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Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024

Why 2024 could be the year the Amazon gets the help it needs For decades, the world’s rainforests have been cleared at a relentless pace, mostly destroyed by humans for agriculture. It is a familiar tale accompanied by images of orangutans confronting loggers and cattle ranchers expanding further into the Earth’s most biodiverse places. ButContinue reading “Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024”

Composted Reads: clean ups, clothing consumption, flash floods, global warming a.o.

The good news ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways Every week, the Sungai Watch staff don waders and gloves and plunge into the waterways around the Indonesian island of Bali, where they have strung up their big plastic barriers. Along with volunteers, they work their wayContinue reading “Composted Reads: clean ups, clothing consumption, flash floods, global warming a.o.”

Unintentional or intentional destruction of a people in Gaza and a climate crisis

Although the UN Office on and the Responsibility to Protect offers a more legalistic definition, ‘genocide’ is universally understood to refer to the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. Intent can be difficult to prove in a court of law unless the accused has been foolish or brazen enough to expoundContinue reading “Unintentional or intentional destruction of a people in Gaza and a climate crisis”

Putin says Russia’s mission is to create ‘new world’

Associated Press, October 5, 2023 Event Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia’s mission is to create a “new world” and blames Western hegemony for Moscow’s grinding offensive in Ukraine. Putin has portrayed Russia’s full-scale military intervention in Ukraine — launched in February 2022 — as part of a long-standing confrontation with the West. “WeContinue reading “Putin says Russia’s mission is to create ‘new world’”

Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023

Essential reads ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin, stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”. The hottest September on record follows the hottest August and hottest July, with the latter being the hottest monthContinue reading “Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023”

Wildfires all over the northern hemisphere in 2023

Climate change has spurred on hotter, drier conditions around the world that have lengthened fire seasons in many regions, including California, Europe and Siberia. Changes to the climate have put more energy into the atmosphere, which means severe lightning storms are happening much further north.

July 2023 is set to be the hottest month on record

The strange weather conditions of past summer show that the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever before.

Essential reads from the past 2023 summer months

A recent scientific paper showed that climate breakdown is drastically increasing the chances of simultaneous crop losses in the world’s poorest nations. The effects of this could be devastating. We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers theContinue reading “Essential reads from the past 2023 summer months”