Global warming?

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On Monday, I wrote about a sweeping new United Nations report warning that humans were destroying Earth’s natural ecosystems at an “unprecedented” pace.
The findings were sobering: As many as one million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction because of farming, hunting, pollution and, increasingly, climate change. Almost everywhere you look, nature is vanishing before our eyes.
But the report, which was written for world leaders and policymakers, also wrestled with another big question: Why should anyone care about the loss of nature? Why should countries take drastic steps, as the report urges, to halt the decline in biodiversity?
The scientists and experts who wrote the report spent a lot of effort trying to frame biodiversity loss as an urgent issue for human well-being. Natural ecosystems, they explained, provide invaluable material services to people, from mangrove forests that protect millions from coastal flooding to wild insects that pollinate our crops. When we destroy nature, they concluded, we undermine our own quality of life.
That’s a compelling argument, and it’s one that many conservationists and ecologists have emphasized in recent years. There’s now an entire field of research around “ecosystem services;” scientists try to quantify in dollar terms all the benefits that nature provides to humanity, in order to make an economic case for conservation.
It’s worth noting that some ecologists have long been skeptical of this line of thinking, and have countered that it’s simply wrong to drive other species to extinction even if they’re not crucial for economic growth or humanity’s survival. And the new report does acknowledge that nature also has a spiritual or inspirational value that can often be “difficult to quantify.”
But it’s been 27 years since the first global treaty to protect biodiversity, and the world’s nations are still faltering in their efforts to halt the decline of natural ecosystems around the globe. That helps explains why the authors of this latest report felt they had to appeal more forcefully to humanity’s own naked self-interest.
“Life on Earth is an intricate fabric, and it’s not like we’re looking at it from the outside,” Sandra M. Díaz, a lead author of the report and an ecologist at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, told me. “We are threads in that fabric. If the fabric is getting holes and fraying, that affects us all.”


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NEWS
EU devouring natural resources at unsustainable rate: report
The world would need 2.8 Earths if everyone burned through natural resources as greedily as the average person in the EU, according to a new study. Its authors say drastic action is needed to avert a crisis.

People in the European Union use up natural resources far more quickly than the rate at which nature can replenish those resources, a study by the World Wide Fund and Global Footprint Networkfound Thursday.





stay out please
all of you
sub-humans dont deserve any new pathways

sad,very sad

India’s Cattle Farmers Are Fleeing Massive Droughts

Facing what they call the worst water shortage since 1972, more than 4,000 farmers from Maharashtra state have brought their livestock to “cattle camps”

 

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In a Warming World, Evidence of a Human ‘Fingerprint’ on Drought
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A new study finds human-caused global warming has affected patterns of drought going back to the turn of the 20th century.



How is Mozambique recovering after deadly cyclones? | The Stream

Streamed live 49 minutes ago
Cyclones Idai and Kenneth swept through the southwest Indian Ocean just six weeks apart, leaving devastation in their wakes and Mozambique the hardest hit.

The record-setting storms destroyed homes and crops, killed hundreds and left thousands without food and shelter. Cholera has become widespread due to contaminated water sources and the damage done to health facilities.

One week later, another cyclone slammed into the Indian state of Odisha. Cyclone Fani – the worst storm to hit the area in 20 years – killed nearly 50 people across the state and in neighbouring Bangladesh, though early-warning systems helped millions to evacuate.

Developing nations bear the brunt of global warming, climate activists say, despite contributing the least to climate change. Climate experts warn that the growing frequency of natural disasters complicates relief efforts and saddles people in poorer countries with the “debt of climate change”.



CHINA'S SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW KIDS ON THE ARCTIC BLOCK

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo berated China this week for using its growing Arctic research program as a Trojan horse for its military and commercial goals.
VCG/GETTY IMAGE
On Monday, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo scolded China for using civilian polar research to further its military and commercial goals, including opening up a new “Polar Silk Road” for trade and shipping. “China’s words and actions raise doubts about its intentions,” Pompeo said in Rovaniemi, Finland, where the eight members of the Arctic Council are meeting this week. “Beijing claims to be a near-Arctic state. Yet the shortest distance between China and the Arctic is 900 miles.”


