Climate change and food prices, pine trees in Patagonia, the DiCaprio Tree, & more!

Matt and Nick’s Quick Hits of the week include how climate change is impacting food prices (Food prices remain high into 2022 on shortages due to extreme weather | Financial Times (ft.com)),

The UK’s government protecting fossil fuel interests (invites fossil fuel companies to help write rulebook on climate-busting new oil drilling | The Independent),

Rilu the Snow Leopard’s death (Snow leopard dies after contracting Covid-19 at Illinois zoo - CNN),

Pine trees and climate change in Patagonia (An imported tree fuels Patagonia’s terrifying summer fires (nationalgeographic.com)),

And the DiCaprio Tree discovered in Cameroon (Kew scientists name new tree after Leonardo DiCaprio - BBC News).

The boys also joked about refinancing student loans, so here’s Matt’s referral code if you want to do that: https://refer.splashfinancial.com/l/1MATTHEWNOR03/