Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse
- Farmers sound the alarm for our global food supply as staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'The crop is sensitive'www.thecooldown.com Farmers sound the alarm for our global food supply as staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'The crop is sensitive'
Potatoes need cool nights to grow, and in Pennsylvania, those nights are becoming few and far between.
- Random thought about snow
For many places that are used to seasonal snow, there could likely be a day in our lifetime, where folks see their last blizzard. Their last big snowfall.
Makes me cherish the cold and the snow even more.
Edit hope random thoughts like this are ok here.
- Why did so many die in Spain? Because Europe still hasn't accepted the realities of extreme weatherwww.theguardian.com Why did so many die in Spain? Because Europe still hasn't accepted the realities of extreme weather | Friederike Otto
Severe flooding is, unfortunately, inevitable. What isn’t inevitable is how ready we are, says Friederike Otto of World Weather Attribution
Not only Europe, most of us are not ready to accept the reality of extreme weather
- 'Doomsday' Antarctic glacier melting faster than expected, fueling calls for geoengineeringphys.org 'Doomsday' Antarctic glacier melting faster than expected, fueling calls for geoengineering
New studies about the Thwaites Glacier, also called the "Doomsday Glacier," have sparked a conversation about geoengineering as a climate change solution.
Geoengineering? Surely, WCGW?
- Australia labels Antarctic conservation meeting 'backwards step' after Russia and China block all proposalswww.abc.net.au Australia labels Antarctic conservation meeting 'backwards step' after Russia and China block all proposals
At the meeting between 26 member countries, proposals to establish new marine protected areas and revise catch limits for krill are rejected, while existing krill management measures are rolled back. Australia says it's a "backwards step", putting the Antarctic ecosystem at risk.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4332042
> Australia has described the outcome of a meeting between members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources as a "backwards step". > > Attendees said Russia and China vetoed all proposed measures, including one to renew existing krill management measures. > > Conservationists say member countries should regroup and figure out how to tackle Russia and China ahead of the next meeting in 2025.
- Spain flooding 'catastrophe' should serve as a warning, EU says at nature summitwww.rfi.fr Spain flooding 'catastrophe' should serve as a warning, EU says at nature summit
European officials pointed Thursday to devastating flooding in Spain as a reminder of the self-harming effects of humans' destruction of nature, urging delegates at a deadlocked UN biodiversity conference…
What were they thinking?? Since the devastating floods in Derna, it is no longer a warning. We are completely unprepared for climate change disasters, and it's going to get worse.
- I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | Margaret Reidwww.theguardian.com I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | Margaret Reid
What’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies? says Margaret Reid, Just Stop Oil activist and former museum professional
I can only agree
- Look Up: The Scariest Part When We See the Big, Big, Big Picture | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.org Look Up: The Scariest Part When We See the Big, Big, Big Picture | Common Dreams
As a new study once more makes clear, raising the temperature is by far the biggest thing humans have ever done; our effort to limit that rise must be just as large.
- ‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulationwww.theguardian.com ‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life
- 27 African NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projectsnews.mongabay.com NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects
A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27 Africa-based NGOs, follow a report detailing n...
Here is more information: https://www.stopeacop.net
A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda.
The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27 Africa-based NGOs, follow a report detailing numerous human rights violations and environmental harms at the Kingfisher oil project sites in Uganda. Similarly, Uganda’s Tilenga oil fields also face scrutiny over their ecological and social harms, including impacts on wildlife and displacement of local communities.
Both Kingfisher and Tilenga are co-owned by French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company Uganda Ltd. (CNOOC), and the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC). Both projects are also part of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline initiative (EACOP), where TotalEnergies is a major partner. The initiave aims to transport oil and gas from Uganda to Tanzania for export.
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Major banks and insurance companies in Europe, Japan and North America have ruled out support for the projects, he added. “Now it’s time for all banks and insurance companies, whether in Europe, China, the Gulf States, Africa, or elsewhere, to publicly rule out any continuing or further support.”