China's Scientists Are the New Kids on the Arctic Block

all of interest, i think anyway

These mineral towers are teeming with life. (Schmidt Ocean Institute)
Must-see science images of the month
Researchers came across the mineral towers pictured above while exploring hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California. The towers, up to 23 metres tall, had outcroppings known as flanges, pictured here, that have super-heated liquids flowing across their undersides. Despite the high levels of metals and sulfides present, the sites are teeming with life. See more of the most spectacular images of the month, as selected by Nature’s photo team.

Nature | A delightful scroll

PUBLIC HEALTH
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BY AARON REUBEN
Air pollution is much worse for health than people had thought, increasing the risk of Alzheimer's significantly. Meanwhile, air quality is getting worse.







SMARTNEWS Keeping you current
Signficant Air Pollution Plagues Almost All U.S. National Parks
Ozone and other pollutants are obscuring views, hurting plants and causing health concerns for visitors at 96 percent of parks
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Flake fishers say school shark numbers are soaring but regulators won't lift quotas
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  Mr Castle returns a protected
  
  
  mainland Australia and up to the New South Wales border and has been having the same problem

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The Stour River, in the eastern coastal county of Suffolk, was one of five English waterways where researchers found cocaine in shrimp.CreditCreditNick Ansell/Press Association, via Associated Press
By Palko Karasz

Parasites Infect These Beetles. It Might Be a Good Thing.
The insects digest more decaying wood when hosting nematodes, potentially benefiting the whole ecosystem.



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About 70 to 90 percent of wood-chewing bess beetles carry the parasitic nematode Chondronema passali.CreditCreditStuart Sims

Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change
By KAI SCHULTZ AND HARI KUMAR

The tigers of the Bangladesh Sundarbans may be gone in fifty years, according to a nestudy.
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information is unlimited,one cant keep up unfortunately

talking about it since elevted,now happening
a final bastion destroyed in this time

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace
by Sue Branford and Thais Borges on 8 May 2019

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace


then
we have this

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction
The Swayne’s Hartebeest is a subspecies of the hartebeest, a type of antelope, found only in Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction



Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds byLoren Bell [05/06/2019]

- A new study analyzing standards of living over a 14-year period across more than 5,000 villages in Indonesian Borneo finds that oil palm development can have both positive and negative impacts on various aspects of a village’s well-being. The key difference: how intact their forest was to begin with.
- For market-based communities, which have already experienced a higher rate of previous forest degradation, oil palm expansion brought a mixed bag of impacts. These villages saw an increase in “basic” and “financial” well-being over all time scales when compared with similar communities without new plantations, but also suffered more rapid detriment to “environmental” and “social” factors.
- The impacts were much starker for subsistence-based communities, which depend upon the forest for their livelihoods. These villages suffered overall decreases in all well-being categories in the wake of new oil palm development when compared to similar communities without. The proportion of houses without access to electricity and toilets increased with the influx of migrant workers.


In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves byAseanty Pahlevi [05/03/2019]

- For years, weak law enforcement and low public awareness meant environmentally dangerous practices were commonly employed in countries like Indonesia.
- But local and national government reforms, combined with customary traditions and ambitious NGO programs, are beginning to address the problem.
- One village in western Borneo has seen a dramatic recovery in fish stocks after temporary fisheries closures were enacted.

 

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Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map by Chris Humphrey [05/02/2019]

- Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary has lost more than 60 percent of its forest cover since it was established in 1993, with most of the loss occurring since 2010.
- A big driver behind the deforestation in Beng Per and in many other Cambodian protected areas was Economic Land Concessions (ELCs), which are areas of land – often in protected areas – allocated by the government to corporations aiming to invest in agriculture for short-term financial gains. Large areas of Beng Per were carved out for ELCs in 2011.
- While the Cambodian government stopped officially allocating ELCs in 2012, deforestation is still hitting the park hard as small-scale illegal logging gobbles up remaining forest outside ELC areas. And once the land is denuded, it’s considered fair game for new plantation development.
- Experts working on the ground say corruption is fuelling the widespread destruction of Cambodia’s forests, and is deeply entrenched in many different sectors including the federal government and local forest protection agencies.

Another United Nations global scientific assessment recently delivered some bad news: As many as 1 million species are threatened with extinctionin the coming decades. But all is not lost! The report identified several pathways for change, including the need to expand protected areas, both on land and in the ocean.

How do we go about doing that? Luckily, we have an example to follow — one that is gaining momentum. For generations, many Pacific Island communities have set aside areas where fishing is forbidden, resulting in more fish, bigger fish, and greater biodiversity. It’s considered the world’s oldest form of fisheries management.

