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Mozambican city devastated by flooding rebuilds for the climate crisis
Beira is one of the world's most vulnerable cities to climate change. That's why two years after devastating Cyclone Idai, it is rebuilding with future floods in mind.

Can tiny forests breathe fresh air into our cities?
After gaining popularity across Asia, small, dense ecosystems are taking root in Europe's urban areas. Advocates say they improve biodiversity, air quality and even our well-being. But do they live up to the hype?

The Gen Z climate activists going viral on TikTok
Dance routines and cat memes are usually what goes viral on TikTok. But now young eco-influencers are racking up millions of views with videos on everything from trash to the rights of nature.

Swiss voters to cast ballots on pesticide-free farming
Switzerland is holding a referendum that could result in a total ban on synthetic pesticides. But environmentalists, farmers and agrochemical companies are at odds over a potential switch to organic agriculture.


Deforestation in Africa: Water filters save trees in Uganda
With clean water scarce in the country, locals use wood and coal to boil and sterilize it. A new climate-friendly filter system hopes to change that.

Keeping Indigenous wild food traditions alive in India
With Indian forests under pressure, Indigenous communities are working to preserve knowledge of their diverse and nutritious diets. In the country's cities, urban consumers are also getting a taste for the crops.


Cargo bikes for cleaner air in Bogota
In Bogota, air pollution contributes to thousands of deaths each year. Ditching trucks for electric cargo bikes could radically cut fine particulate matter.

City kids: Urban goat farming in Bristol
Grazing wasteland in the heart of Bristol, Street Goat is bringing community together around sustainable milk and meat, and conserving local biodiversity.

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New Mexico’s $8bn oil clean up costs





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The oil industry likes to boast that it fills New Mexico’s coffers with revenues from drilling, but a new study finds a serious gap in funding available to tackle the environmental legacy of abandoned wells. As the report found, New Mexico is facing more than $8 billion in cleanup costs for oil and gas wells, an enormous liability that taxpayers could be left to pick up if drillers go out of business or walk away from their obligations. Nick Cunningham reports.

Also this week, a DeSmog investigation has found that nearly a third of the directors of Africa’s biggest bank, South Africa’s Standard Bank, have close connections to the coal industry, casting doubt on their ability to ensure the organisation’s business is aligned with global climate goals. The news comes as Standard Bank recently agreed to set plans to reduce its fossil fuel financing in line with climate goals, following shareholder and activist pressure. Rachel Sherrington has the scoop.

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New Mexico Stuck With $8 billion in Cleanup for Oil Wells, Highlighting Dangers From Fossil Fuel Dependence
— By Nick Cunningham (5 min. read) —
New Mexico is facing more than $8 billion in cleanup costs for oil and gas wells, an enormous liability that taxpayers could be left to pick up if drillers go out of business or walk away from their obligations.

Cleaning up old wells at the end of their operating lives can be expensive, and typically states require drillers to cover part of the cleanup cost at the outset, known as financial assurance requirements. The money is tapped later on when the well or pipeline must be dismantled and cleaned up.


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One in Three Directors at Africa’s Biggest Bank Have Ties to the Coal Industry
— By Rachel Sherrington (4 min. read) —
Nearly a third of the directors of Africa’s biggest bank have close connections to the coal industry, casting doubt on their ability to ensure the organisation’s business is aligned with global climate goals.

A DeSmog investigation has found that 29 percent of board members of South Africa’s Standard Bank have current or former roles in companies involved in the coal supply chain that are included on the Global Coal Exit List (GCEL). Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of board members have current ties to the industry, making it the most coal-affiliated of any of the 39 banks analysed by DeSmog. Over 80 percent of directors had a past or current tie to polluting industries, either as a current or former adviser or employee.


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HSBC to Phase Out Coal Financing After Shareholder Vote
— By Phoebe Cooke (3 min. read) —
Shareholders at HSBC have voted overwhelmingly to end financing of the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal.

Preliminary voting results showed that 99.7 percent of the bank’s shareholders voted in favour of the management-backed climate resolution at HSBC’s annual general meeting.


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China Finances Most Coal Plants Built Today
— By Jeff Nesbit, Yale University (5 min. read) —
As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants?

China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152 countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. Roughly 70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding.


