Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, and no country is immune, a major new report from more than 120 researchers has declared.
From Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-climate-resulting-profound-worsening-health.html
Tiny bits of plastic have made their way into the deepest sea and onto the highest peaks
From Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plastics-remote-places-microplastics-earth-mount-everest
Detroiters were refusing city-sponsored “free trees.” A researcher found out the problem: She was the first person to ask them if they wanted them.
From: Pocket
Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.
Source: MIT News
https://news.mit.edu/2020/hunger-social-cravings-neuroscience-1123
Some of the latest news on climate action in the US
House Select Climate Committee –(No legislative authority)
Solving the Climate Crisis Report
Protect and Restore Ocean and Wetland Ecosystems
Make Public Lands and Waters Part of the Climate Solution
Biden-Harris Transition–
Biden-Harris transition website
Transition teams all departments
Report from Climate 21 presented to transition team
House Natural Resources Committee–(Legislative Authority)
Chairs Grijalva, Castor Introduce Landmark Oceans Solutions Bill to Tackle Climate Crisis
From the Pope to Greta Thunberg, there are growing calls for the crime of “ecocide” to be recognised in international criminal law – but could such a law ever work?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201105-what-is-ecocide
From the BBC
Who occupies the White House for the next four years could play a critical role in the fight against dangerous climate change, experts say. Matt McGrath weighs the likely environmental consequences of the US election.
From the BBC
Wildfires burning in the West affect not only the areas burned, but the wider regions covered by smoke.
From Environmental News Network
While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in carbon dioxide emissions — larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War II.
Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
From Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201014082806.htm
September was the warmest on record globally, according to the weather service Copernicus.
From the BBC