Peak of 2022 heatwave forced fifth of UK hospitals to cancel operations – research
(date: 23/03/2023)
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Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
(date: 20/03/2023)
‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas
Proposed 235% increase in production-> 3x UN net zero scenario (date: 20/03/2023)
Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts
(date: 17/03/2023)
Chinese cities hit record high temperatures for early March
(date: 08/03/2023)
(date: 07/03/2023)
Is hydrogen really a clean enough fuel to tackle the climate crisis?
(date: 07/03/2023)
The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
(date: 07/03/2023)
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points
(date: 06/03/2023)
Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’
(date: 04/03/2023)
Nearly half of English neighbourhoods ‘have less than 10% tree cover’
Analysis for Friends of the Earth also finds lower-income areas have far fewer trees than wealthier ones (date: 02/03/2023)
UK efforts to deal with energy crisis ‘raise risk of missing net zero target’
(date: 01/03/2023)
Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries
(date: 01/03/2023)
(date: 22/02/2023)
UK’s £450m boiler upgrade scheme is failing to deliver
(date: 22/02/2023)
Stronger El Niño events may speed up irreversible melting of Antarctic ice, research finds
(date: 21/02/2023)
Venice canals start to run dry as low tide and lack of rain hit
(date: 21/02/2023)
Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections | Technology | The Guardian
How many others are out there? #disinformation for hire. Bending #Politics, slowing action on the #ClimateCrisis, supporting the interests off #BigOil and the #1percent. (date: 15/02/2023)
Cyclone Gabrielle worst storm to hit New Zealand this century, says PM
(date: 14/02/2023)
BP scales back climate goals as profits more than double to £23bn
See recent articles on Shell as well (date: 07/02/2023)
UK butterflies vanish from nearly half of the places they once flew – study
Butterfly Conservation report reveals 42% decline in distribution of 58 native species since 1976 (date: 03/02/2023)
Anger as Shell makes ‘obscene’ $40bn in profits
Calls for larger windfall tax after surge in gas prices fuels “outrageous”doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group (date: 02/02/2023)
‘Everything’s gone’: eerie silence on Enid Street provides a glimpse into Australia’s climate future
(date: 29/01/2023)
Farmers’ union called UK environment targets ‘irrational’ and ‘unachievable’
(date: 28/01/2023)
(date: 27/01/2023)
UK climate minister received donations from fuel and aviation companies
(date: 26/01/2023)
New farm subsidies regime could be great for nature – if properly funded
(date: 26/01/2023)
Pepper spray for the school run? The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets
It was recently found that they are the second biggest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade, eclipsing all shipping, aviation, heavy industry and even trucks. If all SUV drivers banded together to form their own country – the Republic of Vengeance? – it would rank as the seventh largest emitter in the world. (date: 25/01/2023)
Japan and North Korea sound warning as deadly cold snap sweeps across Asia
(date: 25/01/2023)
New measures to silence climate activists? They’ll only spur us on | Indigo Rumbelow
…Just Stop Oil is not a fashionable cause or a protest movement. Our supporters are doing what the suffragettes did and what the civil rights movements did. It’s what everyone does when the inalienable right to life and a livelihood are violated: they engage in direct action. It is an act of self-respect, an act of solidarity, an act of necessity…. (date: 16/01/2023)
Extreme swimmer Lewis Pugh: ‘The polar regions are the ground zero of the climate crisis’
Incredible man : quite crazy, showing limits of human endurance and the fragility of our oceans and other water bodies. (date: 16/01/2023)
Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth
$26tn of new wealth created since start of pandemic went to richest, Oxfam report reveals … Oxfam said extreme concentrations of wealth led to weaker growth, corrupted politics and the media, corroded democracy and led to political polarisation. The super-rich were key contributors to the climate crisis, the charity added, with a billionaire emitting a million times more carbon than the average person. They were also twice as likely to invest in polluting industries, compared with the average investor. (date: 16/01/2023)
Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s
(date: 13/01/2023)
UK could face ‘banking crisis worse than 2008’ if City fails to prepare for fossil fuel collapse
Report from climate activist groups says City is unprepared for potential collapse in value of fossil fuel assets (date: 13/01/2023)
Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows
The oceans absorbed about 10 zettajoules more heat in 2022 than in 2021, equivalent to every person on Earth running 40 hairdryers all day, every day. (date: 11/01/2023)
Bude in Cornwall awarded £2m to fight climate threat
(date: 06/01/2023)
UK’s record hot 2022 made 160 times more likely by climate crisis
(date: 06/01/2023)
Half of glaciers will be gone by 2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds
(date: 06/01/2023)
Record warm winter in parts of Europe forces closure of ski slopes
(date: 04/01/2023)
California braces for wide-scale damage from fresh ‘truly brutal’ storm
(date: 04/01/2023)
Australia could swing from three years of La Niña to hot and dry El Niño in 2023
(date: 04/01/2023)
Tuesday briefing: Why Extinction Rebellion is giving up on disruption
In today’s newsletter: Extinction Rebellion marked a sea change in climate protest in the UK, but what does the group’s shift from public disruption mean for the movement’s future? (date: 04/01/2023)
StraightTalk: Focus on Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking: How We Lost the Plot and How We’ll Find Our Way Home Academy President, Darcy Winslow, is special guest on StraightTalk.Live (June 11, 2020). Our current breakdown of leadership, infrastructure, networks, and cooperation have been tested and exposed during this pandemic. And what’s glaringly obvious is our fundamental disconnect from ourselves, each other and the planet. So how does systems thinking change […] read more. 29m (date: 29/12/2022)
UK wildlife ‘devastated by litany of weather extremes’ in 2022
(date: 28/12/2022)
Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified
(date: 21/12/2022)
Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe
(date: 17/12/2022)
Weather tracker: Storm Ariel brings heavy rain and lightning to Greece
It brought heavy rain to much of Italy; however, the west coast received the brunt of the wet weather on Friday night with 197mm of rain recorded in 24 hours on the island of Capri. The island of Ischia, close to Capri, experienced flooding and a landslide early Saturday morning, which killed at least 10 people. … Low pressure disrupts water and power supplies in Thessaloniki as meteorological winter begins (date: 03/12/2022)
MaRIUS: Managing the risks, impacts and uncertainties of drought and water scarcity
MaRIUS: Managing the risks, impacts and uncertainties of drought and water scarcity (date: 01/12/2022)
Hawaii site that measures global CO2 shuts down after Mauna Loa volcano eruption
(date: 01/12/2022)
Migrants travel from Nigeria to Canary Islands balanced on ship’s rudder
(date: 29/11/2022)
Tories will not reach ‘embarrassingly poor’ nature targets by 2030, Labour says
(date: 28/11/2022)
‘They teach us’: how whales can help dispel the myth of green capitalism
(date: 25/11/2022)
The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 – but hope must not
(date: 22/11/2022)
Labour would create ‘anti-Opec’ alliance for renewable energy, says Miliband. #ClimateEmergency #Energy #NetZero #Politics #Hope (date: 14/11/2022)
(date: 14/11/2022)
Climate maps let UK voters see impact of crisis in their area
(date: 11/11/2022)
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