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‘Landslide Victory for Climate Justice’: Court Rules Shell Must Cut CO2 Emissions 45 Percent by 2030
— By Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams (4 min. read) —
Climate campaigners worldwide are celebrating after a Dutch court on Wednesday ordered fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions 45% by 2030, compared with 2019 levels—a historic ruling that activists hope is just the beginning of holding the oil and gas industry accountable for driving the climate emergency.

“This is a landslide victory for climate justice,” said Sara Shaw of Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). “Our hope is that this verdict will trigger a wave of climate litigation against big polluters to force them to stop extracting and burning fossil fuels. This result is a win for communities in the Global South who face devastating climate impacts now.”


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Engine No. 1’s Big Win Over Exxon Shows Activist Hedge Funds Joining Fight Against Climate Change
— By Mark DesJardine, assistant professor of strategy and sustainability at Penn State and Tima Bansal, Canada research chair in business sustainability at Western University for The Conversation (5 min. read) —
One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in how hedge funds and other investors view sustainability.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has been fending off a so-called proxy fight from a hedge fund known as Engine No. 1, which blames the energy giant’s poor performance in recent years on its failure to transition to a “decarbonizing world.” In a May 26, 2021 vote, Exxon shareholders approved at least two of the four board members Engine No. 1 nominated, dealing a major blow to the oil company. The vote is ongoing, and more of the hedge fund’s nominees may also soon be appointed.


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From the Climate Disinformation Database: Steve Baker


Steve Baker has been a Conservative MP in the UK since the country’s 2010 General Election. Baker is a long-time Eurosceptic. In 2015 he co-founded Conservatives for Britain, a campaign organisation formed just after the General Election in June of that year to lobby for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. During the referendum campaign, Conservatives for Britain supported Vote Leave. The president of Conservatives for Britain is Nigel Lawson, who has come under fire numerous times in the news for his vocal denial of climate science. This week DeSmog reported that Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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JAKARTA — Orangutans in Borneo have been found to physically waste away when fruit is scarce — a finding with dire implications as human-driven climate change and the destruction of their habitat put their food supply under even greater threat. In a study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers collected and analyzed urine […]
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Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19
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MANILA — When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020 in Southeast Asia, its governments took rapid containment actions: lockdowns, travel restrictions and trade suspensions, alerting the public about the virus. The pandemic has also put illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade under the spotlight due to enhanced restrictions on movement and increasing awareness about the public health […]
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With fire contained, Sri Lanka faces plastic pellet problem from stricken ship
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COLOMBO — Authorities in Sri Lanka say they have largely contained a fire on board a cargo ship off the island’s west coast, but now face the task of cleaning up the tons of plastic granules it was carrying that have washed up along a wide swath of the coast. Compounding the scale of the […]
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Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse
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JAKARTA — Orangutans in Borneo have been found to physically waste away when fruit is scarce — a finding with dire implications as human-driven climate change and the destruction of their habitat put their food supply under even greater threat. In a study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers collected and analyzed urine […]
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In the International Year of Caves and Karst, Brazilian caves are at high risk (Commentary)
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Brazil is internationally known for its astonishing biodiversity. Nevertheless, there is another natural heritage for which Brazil should also be recognized: its caves. As a continental-sized country, with a rich geological history, Brazil harbors an estimated 310,000 caves – some of them among the most spectacular in the world. Like for biodiversity, cave protection in […]
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Book Review: ‘Planet Palm’ reveals a world map stained by red oil
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In the pantheon of global commodities that play starring roles in our narratives of history, palm oil tends to occupy a seat far in the back. We know the search for gold in the “New World” led to genocide and colonialism, that Europe’s appetite for confectionery treats produced a global trade in sugar, and understand […]
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Biden suspends Trump-era oil drilling in Alaska
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The Biden administration has suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic national wildlife refuge, a remote 19.6m-acre area that is home to polar bears, caribou, snowy owls and migrating birds from six continents.

In 2017, the Trump administration approved a drilling program in the oil-rich refuge, which is considered sacred by the indigenous Gwich’in communities, but the interior department “identified defects in the underlying record of decision supporting the leases”.
 

