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Mangroves: we used freely-available satellite images to track climate-resilient forests
"Satellites equipped with radar or specialised sensors can measure the height and structure of forests... Satellite images can also help engage local people in restoration efforts and... help scientists map changes along the coast and assess how vulnerable mangroves might be."
#climatechange #climatecrisis #sealevelrise @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationes @TheConversationUS
Mangroves: we used freely-available satellite images to track climate-resilient forests
Scientists have monitored mangroves in Mauritius, and found some forests are growing.The Conversation
It's just like purchasing carbon offsets.
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.
We need system change NOW.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expertDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Last 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded on the planet
The EU's climate monitor said Tuesday that March globally was 1.68°C hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Latest comic: No-so-silent Spring
#leafblowers #environment #climatechange #noisepollution #cartoon #comic #climate #climatecrisis #earthday
there's a reason she is called mother nature.
#p2 #BlackLivesMatter #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #environmental #justice
Pro-meat and climate crisis misinformation rife on social media, says report
"Misinformation on social media doesn't happen in a vacuum,” said Haughton-Boakes. “It seeps into the real world. And it does have real-world implications for policy debates.”
#News #ClimateCrisis #Internet #SocialMedia #Misinformation
Pro-meat misinformation rife on social media, says report
Almost a million posts have been found to spread false or misleading information about meat, dairy and alternative dietsHajar Meddah (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
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FEMA is making an example of this Florida boomtown. Locals call it ‘revenge politics.’
"The Biden administration is trying to punish Lee County for rebuilding flood-prone homes. The state’s Republican politicians are fighting back."
"FEMA’s notorious 50 percent rule stipulates that if a home in a flood zone suffers damages worth more than half its value, it must be torn down and rebuilt so it’s elevated above flood level. "
#News #USA #ClimateCrisis #FEMA
https://grist.org/housing/lee-county-florida-fema-hurricane-ian-flood-insurance/
FEMA is making an example of this Florida boomtown. Locals call it ‘revenge politics.’
The Biden administration is punishing Lee County for rebuilding flood-prone homes. Florida’s Republican politicians are fighting back.Jake Bittle (Grist)
What is chemical recycling?
"While industry claims it could be part of a circular plastics economy, experts say that chemical recycling is extremely damaging to the environment and provides no real benefits."
“Chemical recycling is really an industry ploy to convince the public and policymakers that we don't have to reduce plastic production in order to deal with plastic waste,”
#News #Plastic #Pollution #Recycle #ClimateCrisis #Health
https://www.ehn.org/what-is-chemical-recycling-2667366790.html?vgo_ee=HlJF4lfSQLEirBwZg%2F4Iroc5z1vrJ%2B%2F9s5XGKeqevd48OA%3D%3D%3AgtdP42vUWTiESivlle6XRFN%2BTymx44Qi
#ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
#Microclimates #Permaculture
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...houses this way...
All this passive cooling instead of using A/C would have a huge impact on energy usage.
I reckon that if we could capture and store the #AtmosphericRiver and #Flashflood/#Monsoon-type #rainfalls regionally, that would also be a huge game-changer.
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#ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
#Microclimates #Permaculture
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...streets and plants a bit of grass in between the stones. The surface cools down considerably. Then, there is the ancient technology of building wind-cooled houses in the #MiddleEast that I talked about last year. 2)
If "everyone" were able to cool down their...
2) So-called #Windcatcher|s in zhe #IrNuan oasis City of #Yazd with its #Badgirs (#wind towers):
How This Desert City Stays Cool With An Ancient Air Conditioning System
This is a Bâdgir an ancient air conditioner invented around the eighth century AD.Despite using no electricity, it has a cooling system that kept houses at a...YouTube
#ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
#Microclimates #Permaculture
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I am not saying that the impact of doing all that on e.g. the global amount of precipitation or the climate will be measurable.
However, I believe that mass-implementing #microclimate technology can be a game change, e.g. for #permaculture. 1) [link follows shortly]
Another example I've read and talked about in my TL is a city in Italy that uses coble-stone...
1) https://www.freepermaculture.com/season-extension-microclimates/
Microclimates for Permaculture Design • Free Permaculture
How can you use microclimates for Permaculture Design? We'll explore the basics and discuss ways to extend your growing season.Heather Jo Flores (Free Permaculture)
Another reminder that everyone that supports doing something to address our #ClimateCrisis is supporting Democrats and trying to convince everyone they know that should be supporting Biden-Harris reelection.
As part of the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle climate change Virginia’s new program will focus on helping low-income and disadvantaged communities access solar infrastructure like home panels and battery storage.
It's time to get to work — on system change.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth
Kevin Anderson is a Professor of Energy and Climate Change, holding a joint chair in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester (UK), the Centre for Sustainability and the Environment at Uppsala University (Sweden), and the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at Bergen University (Norway).
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing
🤯 World’s largest 3D printer can build a small house in 80 hours
"A single-story bungalow could take a few months to build, but this printer can complete the project in less than four days.
"The university, with a longstanding relationship with the US government, wanted to demonstrate that a 3D printer could print a home with a lower carbon footprint – as the construction industry produces about 37% of greenhouse gas emissions"
#Housing #Engineering #ClimateCrisis
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/largest-3d-printer-maine
World’s largest 3D printer can build a small house in 80 hours - Interesting Engineering
Meet the FoF 1.0 3D printer—the largest and most powerful 3D printer the world has ever seen created by the University of Maine.Maria Mocerino (Interesting Engineering)
🌞 400,000 ‘solar balconies’ boost German home energy harvesting capacity
"The solar balcony generates only a tenth of the power output of a rooftop solution, but it is portable if the homeowner wishes to relocate.
