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UN report highlights links between ‘unprecedented biodiversity loss’ and spread of disease | | UN News

Ten-year targets missed This year’s study is considered to be particularly significant, because it serves as a “final report card” for the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, a series of 20 objectives set out in 2010, at the beginning of the UN’s Decade on Biodiversity, most of which were supposed to be reached by the end of this year.However, none of the targets – which concern the safeguarding of…

“Scotland of the East”

Daily weather now bears the fingerprints of global warming – The Washington Post

By Andrew Freedman January 2

For the first time, scientists have detected the “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at the global scale. If verified by subsequent work, the findings, published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, would upend the long-established narrative that daily weather is distinct from long-term climate change.

The study’s results also imply…

Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye | National Geographic — News on Climate Change

Climate Change is a real and serious issue. In this video Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects, and how each of us can contribute to a […]

Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye | National Geographic — News on Climate Change

This Was the Decade We Knew We Were Right

Everything is connected, and everything is changing By Kate Marvel on December 30, 2019

A state of emergency was declared on November 11, 2019 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of “catastrophic” fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires that have ravaged the drought-stricken east of the country.

It rains in the Amazon because the trees want it to. There is…

Special Report on Climate Change and Land — IPCC site

Special Report on Climate Change and Land — IPCC site — Read on www.ipcc.ch/srccl/

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean – The Atlantic

Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast expanse of sand, but it’s a jagged and dynamic landscape with as much variation as any place onshore. Mountains surge from…

Indigenous Activism at #COP25

Indigenous people were highly engaged both inside and outside COP 25, the UN Climate Conference just ended in Madrid, in December 2019. These video pieces provided by the Indigenous Rising Media team highlight the critical role of Indigenous people’s activism and engagement in UN climate negotiations.

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

By Nathaniel Rich Photographs and Videos by George Steinmetz AUG. 1, 2018

This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change.

Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by…

IPCC Climate Talks: Indigenous Perspectives

Shared from Terra Informa’s report on the IPCC Conference on Cities and Climate Change, held in Edmonton, Canada, in 2017.

via IPCC Climate Talks: Indigenous Perspectives

FUTURE ALBERTA – An Open Letter to the Government of Alberta

Researchers call for a public inquiry into subsidies for oil sands productionand Alberta’s post-carbon future.

For many decades, the fossil fuel industries have benefited from billions of dollars in public subsidies for technology development intended to allow them access to new reserves and lower their costs of production. These subsidies take many forms, such as capital cost allowances,…

Higher, cheaper, sleeker: wind turbines of the future – in pictures | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian

May 12, 2017

The cost of energy from offshore wind in Britain has fallen by a third since 2012, and wind accounts for over 40% of new capacity in the US, representing an annual investment of $13bn. Now next-generation wind technologies promise to make wind energy safer and more affordable – if they can make the difficult jump from research prototypes to commercial products

Source: Higher,…

They’re not making it anymore RT — Renegade Inc.

Land is a necessity for human existence and remains the original source of all wealth. Yet bankers, economists, and politicians have simplistically lumped land and capital together, so apparently now they mean the same thing.

So why, as a society, have we chosen to eliminate land from the economic calculus? The consequences have been far reaching.

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by writers and…