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By Victoria Ellis
More than 400 Indigenous rangers attend a conference at Uluru to share important cultural and land management knowledge, focusing on themes of fire management, protecting native animals and plants, and cross culture collaboration.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/indigenous-desert-alliance-conference-at-uluru/104592978
#IndigenousCulture #IndigenousAboriginalandTorresStraitIslander #Environment #VictoriaEllis
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Trees and land absorbed almost no carbon dioxide (CO2) last year, and scientists are struggling to work out why.
Carbon sinks, such as forests, oceans and soils, are an essential part of regulating the Earth’s climate. Through natural processes, these land and ocean masses absorb almost half of all human carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
But preliminary findings for 2023 – the hottest year ever recorded on Earth – have found that the amount of carbon absorbed by forests, plants, and soil has temporarily collapsed.
This was completely unexpected, and therefore not something factored into most predictions and calculations about how quickly the Earth will heat up as a result of climate change. The breakdown of the land carbon sink could be temporary, but if it isn’t, this will drastically increase the rate of global heating.
It will be impossible for the world to reach net zero without carbon sinks, because there is simply no human technology that can absorb carbon on the same scale as the forests, grasslands, peat bogs, and oceans of the world.
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FULL STORY ➡️ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/trees-absorbed-almost-no-co2-last-year-and-scientists-are-struggling-to-explain-why-385673/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Also no progress since Cop27, or Cop20, or Cop15, or...
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There is no sign of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions.
The new data comes from the Global Carbon Budget project, a collaboration of more than 100 experts led by Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, at the University of Exeter, UK, who said: “The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked. Time is running out and world leaders meeting at Cop29 must bring about rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions.”
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I wish they'd just be honest and announce that they have absolutely no intention of meeting any of their goals. Ever.
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FULL STORY ➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high
#Politics #History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
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America has always been a violent, racist country. Little wonder, being built on slavery and genocide, spawn of the brutal British Empire.
Our war for independence was no romantic story about a fight for freedom and justice. It was a revolt against a king not playing nice with his colonists. Some were fleeing religious persecution, but many were here to get rich. They had no compunction about murdering the indigenous people who saved them from starving in their first winter on these shores.
Native Americans were slaughtered, the survivors driven across the land to reservations, their resources stolen. Texas was annexed in 1845 from the brown people of Mexico under the newly invented guise of “Manifest Destiny” which argued we have moral virtue, and a divine right to that destiny.
Through this time and well before, Africans were packed into the holds of dank, leaking ships for weeks-long voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The fifty percent that survived disease outbreaks from these barbaric conditions were sold as if animals. Eventually, slavery ripped families apart in the Civil War. The emancipation of blacks led to the Jim Crow laws in the south not overturned until 1965.
To understand what happened on November 5, we must consider history.
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Geoff has written a long, angry, and well-informed essay about our shameful past and present — and near the end, he also offers several good suggestions on how to organize and take action to build a better future. I hope you’ll read the whole thing.
➡️ https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/descent-into-madness
#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
A reasonable warming (it was a misspelling of warning but I decided to keep it) - but I am bemused by the suggestion/plea that Economists need a solution. I think that economists are a big part of the problem, and their ‘group think’ exacerbates it.
Come the revolution who do you want to be the first up against the wall? And the second and….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/grocery-prices-donald-trump-climate-crisis-olive-oil-butter-extreme-weather-cost-of-living
#Environment #Crisis #Food #HungerToCome #Hunger #Migration
« La France continue de produire et d’exporter des substances actives dangereuses, interdites d’usage sur son propre territoire en raison de leur toxicité pour la #santé et l’#environnement », soulignent deux organismes.
[Accès libre]
https://www.sudouest.fr/environnement/pesticides/agriculture-des-pesticides-interdits-exportes-depuis-la-france-le-conseil-d-etat-saisi-22133879.php
#Health #environment
#AgroIndustrie #AgroChimie
#RevueDePresse #Press
Agriculture : des pesticides interdits exportés depuis la France ? Le Conseil d’État saisi
« La France continue de produire et d’exporter des substances actives dangereuses, interdites d’usage sur son propre territoire en raison de leur toxicité pour la santé et l’environnement », soulignent deux organismesSudOuest.fr avec AFP (Sud Ouest)
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment #Pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find
But let's not fool ourselves into believing that a Harris victory would have been *good* for our climate and environment. We've been going in the wrong direction for at least 20 years under Presidents from both parties — and there's no reason to think that Kamala Harris would have charted a different course.
