by Victor Fernandez Garcia & Christina Santin in Wired.com….The doubling in extreme wildfires adds to a complex picture of fire patterns and trends. This new evidence underscores the urgency of addressing the root causes behind worsening wildfire activity, such as land cover changes, forest policies and management, and, of course, climate change. This will better prepare us for these extreme fires, which are near-impossible to combat using traditional firefighting methods.
NEOM is a city of the future. The land is the cost.
by K.O. in Atmos….NEOM has been hailed as the future of the climate-resilient, smart city. But, for local communities, its construction threatens displacement and exploitation.
Denmark unveils ‘groundbreaking’ roadmap towards plant-based food
by Daniel Clark in Plant Based News…Plant-based foods are “the future,” according to the country’s Minister for Food
Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide
by Katherine J. Turo in Nature….Declining pollinator populations could threaten global food production, especially if current crop yields are limited by insufficient pollinator visitation to flowers, in a phenomenon referred to as ‘pollinator limitation’.
Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted
by Liz Kimbrough in Mongabay….The climate crisis appears to be driving this trend toward more extreme fire seasons. Higher temperatures caused by climate change dry out the landscape and make forests more susceptible to fire. The researchers point out that Canada and other northern regions are warming up about twice as fast as the rest of the world.
Reporting on Doomsday Scenarios
from 60 Minutes….From 2022, Jon Wertheim’s report on “preppers” who are gearing up for extreme catastrophes.
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Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers
by Simonn Willcock in Nature…..Accelerating stress levels, increasing frequencies of extreme events and strengthening intersystem connections suggest that conventional modelling approaches based on incremental changes in a single stress may provide poor estimates of the impact of climate and human activities on ecosystems.
Disrupting and diversifying the values, voices and governance principles that shape biodiversity science and management
by Anne Salomon in The Royal Society….With climate, biodiversity and inequity crises squarely upon us, never has there been a more pressing time to rethink how we conceptualize, understand and manage our relationship with Earth’s biodiversity.
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
by Tim Smedley in The Guardian….While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach
Chartbook 219 The triple inequality of the “global” climate problem.
by Adam Tooze in Chartbook..The climate crisis is often discussed as a global problem which requires a collective mobilization of humanity.
‘We can’t escape the reality’: France is preparing for 4°C of warming by 2100
by Rosie Frost in Euro News….After living through the hottest summer on record in 2022 and a prolonged drought, France is now preparing for a future where extreme weather could become commonplace.
Adapt or die: Jem Bendell’s radical vision to survive the climate crisis
By Lucy Jones in GQ….The founder of the Deep Adaptation movement – which predicts that climate change will lead to nothing less than social collapse – has divided climate scientists and supercharged protest movements. Critics call him a doomsayer. Others say he’s the only one acknowledging the truth
The worst-case scenario for drought on the Colorado River
By Umair Irfan, Vox.com…One in eight Americans depend on a river that’s disappearing.
Climate, fiction, and the future
Artists have a long history of channeling social change into their works, shaping our cultures, societies, and institutions. When informed by science, this becomes a powerful tool for action.
In the matter Re: Rights of Nature — A Staged Hearing
Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari’s recent project, In the matter Re: Rights of Nature took the form of a fictional National Green Tribunal (NGT) hearing exploring the relationship between the air pollution of Delhi / National Capital Region (NCR) and the stubble burning phenomena which occurs annually in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.
The Amazon’s largest isolated tribe is dying
Illegal mines have fueled a humanitarian crisis for the Yanomami Indigenous group. Brazil’s new president is trying to fight back.
The man who leaked the pentagon papers is scared
Daniel Ellsberg, now 91, says “I’m leaving a world in terrible shape and terrible in all ways that I’ve tried to help make better during my years.”
‘Endless, brutal heat’: Argentina’s late-season heatwave has ‘no similarities in history’
A later summer heat wave is causing un[unprecedented crises in Argentina.
Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
Dr. Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel and related trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
India to get heat waves this year after hottest February on record
Expected heat waves for India may have serious impacts on food supply.
Beyond fed up: six hard trends that lead to food system breakdown.
Trends suggest that even radical policies could only
delay, not avert, a tragedy from disrupted food supplies.