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Land conflicts in Brazil hit 1,576 cases in 2020, the highest number ever recorded by the Catholic Church-affiliated Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which has been keeping track of the issue since 1985. This number represents an increase of 25% from 2019, and 57.6% from 2018. It translates into an average of 4.31 land conflicts per […]
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) contains the bulk of Africa’s humid rainforest. But forests that were once dense, impenetrable and continuous are increasingly fractured by deforestation. New satellite data from the University of Maryland (UMD) show the country – particularly its northern portion – may be in for another rocky year in 2021. […]
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Efforts to restore tropical peatlands need fire-free plantations (commentary)
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Come dry season every year, fires flare up across Indonesia, including in protected forest areas. Not only do these endanger the plant and animal wildlife in these forests, but they also spew clouds of toxic smoke that choke up cities and lungs, affecting 50 million people across Southeast Asia. Officials struggle to extinguish these fires, […]
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Talks break down over crumbling Yemeni tanker threatening massive oil spill
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DAHAB, Egypt — A decaying super-tanker anchored off Yemen with 1.1 million barrels of Marib light crude oil in its hold looks increasingly likely to wreak havoc in the Red Sea, experts are warning. Talks between the U.N. and the Houthi administration in control of the area aimed at brokering a deal for international intervention […]
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On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge
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Vast terrains dominated by grasses, shrubs or sparse trees, rangelands are more than unproductive places where reticent herders graze their livestock and wildlife browse dry — or green, if lucky — meadows. They host about a quarter of Earth’s human population, provide forage to some 75% of domesticated livestock, and contribute to economies, especially in […]
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Shipping sector's climate obstruction exposed, again
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The secretive world of UN shipping talks came under long overdue scrutiny for its delay and obstruction of climate action from mainstream media this week.

In a thorough piece of accountability journalism, the New York Times set out how industry dominates the International Maritime Organization (IMO), fighting any curbs on ship emissions and suppressing media coverage. I read it with mixed feelings.

On the one hand, I was delighted by the citation of Climate Home News' deep coverage of the issue, which earned me a 2-year ban from the institution. On the other hand, that was five years ago. What took you so long?

In my experience of the IMO, it is not just the negotiating chamber that is overrepresented by business interests. The press gallery, too, is stacked with journalists from the trade press, whose readers are primarily concerned with what regulations will cost them. Perhaps one or two reporters from specialist environmental publications at debates on climate rules. Major news outlets are nowhere to be seen.

It might be hard to get a generalist editor interested in the complex workings of an obscure forum - credit to Matt Apuzzo and Sarah Hurtes for landing the pitch at NYT. But if the IMO continues with its lax approach to maritime emissions while nation states decarbonise, shipping's carbon footprint will increasingly stick out. Journalists around the world can empower their readers, as consumers and citizens, to demand better.

Now is as good a time as any to pay attention. US president Joe Biden has picked candidates with climate credentials for key cabinet roles. Will he do the same for the vacant position of Maritime Administrator?

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Adopting new clean technology is expensive, particularly if there is no price on pollution. Will governments that are vocal for climate action in other forums back the Marshall Islands' call for a robust carbon tax on ship fuel? The small island, big ocean state has been left isolated in its struggle against powerful interests for too long.

