Tag: climate crisis, global warming

Climate crisis means changing toilets

https://apple.news/ABzIDNxNZSoeXxXkg322CUQ [wonderful photos if you click thru Why designers are rethinking the toilet by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN,10:37 AM EST February 22, 2024 Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Consider the toilet — that humble porcelain bowl that … Continue reading Climate crisis means changing toilets →

Climate change undoing decades of progress toward cleaner air

https://apple.news/AGAGFOLeOQ9mOi0gk9nTk9A Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality A new report finds that 1 in 4 people in the U.S. are breathing unhealthy air as rising temperatures and bigger fires create a "climate penalty." Lois Parshley for Grist, PublishedFeb 22, 2024 A choking layer of pollution-laced fog settled over Minneapolis last month, blanketing the … Continue reading Climate change undoing decades of progress toward cleaner air →

Heat records continue to fall

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records Rapid ocean warming and unusually hot winter days recorded as human-made global heating combines with El Niño Jonathan Watts, @jonathanwatts, published Sat 17 Feb 2024 01.00 EST February is on course to break a record number of heat records, meteorologists say, as human-made global … Continue reading Heat records continue to fall →

Hurricanes becoming so strong, a Category 6 may be needed

http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/hurricanes-becoming-strong-new-category-6-needed/ Hurricanes are becoming so strong a new category may be needed, study says A warmer planet may bring less frequent, but stronger, hurricanes, prompting debate on adding a Category 6 to the current Saffir-Simpson scale. 14 February 2024 byWorld Economic Forum A warmer planet may bring less frequent, but stronger, hurricanes, prompting debate on … Continue reading Hurricanes becoming so strong, a Category 6 may be needed →

Wildfire smoke effects will continue and few ways to offset

http://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/climate/wildfire-smoke-health.html Wildfire Smoke Will Worsen, New Study Shows, and Protections Are Few Climate change is amplifying wildfires, and more smoke means higher risk of heart and lung disease from inhaling tiny particles that can drift far and wide, researchers said. Smoke from last year’s Canadian wildfires blanketed the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.Credit...Dave Sanders … Continue reading Wildfire smoke effects will continue and few ways to offset →

Atmospheric river storms increasing in intensity as the race to understand them continues

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/11/atmospheric-river-pacific-storms-climate-crisis Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier. The race to understand them is on As the climate crisis supercharges storms over the Pacific, scientists are creating tools that can measure them from the inside Gabrielle Canon in Oakland, @GabrielleCanon, published Sun 11 Feb 2024 10.00 EST The storm raged over California for more than five … Continue reading Atmospheric river storms increasing in intensity as the race to understand them continues →

Atlantic currents that affect adjoining lands’ climate collapsing

http://www.sciencealert.com/its-confirmed-a-major-atlantic-ocean-current-is-verging-on-collapse It's Confirmed. A Major Atlantic Ocean Current Is Verging on Collapse. ENVIRONMENT13 February 2024 ByTESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS Currents closer to the ocean's surface dancing across the Atlantic, colored according to sea surface temperature. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Last year a concerning study suggested one of Earth's major ocean currents is racing towards collapse. Unfortunately, new data now backs … Continue reading Atlantic currents that affect adjoining lands’ climate collapsing →

Creative solution proposed for glacier melting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/how-do-you-stop-a-glacier-from-melting-simple-put-up-an-underwater-curtain How do you stop a glacier from melting? Simple – put up an underwater curtain A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, say scientists Robin McKie Science Editor, published Sun 4 Feb 2024 03.00 EST Scientists are working on an unusual plan to prevent Antarctic glaciers from … Continue reading Creative solution proposed for glacier melting →

That sea of methane under the arctic tundra is ready to wreak havoc

I've been talking about this huge hazard for years. Needs more attention altho nobody has a way of stopping it (yet).https://apple.news/AhsM_U7-ORK6Uhuz1DRVjcQ A Sea of Methane Is Quietly Waiting to Wreak Havoc on the World What lies beneath may not stay there much longer... BY TIM NEWCOMB, PUBLISHED: JAN 26, 2024 10:48 AM EST Layers of methane gas … Continue reading That sea of methane under the arctic tundra is ready to wreak havoc →

Women finally added to climate summit committee

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/women-cop29-climate-summit-committee-backlash Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’ Damian Carrington, Environment editor, @dpcarrington, Fri 19 Jan 2024 08.42 EST The president of Azerbaijan has added 12 women to the previously all-male organising committee for the Cop29 global climate summit, which the country … Continue reading Women finally added to climate summit committee →

Firefighters used to count on wildfires easing at night. No more.

wsj.com/world/firefightersused-to-bet-on-wildfires-easing-at-night-not-anymore-7f7d6204? Firefighters Used to Bet on Wildfires Easing at Night. Not Anymore. Hotter, drier evenings in some locations present fresh challenge to firefighters, who must try new tactics to contain the blazes A video from the Aratula Rural Fire Brigade in Queensland, Australia, shows bush fires in the area last October. VIDEO: ARATULA RURAL FIRE BRIGADE … Continue reading Firefighters used to count on wildfires easing at night. No more. →

A story of impending extinction

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/16/mongolia-pristine-lake-hovsgol-has-endured-for-2-million-years-why-are-its-fish-in-crisis-aoe This pristine lake has endured for 2m years. Why are its fish in crisis? In one of the world’s oldest lakes, Hovsgol grayling, a species found only in these azure waters in Mongolia, are struggling to survive Words and photos by Anne Readel The age of extinction is supported by About this contentTue 16 … Continue reading A story of impending extinction →