The Environmentalist

07/10/2024

The waters of the Atlantic Ocean have been abnormally warm, providing copious amounts of energy that can intensify storms.

24/07/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service C…

28/03/2024

The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump.

09/02/2024

An important verdict for a great scientist against unserious and dangerous attacks.

The researcher had sued two writers and their publishers for libel and slander over comments about his work. The jury found “spite” and “deliberate intent to harm.”

21/10/2023

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26/07/2023

Warming could push the Atlantic past a "Tipping Point" this century. If it does, if the current that carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to the UK collapses, the weather will change dramatically, and not for the better.

Breaking News: Currents in the Atlantic could slow sharply by century’s end, new research shows, affecting weather patterns across the globe. https://nyti.ms/3Qk8vGO

24/07/2023

Michael Mann, distinguished professor and director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the record-breaking heat and extreme weather and why he believes it isn't too late to slow the human impacts on climate change.

17/02/2023

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

26/12/2022

From William Shatner:

Please spend 3 minutes reading this note from William Shatner, the actor from Star Trek:
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor

06/12/2022

Want to save the planet? Focus on wild cats. Wild cats play vital roles in almost all the environments where they occur. For that reason, aiding their recovery can also help to achieve quantifiable progress on many of our planet’s urgent environmental goals.

Cats aren't just cool. They're also crucial for biodiversity.

30/10/2022

climate summit: window for avoiding catastrophe is closing fast

The effects of global heating could soon reach a tipping point, but scientists fear that the meeting in Egypt will become bogged down in recriminations

21/08/2022

Every year, farmers in France’s central region of Auvergne repeat the same process. During summer and fall, their cows graze in pastures, eating to their hearts’ content. It’s only during this time that farmers can produce salers, a highly regulated semihard cheese with the same buttery depth as a well-aged cheddar.
That seasonal cycle remained uninterrupted for over 2,000 years until last week, when salers became the latest casualty of severe heat waves wreaking havoc across Europe, where human-caused climate change has intensified temperatures. France’s severe drought shut down the cheese production that had continued through two world wars, collapsed monarchies and the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wapo.st/3QNUqhS

Every year, farmers in France’s central region of Auvergne repeat the same process. During summer and fall, their cows graze in pastures, eating to their hearts’ content. It’s only during this time that farmers can produce salers, a highly regulated semihard cheese with the same buttery depth as a well-aged cheddar.

That seasonal cycle remained uninterrupted for over 2,000 years until last week, when salers became the latest casualty of severe heat waves wreaking havoc across Europe, where human-caused climate change has intensified temperatures. France’s severe drought shut down the cheese production that had continued through two world wars, collapsed monarchies and the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wapo.st/3QNUqhS