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More countries plan to participate in carbon markets under revised Paris pledges
“Get serious”: Eight technologies that could eliminate nearly all emissions by 2035
Stanford's Tony Seba says world has technologies to achieve rapid emission reductions. We just need to deploy them at speed and scale.
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Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming
US targets 50% ZEV sales by 2030, borrows California-brokered clean car standards
Olympic athletes and volunteers in Tokyo ‘tortured’ by heat
Hottest Games in history will put pressure on organisers to rethink sport in light of climate change
Olympic athletes and volunteers in Tokyo are being “tortured” by dangerous heat, meteorologists have warned, as the hottest Games in history puts pressure on organisers to rethink the future of sport in a climate-disrupted world.
Temperatures hit 34C in the Japanese capital on Thursday with humidity of nearly 70%. Athletes and sports scientists say this combination of heat and moisture has led to “brutal” conditions, which must be avoided at future events.
Continue reading...German government urged to do more to help rebuild flood-hit communities
Homes still lack water and power three weeks after at least 187 people died
Three weeks after catastrophic floods in western Germany devastated communities and claimed at least 187 lives, those affected are calling on the government to increase its effort to salvage homes and businesses.
More than 20 people are still missing after the disaster, which came after heavy rainfall caused scores of rivers to burst their banks, and led to the loss of large numbers of houses, roads and bridges.
Continue reading...Japan ministry eyes voluntary offset scheme to drive emissions cuts
Lufthansa cries foul at EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package, sees competition distortion risks
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
The research found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the currents that researchers call the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown.
Continue reading...Iran's decision-makers must shoulder the blame for its water crisis | Kaveh Madani
Invoking climate change as the sole cause of terrible shortages lets those in authority off the hook
- Kaveh Madani is a former deputy vice-president of Iran
Iran’s water bankruptcy has been in the news lately, prompting deadly protests in Khuzestan province that also garnered the attention of global media. But this kind of problem is neither new or unique in the country. Drying rivers, vanishing lakes, shrinking wetlands, declining groundwater levels, land subsidence, sinkholes, desertification, soil erosion, dust storms, air, water and waste pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation and wildfires are among the other familiar signs of Iran’s environmental devastation.
Khuzestan, in south-west Iran, is known globally for its rich oil and gas resources. But this wealthy province’s contribution to Iran’s development is not just its oil and gas revenue. Khuzestan is also water-rich compared with most of the country. So, its large rivers have been blocked by gigantic dams to store water for agriculture, industrial and domestic uses and hydroelectricity production. Considerable amounts of water have been also transferred from its rivers’ tributaries to dry regions in central Iran.
Continue reading...COP26: What is the UN climate conference in Glasgow and why is it so important?
Biden sets goal for 50% of new US vehicles to be electric by 2030
President outlines plan to tackle the climate crisis by cutting emissions and tightening pollution standards for cars and trucks
Joe Biden is setting a goal for half of all new US vehicle sales to be electric by 2030 while also tightening pollution standards for cars and trucks, in a barrage of action aimed at reducing the largest source of planet-heating gases in America.
On Thursday, the White House outlined its plan to tackle the climate crisis by cutting emissions from vehicles, with Biden set to sign an executive order demanding that 50% of all new cars and trucks sold by the end of the decade be powered by electric batteries.
Continue reading...Fledgling success as hen harrier continues to recover in England
This summer will have highest number of fledged chicks since 2002, according to Moorland Association
The endangered hen harrier is continuing its recovery from near extinction in England with this summer set to have the highest number of chicks fledging since 2002.
Of 24 successful nests producing at least 77 fledged chicks this summer, 19 were on moors managed for red grouse, according to the Moorland Association.
Continue reading...Young farmers lose hope as drought closes in: ‘It’s like a sad country song’
As irrigated crops compete with fish for scarce water, farmers in the Klamath Basin lament they may be the last generation to work the land
They are land rich and resource poor. Most have hundreds of acres of fertile soil, some thousands, but little money in the bank and – most importantly – no water.
Now the young farmers of the Klamath Basin, an agricultural community on the border of Oregon and California, fear they might be the last generation of their kind.
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Victoria targets renewable hydrogen and storage in new innovation grants
Victorian targets technology to support shift to renewables, including storage and green hydrogen.
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South Korea struggling with domestic pathway to net zero, options show
Cyprus’s haunting new underwater sculpture park – in pictures
Musan, a gallery of sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor exploring our relationship with nature, has opened off Ayia Napa
Continue reading...Strong carbon pricing to drive clean hydrogen leadership -analysts
What happens when millions – or billions – of sea animals die on one day?
The ‘heat dome’ over the Pacific north-west brought unprecedented death to sealife. And the effects will be felt for years to come
As a marine biologist who has studied the effects of extreme weather events for decades, I expected it would be bad. The ‘heat dome’ brought record high air temperatures to the Pacific north-west, and for the plants and animals living along our extensive coastlines the late June timing could not have been worse. The scorching heatwave coincided with some of the lowest daytime tides of the year, leaving tidal lands exposed to hot air and sun for hours during the hottest part of the day, several days in a row.
And bad it was. In the days immediately after the historic heatwave, I visited shorelines that looked and smelled like death. Mussel, oyster and clam shells open wide with rotting tissue exposed, snails and chitons no longer able to cling to the rock, kelp and surfgrass bleached white and sloughing off dead tissue. Similar scenes were reported throughout the Salish Sea of Washington and British Columbia by scientists, shellfish growers and the general public, with mortality estimates ranging from millions to billions of individuals. We’ve never seen anything quite like this before.
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