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- Worldwide Efforts to Reverse the Baby Shortage Are Falling Flat
Subsidized minivans, no income taxes: Countries have rolled out a range of benefits to encourage bigger families, with no luck
- What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finlandwww.theguardian.com What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland
The natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But the land now emits more greenhouse gases than it stores
- Only one-third of Europe's surface water in good health, study warnswww.france24.com Only one-third of Europe's surface water in good health, study warns
Europe's water health is under severe strain, with only 37% of surface waters in good condition, warns the European Environment Agency. Pollution, habitat degradation, climate change, and freshwater…
- Three million UK children living below poverty line: studywww.france24.com Three million UK children living below poverty line: study
A record 9.3 million people, including three million children, are facing hunger and hardship in the UK, a study said Wednesday, with the new Labour government under pressure to do more to tackle child…
The findings come before the government's first budget later this month, and with a cost of living crisis that has driven soaring use of food banks.
According to the report by non-governmental organisation the Trussell Trust, almost a quarter of children under four are facing extreme poverty.
"Shockingly, 46 percent more children are facing hunger and hardship than two decades ago. That equates to one in five children growing up trapped in this situation," the trust said in a statement.
A UNICEF report last year found that the UK -- a G7 and NATO member, and the world's sixth biggest economy -- has one of the highest rates of child poverty among richer countries.
- A Chinese mining company relocated a whole Peruvian town. Now, they are struggling to survive.globalvoices.org A Chinese mining company relocated a whole Peruvian town. Now, they are struggling to survive
In 2013, a Chinese mining company forcibly relocated a community of 5,000+ people in Peru. Ten years later, the community is living in poverty and the company has failed to honor its promises.
In 2013, Chinese mining company Chinalco (中国铝业集团有限公司) sparked an international conversation about extractive impacts with the news it had successfully relocated an entire Peruvian town of 5,000 residents to clear space for a copper mine. At the time, the relocation project in Morococha, central Peru, was touted as a solution to protect villagers from pollution and environmental degradation as a result of mining practices, and as a potential template for Chinese overseas investment in Latin America.
Ten years later, experts describe the move as a “tragedy.”
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Many residents and environmental activists argue that the company has failed to honor its promises. A 2019 study by the National University of Central Peru revealed that most of the population of New Morococha believes their economy, job stability, and access to social benefits promised by Chinalco have not been fulfilled.
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Since 2013, 96 percent of the residents in Old Morococha have been compelled to relocate to a flood-prone wetland area, which is also isolated from the central highway. The situation is even worse for some 20 families who have refused to resettle.
“The remaining families in Old Morococha are facing daily harassment from the Chinese mining company Chinalco,” Borda said. “Every day, they are destroying the few houses of the settlers, until the last brick disappears.”
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According to the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute of Perú (INGEMMET) 2017 report, the city of Old Morococha faces an “imminent, non-mitigable danger” due to severe risks, including visible structural damage, proximity to mining waste and tailings, and ongoing seismic hazards exacerbated by active mining operations. The combination of these factors renders any mitigation efforts ineffective, underscoring the extreme vulnerability of the area.
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[The Ingemmet report] concluded that frequent floods and liquefaction of soils caused by earthquakes may affect the safety of residents living in buildings of New Morococha, where most urban facilities, including schools, religious temples, and health centers, were built within 26 months between 2010 and 2012. The report said the company has not yet informed residents of what they would do to mitigate those risks.
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- African leaders say elephants need to die for food. Critics says it’s cruel and won’t work | CNNedition.cnn.com African leaders say elephants need to die for food. Critics says it’s cruel and won’t work | CNN
It’s a gut-wrenching concept: drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating wild animals
Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people.
In August, Namibia announced it had embarked on a cull of 723 animals, including 83 elephants, 30 hippos and 300 zebras. The following month, Zimbabwe authorized the slaughter of 200 elephants.
Both governments said the culls would help alleviate the impacts of the region’s worst drought in 100 years, reduce pressure on land and water, and prevent conflict as animals push further into human settlements seeking food.