In total, more than a dozen Pacific countries and territories have committed to designating and implementing ocean sanctuaries that restrict all commercial fishing. These actions bolster marine biodiversity, improve neighboring fisheries, and help ocean flora and fauna better withstand the consequences of the changing climate and overfishing.

At the same time, ambassadors from Palau, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Rapa Nui have formed a group committed to protecting the unique identity of the Pacific and its islands. The Island Voice ambassadors are working together to link traditional values with modern environmental decision-making.

It’s a start, but if we are going to save the rich ecological abundance of the Pacific for future generations, we will have to think even bigger, working toward protecting 30 percent of the Pacific.

— Carlotta Leon Guerrero (Native of Guam and executive director of the Guam-based Ayuda Foundation)

Kevin Frayer / Getty Images

ON A ROLL
Hate to sound like a broken record, but we just set a scary new CO2 record
By Kate Yoder on May 7, 201





Hold on to your buns, because fake burgers are going wild

The meat vs. "meat" saga continues, but this time, the meat industry might be switching sides.




in addittion
worth reading if interested
not like politicians 'lip service' to secure there employment

thanks to Homo sapiens. Get your act together, humanity. (CBC)


What We’re Reading

According to a sweeping United Nations report on biodiversity, the natural world is in the worst shape it’s ever been in with a million species at risk of extinction thanks toHomo sapiens. Get your act together, humanity. (CBC)

An op-ed by Hakai Magazine contributors Paul Greenberg, John Waldman, and Carl Safina, as well as Mark Kurlansky, explains how Alaska’s proposed Pebble Mine would land smack in the middle of sockeye salmon spawning grounds. (New York Times)

An expedition to map the sunken realms of Doggerland, vast swaths of the submerged North Sea last exposed during the Stone Age, has embarked. (The Guardian)

Finally, scientists have an antidote for the sting of box jellyfish, the world’s most deadly jelly. (The Guardian)

This explains why shrimp in the rivers of Suffolk, England, never sleep and won’t shut up about the 1980s. (BBC)

Water bottles during the London Marathon are made of seaweed. (CNN)

Orange you glad you read this story about an elderly French man who crossed the Atlantic in a giant barrel? (Popular Mechanics)

Nine gray whales have washed ashore dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in the past two months, far more than the usual two or three that wash ashore this time of year. The culprits, according to autopsies, are malnourishment and ship strikes. (Smithsonian.com)

Air pollution in many national parks is as bad as Los Angeles

Nearly every single one of our national parks is plagued by significant air pollution.

 

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The Arctic Council brought up climate change, and the U.S. couldn’t handle the heat

The U.S. is really excited about melting ice in Arctic but doesn't want to acknowledge climate change

In 2017, haze from nearby wildfires filled California's Yosemite National Park. Marji Lang / LightRocket via Getty Images

PARK REPELLENT
Air pollution in many national parks is as bad as Los Angeles
By Molly Enking on May 8, 2019


have learnt that this outfit
is one of the better outfts ncluding GIST for general and HAKAI for oceans

Mongabay seeks writers to investigate deforestation alerts
Posted By Erik Hoffner on May 8, 2019

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Where are all the spotted shags?
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Seabird scientists are creating a fake home for shags on the Noises, an island group off the coast of Auckland, in the hope that the Hauraki Gulf’s rapidly diminishing spotted shag population will be fooled into thinking it’s a great place to start a family.

An aerial view of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware in 2014. USFWS

Coastal Recovery: Bringing a Damaged Wetland Back to Life
BY JIM MORRISON • MAY 9, 2019

Haze at Joshua Tree National Park. (NPS)

 

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By Jason Daley
smithsonian.com
May 9, 2019 12:20PM


Read more: Signficant Air Pollution Plagues Almost All U.S. National Parks | Smart News | Smithsonianhttps://www.google.com/url?q=https:...sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG6GjR7fleMmge0GwW70ARIY2rYFw


Kids change parents’ minds on climate change
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Scientific American | 5 min read
Reference: Nature Climate Change paper

Navajo Nation to share data with the NIH
In a first for a tribe and a nationwide research consortium in the

Nature | 2 min read

A rescue worker runs on a street cracked by a powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto prefecture on 16 April 2016. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty)
Earthquake study retracted over false data
A study concluding that a 2016 earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, was curtailed by the thick magma of a nearby volcano has been r


Nature | 3 min read


believe corporates shold pull finger first not individuals
The meatless Whopper’s ‘Impossible’ goal: To save the planet

Burger King patrons in St. Louis were greeted by a somewhat confusing menu: A Whopper with no beef.

