Global warming?

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Antarctic marine conservation park thwarted by China, Russia
An international effort to create enormous marine sanctuaries around Antarctica has failed for the eighth year in a row. The project aimed to counter climate change and protect fragile ecosystems.

The annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), a group of 25 nations and the European Union, struggled to get support from China and Russia and talks over marine sanctuaries broke down.

The two major world powers have consistently blocked the scheme since Australia and the EU first suggested it in 2010. They scaled the proposals back in 2017 in an effort to get China and Russia on board.

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'Disheartening' news for biodiversity

"With a growing loss of biodiversity and threats from climate change, it's disheartening that CCAMLR has failed to protect east Antarctic waters for the eighth consecutive year," said Andrea Kavanagh, director of Antarctic and Southern Ocean work at The Pew Charitable Trusts.

"Scientists have been clear that marine protection areas are needed to make a warming and acidifying ocean more resilient," she added.

The marine parks would have covered around 3 million square kilometers (1.2 million square miles). The area is home to penguins, seals, toothfish and whales, among others.

The marine parks were "the subject of much discussion" at the talks, but no agreements were made. Officials said that they will make the proposals again next year.


Antarctic marine conservation park thwarted by China, Russia | DW | 02.11.2019

 

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UN SHITHEAD MUTTERS CRAP it should have been saying weekly for years and years and years, before his time

 

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Illegal wildlife trade thrives on Facebook, internet forums

Endangered reptiles are being traded on Facebook. Wildlife activists say tech giants aren't doing enough to shut down groups buying and selling live animals.

Trading reptiles online

Wildlife trafficking in Peru
Saving the dynamic ecosystems of the Dutch dunes

The Netherlands is home to vast stretches of coastal dunes that shelter natural biodiversity and human life. But only careful management can keep them alive.
Kenya and Tanzania: Living on the Mara River, together

 

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Can coffee growing in Mozambique save a rainforest and keep the peace?

Conflict and logging have decimated Mozambique's central rainforest. One coffee project is trying to restore lost trees. Some hope it will also help keep fighting at bay.

Mozambique: Protection from cyclones

Can tourists coexist with nature on Lebanon's Rabbit Island?

Lebanon's beaches have a serious pollution problem. But off Tripoli's Mediterranean coast, a pristine haven attracts migrating wildlife and daytrippers alike. Can the tourists and turtles find a way to coexist?

When banana leaves replace plastic bags in Bali

Clearing trash from Nigeria's waterways

Is the 2020 Olympics an opportunity for Japan to tackle seafood sustainability?

From tuna to sea urchin, Japanese cuisine is all about seafood. But with fish stocks critically endangered, tourists sampling local delicacies may be harming marine life more than they realize.

Kenya: a startup for fresh fish

Estonia's Soviet-era housing finds new eco-friendly future

Thousands of apartment blocks across Estonia were built in the 1950s as temporary housing. Now an EU project in Tartu is transforming some into sustainable housing as part of a sustainable cities initiative.

Environmental friendly houses – new home in Moldova

 

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Illegal wildlife trade thrives on Facebook, internet forums

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Endangered reptiles are being traded on Facebook. Wildlife activists say tech giants aren't doing enough to shut down groups buying and selling live animals.

The lizards are frantic and the turtles plodding, but both scrabble to escape the perspex containers that hold them. The reptiles, some in small boxes and fetching prices of up to thousands of euros, are on sale at the Terraristika — Europe's largest reptile trade fair and a suspected wildlife-trafficking hub.

Thousands of enthusiasts descend on the German city of Hamm four times a year to buy exotic creatures ranging from coin-sized glass frogs to tarantulas and venomous snakes. In the wild, some of these animals are becoming dangerously scarce.

As well as the physical marketplace, the Terraristika is a center of a global online community of reptile traders and hobbyists. Customers browse animals on the web and collect them at the fair, sometimes on the unsupervised fringes of the event. Sellers arrange pickups via Facebook groups, owners share care tips on internet forums and Youtubers post videos of themselves "unboxing" animals bought at fairs.

