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We have water supply crisis

The world is running out of fresh water

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/water-world-run-out-planet-hotter-looming-crisis

4th March 2024

China is still the biggest emitter

Despite progress on green energies the amount of CO2  that China emits is still rising

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/22/growth-in-co2-emissions-leaves-china-likely-to-miss-climate-targets

22nd February 2024

We are almost at 1.5 deg C above the pre-industrial age

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67861954

6th January 2024

Money matters

George Monbiot laments the effects of the Tory links with the fossil fuel industry

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/uk-green-day-fossil-fuel-dirty-money-sunak-renewables

29th March 2023

Building infrastructure alone will not halt global warming

George Monbiot lists the perils of concentrating solely on changes in infrastructure

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/01/build-environmental-crisis-infrastructure-pandemic-concrete

1st September 2021

Ecocide

Lawyers consider a new international crime of destroying the environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/22/legal-experts-worldwide-draw-up-historic-definition-of-ecocide

22nd June 2021

Fires are invading new eco-systems

Hitherto naturally generated  fires have been restricted to certain eco-sytems, but this is now changing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/feb/19/how-fires-have-spread-to-previously-untouched-parts-of-the-world

19th February 2021

New Ideas for energy storage

Liquefying air offers hope as a means of energy storage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689

2nd October 2020

The Arctic winter freeze is late

It’s late October and Arctic ice has yet to form

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/alarm-as-arctic-sea-ice-not-yet-freezing-at-latest-date-on-record

23rd October 2020

Greenland’s Ice Loss

The rate of ice loss in Greenland is breaking all records

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53849695

20th August 2020

The Arctic Heatwave

Arctic ice is melting faster than ever

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/25/arctic-heatwave-38c-siberia-science

21st July 2020

 

The heat is coming!

A billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study

8th May 2020

Oceans are loosing oxygen at an unprecedented rate

Dead zones are proliferating and hundreds more areas are oxygen depleted

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/07/oceans-losing-oxygen-at-unprecedented-rate-experts-warn

7th December 2019

Paris agreement pledges are not being met

Progress towards three quarters of the commitments made is totally inadequate according to a report by the Universal Ecology Fund

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/05/most-countries-climate-plans-totally-inadequate-experts

18th November 2019

Extreme sea levels will hit once a year by 2050

The IPCC have updated their forecasts on sea level rises. Drawing from more accurate data from Greenland, these forecasts are higher than previous estimates.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/extreme-sea-level-events-will-hit-once-a-year-by-2050

1st October 2019

The IPCC report on land use and climate change shies away from the big issues

George Monbiot calls the report a missed opportunity

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/ipcc-land-climate-report-carbon-cost-meat-dairy

9th August 2019

Impact of global heating poses a threat to civilisation

The  IPCC report on land use and climate change.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/4.-SPM_Approved_Microsite_FINAL.pdf

9th August 2019

More evidence of melting ice and rising sea levels

The ice over Greenland is melting faster than ever

22nd January 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/21/greenland-ice-melting-faster-than-scientists-previously-thought-study

Climate change: Where we are in seven charts

Splendid if depressing analysis of the onward march of climate change

2nd December 2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46384067

4 Things you can do to fight climate change

Christiana Figures on what we all need to do to make our contribution to stopping climate change

8th November 2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06n8zzc

Last chance to cut off the effects of climate change at 1.5 deg C

Warning from Intergovernmental Panel on climate change

13th October 2018

http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

If you want to save the world veganism isn’t the answer

Isabella Tree argues that organic farming , including pasture fed beef cattle, is the key to sustainable living

25th August 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize

Sweltering Cities

A look forward to to how humans will cope with increasing temperatures

17th August

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/sweltering-cities?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=emlf&utm_campaign=MB_NS_na_Newsletter_UK_Paid_070818_ID2&CMP_TU=mrtn&CMP_BUNIT=mem&att5=

Churches convert to renewable power and urge other to follow

The bishop of Salisbury says ‘ Climate Change is the biggest moral issue of our time’

3rd August 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/03/5500-uk-churches-switch-to-renewable-energy  

Steep global increase in meat eating will devastate the environment

Per capita meat consumption has doubled in the past 50 years

20 July 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/19/rising-global-meat-consumption-will-devastate-environment

 2017 was the hottest ever without an El Niño   

53.5 deg C was recorded in Pakistan in May a world record for that month. Sea levels rose 7.2 cm above the 1993 average – the highest yest

2nd August 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/18/2016-hottest-year-ever-recorded-and-scientists-say-human-activity-to-blame

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth

It also helps preserve wild nature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

19 June 2018