Sixteen plus one

The tug of war for the future of Europe was on full display early last July in Bulgaria. Just days after the nation wrapped up its six-month presidency of the European Council, Bulgaria staged a

New hunt begins for origins of cosmic rays
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Nature | 3 min read



The forgotten people living in tents 7 months after Hurricane Michael

President Trump brought a MAGA rally to Panama City Beach, Florida, on Thursday, just miles from Mexico Beach, where the most powerful hurricane ever recorded on the Panhandle slammed into the coast nearly seven months ago.

“Panama City Beach is open for business, as beautiful as ever,” he said. “We’ve already given you billions of dollars, and there is a lot more coming.”



so
are they suggesting a certain country is responsible for the situation Venuzela is in at the moment

Denying Impact of Venezuela Sanctions is ‘Like Climate Denial’

Denying Impact of Venezuela Sanctions is ‘Like Climate Denial’

CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot responds to Guaidó economic advisors’ dismissal of the U.S. sanctions’ effects on Venezue


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Three steps to fix the broken food system

 

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Nature | 9 min read

Rabbani and Solimene Photography / Colin Baker / Getty Images / Grist

BUT IS IT ART
Who wore ‘camp’ better: The Met Gala or climate change?
By Eve Andrews on May 7, 2019

How to leap visa hurdles
Scientists must be prepared for delays to start dates, unexpected fees — and even visa refusals — when moving abroad for career opportunities. Five researchers who have hit visa hurdles share how their careers were shaped by shifting immigration policies, and offer their top tips for international scientists.

Nature | 13 min read

Comment
Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction
People easily forget “last of” stories about individual species, but the loss of nature also threatens our existence.

By Elizabeth Kolbert
The amniotic stem-cell snake oil industry
A booming amniotic-stem-cell industry in the United States offers remedies for countless ailments from asthma to arthritis. But the business is largely unregulated and there is little scientific justification for most of the touted treatments, reports The New Yorker and ProPublica. Meanwhile, the stem cells themselves — often confused with powerful embryonic stem cells — are donated by women soon after birth, who might not know the true destination of their samples and receive no compensation.

The New Yorker | 27 min read

Nine Gray Whales Have Washed Up Dead in the San Francisco Bay Area
Some were hit by ships, but others died of malnourishment—a sign that the whales’ Arctic food sources may have been disrupted
image: https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/HH5Q...atie_dinnocenzo__the_marine_mammal_center.jpg

(Katie D'Innocenzo © The Marine Mammal Center)

The giant panda’s family tree includes an extinct ancestor that lived well south of the species’ current range. Credit: Eric Baccega/NPL
Long-extinct pandas left a living legacy
Giant pandas were once far more widespread — and more genetically diverse — than they are toda

 

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and we would know who is responsible

Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Environmental headlines

Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes
Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes


Environmental headlines

Mongabay is a non-profit provider of conservation and environmental science news.



Happy Saturday, science species!

Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP / Getty Images

CLIMATE CHANGE


25 APRIL 2019

Hurricane Maria’s catastrophic rains are linked to global warming
The violent storm dropped more than 1 metre of rain at one site in Puerto Rico in 24 hours.





CLIMATE CHANGE YOUR MIND
With sea levels rising, why don’t more Indonesians believe in human-caused climate change?
By Leta Dickinson on May 10, 2019


looks like theyre interested
something thats been 5 yeasrs in the making
seems a fair honest appraisal
thanks to you both

The New Yorker Interview
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the U.N. Extinction Report
While the political tide could be turning on climate change, both writers worry that it is too late.
Norfolk
Bio-manipulation to restore clear waters of Norfolk Broads


Conservationists plan for removal of excess algae in two of the region’s lakes

Patrick Barkham

@patrick_barkham
Sat 11 May 2019 07.00 BST

Pollution in the water means predators such as pike can no longer hide among the plants. Photograph: Jack Perks/NWT
It was once famed for its gin-clear waters but today the waterways of theNorfolk and Suffolk Broads are more typically a murky greeny-brown.