Illegal wildlife trade thrives on Facebook, internet forums | DW | 30.09.2019

 

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The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate, is one of great interest; if, indeed, a person, fresh from sea, and who has just walked, for the first time, in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be a judge of anything but his own happiness.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

 

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Storm Amelie: 140,000 homes without power in France




Fr currently
not associated with our weather huh ...
sorry,but suffer you monger authorities not taking more positive steps

Storm Amelie: 140,000 homes without power in France | DW | 03.11.2019

 

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SEE
what our indigenous tried so hard to prevent

no
white man and greed/lust for wealth over everything else, think they know best huh
shameful criminals
end of the day, they will cry and bemoan, while our indigenous shrug our shoulders




Keystone Pipeline spills 383,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota wetlands

Residents and environmentalists are foreshadowing similar issues with the ongoing Keystone XL project.



By Grace Wade
November 1, 2019

Phase 1 of the 2,000-plus-mile Keystone Pipeline completed in 2010. Since then, it has sprung two major leaks into neighboring environs.Patrick Shannon


On Tuesday night the Keystone Pipeline bled 383,000 gallons of crude oil into the North Dakota wetlands, contaminating 22,500 square feet of land near the small town of Edinburgh by the time Canadian gas and oil company TC Energy intervened. This is the pipeline'ssecond significant leak since it began operations in 2011. TC energy reports that the unrefined petroleum is now contained, but the company won't know exactly how much escaped until they've finished their cleanup efforts.



TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, reported the accident just hours after the U.S. State Department held a public hearing on the environmental impact of the company's proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL would help funnel petroleum from Alberta, Canada to refineries near the Gulf of Mexico, creating an estimated 16,000 to 42,000 jobs—and passing over the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest groundwater resources, where many fear it could leak. It is also anticipated to pass through the Missouri River, which is the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's water supply. As many as 10,000 people participated in protests against the project near the Standing Rock reservation from April 2016 to February 2017, but President Donald Trump approved its construction in 2017. TC Energy is expected to break ground next year.



According to TC Energy spokeswoman Sara Rabern, human and environmental safety are the company’s “top priority.”



"We will take the learnings from this incident, like we do


https://www.popsci.com/keystone-pipeline-springs-second-leak/

 

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one of the better humans on the planetno comparison when you have idiots like Trump/Johnson, and many others


Podcast

Today in Focus / David Attenborough: the making of a British icon

Patrick Barkham joins Anushka Asthana to chart the rise of one of Britain’s best-loved personalities. Plus: Gaby Hinsliff on women and the myth of ‘likability’


David Attenborough: the making of a British icon – podcast

 

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HUMANKIND does not deserve an oz of compassion, with our existence on eareth/ouir destructive waysd
admittedly
there are some reputable angels tho


Guardian environment writers: 'With your help, we are tackling humankind's greatest challenge'


Our team of environment writers from around the world reflects on the urgency and breadth of the climate crisis, and the role of readers in making our coverage possible

• Support Guardian journalism today, by making a single or recurring contribution, or subscribing

Emily Holden, Oliver Milman, Patrick Barkham, Jonathan Watts, Fiona Harvey, George Monbiot, Nina Lakhani, Damien Gayle, Damian Carrington, Matthew Taylor, Adam Morton , and Jillian Ambrose

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A mangrove surrounded by plastic trash in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 2018. The crop had been planted to help land subsidence on the country’s northern coast. Photograph: Ed Wray/Getty Images
George Monbiot, columnist and author of several books on the climate crisis

Before I worked for the Guardian, I tried writing for other newspapers, in the belief I should reach the unconverted. But I gradually discovered that all of them were intensely hostile to thoughtful explorations of ecological and climate breakdown. In total, I was commissioned to write 26 articles. All but two were spiked. Eventually I realised it was impossible to cover these crucial issues properly without supportive editors. Reluctantly at first, I started writing for the Guardian in the early 1990s. Across most of this period, it has been the only paper that has consistently supported powerful writing about the gathering collapse of our life support systems. Now, with your help, it is devoting unprecedented resources to the greatest predicament humankind has ever faced. Thanks to your support, I will keep writing about every aspect of our environmental crisis, always striving to dig deeper and to understand more.

