ExtinctionR

ExtinctionR, 26 days ago to random

How did we even end up with billionaires so cruel, so unempathetic, so heartless, and apparently so stupid they can scarcely count all the zeros of their wealth.

ExtinctionR, 28 days ago to random

The Biden administration is finally stepping up and putting some limits on the trashing of the natural environment and endless opportunities to extract hydrocarbons from US land that it has allowed fossil fuel multinationals.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/19/nation/biden-shields-millions-acres-alaskan-wilderness-drilling-mining/

ExtinctionR, 28 days ago to climate

"Deaths related to heat have increased by around 30% in Europe in the last 20 years, the report said."
#Climate #ClimateCrisis

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/health-harming-heat-stress-rising-europe-scientists-say-2024-04-22/#:~:text=Deaths%20related%20to%20heat%20have,outdoor%20workers%20from%20extreme%20heat.

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to climate

"The researchers estimate that the northern permafrost region emitted 38M tons of CH4 and 670,000 tons of N2O into the atmosphere between 2000 & 2020. That's very little compared with the emissions of a major industrialized country, but the pace may accelerate as the world warms."

#climate #ClimateCollapse #ClimateCrisis

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-northern-permafrost-region-emits-greenhouse.html

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

In 100 years, ¼ of China’s urban coastal land could sit below sea level because of a combination of subsidence from weight of buildings and ground water extraction and sea level rise caused by carbon emissions, a study has found.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/19/asia-pacific/society/china-city-sink-study/

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

Across the Sahel people are enduring a heatwave. In Mali, with less than 6 hours electricity a day and temperatures up to 41°C "its impact, particularly on older people, is significant, with many cases of dehydration and heatstroke."
https://www.africanews.com/2024/04/19/no-respite-from-deadly-heat-in-mali-and-elsewhere-in-the-sahel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to climate

"This year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says."

Imagine if these mostly functional devices could be upgraded instead of replace and binned. Nevermind the mining of old tech for the valuable minerals they contain instead of destroying nature for it as suggested in the article.
#ClimateCrisis #resources #ClimateCollapse

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

Nobel Prize winners Esther Duflo and Joseph Stiglitz are backing the Brazilian government in proposing taxing billionaires for the benefit of the very poorest who endure climate harms. The poorest are at risk of death as heat peaks above survivable wet bulb temperatures.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/taxing-super-rich-brazil-g-182254724.html

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

New research suggests "Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°"

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The editors of Scientific American have written an opinion piece saying we need to move away from #cars to #activetransport because of local & carbon #pollution, road crash death & injury and how it restricts access to life for so many- the young, the elderly, the poor & disabled.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

How we should react to the #ClimateCrisis:

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

With drought already affecting several provinces, Canada is set for an even more catastrophic fire season than last year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68789278

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

Al-Mizan A Covenant for the Earth is a document by scholars that creates a framework for the world's 1.8Bn Muslims to act with a stronger environmental ethic and routine.

www.almizan.earth

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to conservative

#ego #eco #ecology #nature #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #humanity #anthropocene #animals #plants #flora #fauna

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

"Bogotá joins Mexico City to its northwest, which could also be on the brink of running out of water, as the combination of climate change, El Niño, geography and rapid urban development put immense strain on its water resources."
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/11/climate/bogota-water-rationing-drought-climate-intl/index.html

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

All the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit equivalent to more than an entire year’s worth of China’s emissions.

We need to shut them down.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-new-oil-and-gas-projects-since-2021-could-emit-14bn-tonnes-of-co2/

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

From a massive success in the Netherlands last October, the protests against #FossilFuelSubsidies look to encompass Europe and create even bigger change.

https://theecologist.org/2024/apr/11/roadblock-changing-europe

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

More than five times the carbon found in all of the world's vegetation combined is stored in soil inorganic carbon (SIC). Solid SIC, which often calcium carbonate has been identified in such large quantities for the first time in a new study.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-giant-global-soil-carbon.html

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to random

What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00993-x?utm_source=press.coop

ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to climate

Meat industry lobbyists described the outcome of COP28- which notable failed to rein in animal agriculture and its associated emissions- as "music to our ears”.
#climate #meat #ClimateCollapse #emissions
https://www.desmog.com/2024/04/08/us-meat-lobby-celebrates-positive-outcome-cop28/