Now a new “bio-manipulation” project aims to restore clear waters to

U.S. Solar Installations Hit 2 Million Mark

How Trump Could Make the Extinction Crisis Even Worse

 

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Air pollution in some national parks is as bad as Los Angeles

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With hurricane season looming, Trump is blocking relief funds and mocking Puerto Rico

NATHALIE BAPTISTE

The U.N. says 1 million species could disappear. Pacific islands have a solution.

and
why shouldent we be saturated wth the worlds woes, brought it all on ourselves

Humanity Faces a Biodiversity Crisis. Climate Change Makes It Worse
BY: ICN STAFF
A million species are on the brink of extinction, according to a new UN scientific report, which also declared that the Earth's biodiversity is "declining faster than at any time in human history."
Read More

Washington Commits to 100% Clean Energy and Other States May Follow Suit
BY: PHIL MCKENNA
In the absence of federal action on climate, more and more states are stepping up to take regional action. Washington state is the latest, and six other states may soon follow.
Read More

The Impossibly Cute Pika's Survival May Say Something About Our Own Future

Chris Ray has been tracking pikas in Montana for 30 years. Rising temperatures and dwindling snowpack appear to be taking a toll on the tiny mountain dwellers.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

MAY 9, 2019

Mongabay Series: Global Palm Oil, Indonesian Palm Oil
always be a for/against re environment/human livelihood, not greed tho
damn corporate greed

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims
by Hans Nicholas Jong on 3 May 2019

• The Malaysian government has called for support from fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to support the region’s palm oil industry in the wake of a European Union policy to stop recognizing the commodity as a biofuel.
• Malaysia and fellow ASEAN member Indonesia

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Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Indonesia Will Move its Capital from Fast-Sinking Jakarta

Warren Introduces Relief Package to Help Storm-Ravaged Puerto Rico 'Recover With Dignity'

The New Yorker Interview
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the U.N. Extinction Report
While the political tide could be turning on climate change, both writers worry that it is too late.

By The New Yorker

wars conflicts and/or natural disasters
40 million plus WW

Who's going to help the world's 41m displaced? | Inside Story

Published on May 11, 2019
Report says a record number of people forced from their homes.

Every day, thousands of people risk their lives by crossing borders to escape wars and natural disasters.
But many more have no choice but to stay in their own countries.
And last year the number of people described as internally displaced was at a record 41 million – more than double the number of refugees.
Increasingly, people are becoming homeless because of cyclones, floods and droughts, which are more frequent because of climate change.
But why is the world ignoring their plight?
Who’s responsible for protecting them?

oh taken 5 years odd to let us all know huh
panc and paranoia neccessary because the UN have finally said so duh

If Everyone Lived Like European's, We'd Be Out of Earth's Resources Today

Nearly All National Parks Are Suffering From Air Pollution

known sd s cure
i believe

What Are Ginger Shots? Everything You Need to Know

Drinking Water Crisis Update: Supplies in 43 States Found Contaminated With Harmful PFAS Chemicals

California Lunchrooms May Soon Serve Up Organics

Insects Must Be Saved to Prevent Collapse of Humanity, Top Scientist Warns

family life 3

Climate Change May Wipe Out Bengal Tigers, UN Analysis Finds

 

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SOLAR

very good news thanks zoya

Noticed any new solar arrays on your neighbors’ roofs? I’m guessing you have, since the United States just hit a new milestone: 2 million solar installations. Here’s why that’s a big deal: It took the U.S. 40 years to accomplish the first million solar installations. Guess how many years it took us to install the second million? Three.

That’s good news both for the solar industry and the planet. More solar means more energy generated without greenhouse gas emissions. The number of new sun-powered energy installs is on track to double again in five years, according to the solar association that did the analysis, and by the time we’re deep into the 2020s, solar will become “the dominant new form of energy generation.” Whew! That was fast.

The residential sector — people putting up solar panels on their houses — is pushing the rapid growth in the solar industry. As prices keep falling, more and more folks will invest in the green energy. Already, 12 million homes across the nation get their power from solar, the analysis says.

California is still leading the charge in terms of new installations, but places like South Carolina are gung ho about solar, too. “According to our latest forecasts, by 2024, there will be on average, one solar installation per minute,” said Michelle Davis, senior solar analyst with Wood Mackenzie, which contributed to the study.