Emily Holden, environment reporter for Guardian US

As the Guardian’s environment and climate crisis reporter in Washington DC, I write about how the Trump administration’s rollbacks of key public health and pollution protections will hurt Americans. I investigate how corporate power over public policy stalls climate progress at the national and state level.

I have reported on environment policy across the country, tracking the build-out of the plastics industry in Appalachia and local resistance to chemicals manufacturing in Louisiana.

For our Toxic America series, I tested my own body to demonstrate how many dangerous chemicals Americans are exposed to in daily life.

As a million species face extinction, I have traveled from the west coast to the Gulf of Mexico to chronicle the devastating toll human living takes on nature and to explain what Trump officials’ work to ease wildlife protections will mean for biodiversity.

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George Monbiot being arrested by police during an Extinction Rebellion protest in London, 16 October 2019.
Oliver Milman, environment reporter for Guardian US

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DONT pay the b.....ds
-i said
i am letting you ALL OFF

Brazilian farmers owe Monsanto $7.7 billion, court rules



Ouch.

https://www.popsci.com/monsanto-wins-brazil-lawsuit/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email

 

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incredible DEAF DEAF EARS
those in authority just dont want to know or more so act
all bullshit talk re concerned
so many genuine people are concerned/millions worldwide speaking out thats great
concerned genuine people
and its all falling on deaf ears huh


Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’


Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency

• Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts

Damian Carrington Environment editor

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The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.

Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’

 

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dont really care if we sufffer big time actually and i do mean BIHG TIME before/if ever the orld acts


World 'gravely' unprepared for effects of climate crisis – report
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Trillions of dollars needed to avoid ‘climate apartheid’ but this is less than cost of inaction

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Massive wildfires such as those in Bolivia have been mentioned as evidence that the climate crisis is here. Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters
The world’s readiness for the inevitable effects of the climate crisis is “gravely insufficient”, according to a report from global leaders.

This lack of preparedness will result in poverty, water shortages and levels of migration soaring, with an “irrefutable toll on human life”, the report warns.

Trillion-dollar investment is needed to avert “climate apartheid”, where the rich escape the effects and the poor do not, but this investment is far smaller than the eventual cost of doing nothing.

The study says the greatest obstacle is not money but a lack of “political leadership that shakes people out of their collective slumber”. A “revolution” is needed in how the dangers of global heating are understood and planned for, and solutions are funded.

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The report has been produced by the Global Commission on Adaptation(GCA), convened by 18 nations including the UK. It has contributions from the former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, environment ministers from China, India and Canada, the heads of the World Bank and the UN climate and environment divisions, and others.

Among the most urgent actions recommended are early-warning systems of impending disasters, developing crops that can withstand droughts and restoring mangrove swamps to protect coastlines, while other measures include painting roofs of homes white to reduce heatwave temperatures.

In the foreword to the report, Ban, Gates and Kristalina Georgieva, the World Bank chief executive, write: “The climate crisis is here, now: massive wildfires ravage fragile habitats, city taps run dry, droughts scorch the land and massive floods destroy people’s homes and livelihoods. So far the response has been gravely insufficient.”

Ban said: “I am really concerned about the lack of vision of political leaders. They are much more interested in getting elected and re-elected, and climate issues are not in their priorities. We are seeing this in the US with President Trump.”

The report says severe effects are now inevitable and estimates that unless precautions are taken, 100 million more people could be driven into poverty by 2030. It says the number of people short of water each year will jump by 1.4 billion to 5 billion, causing unprecedented competition for water, fuelling conflict and migration. On the coasts, rising sea levels and storms will drive hundreds of millions from their homes, with costs of $1tn (£810bn) a year by 2050.

Patrick Verkooijen, the chief executive of the Global Center on Adaptation, said: “What we truly see is the risk of a climate apartheid, where the wealthy pay to escape and the rest are left to suffer. That is a very profound moral injustice.”

But the moral imperative alone will not drive change, he said, and the report also makes an economic case.

