With Atlantic #hurricane season starting today, a reminder that the storms aren't just a concern for coastal cities – they move inland and frequently cause flooding for people living even in mountains.

There are lessons from the past (this article shares the story of a mountain town in North Carolina, once overwhelmed by floodwater) – but future storms may produce flooding that goes beyond anything we've ever seen.

https://theconversation.com/hurricanes-dont-stop-at-the-coast-these-mountain-towns-know-how-severe-inland-flood-damage-can-be-and-theyre-preparing-230089
#environment #hurricane #news

Corporations invested in #carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/corporate-carbon-offsets-credits

#Delta, #Gucci, #Volkswagen, #ExxonMobil, #Disney, #easyJet and #Nestlé are among the major corporations to have purchased millions of carbon credits from #climate friendly projects that are “likely junk” or worthless when it comes to offsetting their #greenhouse gas #emissions, according to a classification #system developed by Corporate Accountability, a non-profit, transnational corporate watchdog.

So the capitalists really don't give a shit about anything for short-term #profit, even if #humanity is destroyed in the process.

#environment #news #scam #politics #co2 #fail #capitalism #economy #future #finance #society #problem #humanrights #earth

Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

Analysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claims

^{Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)}

Today, the Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly, and some scientists worry that the Atlantic current system may be headed for a climate tipping point this century.

New research, published in the journal Science, suggests that the risk is not as imminent as some people fear, because of data gleaned from historic iceberg records.

https://theconversation.com/is-collapse-of-the-atlantic-ocean-circulation-really-imminent-icebergs-history-reveals-some-clues-230534

#environment #science

Is collapse of the Atlantic Ocean circulation really imminent? Icebergs’ history reveals some clues

If the ocean circulation, known as AMOC, shuts down, it would be a climate disaster, particularly for Europe and North America. New research shows why that might not happen as soon as some fear.

^{The Conversation}

Delhi heat claims first victim — 40-year-old factory worker from Darbhanga

The doctor said once he arrived at the hospital, he was immediately admitted to the Heat Stroke Unit – a special unit set up for the first time at the hospital on May 8 because of the rising temperature.

#delhi #heatwave #HeatStroke #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #environment #india

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-heat-claims-first-victim-40-year-old-factory-worker-from-darbhanga-9360274/

Delhi heat claims first victim — 40-year-old factory worker from Darbhanga

^{Ankita Upadhyay (The Indian Express)}

Mount Everest has a massive trash problem, thanks to the some 400 to 500 climbers that attempt to summit it every year.

New efforts and innovative strategies could solve the sky-high waste management problem.

Story:
https://theconversation.com/climbers-have-turned-mount-everest-into-a-high-altitude-garbage-dump-but-sustainable-solutions-are-within-reach-226073

Photo: Horses grazing through trash in the shadow of Mt Everest 🏔️ Taken by Martin Edström, on Instagram at @martinedstrom.

#environment #mountains

#Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong #bees

Think #honeybees are disappearing? Or that the more hives we have the better?

Think again. Here's why they're the bad boys of the bee world, and what we should be focusing on instead.

We're destroying our #environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA

Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong bees

Think honey bees are disappearing? Or that the more hives we have the better? Think again. Here's why they're the bad boys of the bee world, and what we shou...

^YouTube

A new report says Tyson plants dumped more than 371 million pounds of pollutants into U.S. waterways between 2018 and 2022.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/wastewater-from-tyson-meat-processing-plants-is-polluting-u-s-waterways-report-says #environment

Wastewater from Tyson meat processing plants is polluting U.S. waterways, report says

Tyson Foods is one of the world's biggest meat and poultry producers. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, it's also a major polluter in the United States.

^{John Yang (PBS NewsHour)}

Governments need to build resilience against extreme weather, droughts, and floods.

Intact forest landscapes and other nature areas are our safety net, protecting people against extreme weather and climate crisis impacts.

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ActNow #environment #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

"'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers. "

#Venezuela #SouthAmerica #Andes #Glacier #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #News

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/-great-sadness-venezuela-first-andean-country-lose-glaciers-rcna153784

'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers

Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.

^{Albinson Linares, Noticias Telemundo (NBC News)}

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave

>“They were falling out of the trees like apples,” Pozo said. “They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes.” Already weakened, Pozo says the falls from dozens of yards (meters) up inflict additional damage that often finishes the monkeys off.

>By 9 May at least nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records,

#ClimateChange #Environment #BiodoversityLoss

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

High temperatures in Mexico have been linked to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeys

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic #foreverchemicals made by #3m

Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?

Without a blood test, you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins?

Well, 3M & #dupont kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They gaslit their own scientists.

& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

#environment #pollution

George Monbiot says: "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism – it *is* capitalism."
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Capitalism is not, as its defenders insist, a system designed to distribute wealth, but one designed to capture and concentrate it.

The story capitalism tells about itself – that you become rich through hard work and enterprise – is the greatest propaganda coup in human history.
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers

#Capitalism #History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#Florida’s War With Invasive #Pythons Has a New Twist

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/floridas-war-with-invasive-pythons-has-a-new-twist/

This is all in a day’s work for Kirkland, an invasive-animal biologist who manages the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program. His team patrols roads like this one beside Big Cypress National Preserve looking for Burmese pythons, one of the world’s most unyielding invasive species. The team recently removed their 8,000th #python.

