** RECOMMENDED READING ** ‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?

The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely.

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** RECOMMENDED READING ** Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, some climate scientists say it’s time to start paying more attention to the most extreme, worst-case outcomes, including the potential for widespread extinctions, mass climate migration and the disintegration of social and political systems.

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** RECOMMENDED READING ** The Barbados Rebellion: An Island Nation’s Fight for Climate Justice

Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leader has been fighting to find a way out.

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** RECOMMENDED READING ** James Lovelock, Whose Gaia Theory Saw the Earth as Alive, Dies at 103

A British ecologist, he captured imaginations with his hypothesis and was essential to today’s understanding of man-made pollutants and their effect on the climate.

* HITZEWELLEN * Europa trocknet aus: Diese 13 Bilder zeigen die Auswirkungen der Dürre

Durch den ausbleibenden Niederschlag in Europa kommt es in mehreren Ländern zu ausgetrockneten Flüssen, tiefem Wasserstand und drastischen Wassereinsparungen – ein Ende ist noch nicht in Sicht.

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* HEATWAVES * Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.

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* HEATWAVES * How Is the Jet Stream Connected to Simultaneous Heat Waves Across the Globe?

The deadly heat waves that have fueled blazes and caused transport disruptions in Europe, the U.S. and China this month have one thing in common: a peculiar shape in the jet stream dubbed “wavenumber 5.”

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* VAGUES DE CHALEUR * Le dérèglement du jet-stream contribuerait fortement aux chaleurs extrêmes actuelles

Les climatologues sont de plus en plus préoccupés par le fait que les vagues de chaleur extrêmes en Europe se produisent plus rapidement que ce que les modèles avaient suggéré, ce qui indique que la crise climatique sur le continent européen pourrait être encore pire que ce que l’on craign

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* VAGUES DE CHALEUR * Il y a un an 110'000 hectares partaient en fumée en Grèce, reportage

La Matinale

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* VAGUES DE CHALEUR * En Chine, entre vagues de chaleur de plus en plus sévères et inondations monstres

La tradition chinoise est riche d’enseignements: chaque année, après le solstice d’été vient la période la plus chaude de l’année, aussi appelée sanfutian et qui apparaît déjà dans le Livre des mutations.

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* HEATWAVES * Mexico’s Cruel Drought: ‘Here You Have to Chase the Water’

Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water. An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly two-thirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for hours for government water deliveries.

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After Unprecedented Heatwaves,  Monsoon Rains and the Worst Floods in Over a Century Devastate South Asia

KARACHI—Record breaking torrential downpours killed at least 14 people, inundated roads, caused long power outages and brought Pakistan’s largest metropolis to a standstill twice last month.

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Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan in heaviest rains in decades

ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said.

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* VAGUES DE CHALEUR * Les villes menacées par les chaleurs extrêmes

L’exposition à la chaleur urbaine extrême a considérablement augmenté depuis le début des années 1980, l’exposition totale ayant triplé au cours des 35 dernières années.

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Commodity Profile: Wheat

Wheat is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. It is “unrivalled in its range of cultivation” thanks to the diversity of its variants and the degree to which it has become central to human culture.

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La majorité des maladies humaines aggravées par le changement climatique

Leur verdict. Au total, 58% des maladies humaines passées au crible (218 sur 375) ont été affectées, à un moment ou à un autre, par l’un de ces mécanismes.

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Krankheitsbeschleuniger Klimawandel

Die Asiatische Tigermücke breitet sich seit 15 Jahren im Südwesten Deutschlands aus. Zuerst tauchten nur einzelne Exemplare auf, die durch Lkws und Güterzüge vor allem aus Italien eingeschleppt wurden. Mittlerweile finden Forscher:innen aber auch zunehmend Larven und Eier von Aedes albopictus.

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L’impact du dérèglement climatique sur le tourisme estival en Suisse: interview de Rafaël Matos Wasem

Le 12h30 - Présenté par Yves Zahno

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How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us.

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Was Russlands Maßnahmen gegen die Sanktionen für die Umwelt bedeuten

Seit Beginn der sogenannten Spezialoperation Russlands auf dem Gebiet der Ukraine und der Verhängung umfangreicher externer Sanktionen ergreifen die russische Regierung und die Legislative Maßnahmen zur Anpassung der Wirtschaft an die Folgen der Sanktionen.

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Make polluters pay for climate adaptation, voluntary carbon market body proposes

Corporate polluters could be encouraged to contribute to adaptation finance when they buy carbon offsets, under proposals to boost the integrity of carbon trading.

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Wer darf Gas nach Europa liefern?

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Sri Lanka can’t afford fossil fuels but can’t afford to get off them either

Sri Lanka is in turmoil, with fuel and food shortages provoking citizens to storm the presidential palace and send Gotobaya Rajapaksa packing. Reliance on fossil fuel imports is a big factor in the economic crisis.

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South Africa turns to renewables, gas and batteries to end power cuts

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to end the country’s frequent electricity black-outs by mobilising investment in renewables, gas and batteries.

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* U.S. CLIMATE BILL * ‘Transformative’ for Auto and Energy Industries

The Senate’s proposal aims to accelerate electric car sales and promote domestic battery manufacturing at China’s expense.