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Britain and the United States have joined Norway and Germany in supporting efforts by the Peruvian government to reduce deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. According to a join declaration issued today, the U.S. and U.K. have signed on to the existing reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) program established in 2014 by Norway and […]
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The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again
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In recent weeks, nine major fires have ignited in the Brazilian Amazon, heralding the start of another fire season which, after a particularly dry year, experts say could be a bad one. “The rainy season is already finished and it was a bad [dry] rainy season,” Marcelo Seluchi, a meteorologist in Brazil’s national space research […]
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Podcast: Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?
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Today we’re taking a look at the potential for transformative change in environmental conservation in the US and beyond. Listen here: The administration of US President Joe Biden released a report called “America The Beautiful” last month that laid out a vision for conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030, making the US […]
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West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil
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JAKARTA — Palm oil licenses covering concessions twice the size of Los Angeles have been rescinded by the local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province due to violations by the license holders. The move follows on from a recent license review, carried out by the West Papua government working with the national anti-corruption agency, the […]
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US, UK join Norway and Germany in effort to protect Peru’s rainforests
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Britain and the United States have joined Norway and Germany in supporting efforts by the Peruvian government to reduce deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. According to a join declaration issued today, the U.S. and U.K. have signed on to the existing reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) program established in 2014 by Norway and […]
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The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again
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In recent weeks, nine major fires have ignited in the Brazilian Amazon, heralding the start of another fire season which, after a particularly dry year, experts say could be a bad one. “The rainy season is already finished and it was a bad [dry] rainy season,” Marcelo Seluchi, a meteorologist in Brazil’s national space research […]
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‘Dark’ ships off Argentina ring alarms over possible illegal fishing
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Last year, news of a fleet of about 300 Chinese fishing vessels swarming around the Galápagos Islands, possibly to fish illegally, grabbed the attention of the world. But there’s a similar scenario playing out off the coast of Argentina: each year, hundreds of foreign-owned vessels are also traveling here to fish for species like Argentine […]
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Podcast: Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?
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Today we’re taking a look at the potential for transformative change in environmental conservation in the US and beyond. Listen here: The administration of US President Joe Biden released a report called “America The Beautiful” last month that laid out a vision for conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030, making the US […]
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In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners
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Deforestation driven by illegal mining around Peru’s Pariamanu River has accelerated in the past six months, with forests one and a half times the size of London’s Hyde Park lost since 2017. A report released May 4 by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows that, between October 2020 and March 2021, illegal […]
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West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil
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JAKARTA — Palm oil licenses covering concessions twice the size of Los Angeles have been rescinded by the local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province due to violations by the license holders. The move follows on from a recent license review, carried out by the West Papua government working with the national anti-corruption agency, the […]
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As I’ve said in this space before, almost every day is Oceans Day at Hakai Magazine, but next week, on June 8, the world also takes a day to celebrate the ocean that sustains us. The theme for World Oceans Day 2021 is The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods and there are many ways to participate. The United Nations is hosting a day-long event with an international roster of speakers and which concludes with a “concert for the ocean.” (If you are an educator, this site has some great resources for you.) And you can search here for events near you—or at a distance, since many will be virtual this year. Canada is taking the day and running with it by launching the second Ocean Week Canada, again with a variety of activities including beach cleanups, concerts, chats with scientists, and the launch of a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education that focuses on ocean literacy. We’d love to hear how you celebrated the ocean, on Oceans Day or any day, so let us know.

Shifting gears in a very big way, I want to acknowledge the very tough week we’ve had in Canada. The remains of 215 Indigenous children were recently found on the grounds of a residential school in British Columbia, and, again, our country has to confront the consequences of its colonial roots. I cannot begin to cover the complexity of the issue in a few sentences, but I do want to express our sorrow over this latest in a very long line of injustices that Indigenous people in this country have to face. We will continue to work with Indigenous communities and individuals, to share the stories they are willing to share, and to celebrate knowledge systems and relationships to place that have survived despite colonial attempts to extinguish them. If you haven’t already, I invite you to read this article by Arno Kopecky. At first glance, it may seem like a story of a fight to save old-growth forests in western Canada, but it’s also a story about how colonialism has led us to this conflict. “This clock was wound up 150 years ago,” he writes. “The colonial experiment was the thing that set the stage, wrote the script, built the machine, and locked us all into preordained, perpetual motion.”

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This Week’s Stories



Three Days in the Theater of Old-Growth Logging and Protest

A drama 150 years in the making is playing out as logging companies and police clash with First Nations and protesters over one of British Columbia’s last remaining stands of unprotected old-growth forest.

by Arno Kopecky • 6,100 words / 31 mins




The Sound Aquatic Episode 2: How Not to Get Lost in the Ocean

Marine animals that navigate through whispers, songs, grunts, or clicks.

by Elin Kelsey, Katrina Pyne, and Amorina Kingdon • 26 mins • Listen here or with your podcast app



With Little Oversight, Ships Continue to Breed Toxic Behavior

In 1989, the US Congress passed a law requiring captains to report sexual assault allegations to the coast guard. But the absence of strong enforcement has left mariners vulnerable to abuse.

by Emily Cataneo • 800 words / 4 mins




Petrifying Climate Change

Researchers want to combat climate change by chemically converting carbon dioxide into rock on a grand scale.

by Ally Hirschlag • 1,200 words / 6 mins




The Alarming Power of Melting Arctic Ice

At least 25 times over the past 120,000 years, the temperature in Greenland swung dramatically. Now, scientists have a better understanding of why.

