If you don't want to read the entire article, here's a summary: Boost hungry whales to restore ocean lifeWhales eat up to three times more prey than was previously thought. Their faeces once fuelled a rich undersea ecosystem that was devastated by whaling. Researchers tagged whales and monitored krill to directly observe the eating habits … Continue reading Whales are a supporting arch for all other ocean life to survive
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Key articles from Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert, leading climate crisis authors
http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-the-world-of-bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert? Sunday Reading: The World of Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert By The New YorkerOctober 31, 2021 Photograph by Jean-Erick Pasquier / Getty Acrucial U.N.-sponsored meeting, the twenty-sixth Climate Change Conference, is now taking place in Glasgow. Insiders refer to it as cop26, and it may prove to be a landmark event in the history of this … Continue reading Key articles from Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert, leading climate crisis authors
Higher temperatures will disproportionately affect the disadvantaged
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-28/extreme-heat-built-environment-equity Paved surfaces, tree cover, and home construction quality can make the difference between heat waves being an inconvenience or a threat to your life. Poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, ‘legacies of racist decision-making’ It was a typical summer day in Los Angeles, but a satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above the … Continue reading Higher temperatures will disproportionately affect the disadvantaged
Deep rift discovered in Arctic’s last area of deep ice
http://www.deeperblue.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-large-rift-in-the-arctics-last-bastion-of-thick-sea-ice/? Scientists Have Discovered A Large Rift In The Arctic’s Last Bastion Of Thick Sea Ice ByJohn Liang -2 days ago A new study documents the formation of a 3,000-square-kilometer/1,158-square-mile rift in the oldest and thickest Arctic ice. The area of open water, called a polynya, is the first to be identified in an area north of Ellesmere Island, Canada’s northernmost … Continue reading Deep rift discovered in Arctic’s last area of deep ice
The best climate crisis choice is to not travel at all rather than picking between car, plane or train
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/train-plane-climate-crisis-travel-transport Train or plane? The climate crisis is forcing us to rethink all long-distance travel Simon Jenkins Arguments about switching from one mode of transport to another miss the point – we ought to be travelling less A Virgin Trains Edinburgh-London service at Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2019. Photograph: Robert France/Alamy Stock Photo Mon 11 Oct 2021 11.20 … Continue reading The best climate crisis choice is to not travel at all rather than picking between car, plane or train
WE NEED TO PASS CLIMATE CRISIS LEGISLATION NOW!!
The U.S. isn't in the top 10 globally by many measurements (child poverty, maternal deaths, comprehensive healthcare), but we certainly do excel at using and producing fossil fuels. Failure to take legislative action this session will be catastrophic for the planet as we may not be this close again for years.If that requires doing away … Continue reading WE NEED TO PASS CLIMATE CRISIS LEGISLATION NOW!!
Click thru for a visual guide to how far the globe is into the climate crisis
This is a spectacularly detailed job of reporting exactly where we stand vis a vis the climate crisis -- which is clearly already here. Please click thru as most of the data is visual and moves to show exactly what's going to happen when depending on human efforts (or lacks thereof) to combat changes that … Continue reading Click thru for a visual guide to how far the globe is into the climate crisis
Complicated, but clear, explanation of why coming winter likely to be tough
Altho it is published with a European spin, the explanations of the polar vortex and the expected changed this winter don't end at the Atlantic coast. The next article on this site is, in fact, about a powerful storm this week in the northern Rockies that included deep snow and blizzard conditions plus a severe … Continue reading Complicated, but clear, explanation of why coming winter likely to be tough
Coral reefs worldwide reduced by 14% in just 10 years due to more acidic and warmer ocean
http://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/climate/coral-reefs-climate-change.html Climate Change Is Devastating Coral Reefs Worldwide, Major Report Says The world lost 14 percent of its coral in just a decade, researchers found. Dead and dying corals off the Maldives in 2019. “Since 2009, it’s a constant decline at the global level,” one of the report’s editors said. Credit...Carl Court/Getty Images By Catrin Einhorn Oct. 4, … Continue reading Coral reefs worldwide reduced by 14% in just 10 years due to more acidic and warmer ocean
Moneyball analytics helped fight wildfires but they’re being tested with their increasing number and size
https://www.wsj.com/articles/moneyball-analytics-help-fight-wildfires-this-years-blazes-are-testing-their-limits-11631230478? ‘Moneyball’ Analytics Help Fight Wildfires. This Year’s Blazes Are Testing Their Limits. Forest conflagrations are so extreme that the best new weapons crews have—computer models to predict how flames spread—sometimes can’t keep up By Jim Carlton and Dan Frosch Sept. 9, 2021 7:34 pm ET SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—When the Caldor Fire roared toward a granite ridge above South … Continue reading Moneyball analytics helped fight wildfires but they’re being tested with their increasing number and size
Millennials undecided about having babies in today’s world with its dire future
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/millennials-babies-climate-change/620032/ A World Without Children A generation facing an intractable problem debates whether to bring a new generation into the world.By Emma Green Miley Cyrus vowed not to have a baby on a “piece-of-shit planet.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mused in an Instagram video about whether it’s still okay to have children. Polls suggest that a third or more of Americans younger than … Continue reading Millennials undecided about having babies in today’s world with its dire future
Stark intergenerational injustice ahead even if rapid emission cuts made
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/27/children-set-for-more-climate-disasters-than-their-grandparents-research-shows Children set for more climate disasters than their grandparents, research shows Climate crisis brings stark intergenerational injustice but rapid emission cuts can limit damage Boy walks through a dried up agricultural field in the Saadiya area, north of Diyala in eastern Iraq. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Sun 26 Sep 2021 19.01 … Continue reading Stark intergenerational injustice ahead even if rapid emission cuts made
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