#news #usa #environment

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.

Her bosses halted her work.

As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

How 3M Execs Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

^ProPublica

Lethal heat will make Australia's north 'unliveable'

— Australia's leading news site
Australia's north will be “unliveable” in the coming decades because the heat and humidity will be so intense that it will be deadly for humans

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/northern-parts-of-australia-to-suffer-from-lethal-heat-in-coming-decades/news-story/f8797d1f6a447393cf876e5e27868dca

#Australia #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

📣 Hey people who eat beef!

You can very greatly reduce your food's environmental impact by switching to pretty much any other food apart from beef. Beef causes by far the greatest amount of CO2 emissions per gram of food.

Other meats have only a fraction of the CO2 emissions of beef, and plant-based food is even less. See the attached chart for some emissions numbers of common foods.

More info at https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local which is also the source of the chart.

#Food #CarbonDioxide #ClimateChange #Meat #Beef #Environment #ClimateCrisis

#Microsoft’s #AI Push Imperils #Climate Goal as Carbon #Emissions Jump 30%

The company’s goal to be #carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the #world will outweigh its environmental impact.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

#environment #future #technology #economy #earth #Copilot #news #problem #software

Trump presidency would risk $1 trillion in clean energy investment: Report

A new analysis report by Wood Mackenzie estimates that a projected $1 trillion in low carbon energy investments would be in jeopardy if Donald Trump is re-elected as the president in the November 5 election

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/us-news/story/trump-presidency-would-risk-1-trillion-in-clean-energy-investment-report-2540149-2024-05-17

#USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Trump presidency would risk $1 trillion in clean energy investment: Report

A new analysis report by Wood Mackenzie estimates that a projected $1trillionin low carbonenergyinvestments would be in jeopardy if Donald Trump is re-elected as the president in the November 5 election

^{Reuters (India Today)}

Portugal is crushing it: renewables met 91% of Portugal’s electricity needs in the first 4 months this year & have pushed their⚡️prices to a 4 yr low!

Renewables are carrying an increasing % of their electrcity demand in the first 4 months in 2024:
- 95% April
- 91% March
- 88% Feb
- 81% in Jan

Portugal’s rapid transition is evidence it can be done: renewables are up from 27% in 2005 & 54% in 2017 with their last coal power plant shut down in 2021.
#nature #environment #renewables #earth

Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase "climate" eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warming

https://www.indiatoday.in/environment/story/florida-governor-deletes-climate-change-from-state-laws-amid-rising-sea-levels-2539843-2024-05-16

#Florida #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase quotclimatequot eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warming

^{India Today Environment Desk (India Today)}

Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth's climate goes far beyond carbon storage

The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth

https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/missing-the-forest-for-the-trees-the-role-of-forests-in-earths-climate-goes-far-beyond-carbon-storage/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth’s climate goes far beyond carbon storage - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth.

^{Jessica McKenzie (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)}

No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires

Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.

#news #disaster #climate #environment

No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure

Remote communities suffer total loss of communications after fires damage critical fibre optic cables

^{Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)}

#Canada: #Evacuation order issued as #wildfire threatening Fort #McMurray draws closer

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

#alberta #news #emergency #climate #environment #disaster

Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!

(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)

⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html

#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

"Ocean temperatures are currently hovering around the levels they typically reach in late July — and they’re likely to continue rising as the summer goes on."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-ocean-heat-wave-foreshadows-a-dangerous-hurricane-season/

#Nature #Environment #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Wave Foreshadows a Dangerous Hurricane Season

An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a year

^{Chelsea Harvey (Scientific American)}

Remember all the times Elon Musk said Tesla is so amazing for the environment? The company is being sued for violating the Clean Air Act hundreds of times in recent years by emitting harmful pollutants from its Fremont factory into nearby neighborhoods.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/tesla-sued-over-air-pollution-from-factory-in-fremont-california.html

#tech #tesla #elonmusk #environment

Tesla is sued over air pollution from factory operations in Fremont, California

A California nonprofit has sued Tesla over what it calls the company's "ongoing failure to comply with the Clean Air Act" at its Fremont assembly plant.

^{Lora Kolodny (CNBC)}

As a cat owner, I worry about these numbers:

"The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) estimated that free-roaming cats in the contiguous U.S. kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals "

#Roaming #Cats #Birds #WildLife #News #Science #Environment

https://www.felineresearch.org/post/issue-brief-wildlife-impacts-of-outdoor-cats

“They almost annihilated us, and that genocide continues. To destroy the environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.”

From our magazine: An industrial buildout on the southern tip of #Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died. From Correspondent Dylan Baddour: https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/

#news #politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange #Indigenous #SouthTexas

Defenders of the Delta: A Tribal Leader Fights for Ancestral Land in South Texas

Juan Mancias leads the Carrizo/Comecrudo, unrecognized and little-known, in a struggle against fossil fuels, SpaceX, and historical erasure.

^{Dylan Baddour (The Texas Observer)}