— Zoya Teirstein

Ireland Becomes Second Country to Declare Climate Emergency

California, Nation’s Top User of Chlorpyrifos, Announces Ban on Brain-Damaging Pesticide

Just One-Third of the World's Longest Rivers Remain Free-Flowing

The good news

Burnout / Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882
Landmark follows government pledge to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2025

Fighting the frackers / The protesters 'hammering the last nail in the coffin of the fracking industry'

'A safer future' / California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage

 

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The not-so-good news

'We must act now' / Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life
Scientists reveal one million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report



and get those corporates to act before individuals

Clear conscience / Could you live a low carbon life? Meet the people who already areThere are things we can all do to lower our impact on the environment. We speak to three people who have taken the first steps

Trump EPA Ignored Its Own Sci
entists' Calls to Ban Asbestos, 'Bombshell' Report Shows

Healthy Soil, Coming to a Theater Near You: 5 Lessons From 'The Biggest Little Farm'

Dam it all: More than half of the world’s long rivers are blocked by infrastucture

It hasn’t even been a week since the U.N. released a depressing report on biodiversity, and now, a new study in Nature shows that 63 percent of the world’s longest (at least 620 miles) rivers are impeded by human-built infrastructures …


Ants, Humans, and the Warrior Instinct

BY Mark W. Moffett

Only humans and social insects like ants have populations that can explode into the millions. And the larger the population, the greater the capacity for warfare, from occasional raids and skirmishes among smaller groups to full-blown conflicts that can reach epic proportions and wipe out entire groups. Read on »
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Probiotics Could Help Frogs and Bats Fight Wildlife Epidemics

BY Hannah Thomasy

Opinion | Studies of the human microbiome have revealed the potential benefits of probiotics in treating health disorders and boosting immune function. Now, disease ecologists are exploring their use in other organisms — such as bats, frogs, and coral — to improve species' resilience to wildlife epidemics. Read on »

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This U.N. biodiversity report has me super bummed. What can I do?

Solving environmental problems often requires us to care about other human issues, like pove

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The Tough Sell of Turtle-Saving Tech

Sea turtle excluder devices are simple. Getting them adopted is anything but.

by Yao-Hua Law • 2,600 words / 13 mins

North Atlantic Right Whales’ Very Important Mother’s Day

With just over 400 North Atlantic right whales in the wild, we are especially thankful for these new moms.

by Elizabeth Preston • 700 words / 5 mins

Sea Cucumbers Keep Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’

Scientists have discovered the surprising way orange-footed sea cucumbers get around.

by Doug Johnson • 500 words / 2 mins

 

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Two Flies Walk into a Barnacle

Then they mate and their babies eat the barnacle. Seriously.

by Amorina Kingdon • 650 words / 3 mins

Bearded Seals Are Maturing Younger and Having More Pups

Both are signs of a healthy population—but scientists caution these Arctic animals are no champions of climate change resilience.


From Our Coast to Yours

This week we wanted to share with you this interesting and educational videofrom our friends at the Hakai Institute. Mussels and barnacles seem to live sedentary lives stuck to a rock, but they weren’t always that stationary. As babies, they wander the oceans until they find the perfect time and place to settle down for adult life.

The battle to save the world's biggest bumblebee from extinction



In Chile the beloved native bee is venerated as carrying the spirit of the dead, but its numbers are dwindling as farmers use imported species infected with parasites to pollinate crops



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The Patagonian bumblebee on lavender flowers. The insects are under threat from the import of species native to Europe. Photograph: Michael Grant Wildlife/Alamy
The first time José Montalava saw the world’s largest bumblebee he was six years old and visiting his grandfather’s house in rural Chile. “It was in the tomato patch, a huge, loud, fluffy orange thing buzzing around. I remember trying to grab it, but it kept getting away, although it looked too heavy to fly,” he recalls.


Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns


Insects are ‘the glue in nature’, says Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, underpinning the food and water we rely on

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A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes
by Hans Nicholas Jong on 10 May 2019