by Theo Nicitopoulos • 650 words / 3 mins




What We’re Reading

Thirty-five fishermen in Yemen got a smelly windfall when they encountered a dead sperm whale carcass that contained precious ambergris valued at US $1.5-million. (Newsweek)

Plant a tree, save an ocean? An initiative in the Chesapeake Bay aims to stop pollution entering the ocean from agricultural runoff, by encouraging farmers to plant trees alongside streams that run through their properties. (Mongabay)

The “wandering meatloaf” looks pretty much the way you think it does. The gumboot chiton, a type of mollusk, strongly resembles a plate of cafeteria slop and eats by scraping algae off rocks. This means it has some of the hardest teeth known, and now scientists have figured out why. The chiton’s teeth contain an iron mineral compound called santabarbaraite, the only know animal (so far) with this distinction. (New York Times)

Quoth the Seashell “Nevermore?” Edgar Allan Poe’s bestselling book during his lifetime was a small textbook on conchology, or the identification of seashells. (Atlas Obscura)

Doctors use a handheld mass spectrometer, a tool that scans molecules in a few seconds, to ID cancer. Turns out, food inspectors can also use it to quickly ID mislabeled seafood. Some 30 to 50 percent of fish is likely mislabeled globally. Check out Hakai Magazine’s past coverage of seafood fraud here, here, and here. (Anthropocene, Hakai Magazine)

Former US president Barack Obama’s speech has a distinctive characteristic: he pauses dramatically right before an important clause. This strategy emphasizes the important words or clauses, sort of like a more polite form of shouting. And a particular species of fish does this, too. Yes, fish. The Brienomyrus brachyistius apparently communicates with electrical pulses similar to Morse code. They use these pulses to fight, make friends, find mates, and conduct other fishy business, and they seem to pause right before very intense or critical pulse bursts, possibly to emphasize them. (The Atlantic)

Can you smell a tsunami in advance? A radioactive gas called radon can emerge in soil days before seismic events like volcanoes and earthquakes, but detection of such signals underwater is much more challenging. Though early in development, underwater drones might soon be able to detect this uptick in radiation and help warn of tsunami-triggering subsea quakes. (Vice)










Kate McKeown and Lena Dietz Chiasson were taking a snack break among the old-growth conifers of Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, when this adorable American pine marten popped out from a cluster of fallen trees and started climbing. Kate captured the moment that the solitary, arboreal creature realized it had spectators.

This photo is one of thousands captured by a crew of field technicians who are using iNaturalist—a global community science database—to document species throughout British Columbia’s provincial parks and protected areas. The BC Parks iNaturalist Project, now in its third year, is a collaboration between the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, BC Parks, and the BC Parks Foundation. Inspired by this project, our friends at the Hakai Institute are now finding ways to incorporate iNaturalist into their work, including crowd-sourcing sea star sightings, while also contributing years of their own field observations to the database.

Everyone—from scientists to naturalist neophytes—can participate in iNaturalist. Use it to learn more about the plants and animals you encounter and contribute to biodiversity science by signing up at inaturalist.org.

Photo by Kate McKeown





On May 23, the marine conservation community lost Jack Orr—aka Captain Jack—a highly respected marine biologist who led much of the marine mammal research in the Canadian Arctic and Nunavut. Captain Jack developed the tracking system researchers use today to follow the daily and seasonal lives of belugas and narwhals. Writer Isabelle Groc wrote about Captain Jack and his work for Hakai Magazine in 2016.



Behind the Story



Arno Kopecky, the author of “Three Days in the Theater of Old-Growth Logging and Protest,” explains the deep roots of his story.

I’ve been wanting to write about British Columbia’s coastal old-growth rainforest, and the fact that we’re still logging it, ever since I was a student at the University of Victoria. That was in the 1990s, just after the biggest environmental protests in Canadian history saw over 800 people get arrested in Clayoquot Sound. There have been numerous heroic feats of activism since then, along with famous books, reams of powerful journalism, landmark court decisions, and earnest government reports, all aimed at preserving the fragments of ancient rainforest left on this coast—and all the while, logging has continued unabated.

