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The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity’s greatest threat in thousands of years.
The broadcaster said it could lead to the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of “much of the natural world”.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Katowice, Poland.
From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46398057
Geographers have created a new world map showing dramatic changes in land use over the last quarter century. Researchers turned high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency into one of the most detailed looks so far at how people are reshaping the planet.
Source: University of Cincinnati
From: Science Daily
When the world gets its act together, it can actually solve big problems. Case in point: The ozone hole, which if everything goes according to plan could be healed up by the 2060s, according to a new report from the United Nations.
From Gizmodo Earther
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-ozone-hole-could-heal-in-our-lifetimes-un-reports-1830260403
American Society for Microbiology
From EurekaAlert
A changing climate necessitates rethinking tropical marine conservation
From Eureka Alert
Environmental groups and politicians have raised the alarm about the policies of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro.
From the BBC Reality Check
Cities around the world are frequently flooding during extreme weather, largely because they are fast losing the wetlands that work as a natural defence, experts warn.
From the BBC
By Brian Kahn
Emily Penn had a mission: To find a piece of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch large enough to stick a satellite transmitter on so that researchers back on shore could track it until a vessel came to pick it up.
From: Gizmodo Earther
