After the wildfire: treating the mental health crisis triggered by climate change
2 HRS AGO - In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, California, were wiped off the map. Now the community Expand
2 HRS AGO - In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, California, were wiped off the map. Now the community is helping residents cope with the traumaThe nightmares kept coming and David Leal knew he was in trouble. A navy veteran with a can-do attitude and a solidly middle-class IT job at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California, he didn’t think of himself as mentally vulnerable. But when the Tubbs fire snatched his house off the face of the earth in the early morning hours of 9 October 2017, it hit him hard.“Long story short, I went through a lot of PTSD,” Leal says, as we tour his nearly rebuilt home in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood. Wildfires are not uncommon in the mountains outside of this northern California town, but residents can’t remember one like this: the fire jumped six lanes of Highway 101, into the city, and licked up about 1,300 of the suburb’s 2,000 homes as if they’d just evaporated. Leal thought, I live in the city; it’s not supposed to burn. Related: Life on thin ice: Collapse
Water scarcity: Five ways to avert a water crisis
8 HRS AGO - In the coming decade, billions could face a critical shortage of water. Here's what we can do Expand
8 HRS AGO - In the coming decade, billions could face a critical shortage of water. Here's what we can do about it. Collapse
French climate activists protest as Macron attends G7 summit
16 HRS AGO - Marchers carrying inverted portraits of president demand more action on climate crisisHundreds of Expand
16 HRS AGO - Marchers carrying inverted portraits of president demand more action on climate crisisHundreds of climate activists have marched in south-western France carrying portraits of President Emmanuel Macron that they had illegally removed from town halls and which police had been seeking to recover amid a judicial crackdown.As the G7 leaders met in Biarritz, demonstrators from a nationwide civil disobedience movement demanding more action on the climate emergency appeared in nearby Bayonne brandishing dozens of portraits the state accuses them of stealing from civic buildings. Related: Taking Macron down: climate protesters strip French town halls of portraits Continue reading... Collapse
Amazon fires: Brazil sends in 44,000 troops to tackle blazes as Bolsonaro is accused of ignoring illegal deforestation
18 HRS AGO - Analysis reveals number of fines handed out to people for unlawful environmental destruction has Expand
18 HRS AGO - Analysis reveals number of fines handed out to people for unlawful environmental destruction has fallen to 10-year low Collapse
Trump officials voice anger at G7 focus on 'niche' issues such as climate change
1 DAY AGO - The spark for the fuse appeared to be an impromptu lunch between Trump and Macron, without any Expand
1 DAY AGO - The spark for the fuse appeared to be an impromptu lunch between Trump and Macron, without any aidesSenior aides in Donald Trump’s entourage have accused the G7 host and French president, Emmanuel Macron, of seeking to embarrass his US counterpart by making the summit focus on “niche issues” such as climate change, according to multiple US media reports.Macron’s plan to heal divisions among G7 leaders in Biarritz this weekend apparently did not factor in the need to keep Trump’s aides happy too, a group that began briefing against him within hours of Trump’s arrival. Related: Macron hopes to convince G7 leaders to halt trade war and heal divisions Continue reading... Collapse
Prehistoric plants reproduce in UK for first time in 60m years because of climate change
1 DAY AGO - Japanese sago palm lived along steep limestone cliffs during the Jurassic period and predates Expand
1 DAY AGO - Japanese sago palm lived along steep limestone cliffs during the Jurassic period and predates flowering plants Collapse
No-deal Brexit: the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse – cartoon
1 DAY AGO - Look who’s trotting up to join climate change, global recession and war…• You can buy your own Expand
1 DAY AGO - Look who’s trotting up to join climate change, global recession and war…• You can buy your own print of this cartoon Continue reading... Collapse
Second earthquake stops work at UK's only fracking site just days after largest tremor recorded
1 DAY AGO - Site experienced a tremor measuring 1.05 on the Richter scale two days after a magnitude 1.55 Expand
1 DAY AGO - Site experienced a tremor measuring 1.05 on the Richter scale two days after a magnitude 1.55 tremor Collapse