It’s one of those issues, not unlike climate change, that everyone knows about and nobody can change, which made it something of a literary riddle. How do you approach a subject that’s been exhausted, yet is more urgent than ever? The historic protests at Fairy Creek offered a fresh way in. They also gave me a chance to go beyond the most obvious question—how can we still be logging these magnificent beings?!—and explore something far more unsettling: how can it have taken this long for the broader Canadian society to notice the First Nations people who live here? This is their territory, and they’ve been subjected to the same forces of destruction as these forests. There is no understanding one story without the other.




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How auditors help fuel oil industry fraud

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The accounting companies hired by oil companies to evaluate their inflated financial claims are increasingly on the hook from investors frustrated by the lack of accountability. Major accounting firm KPMG, for instance, has recently come under fire from investors who filed a class action lawsuit against the firm for overstating the asset values of now-defunct oil exploration company Miller Energy Resources. And last month, a judge dismissed KPMG’s attempt to have the case thrown out. Justin Mikulka unpacks what’s going on.

Meanwhile, in two new studies this week experts shine a spotlight on the worst offenders in the Permian basin. Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to one study. At the same time, another report found that some smaller oil drillers in the Permian basin have worse methane pollution rates than the largest oil and gas companies’ operations there, including ExxonMobil and Chevron. But while the technological fixes are obvious, researchers say, state regulators are so far unwilling to act. Nick Cunningham has the story.

And in case you missed it, the House and Senate recently called in the CEOs of six big banks for two wide-ranging hearings that lawmakers touted as efforts to hold “megabanks accountable.” It was the first time in roughly two years that the heads of major banks have collectively appeared before Congress. Sharon Kelly reports.

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How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
— By Justin Mikulka (10 min. read) —
Major accounting firm KPMG is under fire from investors who filed a class action lawsuit against the firm for overstating the asset values of now-defunct oil exploration company Miller Energy Resources. And last month, a judge dismissed KPMG’s attempt to have the case thrown out.

At issue in the lawsuit, filed in 2016, is a $4.55 million purchase by Miller Energy in 2009 for land and offshore oil assets in Alaska which included existing oil production infrastructure. Miller Energy then claimed those same assets were worth approximately half a billion dollars, a claim which would require approval by third-party auditors.


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Cleaning Up Methane Pollution From Permian Super Emitters is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for the Climate, Study Finds
— By Nick Cunningham (5 min. read) —
Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. And ratcheting down these emissions can lead to quick and significant wins for the climate.

According to the study published on June 2 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, a relatively small number of sites — 11 percent — account for nearly a third of methane emissions in the region. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame.


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After Pouring Over $1 Trillion Into Fossil Fuel Finance, CEOs of 6 US Banks Testify Before Congress
— By Sharon Kelly (8 min. read) —
This week, the House and Senate called in the CEOs of six big banks for two wide-ranging hearings that lawmakers touted as efforts to hold “megabanks accountable,” the first time in roughly two years that the heads of major banks have collectively appeared before Congress.

Combined, the six CEOs lead organizations that have poured over $1 trillion in financing into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, based on the numbers tallied in a 2021 report from Rainforest Action Network and other environmental advocates.


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The IEA’s New Net Zero ‘Roadmap’ is Dangerously Reliant on Destructive Bioenergy
— By Almuth Ernsting (4 min. read) —
The International Energy Agency’s new “Net Zero by 2050” report has won plaudits for its bold recommendations on how the world can limit warming to 1.5°C, in line with the Paris Agreement: no investment in new fossil fuel projects, and an end to petrol and diesel cars by 2035.

But the vision it presents governments is fantastic in another sense of the word, too.


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From the Climate Disinformation Database: Tony Abbott


Tony Abbott was Prime Minister of Australia between 2013 and 2015, having led the centre-right Liberal Party in opposition since 2009. He was ousted as Liberal Party leader by Malcolm Turnbull in September 2015 following poor approval ratings. Abbott has historically opposed measures to combat climate change, advocating for the (ultimately successful) repeal of Australia’s carbon tax in 2014, introduced by the previous Labor government. In 2017, he gave a lecture entitled “Daring to Doubt” to the UK-based climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation, following in the footsteps of fellow Australian PM John Howard. In September 2020, Abbott was appointed to the UK Government’s “Board of Trade,” advising on the negotiation of new post-Brexit agreements with countries such as Australia.

