"Latin America is experiencing its worst dengue fever outbreak on record. Case numbers in the first 4 ½ months of 2024 are already 238% higher than they were by this time last year, which itself ended with a record 4.1 million cases, according to the Pan American Health Organization. Cases are more than 400% higher than the five-year average."
Scottish Literature, Borders & the Environmental Imagination
By Julia Ditter
Examining the relationship between #borders & the #environment in #Scottish#literature from the 19th century to the present. For a preview, see Julia Ditter’s article “Reading Scotland’s Borders Through the Environment” – part of the DEBATABLE LANDS issue of THE BOTTLE IMP, May 2022
A new study has found that chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) like to feed on antelope poop, especially during drier months when vegetation might be sparse.
Researchers deployed collar cameras attached to four baboons in South Africa as part of a documentary film in 2017; they later analyzed footage from two of them.
UK Climate Deniers & Fossil Fuel Sector Have Donated £8.4M to Tories
As the UK gears up for another election, an investigation shows the Conservative Party has accrued £8.4M in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers since winning the last election in 2019
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners & 12 times more than average. Income is directly linked to levels of mobility.
In the UK, transport is now the largest source of emissions.
@MarvinFreeman The great medals collecting is getting out of hand. Large amounts of cheap, difficult to recycle metal is being left to hang around in cupboards and drawers. At least some events are providing something in wood - maybe with a heat etched design…
Mass adoption of clean energy requires massive energy storage, and we’re getting closer! 👇🏼
Thanks to a MIT spin-off company, we have thermal ceramic bricks capable of storing heat for DAYS 👀.
These ceramic bricks can store heat — at temperatures up to 1800 degrees Celsius — for DAYS that can then be used to convert the energy back to electricity when needed.
Dozens of countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, and Costa Rica, adopt common carbon accounting standards. A total of 21 countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, & Costa Rica, or jurisdictions covering many states, will adopt common extra-financial accounting standards on climate for their companies, the body that already manages the IFRS financial accounting standards, applied in 140 countries & jurisdictions, announced on Tuesday
Plans to give Paris' famous Champs-Élysées a makeover have been submitted to Paris City Hall, with 150 proposals on the table to try and give "the most beautiful avenue in the world" its shine back, particularly with Parisians, who have abandoned it. So what could the Champs-Elysées one day look like? Emerald Maxwell reports. #Paris#Cycling#Environment
Exciting! This is the next level of #solar biodiversified #agrivoltiacs farms: solar panels spaced among agricultural crops & planted with plant species that increase biodiversity. 👏
The parcel of land will have a 54 MW agrivoltiacs facility that will:
— host #wildflowers species
— provide as a wild animal shelter
— feature amphibian ponds, #bird baths, nesting boxes, & breeding places to protect endangered Lesser kestrel #birds
I don't throw away #compactfluorescent lamps but "burn" them in my #turtle dwellings. They give off sufficient light and provide some heat as well. Currently one CFL has been consumed, have a box full of them. #ewaste#environment
President Biden has signed a new amendment in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that will make it borderline impossible to track private jet activity. This puts the kibosh on social media attempts to hold famous folk accountable for their jet-related CO2 emissions, although @thrillist reports that a new study provides some insight into the worst celebrity polluters. Here's more.
UK holidaymakers warned as climate change triggers super-sized cockroach infestations in Spain
The alert was raised by the National Association of Environmental Health Companies (Anecpla) which said the insects will emerge in their masses this summer
Severe degradation of Nepal’s rivers due to overexploitation has negatively impacted otters and other aquatic species.
Dumping of raw sewage and industrial waste, leaching of agricultural pesticides, and rapid urbanization and infrastructure developments are undermining otter habitats across the country.
Around the world, free-flowing natural rivers are being fragmented by dams, weirs and other barriers. It’s one of the biggest, yet least acknowledged, causes of biodiversity loss worldwide.
River fragmentation is a key reason migratory fish populations have declined by 81% since 1970, according to a new report by the Living Planet Index – a rate of wildlife loss six times that of animals that live on land or in the sea. #Rivers#Biodiversity#Environment#Dams