Around the world, at a local level, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some of the poorest countries. Foods have become more severe and damaging in Bangladesh in recent decades, with up to a third of the country submerged for some time every year. Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disasters.... Continue Reading →
Let’s prepare for our new climate…
As Vicki Arroyo says, it's time to prepare our homes and cities for our changing climate, with its increased risk of flooding, drought and uncertainty. She illustrates this inspiring talk with bold projects from cities all over the world -- local examples of thinking ahead. Source...
The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the President’s entire slate. by: Jane Mayer, The NewYorker The American Accountability Foundation has undermined the likes of Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s also gone after relatively obscure political appointees whose public profiles... Continue Reading →
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2022 Arctic Report Card features Indigenous observations and knowledge A typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain are not what most imagine when thinking of the Arctic. Yet these are some of the climate-driven events included in NOAA’s 2022 Arctic Report Card, which provides a detailed picture of how warming is reshaping the once reliably... Continue Reading →
Human-caused climate change fuels warmer, wetter, stormier Arctic
Three gifts children have – and how they can save the planet (Repost)
Official Title: Three gifts children have - and how they can save the planet | Eleni Andreadis | TEDxAthens It’s not technology we’re lacking in tackling the environmental crisis, argues environmentalist and children’s author, Eleni Andreadis, but the will to make a sustainable future our reality. How can we find the collective will we need?... Continue Reading →
Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good... Continue Reading →
Our World in Data (Climate Tool)
A 15-Million-Year-Old Sedimentary Deposit in an Ancient Idaho Lakebed May Help Us Prepare for the Next 20–30 Years In the past 100 years, “we’ve experienced more drastic climate change than any other human has ever experienced. There’s no analogy in human society,” says Hong Yang, the 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow. Since we... Continue Reading →
Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change
It may seem like 2022 was such a slog it felt more like three years instead of one — something about the pandemic has warped time perception — but even so, on geological timescales, it was a blip. Still, the industrial policies of human civilization have long-lasting impacts, especially when it comes to our influence... Continue Reading →
2022 was a historic year for climate change reform — and for natural disasters
It’s not the miracle cure many think it is. Key points Thinking fusion is a miracle for climate change could make us apathetic about the problem. While fusion could be the energy of the future, a new breakthrough does not guarantee that reactors are coming; we need to cut emissions now. Nuclear power could replace... Continue Reading →
Why the Fusion Breakthrough Could Make Climate Change Worse
Enshrining the curriculum in law insulates the subject from budget cuts and culture wars related to the climate crisis Starting next July, Connecticut will become one of the first states in America to mandate climate change studies across its public schools as part of its science curriculum. The new law passed earlier this year comes... Continue Reading →
‘Face it head on’: Connecticut makes climate change studies compulsory
This news list is long and know that it is hand-picked as the most crucial and/or climate solutions based news articles of the last four to few weeks (going back to early November). Climate News now is very worrisome, disappointing, and now serves as a call to Climate Action. Includes video and article links, ...which... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 