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Great Apes Could Lose 94% of African Home Due to Climate Crisis and Other Human Actions, Study Finds

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The Government of Gabon has passed landmark measures to manage and protect the country’s sharks and rays: over the past decade, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has worked with the Gabon government to identify 69 species in the country’s waters, highlighting the diversity that these measures will help preserve, and this work has resulted in two […]
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NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna
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Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), one of the most profitable fisheries in the world, is just a few years away from collapse. A meeting that began June 7 will be crucial in deciding its fate. Exploitative industrial fishing practiced over decades by the EU, and increasingly important artisanal fisheries in coastal states have decimated […]
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In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares
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Legal mining in Colombia is a significant driver of deforestation, contributing to the destruction of 121,819 hectares (301,021 acres) of forest from 2001 to 2018. During that time, deforestation from legal mining has increased, accounting for 5.6% of total deforestation in 2017. Of the 8,600 mining concessions with permits granted by the Colombian government, researchers […]
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Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more
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JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will begin retiring coal-fired power plants for good — while still continuing to build more than a hundred new ones, in the latest mixed message from one of the last coal-friendly countries in the world. PLN, the state-owned power utility, which has a monopoly on the national grid, announced late […]
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Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad
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Despite a 2019 self-imposed ban, Facebook continues linking wildlife traffickers with buyers around the globe, while the U.S. government has so far done little to regulate trade facilitated by Facebook and other social media firms.
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The Government of Gabon has passed landmark measures to manage and protect the country’s sharks and rays: over the past decade, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has worked with the Gabon government to identify 69 species in the country’s waters, highlighting the diversity that these measures will help preserve, and this work has resulted in two […]
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Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad
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Despite a 2019 self-imposed ban, Facebook continues linking wildlife traffickers with buyers around the globe, while the U.S. government has so far done little to regulate trade facilitated by Facebook and other social media firms.
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Texas Republican asks: can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?

"The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior US government official if changing the moon’s orbit around the earth, or the earth’s orbit around the sun, might be a solution for climate change.

Bizarrely, the question was not posed to anyone from Nasa or even the Pentagon. Instead it was asked of a senior forestry service official during a House natural resources committee hearing on Tuesday."
 
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Contentious Keystone XL pipeline project canceled
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Keystone XL pipeline
Canadian company TC Energy, the sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, has withdrawn from the contentious project that aimed to build a 1,200-mile pipeline to move hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil daily from western Canada’s oil sand fields, via Nebraska, and through the United States. President Joe Biden had canceled the pipeline’s border crossing permit earlier this year over long-standing environmental concerns. The company said it would work with government agencies, stakeholders and Indigenous groups “to ensure a safe termination and exit" from the partially built line.

US-Mexico border
The number of undocumented migrants that have reached the US-Mexico border has hit its highest level in more than 20 years, according to data by the US Customs and Border Protection. CPB says it encountered 180,034 migrants, mostly single adults, during the month of May — the highest monthly total since April 2000. Increasing numbers of people are coming from countries such as Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and some African nations.

Russia Navalny’s organization
A Moscow court has outlawed Putin’s political foe Alexei Navalny’s organization, labeling it as an “extremist” group. The ruling, effective immediately, prevents people associated with Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption from seeking public office and carries lengthy prison terms for individuals who have worked or are related to the organization via donations and information networks. Russian parliamentary elections will be held on Sept. 19, and many of Navalny’s allies had hoped to run in them.


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Colombian Deportado Coffee's founder hopes to open a conversation about US immigration

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Mauricio Zuñiga was deported to Colombia after living in Florida for four decades. Now, he exports specialty coffee to the United States. He hopes the name Deportado Coffee —Spanish for "deported" — sparks conversations about the US immigration system. “In our minds, we had the idea that this was going to create awareness about the issues of deportation,” he said.

Moscow multimedia exhibition focuses on anti-Kremlin protest culture

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"Time Difference," a new multimedia art exhibition in Russia by Katya Muromtseva, 31, urges viewers to listen to the voices of those who are critical of the Kremlin. “A lot of people think that we cannot change anything. This is the government, they have the power,” she said. “But that’s not true.”


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The National Geographic Society made a splash on World Oceans Day this week by officially naming a fifth ocean. The Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, is now a part of the list. Alex Tait, a geographer at the organization, says there is a distinct ecological region around the continent.
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