‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds | Greenhouse gas emissions (www.theguardian.com)
In today’s edition of no shit sherlock. So, solutions ? Stop flying… No? okay then, societal collapse it is then.
Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration (www.reuters.com)
Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground....
European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments (www.transportenvironment.org)
Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...
In an area in eastern Serbia, a steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS became synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community (www.onegreenplanet.org)
In the villages surrounding the eastern Serbian city of Smederevo, trouble has brewed over the last eight years. Once a symbol of economic promise, the steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS has become synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community....
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet (www.theguardian.com)
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
1 in 5 young people around the world are NEETs. What does that mean? (globalaffairs.org)
More than a fifth of people worldwide between the ages of 15 and 24 years old – 21.7% – were considered NEETs in 2023, according to the International Labour Organization....
Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passes (www.bbc.com)
An analysis of hundreds of pre-modern states over 3,000 years (from 2000BC to AD1800) suggests that civilisations tend to have a ‘shelf-life’
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price. (fullerproject.org)
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Meet the Gen Zers struggling to stay in work or school — and the parents who are at a loss for how to help (www.businessinsider.com)
A rising number of young Americans are disconnected from work, school, and a sense of purpose....
Major cities in Mexico running out of water as extreme heat continues (www.nbcnews.com)
Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war (edition.cnn.com)
'Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims (www.theguardian.com)
Victims of climate change will be telling their stories this week to a panel of judges in Barbados during the first part of a historic hearing on climate change by the inter-American court of human rights....
"An egregious violation of academic freedom": At its flagship university in the U.S. State of Louisiana, oil companies can influence research and coursework for a price (thelensnola.org)
For $5 million dollars, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company help choose which faculty research projects move forward. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research study, with “robust” reviewing powers and access to resulting intellectual property....
China: state media reports flooding seen “once in a century” is expected in southern China, putting 127 million people at risk (www.dw.com)
Large parts of Guangdong province have been soaked by torrential rain since Thursday, swelling major rivers and waterways in the Pearl River Delta....
Dubai submerged in floods as UAE gets over a year’s worth of rain in hours (www.aljazeera.com)
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World’s largest thermal energy storage to be built in Vantaa, Finland (www.vantaanenergia.fi)
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Extreme Sahel heatwave that hit highly vulnerable population at the end of Ramadan would not have occurred without climate change, study finds (www.worldweatherattribution.org)
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Amazon is capable of reducing plastic waste in the US. So why isn’t It? - It has done so elsewhere—when forced, a new report shows. (www.motherjones.com)
Experts like Dana Miller, director of strategic initiatives at the nonprofit Oceana, would like Amazon to reduce plastics “because of a moral responsibility … to reduce their impact on the environment.” But the company has been slow to respond to moral appeals from customers and shareholders, including three shareholder...
World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect (www.theguardian.com)
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Roads of destruction: vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest (theconversation.com)
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The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns (www.smh.com.au)
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The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)
In 2015, PhD student Christine Figgener was on a small fishing boat off Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast examining an olive ridley turtle – when she noticed something strange coming out of its nostril. Curious, she started filming as one of her research colleagues began to investigate the object. At just over eight minutes long,...
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled (www.theguardian.com)
In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such rulings by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent....
Forget ‘doomers:' Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says (news.harvard.edu)
"I push back on doomism because I don’t think it’s justified by the science, and I think it potentially leads us down a path of inaction,” said Mann during a talk last Thursday at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs....
The next pandemic? It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife (theconversation.com)
Diana Bell, Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of East Anglua, urges the world to “completely overhaul poultry production on a global scale” and to “make farms self-sufficient in rearing eggs and chicks instead of exporting them internationally”....
