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16/07/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
 Illustration: Kingsley Nebechi/The Guardian

Jul 15, 2023

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo

 

16/07/23
Author: 
Dongsheng News, Orinoco Tribune
China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. Dongsheng.

Jul 14, 2023

16/07/23
Author: 
Grey Anderson and Thomas Meaney
Virginia Mayo/Associated Press

Jul 11, 2023

NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success.

16/07/23
Author: 
Maria Virginia Olano
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

Jul 14, 2023

As the country pushes for clean energy at home, it is still sending record-breaking amounts of planet-warming fossil gas abroad.

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

15/07/23
Author: 
Kristoffer Tigue
PAGE, ARIZONA - MARCH 27: A view of the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell on March 27, 2022 in Page, Arizona. As severe drought grips parts of the Western United States, water levels at Lake Powell dropped to their lowest level since the lake was created by the damming the Colorado River in 1963. Lake Powell is currently at 25 percent of capacity, a historic low, and has also lost at least 7 percent of its total capacity. The Colorado River Basin connects Lake Powell and Lake Mead and supplies water to 40 mill

Jul 14, 2023

Decades of research suggests that hydropower has a far greater climate impact than once thought. Now a growing chorus of scientists want to change the conversation about it.

Mark Easter couldn’t help but feel disappointed when he learned about a new study from Stanford University, which drew connections between the ongoing drought in the American West and an increase in U.S. carbon emissions.

14/07/23
Author: 
Guy Standing
‘Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining could suffocate coral reefs hundreds of miles away.’ Photograph: blue-sea.cz/Shutterstock

July 7, 2023

Applications to mine the seabed in our ocean commons can be made from 9 July, allowing a few corporations to profit from ecological disaster

Sunday 9 July threatens to be a momentous day for the global economy, one that marks the beginning of the biggest gold rush in history, and one that could lead to unprecedented ecological damage. Yet few people seem to be taking much notice. The British government has been silent.

09/07/23
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Dwayne Reilander/wikimedia commons

Jul 8, 2023

We may soon remember this week’s record-shattering heat as an historic low temperature mark. But that hasn't slowed down the oil and gas spin machine.

What if this week’s series of record-shattering high temperatures turned out to be tomorrow’s record low, the benchmark against which future years and decades of global warming will be measured?

09/07/23
Author: 
John Clarke
Stop funding fossil fuels

July 9, 2023

With each mile of country that burns in wildfire, this unwavering support for the oil industry is looking more and more deranged. As wildfires spread across Canada, Justin Trudeau sought to showcase his commitment to responsible environmental stewardship. He told reporters that:

09/07/23
Author: 
Robert Hunziker
Polar bear - Image by Annie Spratt.

July 7, 2023

Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as NYC, survive escalating global heat conditions in Greenland? And what if both Greenland and Antarctica follow the recent very disturbing pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high.

09/07/23
Author: 
Arno Kopecky

June 30, 2023

Renewable energy has achieved critical mass, but the oil and gas industry has us staying a dangerous course amid climate change

Humanity is on the verge of two drastically different futures: one hopeful, one disastrous. 

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