SEE ➡️ https://archive.ph/VnlWF
When it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.
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#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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For liberal America, this election season has not been fun. It has not been honest. It did not turn out well. And now that it’s over, the time has arrived for a dose of brutal honesty. Forget about Donald Trump’s real and perceived lies. We have lied to ourselves for too long.
Our country and our world are in a dire state. That state has everything to do with the climate crisis, species extinction (possibly including our own), wars with no end in sight, dysfunctional geopolitics and domestic politics, and worst of all, irrational devotion to economic growth that is literally killing us.
The energy transition demanded by the climate crisis is an area where facing up to hard truths is particularly vital. It is also the area of our misguided American experience of the last half century that I know most about. A long career of writing about the energy industry tells me that recovery from our binge of self-deception must start with admitting:
1. Trump’s presidency will not bring the great change for the worse in US energy policy that establishment environmentalists claim it will. Not, tragically, because Trump is better than they say, but because the Biden/Harris administration was much, much worse than hoped.
2. The US is not a leader in positive climate action. It has not been under Biden, and it will not be for the foreseeable future. On the contrary, both political parties seem determined — in practice, if not in words — to lead a reactionary defense of fossil fuels.
3. Climate breakdown is much more advanced than widely admitted. There’s no time left for a carefully designed transition, or even a thought-out, gradually implemented shift away from the devastating paradigm of economic growth. An economic collapse is the only evident path to slower climate destabilization.
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There's a lot more in the full essay, including some suggestions of books to read, along with action steps for those of us who are ready to start off in a new direction.
➡️ https://medium.com/the-new-climate/post-us-election-the-contrarian-take-on-climate-2ba24101b2c9
#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
I might have once considered the description of human beings as parasitic to this world as hyperbolic but....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/12/shell-wins-appeal-against-court-ruling-ordering-cut-in-carbon-emissions
#ClimateChange #Environment #Greed #HumanBlindness
Plastic eating insect found in Kenya
#worldnews #news #africa #kenya #environment #climate
Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya
Natural ‘plastic eaters’ could help in the fight against pollution in Africa.The Conversation
#environment #technology #gaza
Israele, la strategia dello sterminio
Da settimane, la striscia di Gaza è sotto un intensificato assedio delle forze armate israeliane, che non si limita al controllo delle vie d’accesso e delle risorse, ma che continua a prendere di mira in maniera diretta e deliberata la popolazione ci…www.altrenotizie.org
Business As Usual is turning out just fine. 🙄
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. That means humanity has passed a critical threshold established in 2015 in the Paris climate accord.
“After 10 months of 2024, it is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first year of more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement. "This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29.”
The EU agency announced this moment as nations all over the world gather in the Azerbaijani city of Baku for the 29th Conference of the Parties. The ERA5 dataset found that global temperatures in 2024 were on average 1.55 degrees Celsius higher than the 1.48 degrees threshold measured in 2023. The report also noted climate change-fueled major weather events in 2024 such as torrential floods in Spain and rapidly melting Antarctic sea ice.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.salon.com/2024/11/09/earth-on-track-for-hottest-year-in-recorded-history-passing-critical-15-warming-threshold/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold
Climate scientists have long identified 1.5º of temperature rise as a grave milestone for avoiding disasterSalon.com
Navajo Nation Environmental Remediation Fund Ensures the Protection and Longevity of Navajo Lands - EUROPE SAYS
Details By Native News Online Staff November 09, 2024 On Thursday, Council Delegate Dr. Andy Nez joined NavajoEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
https://theconversation.com/trees-dont-like-to-breathe-wildfire-smoke-either-and-theyll-hold-their-breath-to-avoid-it-227318
#environment
Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.The Conversation
All we’ll ever get from them and our so-called leaders is a lot more “blah, blah, blah.” Words, not actions.
What our biosphere will get is more chemicals poisoning the land and sea, more plastic waste, more cars, more roads, more forests chopped down, and more droughts...
