Amid Climate Uncertainty, Floating Solar Builds Resilience

Given Southeast Asia’s rapid electricity demand growth and increasing climate uncertainty, diversification of the power supply is key for energy security

https://www.stimson.org/2025/amid-climate-uncertainty-floating-solar-builds-resilience/

#SoutheastAsia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Elderly, alone and unable to escape the L.A. fires

Most of the victims of the Los Angeles fires were elderly

https://archive.ph/QuDcu

#LA #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Poll: Climate change a top concern for Canadian farmers

Over 75 per cent of the respondents in the survey said that they’d already been impacted in the last five years by extreme weather events

Additionally, farmers also anticipate climate change will lead to restrictive policies and regulations, lower incomes and increased mental health challenges for farmers

https://www.thespec.com/news/canada/poll-climate-change-a-top-concern-for-canadian-farmers/article_1b473d78-fc05-51ee-8b45-ba0bf2ba0ef5.html

#farmers #canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #pollution #environment #climate

Between 1994 and 2023, thermal tolerances—the combination of temperature and humidity—above which the human body can’t cope were breached for about 2% of the global land area for healthy adults (18 to 60). This new research approximately triples the “overheated land” to 6% of the Earth—an area almost the size of the United States

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/617568-Slight-Rise-in-Global-Warming-will-Triple-Area-of-Earth-Too-Hot-for-Humans/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland

False narratives spread through state-owned news sites and social media bots, report finds

https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/03/russia-spread-conspiracy-theories-and-attacked-climate-scientists-in-poland/

#Russia #Poland #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting, Demand Democrats Put Workers and Climate First

Climate Defiance calls on the party to get dirty fossil fuel money out of Democratic politics forever

https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/31/climate-defiance-protesters-blockade-dnc-party-meeting-demand-democrats-put-workers-and-climate-first/

#WashingtonDC #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike

Scottish climate target at risk from ‘lack of leadership’, auditors say

A LACK of leadership has left the Scottish government’s target of cutting car use by a fifth by 2030 “unlikely” to be met, auditors said today

In a damning new report, Audit Scotland and the Accounts Commission issued a stark warning on the chances of reducing car travel to 1994 levels, slashing journeys by 7.3 billion kilometres to 29.3bn

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-climate-target-risk-from-lack-leadership-auditors-say

#Scotland #ClimateChange #pollution #environment #climate

WTW: Nat cat protection gap at 60% as climate rise reaches 1.5°C
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Global insured losses surpassed $140bn last year, while economic damages surpassed $350bn, according to a broker report

https://www.globalreinsurance.com/home/wtw-nat-cat-protection-gap-at-60-as-climate-rise-reaches-15c/1454333.article

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

COLUMN: Turn Off the Spigot: It’s high time to shut down Enbridge’s oil pipelines in Wisconsin

The company has recently been in the news for perpetrating the largest oil spill on record in the state. Some 69,300 gallons of oil were released from Line 6 in Jefferson County

https://civicmedia.us/news/2025/1/29/column-turn-off-the-spigot-its-high-time-to-shut-down-enbridges-oil-pipelines-in-wisconsin

#Wisconsin #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate triple whammy boosted risk of LA fires, study shows

Hot, dry conditions, a lack of rain and a longer fire-risk season are all more likely in today’s hotter climate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/climate-triple-whammy-boosted-risk-of-la-fires-study-shows

#LA #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

To that extent, the flourishing of one person depends on and influences the flourishing of other things in the world – including other people and animals as companions, the plants and soil which provide food for survival, rivers and oceans that are a source of water, and the Sun which gives the energy that sustains life on Earth.

Complementarity has been used by African philosophers

https://theconversation.com/think-your-efforts-to-help-the-climate-dont-matter-african-philosophers-disagree-247042

#philosophy #Africa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #pollution #environment #climate

"Despair is not an option." Climate lawyers are fighting more ferociously than ever to halt destructive policies and hold polluters to account

https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/environmental-lawyers-are-stepping-up-to-the-challenge-of-trumps-second-term/

#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary

I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful protest after blocking a motorway

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/25/just-stop-oil-jailed-four-years-non-violent-climate-protest-prison-diary

#UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike

The Arctic Boreal Zone, encompassing treeless tundra, boreal forests, and wetlands spread over 26 million square kilometres, has undergone a significant transformation. New research has revealed that 40 per cent of this region has become a carbon source, releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it absorbs, marking a shift from its role as a carbon sink for millennia

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/after-millenia-as-a-carbon-sink-over-a-third-of-arctic-boreal-region-turns-into-carbon-emitter

#Arctic #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #environment #climate

A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious
That doesn’t sound like a lot, but almost always that’s enough for the flowers to escape the killing spring frost
https://www.wsjm.com/2025/01/20/a-key-to-protecting-apples-from-climate-change-might-be-hiding-in-michigans-forests/

#Michigan #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

This rapid alteration indicates a severe ecological disturbance. Research reveals that 90% of microbial diversity vanished, iron concentrations soared by 1,000%, and the lakes shifted from absorbing carbon dioxide to releasing it—becoming significant sources of greenhouse gases

The primary catalyst behind this transformation was a particularly warm & wet fall in 2022, which caused significant permafrost thawing

https://naseba.sk/uncategorised/10548/transformative-changes-in-greenlands-lakes-a-shocking-discovery/

#Greenland #ClimateChange #pollution #environment #climate

America's Heartland is Under Escalating Drought Threats Due To Climate Change

Accelerating climate change is exacerbating severe droughts in the United States and worldwide, with exceptionally harsh ramifications for specific biomes, according to a new study by Swiss researchers

https://thedebrief.org/americas-heartland-is-under-escalating-drought-threats-due-to-climate-change/

#America #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Russian discovery of a 511 billion barrel oil deposit in Antarctica: major climate and geopolitical stakes

The numbers are jaw-dropping—ten times more than what’s been pulled from the North Sea over fifty years, and almost double Saudi Arabia’s known reserves

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/01/russian-discovery-of-a-511-billion-barrel-oil-deposit-in-antarctica-major-climate-and-geopolitical-stakes/

#Antarctica #Russia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

How Much of the World’s Plastic Waste Actually Gets Recycled?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-plastic-gets-recycled/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate change could be blamed for around 25% of the fuel available for the fires, according to the rapid research from scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles. The report is clear in saying the fires likely still would have occurred in a world without climate pollution, but it concludes they would have been “somewhat smaller and less intense

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/climate/los-angeles-fires-worse-global-warming/index.html

#LosAngeles #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #environment #climate