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Wenn es heiß auf heiß kommt

Klimaanlagen – wie diese in China – verbrauchen sehr viel Energie und schaden dadurch dem Klima. (Foto: Sławomir Kowalewski/​Pixabay) Immer häufiger sieht man sie auch bei uns an Hauswänden: die weißen Kästen mit einem Ventilator und einem Schlauch, aus dem Kondenswasser läuft.

They helped create ESG. Two decades later, some see a mess.

The story of how ESG investing began is almost as wonky as its name. The intent of Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG, investing wasn’t to bring “woke capitalism” to Wall Street, its early proponents say.

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Shell reports record profit, again, with $11.5 billion in latest quarter.

The energy giant is thriving because of soaring oil and gas prices and a tight market for refined products.

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What we learned about coal phaseout by studying 15 countries

Michael Jakob, senior fellow at the Ecologic Institute and senior researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. Jan C.

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Ohne alte und naturnahe Wälder sind wir dem Klimarisiko nicht gewachsen

"Wir sind auf direktem Weg zu einem unbewohnbaren Planeten." Was sich wie das Zitat eines durchgeknallten Sektenführers liest, stammt vom Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen, António Guterres.

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Grüne Städte

Wer in München im "Werksviertel-Mitte" einen Blick nach oben wirft und einem Schaf in die Augen blickt, hat keine Sinnestäuschung. Auf dem Dach des "Werk 3" leben acht Walliser Schwarznasenschafe. Dazu kommen acht Hühner, zwei Hasen sowie sechs Bienen- und zwei Ameisenvölker.

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How a Summer of Disasters Shows the US Isn’t Prepared for Climate Migration

From hurricanes to flash floods, to increasingly destructive wildfires, climate-driven natural disasters are forcing more Americans out of their homes and triggering waves of relocations as some regions of the country become too burdensome or dangerous for many people to continue living in them.

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Faut-il battre en retraite face au changement climatique ?

Selon des chercheurs, il est impératif que les sociétés humaines intègrent un « retrait contrôlé » stratégique dans leur manière de réagir et de s’adapter au changement climatique.

* U.S. CLIMATE BILL * This is a Big (Climate) Deal: What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act‪?‬

Welcome back to A Matter of Degrees! While we’ve been hard at work producing season three of the show, the climate movement has been going through a lot of twists and turns.

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* U.S. CLIMATE BILL * What Democrats’ big new bill would actually do

The climate bill is also a health care bill (and it does a few things on taxes, too). It turns out that Democrats’ agenda in Congress was only mostly dead.

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* U.S. CLIMATE BILL * Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business

Although Senate leaders have included plenty of favors for the fossil fuel industry in the big climate package they hope to advance this week, most analysts have concluded these concessions amount to consolation prizes in a deal where clean energy is the clear winner.

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* U.S. CLIMATE BILL * Democrats Got a Climate Bill. Joe Manchin Got Drilling, and More.

Along the way to the $369 billion package, the West Virginia senator secured an array of concessions for his state and for the fossil fuel industry.

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EU energy ministers agree to cut gas use in the face of Russian supply disruptions

EU energy ministers greenlit a plan on Tuesday (26 July) to reduce gas consumption and prepare for potential disruptions to Russian gas flows after a power struggle with the European Commission over who could implement mandatory targets.

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India approves climate plan with increased ambition, clarifying energy goals

The document increases ambition from India’s previous target, set in 2016, to reduce emissions for each unit of GDP 33-35% from 2005 levels by 2030.

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Long a Climate Straggler, Australia Advances a Major Bill to Cut Emissions

Experts said the pledge to reduce emissions by at least 43 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 was both a leap forward and a first step.

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The Congressional-Staffer Rebellion

If the mere mention of Capitol Hill doesn’t already fill you with a queasy combination of torpor and despair, then you really must visit during a late-July heat wave.

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Berating climate sceptics isn’t enough – disruptive protest now seems the only way forward

For the past year or so, I have been repeatedly listening to a critically acclaimed album, Ignorance, released in 2021 by the Canadian band the Weather Station.

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Greenwashing is driving our descent into climate catastrophe. But we can stop it

Gondola trips are a traditional part of visiting Venice for those who can afford the steep tourist prices, but I went a little off-script on a recent visit and chose a different, but equally iconic, vessel.

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A Teenage Floridian Has Spent Half His Life Involved in Climate Litigation. He’s Not Giving Up

MELBOURNE, Fla.—For most of his 15 years, Levi Draheim led a beachy life on a barrier island on Florida’s east coast, swimming, surfing and sailing in the near-shore waves. He dreamed of someday becoming a marine biologist. But Levi’s world is changing.

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Across the globe, those harmed by climate change are turning to courts

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Faut-il se préparer au pire ?

Selon un rapport, nous devons commencer à nous préparer dès maintenant à la façon dont le changement climatique pourrait mettre fin à la civilisation.

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Gletscherforscherin Christine Levy im Interview – Glaziologie – ein Fachgebiet voller Bewegung und Drama 

Gletscherforscherin Christine Levy im Interview Glaziologie – ein Fachgebiet voller Bewegung und Drama  Dieser Artikel stammt aus der Schweizer Familie

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Mehr Worst-Case-Szenarien gefordert

Stellt der Weltklimarat IPCC die Situation besser dar, als sie ist, um nicht alarmistisch zu klingen – aus Sorge, die bislang ohnehin zu schwach ausgeprägte Bereitschaft zum Klimaschutz noch weiter zu schwächen?

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How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action

Gelles reviewed more than 10,000 pages of documents and emails while reporting for this article.

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