• President Joko Widodo says land claimed by both companies and local communities should be given to the latter, especially if they have occupied the territory for a long time.
• The statement is a radical departure from the Indonesian government’s record of siding with companies and moving slowly to recognize community land rights.
• But any benefits promised look to be undercut by another administration announcement, just days later, that plantation permit data will not be made publicly accessible — thus denying claimants a way to see if their land rights have been violated.
• The latter policy shores up an earlier prohibition on sharing permit data that Indonesia’s Supreme Court ruled illegal. Activists have filed a police report against the land minister over his refusal to comply.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo plants trees during a tree-planting ceremony in December 2017. Image by @jokowi Twitter account.
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Protesters demand farmers from Polanto Jaya village in Donggala district, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, to be released from jail during a rally. A number of farmers have been prosecuted during conflicts with a palm oil company, PT Mamuang. Photo courtesy of Walhi Central Sulawesi.
‘Hijacked by his own cabinet’
Yet any notion of meaningful change coming from this new policy appears to have been nipped in the bud by another Widodo administration policy issued just days later that cuts in the opposite direction.
Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

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the hopeless UN scaremongering crap that we all know about
should have been comming out ANNUALLY for the last 20 years
as much to blame as the report itself
of course asll media jump on it for a few days
oh such an alarming occurence
- UN said

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By Justin Mikulka (6 min. read)

A new analysis by Clean Technica found that global investment in carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) adds up to roughly $7.5 billion total. It also examined how much, for that investment, CCS has reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels compared to an equivalent investment in renewable power generation.

The analysis calculated that “wind and solar are displacing roughly 35 times as much CO2 every year as the complete global history of CCS.” Clean Technica's Mike Barnard concluded, “CCS is a rounding error in global warming mitigation.” Read more.


US Fracked Gas Imports to EU Could ‘Take World Far Beyond Safe Climate Limits’, Campaigners Warn

By Chloe Farand (2 min. read)

Environmental activists representing more than 200 organisations have called on the EU and the US to put an end to a booming transatlantic trade in fracked gas or face “taking the world far beyond safe climate limits”.

In an open letter to the EU Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, campaigners warn that the continued use and import of fracked gas “torpedoes critical climate targets and violates basic human rights”. Read more.


Comment: Trump Admin Finds Back Door For Tobacco Industry’s Plan to Censor Science

By ClimateDenierRoundup. (3 min. read)

Last October, we were thrilled to find out that Scott Pruitt’s tobacco-protecting “sound” science “transparency” policy was put on the back burner at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), essentially relegating it to regulatory purgatory.

But if the Trump administration is committed to anything, it’s attacking science and reality. The policy has reared its ugly chimera head again in a memo the White House sent out to federal agencies last Wednesday. Read more.
The UN's devastating extinction report, explained in 5 charts

The UN's devastating extinction report, explained in 5 charts

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 10, 2019

pical forests Climate change could wipe out the Bengal tigers of Bangladesh’s Sundarbans in the next few decades, a study suggests (The New York Times). The rights of women to landownership don’t always follow when collective tenure is granted (CIFOR Forests News). The head of a chocolate producer says cacao production isn’t causing Ghana’s staggering […]
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the sheer ignorance of the creep
thinks it can defy world opinion on any/everything, showws its stupidity.. suffer

New York City / Trump buildings face millions in climate fines under new rules
Exclusive: if Trump Tower and other sites do not cut emissions, Trump Organization will owe $2.1m a year from 2030


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China to hike tariffs on $60 billion of US goods

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  TRUMP'S TARIFFS AND WHO THEY TARGET
  Solar panels and washing machines
  The first round of tariffs in 2018 were on all imported washing machines and solar panels — not just those from China. A study by economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University, and Princeton University found that the burden of Trump's tariffs — including taxes on steel, aluminum, solar panels falls entirely on US consumers and businesses who buy imported products.

A Convenient Excuse | Dear mainstream media colleagues: Time is running out to prevent climate catastrophe. Lives are at stake. And you are failing us all.

 

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By Wen Stephenson (19 min. read)

On October 2, [2012] I led a climate protest inside the offices of the Boston Globe.

OK, it was really a meeting in a small conference room with editorial page editor Peter Canellos and members of his staff. But it was, in essence, a protest.

I used to be a card-carrying member of the mainstream media; only a few years ago, I was the editor of the Globe’s Ideas section. Peter is a former colleague.

With me was Craig Altemose, founder and executive director of Better Future Project, a Cambridge-based nonprofit dedicated to climate action, on whose working board I serve as a volunteer. Read more.

In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate

By Sharon Kelly (9 min. read)

Cabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decade ago.

Cabot has for years fought liability for locals’ contaminated water supplies and has remained in legal disputes long after reaching secret settlements with many Carter Road residents that reportedly included non-disclosure agreements.

