https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory
In a gathering impacted by presidential politics, an all-star cast of public health experts largely stuck to their own bleak script: Climate change is poised to unleash an unprecedented, global public health crisis....
August 2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Although the seasonal temperature cycle typically peaks in July, August...
Immediate action to protect the world’s remaining wilderness areas on a large scale is now necessary, including in global policy platforms. All wilderness areas, regardless of their size threshold, warrant immediate scrutiny for conservation action, especially in...
Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88607...
Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over Climate Change? The idea is highly controversial, but at least one psychiatrist is convinced that we are, whether we know it or not....
The Global Temperature Graphic That Should Make You...
Based on the sea level rise projections, the study calculated the parts of the world that would be most directly impacted. The world population on land below the level of projected sea level rise is 1.3 billion, or 19% of the 2010 global population, the study found. A...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/nov/13/in-too-deep-gideon-mendels-photographs-of-global-flooding-in-pictures
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history...
Killing the world. Brought to you by the US Navy. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/a-deafening-winter-ahead-for-whales-and-other-marine-mammals/1439/
From floating plastic islands and orbiting space junk to mountaintop removal and deep-sea mining, the worldwide destruction of ecosystems is worse now than at any other time. The UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins is advocating a new law at the UN that would...
The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazil’s leading scientists. A draft seen by the Guardian warns that the “vegetation-climate equilibrium...
“The destruction of the planet is proceeding at such a fast pace … soon we won’t have clean air or clean water any more and our children will not have a healthy environment to live in.”...
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/06/smelly-contaminated-disease-worlds-open-dumps
Marine Litter: Plunging Deep, Spreading Wide Marine Litter: Plunging Deep, Spreading...
The destruction of the biosphere is probably about halfway complete as of late 2014. Climate disruption that is already locked in will perturb civilization permanently. Our little luxury consumerist lifestyle is killing the biosphere and humans are not immune to...
Ozone layer shows signs of recovery after 1987 ban on damaging gases Continued rises in other greenhouse gases, as well as illicit usage of carbon tetrachloride, still has potential to undo gains
Some of the more than 500 million pounds (220 million kg) of pesticides used yearly in the United States are concentrated at levels that pose a concern for fish and water-dwelling insects, the U.S. Geological Survey report on pesticides from 1992 to 2011 said. The...
Not in the US. In Sweden.
Americans, on average, are driving more miles every day, not fewer, filling ever more fuel tanks with ever more gasoline, and evidently feeling ever less bad about it....
Happy Holidays From All Of Us To All Of You.
We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly, human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
“Data show that the climate is changing more rapidly now than it has at any time in the historical record.” “Carbon dioxide levels are now in uncharted territory, the scientists say: Ice core records reveal that until the early 20th century, CO2 concentrations...
Look at all the red. The United States looks like the third world. We have a problem. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0626-hance-overpopulation-climate-biodiversity.html
“The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence. As a result, they are mentioned almost nowhere. They are the 21st century’s great taboo, the...
Studies estimated that about 800,000 birds died in coastal and offshore waters as a direct result of the Deepwater Horizon oil...
Humans now make up about a third of the total body mass of large animals, with domestic livestock making up most of the rest. Wild animals represent about 3 to 5 per cent....
Investigation by Global Witness reveals there were nearly three times as many deaths in 2012 than 10 years previously http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/15/surge-deaths-environmental-activists-global-witness-report A problem ignored is a problem...
The NASA-funded HANDY model offers a highly credible wake-up call to governments, corporations and business – and consumers – to recognise that ‘business as usual’ cannot be sustained, and that policy and structural changes are required...
“Our atmosphere and oceans will continue to warm for centuries to come. The laws of physics are non-negotiable.” http://planetark.org/wen/71279
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2014/03/aaas-climate-warning
http://www.dw.de/sumatras-burning-rainforests/g-17489217 Massive forest fires are raging on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Many of the blazes were deliberately lit to make way for lucrative and environmentally controversial palm oil plantations. The destruction of...
These images show ocean wildlife that were killed at sea by the drift gillnet fishery targeting swordfish and thresher sharks in United States waters off California. Oceana obtained these disturbing images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
By century’s end, rising sea levels will turn the nation’s urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin....
How will climate change affect the future of the planet? Scientists predict it will be nothing short of a nightmare. “The UN Environment Programme predicts a 3.5C increase by 2100. Such an increase would remove habitat for human beings on this planet, as nearly...
Worst-case dollar cost of a few feet of rising seas could reach $100 trillion every year, according to the most rigorous scientific study of its kind. http://insideclimatenews.org/content/report-describes-unfathomable-cost-inaction-rising-seas
Coal-to-gas projects in rural areas could double carbon footprint of fuel burned in cities, spelling disaster for earth’s climate, warn scientists....
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