- 'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study findswww.france24.com 'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study finds
A major study published on Wednesday warns that even temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming limit could lead to irreversible consequences, including rising sea levels and mass biodiversity loss.…
- Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weatherwww.theguardian.com Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
Wheat haul in England estimated to be down by 21%, with Britain’s wine producers also hit hard
- Pensioners under financial pressure to fund their children’s retirementswww.telegraph.co.uk Pensioners under financial pressure to fund their children’s retirements
Escalating living costs leaves younger generations unable to save enough
- Lebanon facing 'catastrophic' situation as 600,000 displaced: UNwww.france24.com Lebanon facing 'catastrophic' situation as 600,000 displaced: UN
United Nations officials warned Wednesday that Lebanon was staring down a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis as the number of internally displaced people hit 600,000 and Israel presses its offensive…
- Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWFwww.france24.com Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF
Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70 percent in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of a landmark assessment by WWF published on Thursday.
- Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturingwww.theguardian.com Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturing | Bill McKibben
Climate disasters risk pulling society apart. To survive we need solidarity – and only one ticket in the US election offers that
- More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research findswww.theguardian.com More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds
One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago
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- UN warns world's water cycle becoming ever more erraticphys.org UN warns world's water cycle becoming ever more erratic
Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned Monday.
Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned Monday.
Last year the world's rivers were their driest for more than 30 years, glaciers suffered their largest loss of ice mass in half a century and there was also a "significant" number of floods, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a report.
"Water is the canary in the coalmine of climate change," WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a statement accompanying the State of Global Water Resources report.
"We receive distress signals in the form of increasingly extreme rainfall, floods and droughts which wreak a heavy toll on lives, ecosystems and economies," she said.
Saulo said the heating up of the Earth's atmosphere had made the water cycle "more erratic and unpredictable.
- Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciersphys.org Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognize his once beautiful settlement.
Nepal is reeling from its worst flooding in decades after ferocious monsoon rains swelled rivers and inundated entire neighborhoods in the capital Kathmandu, killing at least 236 people.
Last weekend's disaster was the latest of several disastrous floods to hit the country this year.
Thame was submerged in August by a glacial lake that burst high in the mountains above the small village, famous for its mountaineering residents.
It was once home to Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first person to climb the world's highest mountain Everest, along with New Zealander Edmund Hillary.
Experts say that the flood in Nepal was part of a frightening pattern. Glaciers are receding at an alarming rate.
Hundreds of glacial lakes formed from glacial melt have appeared in recent decades.
In 2020, more than 2,000 were mapped across Nepal by experts from the Kathmandu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), with 21 identified as potentially dangerous.
- Parts of Antarctica are turning green faster than we thought from climate change, 'shocked' scientists saynews.sky.com Parts of Antarctica are turning green faster than we thought from climate change, 'shocked' scientists say
Satellite images show the area covered by vegetation has grown dramatically and is now 10 times larger than it was four decades ago and the rate of change is speeding up.
Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate change in the region.
The area covered by vegetation in the Antarctic Peninsula is 10 times larger than four decades ago, a UK research team has said.
It means the 800-mile (1,300km) area in the northernmost part of the continent - could become vulnerable to invasive species as a result.
- US officials struggle to quash Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13985944
> cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/32287179 > > > One of the more far-fetched rumors is that Helene was an engineered storm to allow corporations to mine regional lithium deposits. Others accuse the administration of President Joe Biden of using federal disaster funds to help migrants in the country illegally, or suggest officials are deliberately abandoning bodies in the cleanup.
- Young Chinese are 'retiring' in the countryside as China's unemployment woes gratewww.cnbc.com Young Chinese are 'retiring' in the countryside as China's unemployment woes grate
China's youths are retreating to the countryside after getting fired from their jobs, or unable to secure one that they are content with.
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Fed up with China's employment situation, young people on the mainland are retreating to the countryside.
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Job hunting has been particularly difficult for young people as the Chinese economy struggles, said Chung Chi Nien, chair professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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- Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’www.theguardian.com Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’
As the Line fire exploded, dense smoke made it difficult to breathe and heat became ‘intolerable’, but work carried on
