One image that sums up the week in environmental news
Credit: Fred Harter
Your eye will be drawn to the herder with his flock in Uvurkhangai, southern Mongolia – but look closely at this picture and you will see the barren, dehydrated state of their habitat. Climate breakdown and less rainfall means that Mongolia’s grasslands are at risk – Fred Harter speaks here to herders in Mongolia about the possibility of life without grass.
If you’re searching for some hope on the climate crisis before the Cop28 UN meeting in Dubai this month, try this: China may be changing direction on pollution earlier than expected.
Lauri Myllyvirta, a longtime China analyst now with the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, calculated that CO2 emissions from the world’s biggest national polluter are likely to fall next year and could then go into “structural decline”.
A joint effort of several authors who do find that nobody can keep standing at the side and that “Everyone" must care about what is going on in today’s world.
We are a bunch of people who do not mind that somebody has a totally different idea but is willing to share the ideas with others and to be Active and willing to let others understand how "today’s decisions will influence the future”. Therefore we would love to see many others to "Act today".
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From China’s emissions to Australia’s offshore windfarms, things are moving on climate – some even in the right direction 
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