Amazon fires: Brazil sends army to help tackle blazes
1 DAY AGO - President Jair Bolsonaro orders soldiers to be sent to the region, after pressure from EU leaders.
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After the wildfire: treating the mental health crisis triggered by climate change
2 HRS AGO - In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, California, were wiped off the map. Now the community Expand
2 HRS AGO - In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, California, were wiped off the map. Now the community is helping residents cope with the traumaThe nightmares kept coming and David Leal knew he was in trouble. A navy veteran with a can-do attitude and a solidly middle-class IT job at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California, he didn’t think of himself as mentally vulnerable. But when the Tubbs fire snatched his house off the face of the earth in the early morning hours of 9 October 2017, it hit him hard.“Long story short, I went through a lot of PTSD,” Leal says, as we tour his nearly rebuilt home in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood. Wildfires are not uncommon in the mountains outside of this northern California town, but residents can’t remember one like this: the fire jumped six lanes of Highway 101, into the city, and licked up about 1,300 of the suburb’s 2,000 homes as if they’d just evaporated. Leal thought, I live in the city; it’s not supposed to burn. Related: Life on thin ice: Collapse
Johnson to burnish green credentials with G7 biodiversity plea
10 HRS AGO - PM will announce extra aid amid Amazon fires crisis, but critics dismiss it as ‘lip service’ and a Expand
10 HRS AGO - PM will announce extra aid amid Amazon fires crisis, but critics dismiss it as ‘lip service’ and a ‘PR stunt’Boris Johnson will call on his G7 colleagues to do more to combat mass extinctions as he seeks to burnish his environmental credentials.Speaking in Biarritz, as discussion turns to the Amazon rainforest fires, the prime minister will call for more ambitious targets on biodiversity alongside measures to tackle the climate crisis, and reinforce the UK’s bid to host the COP26 climate change summit, due to be held next year. Related: Ex-minister: Bolsonaro ‘most detested’ leader as he neglects the Amazon Continue reading... Collapse
Sharks and rays to be given new international protections
16 HRS AGO - An estimated 100 million sharks are killed every year, many for shark fin soup.
UK heatwave: Stay out of sun as temperatures soar to new highs, say Met Office
23 HRS AGO - If you're outside drink lots of water, wear a hat, loose linen clothing and don't stay in the sun Expand
23 HRS AGO - If you're outside drink lots of water, wear a hat, loose linen clothing and don't stay in the sun for too long Collapse
Largest ever tremor recorded at UK's only fracking site in Blackpool
1 DAY AGO - Energy firm Cuadrilla reports third seismic event at Lancashire facility within the space of a week
Macron: ‘All G7 powers must help Brazil fight raging Amazon fires’
1 DAY AGO - French president talks up trade sanctions as world leaders convene and thousands of Brazilians Expand
1 DAY AGO - French president talks up trade sanctions as world leaders convene and thousands of Brazilians march against BolsonaroEmmanuel Macron has asked for world powers to help Brazil and its neighbours fight the fires raging in the Amazon and to plan huge replanting programmes. The appeal came as the French president piled pressure on Brazil’s far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who has been accused of fuelling the burning of the rainforest. As environmental protesters marched nearby, the G7 summit’s, opening meeting was dominated by the spectre of economic repercussions for Brazil and its South American neighbours and showed how the Amazon is becoming a battleground between Bolsonaro and the west. Many governments have become alarmed that vast swathes of the Amazon are going up in smoke, affecting biodiversity and worsening the climate crisis. Continue reading... Collapse
Breaking: Dr. Tim Ball Defeats Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann’s Climate Lawsuit
1 DAY AGO - [Updated Aug. 24, 2019] Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed Dr. Michael Mann’s Expand
1 DAY AGO - [Updated Aug. 24, 2019] Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed Dr. Michael Mann’s defamation lawsuit against skeptical Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball. Full legal costs were awarded to Dr. Ball, the defendant in the case. The Canadian court issued its final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed May 2019 by […] Collapse
