Plant a tree: new report says we will have to do more than reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change, we need to capture CO2, too, and planting trees is just one of many options…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/09/carbon-dioxide-removed-from-air-carbon-offset-market-report?
From our history section: The ship, the Endurance, from Ernest Shackleton’s deservedly famous tale of survival in the Antarctic, has been found…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ernest-shackleton-wrecked-ship-endurance-antarctic? Please consider donating to The Guardian.
Heads up when out and about: local bears are waking up…
From KPVI: https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/yellowstone-grizzly-sighted-on-monday-bears-waking-up/article_a000a1cb-5632-5bca-bed5-0652d3931ea2.html
Another media failure: the untold story of Big Oil greed and high gas prices (and how Big Oil is sitting on millions of acres of cheap leases that they could have drilled on long ago, and yet they still want more)…
More here, from Press Run: https://pressrun.media/p/hysterical-gas-price-coverage-gives?s=r
Sure, having an unstable, brutal dictator in charge in Russia is not great for the world, but man-caused climate change in a greater long-term threat, and nearing a “tipping point” for the vital Amazon rainforest isn’t helping…
More here, from USA Today: mhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/03/07/amazon-rainforest-dieback-deforestation-climate-change-study/9380372002/
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen keeps pushing his extreme right-wing agenda, this time by opposing efforts to stop parents from threatening elected officials…
How is threatening elected officials not domestic terrorism? More here, from the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/briefs/ag-knudsen-joins-lawsuit-to-compel-release-of-records-involving-school-boards-controversy/?
Could land trusts be one solution to Montana’s affordable housing crisis, a Billings real estate broker asks…
More here: https://matr.net/news/group-pitches-idea-to-create-more-affordable-housing-in-billings/
Opinion: Why does Montana have some of the most embarrassing Republican politicians (and that’s saying a lot)?…
From George Ochenski and the Missoulian: https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/george-ochenski-gianforte-and-rosendale-montana-s-national-embarrassments/article_3246f838-26c3-5f47-93b5-7359072ead80.html?
Golly, we can’t imagine there’s any profiteering or market speculation going on…
Thanks to Nick Anderson.