The summer of 2022 has been characterized in Europe by images of drought and wildfires brought on by heat waves, including many areas not known for such extremes. At the time of writing, Europe has already recorded over 12,000 excess deaths.
Fron Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-hot-climate-expert-discusses-record-breaking.html
More than 24,000km of pipelines planned around world, showing ‘an almost deliberate failure to meet climate goals’
From the Guardian
Research project aims to discover how age, size and shape of woodlands affect people’s happiness and wellbeing
From The Guardian
Of all known planets, Earth is as friendly to life as any planet could possibly be — or is it?
Source: University of California – Riverside
From: ENN Environmental News Network
https://www.enn.com/articles/71139-could-more-of-earth-s-surface-host-life
Oakland leaders plan to allow an Indigenous group the right to exclusively use about 5 acres of city land, the first city in California to use municipal property as reparations for European settlers stealing Native American territories.
Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an Indigenous and female-led nonprofit, announced Thursday that the city will grant an easement for Sequoia Point to the land trust and the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, which is the East Bay Ohlone tribe. The Point sits above the Sequoia Bayview Trail, one of the most popular trails in Joaquin Miller […]
Sharif’s climate change minister called the flooding a ‘climate catastrophe’ and said the south Asian nation was ‘paying the price’ for western use of fossil fuels.
From The Guardian
A new study out today in the first issue of Environmental Research: Ecology, published by IOP Publishing, assessed effects of past and current climate variability on global forest productivity.
Source:
CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES
From Environmental News Network
https://www.enn.com/articles/71065-exposure-to-past-temperature-variability-may-help-forests-cope-with-climate-change
For the first time, researchers have completed threat assessments for all 881 native tree species in the contiguous United States, resulting in a comprehensive checklist and synthesis that will serve as a critical baseline to guide future tree conservation efforts.
Source: Morton Arboretum
From Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823095432.htm
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As a deadly fire continued to burn last week in the Klamath National Forest in Northern California, Kenneth Brink, a local fisherman, counted dead fish in a river that had turned to the consistency of “chocolate milk.”
From the New York Times through Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-fire-floods-turn-river-181434481.html