Amazon Fires: Why the rainforest helps fight climate change
1 DAY AGO - Fires in the Amazon rainforest have prompted concern around the world.
Amazon rainforest fires: Jair Bolsonaro sends Brazilian army to put out huge blaze as G7 leaders hold emergency talks
1 DAY AGO - Amid a global chorus of condemnation, Jair Bolsonaro pledges to mobilise the army as his Expand
1 DAY AGO - Amid a global chorus of condemnation, Jair Bolsonaro pledges to mobilise the army as his administration launch diplomatic charm offensive Collapse
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Trump suggests 'nuking hurricanes' to stop them hitting America – report
6 HRS AGO - US president reportedly asked more than once about why national security could not bomb Expand
6 HRS AGO - US president reportedly asked more than once about why national security could not bomb hurricanesDonald Trump has reportedly suggested on more than one occasion that the US military should bomb hurricanes in order to disrupt them before they make landfall.According to US news website Axios, the US president said in a meeting with top national security and homeland security officials about the threat of hurricanes: “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?”“They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” Related: Trump blames forest management again on California fires visit Continue reading... Collapse
Infrastructure fund pushes companies to commit to emissions reduction targets
13 HRS AGO - Melbourne and Brisbane airports, as well as NSW ports, among those pledging to reduce emissions in Expand
13 HRS AGO - Melbourne and Brisbane airports, as well as NSW ports, among those pledging to reduce emissions in line with Australia’s Paris targets Ausgrid and Melbourne Airport have committed to emissions reductions targets as part of a push by Australia’s largest infrastructure fund to reduce its carbon footprint.IFM Investors announced on Monday that Melbourne, Brisbane, and NT airports, as well as NSW Ports, the Port of Brisbane, Southern Cross Station, and electricity network Ausgrid, would commit to a carbon abatement plan in an effort to align the fund’s critical infrastructure assets with Australia’s Paris targets. Related: Clean energy financier invests $150m in infrastructure fund to lower emissions Continue reading... Collapse
More Fake Five-Alarm Hysteria From The IPCC
17 HRS AGO - Efforts to stampede the USA and world into forsaking fossil fuels and modern farming continue Expand
17 HRS AGO - Efforts to stampede the USA and world into forsaking fossil fuels and modern farming continue apace. UN and other scientists recently sent out news releases claiming July 2019 was the “hottest month ever recorded on Earth” – nearly about 1.2 degrees C (2.2 degrees F) “above pre-industrial levels.” That era happens to coincide with the world’s […] Collapse
David Wallace-Wells: ‘There are many cases of climate hypocrisy’
1 DAY AGO - The journalist and author on the climate crisis and how the US and China will be key to averting Expand
1 DAY AGO - The journalist and author on the climate crisis and how the US and China will be key to averting disasterDavid Wallace-Wells is the deputy editor of New York magazine. In July 2017, he wrote a long-form essay about the dire prospects for human civilisation caused by the climate crisis. It became the most read article in the history of the magazine and led to a book, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, which is being published in paperback in September.The first line of your book states: “It is worse, much worse, than you think.” If you were sitting down to write the book again, would you be inserting another “much” into that sentence? I still think the public aren’t as concerned as they should be about some of the scary stuff that’s possible this century. But I do think things have changed quite a bit. And I also think the politics have changed quite a lot. When I turned in the book in September, nobody had heard of Greta Thunberg. Nobody had heard of Extinction Collapse
Tropical fish spotted thousands of miles away in northern Canada as climate crisis escalates
1 DAY AGO - Up until eight years ago tropical fish seemed to be extremely rare. The last couple years I've Expand
1 DAY AGO - Up until eight years ago tropical fish seemed to be extremely rare. The last couple years I've been spotting them on almost every dive,' says scuba diver Lloyd Bond Collapse
Trump’s bid to buy Greenland shows that the ‘scramble for the Arctic’ is truly upon us
1 DAY AGO - World powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating Expand
1 DAY AGO - World powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating opens up a new frontierDonald Trump’s cack-handed attempt to buy Greenland, and the shirty response of Denmark’s prime minister, provoked amusement last week. But it was mostly nervous laughter. The US intervention shone a cold light on a rapidly developing yet neglected crisis at the top of the world – the pillage of the Arctic.Like the late 19th-century “scramble for Africa”, when European empires expanded colonial control of the continent’s land mass from 10% to 90% in 40 years, the Arctic region is up for grabs. As was the case then, the race for advantage is nationalistic, dangerously unregulated, and harmful to indigenous peoples and the environment.Russia announced an ambitious new programme to build Arctic ports, and expand an icebreaker fleet Continue reading... Collapse
Harry and Meghan tried, but can we really make our flights carbon neutral?
1 DAY AGO - Offsetting CO2 emissions – even if Elton John pays – is not a quick fixGope Walker has regularly Expand
1 DAY AGO - Offsetting CO2 emissions – even if Elton John pays – is not a quick fixGope Walker has regularly flown to meet his clients in countries as far apart as Ireland and Argentina. But in 2020 his feet will stay firmly on the ground.Walker, who runs an IT consultancy in Oxford, has pledged to make next year flight free. Instead, he will take advantage of increasingly sophisticated software to hold virtual meetings or will travel within Europe by train. “I just thought, this is something I can do. We should all be asking ‘do I really need to go there?’ From a business point of view, I honestly can’t see why I do,” he said. Continue reading... Collapse
'Rhinos of the ocean' will go extinct without urgent protection, conservationists warn
1 DAY AGO - If we don't act now, we will lose these animals and the unique role they play in marine ecosystems
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