keeps fighting monuments (sigh) (December 9, 2021)
Earth Matters: Manchin helped kill reform of 1872 mining law that harms people and costs billions (December 3, 2021)
Earth Matters: Lying oil giants have some ads they'd like you to forget; protecting Chaco Canyon (November 18, 2021)
Earth Matters: New U.S. drilling leases ignore climate summit warnings; resurrecting Diablo Canyon (November 11, 2021)
Earth Matters: Unmet emissions pledges imperil planet; many local eco-advocates elected on Tuesday (November 4, 2021)
Rooftop solar in a Richmond, California, development.
Earth Matters: Climate reporting improves; wolf protectors; Bullard eco-justice center lures donors (October 28, 2021)
Earth Matters: Will Biden have clout at Glasgow summit? 900,000 U.S. solar workers needed by 2035 (October 19, 2021)
Earth Matters: New laws mean more killed wolves, journalists push more and better climate coverage (October 14, 2021)
Earth Matters: Alligators have a cold weather trick; despite pandemic, solar and wind soared in 2020 (February 20, 2021)
Earth Matters: TX power mess worse for people of color; 331 human rights defenders murdered in 2020 (February 17, 2021)
Earth Matters: Fracking's promises fall flat in Appalachia; Buttigieg praises high-speed rail (February 13, 2021)
The pandemic forced cancellation in 2021 of the annual aerial count of endangered whooping cranes for the first time since 1950.
Earth Matters: Fossil fuels kill 8.7 million people a year; climate crisis an eco-justice issue (February 9 2021)
Earth Matters: Expanding Utah wilderness finally has a chance; gov't switch to all EVs a tall order (February 6, 2021)
Earth Matters: Tribes reclaim National Bison Range; solar will be cheapest energy source by 2030 (February 2, 2021)
Earth Matters: GM rocks automotive world with EV vow; shark populations plummet; 15 sequoias toppled (January 30, 2021)
Earth Matters: Global ice loss rises 60%; cicadas prepare to emerge; climate and the federal budget (January 26, 2021)
Earth Matters: Solar for all; 2nd round of Biden climate orders coming; GOP bashes KXL rejection (January 22, 2021)
Earth Matters: Haaland to ditch racist place names; ZETA pushing Biden on 100% EV sales by 2030 (January 14, 2021)
Earth Matters: Study—2-degree temp rise baked into climate change; 3,700-mile bike trail planned (January 7, 2021)
2020
Earth Matters: Young Georgians push climate in runoff election; Exxon thinks we're stupid (December 18, 2020)
Earth Matters: Trumpsters burrow into federal agencies; GE wind turbine blades to be recycled (December 10, 2020)
Earth Matters: ZETA pushes for all electric vehicle sales by 2030; Portuguese youths sue on climate (December 2, 2020)
Earth Matters: Giant solar farm planned for Texas; 'unprecedented' not OED's 'Word of the Year' (November 25, 2020)
Earth Matters: Dogs sniff out wildlife smugglers; Trump wants Arctic drilling leases auctioned now (November 13, 2020)
Earth Matters: Voters OK wolf reintroduction, 50% renewables; clean energy firms examine own racism (November 6, 2020)
An adult and two young wolves walk in a line in front of forest trees in Lassen County, California, in 2019.
Earth Matters: Right whale population dwindles; Sunrise campaigns in TX; renewables reports buried (October 29, 2020)
Earth Matters: Debate question on environmental justice! Merkley introduces tough fossil fuel bills (October 23, 2020)
Earth Matters: Schools save big time with solar power; tardigrades turn blue for UV protection (October 15, 2020)
Earth Matters: Solar, wind installations soar; $1.29M Earthshot Prizes begun; eco-Latinas on YouTube (October 8, 2020)
Earth Matters: Four former EPA heads endorse Biden; no new gas-powered cars in Calif. after 2035 (September 23, 2020)
Earth Matters: Critics nix Facebook's climate hub; speculation soars over Tesla 'Battery Day' (September 17, 2020)
Earth Matters: Orca that lost calf 2 years ago has another; green groups fund Democratic candidates (September 10, 2020)
