Composted reads for August 2023

The good news

‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon Red admiral butterfly population soars 400% in UK as winters warm The sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for

Prospectors hit the gas in the hunt for ‘white hydrogen’ ‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise of regenerative agriculture The man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane Spotless giraffe, thought to be only one in world, born at Tennessee zoo Bacteria that ‘eat’ methane could slow global heating EU fossil fuel burning for electricity fell to lowest on record in 2023, data shows Rare silver fish returns to its ancient spawning grounds – in pictures Discovered in the deep: an octopus’s garden in the shade The bad news

‘It was hell but the owner said, you have to work’: dying from heat in Greece Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns Storm Hans causes havoc in Norway with heaviest rain in 25 years forecast

Dam partly collapses in Norway as Storm Hans continues to cause chaos
UN climate summit host UAE failed to report methane emissions to UN
‘We’re in serious trouble’: Why a hotter world will be bad for our health

Global heating offset from volcanoes is no solution to climate crisis
Drinking water in US contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
Fury as national health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

After America’s summer of extreme weather, ‘next year may well be worse’
I have studied emperor penguins for 30 years. We may witness their demise in our lifetime | Barbara Wienecke
Climate crisis means quarter of European ski resorts face scarce snow