👉 Unlike a rooftop system that requires professionals for installation, a balcony solar system consists of panels and a mounting structure, and the assembly can be completed by anyone using the instructions provided."
#Engineering #ClimateCrisis #Energy
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/solar-balcony-boom-germany
400,000 ‘solar balconies’ boost German home energy harvesting capacity - Interesting Engineering
German cities have a new trend. Individuals living in smaller apartments buy plug-in solar systems and install them on their balconies.Ameya Paleja (Interesting Engineering)
https://www.acc.gov/
#ClimateCrisis
Home | American Climate Corps
Join the next generation of creators, thinkers, leaders, and doers, working together to tackle the climate crisis. Help build a clean energy and climate-resilient future in your own community and across the nation.www.acc.gov
⚠️ "Half of all plastics ever manufactured were produced in the last two decades, and production continues to rise at an alarming rate, from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons in 2015. "
👉 "..the amount of plastics is expected to double by 2050, with irreversible pollution on land, air and waters, including the ocean. "
👉 Russia, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia are holding hostage the U.N. Treaty against plastics
#News #ClimateCrisis #Plastics #UN #Health
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/24/opinion/holding-un-plastics-treaty-hostage
Here’s who is holding the UN plastics treaty hostage
Micro and nanoplastics are implicated in health deficits and disorders, including heart attacks and Parkinson’s disease.Von Hernadez (Canada's National Observer)
#ClimateSolutions #Policy #Biden #ClimateCrisis
*#SolarForAll**
#BernieSanders' approach to providing funding for low- and middle-income #US families to install #SolorPanels at their homes is the right way.
This program should be copied as a blueprint for all countries, at least in #OECD and #OPECplus countries, which do, in prinicple, have the funds:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-per-capita-co2-emissions/
In particular, the @EU_Commission with its #GreenDeal should pay heed.
'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.Ben Turner (Live Science)
Frog story. 🐸🔥🌡️
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Remember that this is a choice — a choice that has been made for us. It doesn’t *have* to be this way.
Did any of us consent to this? Are we consenting to it now?
We can’t opt out. But can we opt in, and force a different choice?
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth
More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing
Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.Joseph Winters (Grist)
I hate articles like this. A vegan shopping bag toting, straw refusing person is not going to do jack for the #ClimateCrisis
Instead of writing about actual solutions to #ClimateBreakdown like going after oil producers, pointlessly large car manufacturers, fast fashion, or Amazon. The tail wagging writers doing the billionaires bidding has once again pinned the problem on you, the consumer with no agency except to pick one brand of potato chip over the other in a desperate attempt to reduce your plastic by micro grams while Bezos has bridges removed so he can float his yacht out to sea.
#MediaIsComplicit in #ClimateChange from doing Exxon's climate denial bidding back in the day to obfuscating the real problem now.
Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid 'pointless plastic'
Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too.CTVNews
Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
Europe is warming twice as fast as global average, leading climate monitors say
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire.TheJournal.ie
It's a shame to see NZ swing crazy right.
At one point we thought NZ might be an English speaking place we could potentially escape to.
There really isn't a country on Earth trying to prevent the mass deaths of millions of people, is there?
Every country seems hellbent on accelerating our mutual demise. This isn't a theoretical possibility anymore. The only question remains is where pockets of humanity will survive and how many of us will be left. We can only hope the survivors decide to eat the rich first.
#ClimateBreakdown
#ClimateCrisis
New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous
Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green lightGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Lethal heat in West Africa driven by human-caused climate change
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245524216/west-africa-heatwave-climate-change
Professor: Karl Marx Offers Insight into Reducing CO2 Emissions
I wonder if Prime Minister Modi and the parents of students know the University of New Delhi teaches that capitalist growth needs to be replaced by “cleaner, gentler and more sustainable econ…Watts Up With That?
#Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of #Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/climate/alaska-drilling-ban-biden-climate?cid=ios_app
Climatejustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis:
Find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin @PaulaToThePeople
#FeaturedServer #Environment #Green #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Environmental #Activism #GlobalWarming #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Climate Justice Social
Welcome to this official Fediverse instance for climate justice activists.Mastodon hosted on climatejustice.social
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/
We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent
Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safetyThe Editors (Scientific American)
Drought puts Alberta farmers at risk of another scourge of grasshoppers
Southern Alberta grasshopper outbreaks in 2023 likely to repeat this year, forecast warns
#News #ClimateCrisis #Alberta #GroceryPrice #FoodShortages
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/drought-puts-alberta-farmers-at-risk-of-another-scourge-of-grasshoppers-1.7174491
Sigh
#ClimateBreakdown is happening to us. We are suffering floods, fires, and in some parts famine.
Why? Because our leaders can't stand up to big oil. Because our fellow citizens won't give up convenience or big cars and endless fancy clothes.
I am not sure how many people understand that many people will die. This isn't a theoretical possibility anymore. This is already happening. Entire towns, even in rich nations are getting burnt to the ground.
Our billionaire owned media just doesn't attribute it to #ClimateCrisis. Instead they publish endless stories about phantom arsonists so you keep driving your SUV.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68841141?utm_source=press.coop
Scotland to ditch key climate change target
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.By Kevin Keane (BBC News)
My audacious plan to release a free #solarpunk story every week has run into a snag... but these four stories are STILL FREE! So grab them while they are! Or preorder the collection which releases next week on Earth Day!
#hopepunk #ClimateFiction #climateCrisis #ClimateSolutions
https://susankayequinn.com/series/halfway-to-better