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The Amazon Basin is responsible for around 15% of all fresh water discharged into the oceans and 13% of the planet’s biodiversity. But the rivers in the world’s largest tropical rainforest are drying up. Their waters have dropped to record lows this year.
This is all happening, scientists warn, at a point when the biome has lost 18% of its forest cover, reducing its capacity to absorb and store carbon. The Amazon is now approaching the point of no return, while global temperatures are set to break the annual heat record for the second consecutive year.
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FULL STORY -- https://sumauma.com/en/infografico-o-terrivel-ressecamento-da-amazonia/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon - SUMAÚMA
River levels have reached record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, another sign that the vast rainforest basin is slipping toward a point of no returnViviane Zandonadi (SUMAÚMA)
Turning over a new leaf? Acknowledging it’s time for capitalism to end? Mea culpa?
Ha-ha, no.
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A senior official at the COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," says Soltanov.
As well as being chief executive of COP29, Soltanov is also the deputy energy minister of Azerbaijan and is on the board of Socar, Azerbaijan's state energy firm.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o
SEE ALSO -- https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/cop-is-for-oil-deals/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #COP29
COP29 chief secretly filmed promoting fossil fuel deals
Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees C. Meanwhile Trump has vowed to keep on burning fossil fuels and seems to be relying on prime ocean real estate being revealed to keep his popularity up, climate related diseases will continue to proliferate and agriculture will suffer. You have to be elderly or stupid to look forward to this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2024-will-be-the-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5-degree-celsius-warming/
#ClimateChange #Environment
2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5-Degree-Celsius Warming Threshold
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple yearsAndrea Thompson (Scientific American)
The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08112024/young-voter-turnout-slumped-support-split-between-parties/
#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Despite Climate Concerns, Young Voter Turnout Slumped and Its Support Split Between the Parties - Inside Climate News
The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government.Derek Harrison (Inside Climate News)
The team calculated that 370 million tons of these nine materials were manufactured in the United States in 2018, resulting in 427 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. This resulted in $79 billion of climate costs that are not included in the market prices of these materials
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/assessing-real-climate-costs-manufacturing
#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Assessing the real climate costs of manufacturing
A new study from UC Davis quantifies the climate costs of carbon emissions from manufacturing common materials such as steel, aluminum, plastics and cement.University of California
#media #environment
We *must* urgently ...
◽️Stop using damaging technologies
◽️Reduce per-head consumption
◽️Reduce the number of us
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Un patron d’une entreprise céréalière a comparu jeudi 7 novembre 2024 devant le tribunal correctionnel d’Alençon. L’agriculteur est poursuivi par l’Office français de la biodiversité pour avoir détruit une haie bocagère près du village des #Aspres (#Orne).
https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/justice/tout-est-detruit-dans-lorne-un-agriculteur-coupe-une-haie-dans-une-zone-despeces-protegees-179b0a44-9ce9-11ef-ad61-4b47559018ee?utm_source=Flipboard-news&utm_medium=fluxrss&utm_campaign=banquedecontenu
#ChroniqueDeLaBêtise #ChroniqueJudiciaire
#Environnement #environment #RevueDePresse #Press
« Tout est détruit » : dans l’Orne, un agriculteur coupe une haie dans une zone d’espèces protégées
Un patron d’une entreprise céréalière a comparu jeudi 7 novembre 2024 devant le tribunal correctionnel d’Alençon.Jules DERENNE. (Ouest-France)
Turning away from it and closing our eyes does not change things. I believe it's important to know just where we stand and what we face so we can make the best choices in how we should live.
Also, note that this essay was published before this week's disastrous US election, which means that you can expect conditions warned about here to get even worse, sooner rather than later.
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In recent years, environmental warnings have become impossible to ignore. Humanity has pushed Earth far beyond its natural limits, launching it into a cascade of intertwined disasters that scientists now call the “polycrisis.” No longer a distant threat, this crisis is unfolding before us, destabilizing the foundations of ecosystems, economies, and communities worldwide.
While some hold out hope for a turnaround, the brutal truth is that we are too far gone. The trajectory is set, the damage done, and there is no miracle solution on the horizon. Our only option is to live through this polycrisis as best we can, facing an uncertain and increasingly harsh reality.