“It is a nation’s self-interest to invest in adaptation,” Verkooijen said. The report estimates spending $1.8tn by 2030 in five key areas could yield $7.1tn in net benefits, by avoiding damages and increasing economic growth.

The chair of the UK’s Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, is a member of the GCA. The agency has warned England could run short of water within 25 years and increased coastal and river flooding may force some towns to be abandoned.

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In July, the UK government’s official advisers said they were shocked at the lack of proper plans to protect people from the effects of the climate crisis.

Bob Ward, the policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said: “As one of the governments that commissioned this important GCA report, the UK must heed its conclusions about the large economic benefits from adapting to those impacts of climate change that cannot now be avoided.

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see how SICK OUR WORLD IS with just todays news
and fat wealth driven mongers with smug faces are out there basking in iyt all
we need the demise of the planet i think
then see who crys the loudesr

saddest part is what we ave done to our upcomming generations
kids suffer because of some adult greed

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

11,000 Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency

Bristol Diesel Ban Approved in Effort to Clean Air

Google Employees Demand Climate Action in Open Letter

Indonesian Journalists Critical of Illegal Palm Plantation Found Dead

Naomi Klein and Youth Environmental Leaders to Join Bernie Sanders and AOC for Climate Crisis Summit in Iowa

Massive Oil Spill Turns Brazil's Beaches Black, Kills Marine Life, Threatens Communities

Coal Plants Get a Pass to Pollute Our Waterways

Ozone Depleting Gas Declines After Rising For Years

 

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the usual shit

dont worry about hope,likely wont happen

 

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NOTHING SPOKEN ABOUT OR COVERED Y THE AJ GEUSTS IS ANY different from what we have known for years
and continued to alow to happen
dont just mentiona Asian countries and population growth

we are all liable/responsible

doomed is a fine word in this era,not negative,just reality

 

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[URL='https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/5HWuyXIMPN8rJWzd2n2xiQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRfpbU9P0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8xMS8wNC9jbGltYXRlL3RydW1wLXBhcmlzLWFncmVlbWVudC1jbGltYXRlLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1jbGltYXRlLWZ3ZDomZW1jPWVkaXRfY2xpbV8yMDE5MTEwNj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMzY2MCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE4NTcyJnVzZXJfaWQ9MmE3YzcwNzNkMTFiMzNlYzU3NmRjNDljYTA4NTJhZjYmcmVnaV9pZD02NDQzNjU5NVcDbnl0QgoAHD0ww13nfXjdUhRncmFoYW1jaGVlQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~']Trump Serves Notice to Quit Paris Climate Agreement
The United States notified the United Nations on Monday that it would leave the Paris climate agreement, starting the clock on a yearlong withdrawal process.

By Lisa Friedman

E.P.A. Weakens Rules Governing Toxic Water Pollution From Coal Plants
The Trump administration on Monday moved to weaken regulations aimed at limiting the seepage of lead, arsenic and other toxic pollution into water supplies.

By Lisa Friedman

Banned Ozone-Harming Gas, Once on the Rise, Declines Again
Emissions of CFC-11, which had risen unexpectedly since 2012, appear to have fallen off in the last two years.

By Henry Fountain

Trump Stymies California Climate Efforts Even as State Burns
California is feeling the brunt of climate change with more intense fires. The Trump administration is blocking the state’s efforts to fight it.

Spain Agrees to Host Key Climate Talks After Chile Pulls Out
Madrid has offered to hold the next United Nations climate talks, the leaders of Spain and Chile announced on Thursday.

By Somini Sengupta

E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants
The Trump administration is expected today to roll back rules designed to limit emissions of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury from coal-fired power plants.

By Lisa Friedman

In the Fight Against Climate Change, Not All Forests Are Equal
A new study on the carbon impact of forest loss suggests a new target: preserving forests where deforestation and degradation haven’t yet begun.

By Henry Fountain


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Tyler Varsell

By Eduardo Garcia

Demand is booming for organic food. From 2013 to 2018, sales increased nearly 53 percent to almost $48 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association. That sounds like good news for the environment, but is it really?

 

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genuine preservationists,are out there