Alejandra Barunda
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which manages drilling in the region, says the auction price would be set as low as possible to encourage producers to bid.
The lease sale will be the first of 30 scheduled for the region in coming years.
Parts of the ocean off Alaska's coast will also become available for oil and gas development.
The announcement comes right before countries gather at COP30, the annual climate negotiations that aim to lower global levels of climate pollution.
Burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of climate change.
Alejandra Burunda, NPR News.
The study looked at how an increasingly hot and often dry US increases wildfire risk.
More wildfires mean more smoke.
And the study used real world data to link smoke exposure to people's deaths.
The
That's Ming Hao Chu.
He's a climate and health scientist at Stony Brook University.
He led the study.
He says smoke is already tied to some forty thousand deaths a year in the US.
And the analysis published in Nature shows the future could be even smokier.
For comparison, twenty twenty was a heavy smoke year for much of the country.
Alejandro Burunda, NPR News.
Yeah, glad to be here.
So the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, and NASA just announced their official numbers on Friday. And they both say that 2024 was about 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than it was back in the 1800s before people started burning tons of fossil fuels. For reference, that's about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. And 1.5 C, you might have heard of it.
It's kind of a symbolic number because back in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, most countries tried to pledge to keep global warming to less than 2 C and ideally less than 1.5. And I want to be clear that being past that number for just one year, that doesn't mean those goals are breached, but it's not a good sign.
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