Outside a courthouse not far from Dimock, a Cabot spokesman recently claimed that people complaining about water contamination from fracking were actually paid imposters, an unsubstantiated claim quickly echoed in pro-gas circles. Read more.


Steve Forbes Echoes Koch Talking Points on Electric Car Tax Credit

By Ben Jervey (6 min. read)

The attacks on electric cars reverberating through the conservative echo chamber have found a new voice in Steve Forbes. The two-time Republican presidential candidate and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media published an op-ed on Fox News this weekend, one that repeats a number of well-rehearsed but thoroughly debunked claims casting doubt on the environmental benefits of electric cars and their practicality for the mass market.

Like so many commentary and opinion pieces that came before it (including one by Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrasso, also published on Fox News in February) Forbes cherry-picks data points that are long outdated and cites a number of “reports” that have been commissioned by oil industry and Koch-affiliated think tanks, including the Manhattan Institute. Read more.


Oil Companies Will Be Bad Investments Within Five Years, Predicts Survey of European Fund Managers

By Sharon Kelly (7 min. read)

European fund managers are casting an increasingly skeptical eye towards the oil industry, concluding that the industry’s financial future looks grim, according to a new survey published by a London-based organization today.

Just 18 percent of the responding fund managers, including representatives of firms based in the UK, France, Spain, and Italy, predicted that “oil companies will be good investments if their business is still focused on fossil fuels in five years’ time,” according to the survey, published by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration. Read more.


After Approving Enbridge Permit, Massachusetts’ Environment Secretary Lands Job with Project’s Contractor

By Itai Vardi (4 min. read)

Massachusetts’ Secretary for Energy and Environmental Affairs, Matthew Beaton, has accepted a position at a consulting firm working for oil and gas pipeline builder Enbridge on a controversial project for which Beaton’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently approved a crucial permit.

Governor Charlie Baker’s administration announced on Monday that Beaton has been hired as vice president for renewable energy and emerging technology at TRC Companies, a large environmental and engineering firm working mainly for the oil and gas industry. Read more.


New Report Shows Duke Energy’s Clean Energy Claims Don’t Match Its Fossil Fuel Investments, Fights Against Rooftop Solar

By Ben Jervey (4 min. read)

Duke Energy, the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utility, claims to be a climate and environmental leader, but a closer look reveals a dirty energy portfolio and consistent efforts to preserve a fossil fuel-based future.

While the utility’s CEO, Lynn Good, writes in Duke's 2018 Sustainability Report, “Duke Energy has been leading the charge to a cleaner energy future while helping our communities thrive,” a newly published report by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) tells a much different story. Read more.


Renewables Offset 35 Times More CO2 Every Year Than All Carbon Capture Projects Ever, New Analysis Finds

 

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Large sharks caught in drumlines on Sydney's northern beaches as part of NSW's SMART tagging program


The DPI has caught dozens of sharks off Sydney's beaches during a trial of SMART drumlines along the NSW coast.

Comment: I Want BP to Understand the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is Sacred Ground — They Can't Drill It

By Bernadette Demientieff, Gwich’in Steering Committee (4 min. read)

Next week, I’m going to travel halfway around the world from my home in Alaska to Aberdeen, Scotland to speak at BP’s annual shareholder meeting. I plan to share with the oil company’s executives how important the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is to my people and urge them not to pursue destructive oil drilling or exploration in our sacred lands.

It’s not easy for me to do this work. From meetings with Indigenous allies in Arizona and Nevada to corporate boardrooms in New York and more trips to Washington, DC than I can count, for the last five years it’s felt like I’ve been on the road more than I’ve been at home. Read more.


From the Climate Disinformation Database: Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen is a former Professor of Meteorology at MIT, a position he held from 1983 until his retirement in 2013. He is a fellow at the conservative think tank Cato Institute, which has received at least $125,000 from ExxonMobil, and Lindzen has received approximately $30,000 from Peabody Coal. He has connections to several other climate science-denying think tanks and has argued that believing climate change is largely caused by increases in carbon dioxide is “pretty close to believing in magic.”



Lions vs. porcupines: A thorny tale with a moral about man-eaters

IMPRESSED
with the UN SEC GEN IN NZ for 3 days, no time to visit Aus ha, as they usually do when down here

but the mere fact

he acknowledged US OLDDSTERS FUCKED UP GW/CC, and he prompted the youngsters to look after there future
was damn good of him
doubt Kofi would have admitted such