As temperatures climb, ecosystems crumble, and resource conflicts rise, it’s clear that our world will never be the same. For those of us with young families, our hopes are tempered by a haunting reality: the future we once dreamed of has shifted beyond reach. What remains is an obligation to understand the forces shaping this collapse, accept the inevitability of hardship, and try to adapt as the familiar falls away.
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The essay includes sections on climate change, biodiversity loss, economic and social erosion, and finally, "living through the polycrisis." I hope you'll find it helpful.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/MwljK
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/edge-of-collapse/no-turning-back-accepting-the-irreversible-global-collapse-21a97632b6d6
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
WHEN will world leaders WAKE UP and start protecting nature?!
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
https://www.tree.fm
#forest #tree #trees #nature #music #sound #sounds #audio #noise #ambient #recording #environment
tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.www.tree.fm
Les #HuîtresCreuses sont vulnérables aux pesticides, qui les affectent sur plusieurs générations. C’est ce que montre une vaste étude de l’Ifremer, qui a voulu évaluer l’effet cocktail produit sur le mollusque par un mélange de pesticides couramment retrouvé dans les milieux naturels. Les résultats suggèrent qu’il y a urgence à repenser la façon dont sont menées les études d’écotoxicité.
https://theconversation.com/les-pesticides-nuisent-aux-huitres-creuses-sur-plusieurs-generations-237810
#PollutionAgricole #AgroIndustrie #Pollution #Environnement #environment #RevueDePresse #Press
"On top of that is the challenge of feeding an ever-growing population without expanding the production of fertilizer and other agrochemicals, which have a large carbon footprint that is contributing to the overall warming of the planet.
"Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles."
https://news.mit.edu/2024/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-change-1101
#Agriculture #Farming #Science #Nature #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #MIT
Making agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on the agricultural challenges posed by climate change, from engineering plants that sound an alarm when they’re under stress to making seeds more resilient to drought.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-climate-longer-young-person-game.html
#ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Climate activism is no longer a young person's game
When Cathy Fulkerson walked into her bank in Reno, Nevada, she was ready to cancel her credit card. Carrying a letter stating her concerns, Fulkerson explained to the manager why she wanted to cut ties: its investments in fossil fuels.Olivia Rudgard (Phys.org)
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The United States is home to more than 5,000 data centers today, and the Department of Commerce forecasts that number to grow by around 450 a year through 2030.
Concrete is a major ingredient in data center construction — and is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Data centers use so much concrete that the AI building boom is wrecking tech giants’ commitments to eliminate their carbon emissions.
Last year, Microsoft’s carbon emissions jumped by over 30%, primarily due to the materials in its new data centers. Google’s greenhouse emissions are up by nearly 50% over the past five years. As data centers proliferate worldwide, Morgan Stanley projects that data centers will release about 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 each year by 2030 — or about 40% of what the United States currently emits from all sources.
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In a masterpiece of greenwashing, the article tries to put a happy face on everything, with section headings like these:
😃 “1,000 Companies Working on Green Concrete”
😃 “Better Cement Through Chemistry”
😃 “Software Takes on the Hard Problem of Concrete”
😃 “Cement Plants That Capture Carbon”
😃 “A Sustainable Foundation for the Information Age”
And somehow, oblivious to the crazy irony, this article actually touts AI itself as part of the solution!! 🤦♂️
➡️ https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-concrete
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing
The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete
Big data means big concrete. And that’s undoing tech’s climate pledgesTed C. Fishman (IEEE Spectrum)
#Environment #journalism #Detroit
https://planetdetroit.org/2024/10/michigan-coal-steel-health-toll/
DTE-owned EES Coke tied to health toll – Planet Detroit
A new report reveals the health toll of EES Coke, Cleveland Cliffs, causing an estimated 40-80 premature deaths annually.Nina Misuraca Ignaczak (Planet Detroit)
Scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN #biodiversity summit, #COP16, draws to a close.
The scale of political ambition has not risen to the challenge of reducing the destruction of #nature that costs the economy billions, said one leading expert.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9jdpep4ydo
#BiodiversityLoss #environment #collapse #Collapse2040
Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists
Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.Helen Briggs (BBC News)