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Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope
In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.The Conversation
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reachedJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
This is where tree planting has the biggest climate impact
Planting more trees can help cool the planet and reduce fire risk—but where they are planted matters. According to UC Riverside researchers, tropical regions provide the most powerful climate benefits because trees there grow year-round, absorb more …ScienceDaily
#Google once promised to run “carbon free 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year” by 2030. But five years later the company has quietly deleted its net zero pledge from its sustainability website rebranding the section and moving the goal into an appendix.
The shift comes as #AI data centres drive surging energy use. Google’s power consumption jumped 26% in 2024 nearly matching #Ireland ’s and the #Trump administration pressures #corporations to roll back #climate goals.
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Palm Oil Is Ruining Kalangala Uganda — Locals Paying the Price
A catastrophic storm in #Uganda’s Kalangala district left nearly 1,000 households homeless. The real culprit? Rampant #deforestation for #palmoil. Once rich in native forests that buffered storms, …Palm Oil Detectives
Trump moves to open protected Arctic lands in Alaska to oil drilling
The Trump administration has proposed reopening vast sections of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil development, including long-protected areas around Teshekpuk Lake.Yereth Rosen reports for Alaska Beacon.EHN Curators (EHN)
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reachedJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
Climate change: Future of today's young people
Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms under current climate policies.ScienceDaily
Brace for impact. The #ECMWF #weather #model promises scorching temperatures over #Europe the coming week. Anomalies of up to 15-20 C higher than normal are expected.
This weather is brought to you by climate change (for those who claim it's been hot before: weather is what happens, climate is the probability it happens. And this has become significantly more probable because greenhouse gases and physics.)
Boston (and here in Cambridge) is at The Highest Temperature It's Ever Been Today
The highest temperature recorded was 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) on July 4, 1911.
2:15 PM and we have matched that Record. And It Could Potentially Break that Record.
#Boston #Cambridge #HighestRecordedTemperature #HistoryBreaking #Climate #Weather
Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’
"I am hopeful, and I think the best solution is to move toward a different economic model. The world is realizing that we can’t maintain capitalism as it is."
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#climate #PublicHealth #health #economy
Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’
The British scientist examines the techniques that companies use to influence public opinion and how these tactics impact our healthJessica Mouzo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
Just read "The Invention of Nature" by Andrea Wulf, an amazing biography of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
Humboldt himself is not that well known anymore but he essentially laid the groundwork for our current conception of nature and environmentalism.
Humboldt traveled in the Americas and detailed the environmental catastrophe of colonialism in the early 19th century - his observations were strangely prescient and still relevant today.
#climate #nature #science #environment
🎇 Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!
I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.
post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/11470…
#books #bookstodon #reading #philly #philadelphia #iffyBooks #climate #climateJustice #anarchist #anarchy #bookstore #bookshop #bookstores #skillsharing #skillshare #rightToRepair #solarPunk #solar #permaculture #permacomputing
Iffy Books (@iffybooks@post.lurk.org)
Attached: 4 images This is tough to talk about, but we'll need some help to keep Iffy Books going. Here's a letter we've been circulating that explains the situation: https://iffybooks.net/a-letter-from-steve-at-iffy-books-june-13-2025/post.lurk.org
Amazon could survive long-term drought but at a high cost
The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests.ScienceDaily
How to break through climate apathy
A new study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form -- such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter -- significantly increases people's ability to see the impact…ScienceDaily
(2022) Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century journals.plos.org/climate/arti…
#AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #greenhousegas #CO2 #emissions #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateAction #GoVegan
Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century
Animal agriculture contributes significantly to global warming through ongoing emissions of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, and displacement of biomass carbon on the land used to support livestock.journals.plos.org
Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?
What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequenc…Palm Oil Detectives
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Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court
Doug Paulley and Kevin Jordan say their lives being ruined, and lack of effective strategy infringes their human rightsDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
What happens if we cut down the whole #Amazon rainforest? Mass death for #climate #animals #plants and people. Doing so is akin to severing our own arteries. Take action! Go #vegan 🥦🥕 and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚫 #BoycottGold 🥇🚫#Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com/2021/06/…
Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?
What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequenc…Palm Oil Detectives
With spring 🌱 upon us in the northern hemisphere, it is the time for the spring bloom in many lakes and oceans. To grow, #phytoplankton require #nutrients and #light, so start reproducing rapidly due to an abundance of nutrients mixed in the water column and increased light intensity 🌞. Zooplankton grazers have yet to increase, and warming conditions help to retain algae near the surface euphotic zone via stratification.
serc.carleton.edu/eet/phytopla…
#Science #climate
This week's comic: "Protecting the children"
#uspol #comic #cartoon #children #education #lgbtq #climate #health #healthcare #transgender
Permanent ice caps have been quite rare in geological history. This new study suggests that's because you need to right combination of paleogeography (which affects weathering rates), exposed lithology (different rocks draw down more/less CO2 as they weather, and plate tectonic configuration (which affects volcanic degassing), all working in the same direction, to get into an icehouse.
- Michael E. Webber nytimes.com/2025/02/11/opinion… #energy #climate #politics
That time in 2009 when Donald Trump took out a full-page NYT ad with other business leaders calling on President Obama for aggressive #climate action:
“If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic & irreversible consequences for humanity & our planet.”
Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon
