Dealing with wildfires requires a whole-of-society approach
#Canada #Environment #Wildfires #FireResilience #ClimateChange #BeneficialFire #CulturalBurning #IndigenousKnowledge #FireSmart #CommunitySafety #EcoResilience #WildlandUrbanInterface
https://the-14.com/dealing-with-wildfires-requires-a-whole-of-society-approach/
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“Smart cities are transforming space previously surrendered to cars into new places for people, and re-introducing nature and green space into everyday urban life—to make cities more liveable and sustainable simultaneously."
- @brenttoderian.bsky.social
#FromParisToBelém #ClimateChange
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Earlier: Trapped between the treaty and the drought, many Conchos Valley residents find themselves in an increasingly dire situation. As one Mexican farmer told me, “When the #water goes down, everything goes down with it.” https://www.texasobserver.org/rio-conchos-texas-mexico-water-treaty/
The Texas Observer · ‘With What Water?’: Texas, Mexico, and the Disappearing Rio ConchosDrought has hollowed out Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed.
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater.
Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways. #ClimateChange
ProPublica8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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New Hurricane Katrina documentary lays it all on the line.
CleanTechnica · After 20 Years, Hurricane Katrina Rises Again To Warn The NationAs the wake-up call of Hurricane Katrina fades from memory, a new documentary aims to jolt a sleeping nation back into action.
"ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change"
https://www.carbonbrief.org/icj-what-the-world-courts-landmark-opinion-means-for-climate-change/
Carbon Brief · ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change - Carbon BriefCarbon Brief explains the most important aspects of the ICJ’s 133-page advisory opinion and speaks to legal experts about its implications.
Last week: The storm that hit Kerrville was similar to prior rainfall events from 1987 and 2002 that led to flooding on the Guadalupe River. (As well as more historic #floods.) Those risks were known, though perhaps the rainfall intensity and rate of the river’s rise were a bit more extreme than in the past. https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/
The Texas Observer · Floodplains Belong to the RiversFrom Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
Extreme weather affects mental health: what vulnerable women in Kenya told us https://theconversation.com/extreme-weather-affects-mental-health-what-vulnerable-women-in-kenya-told-us-259048?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange
Grocery prices and climate change. Denial is very expensive!
Continued thread
"As much as we might fuss about the details, four degrees Celsius of warming will be bad for everyone. The U.S. has been a uniquely toxic actor in that space, and the isolationist tendencies of the present administration might actually work to the global advantage in the long view — if, and only if, we prevent Trump from pursuing wars and territorial expansion and global interference, like militarily occupying the Panama Canal and claiming Greenland..."
An important difference between Canada and the US: Canada is a party to the International Criminal Court and will presumably be affected by last week’s ruling on climate change, as we’ve seen happen already in Italy.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2025/07/25/canada-has-become-a-petrocacy
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties
https://apnews.com/article/italy-climate-justice-greenpeace-0b4366463112d3ae1847481d599e6667
Winnipeg Free Press · Opinion: Canada has become a petrocacy
The biggest criticism of climate modeling is not that it was or is too extreme, but too conservative.
Perpetuating the myth, the conceit of the west, that the financial and industrial core in the northern hemisphere was immune and insulated from the consequences of climate change.
The greatest change in temperature are found at higher latitudes. And because of that, the greatest change in extreme weather. The greatest extremes grow fastest.
Repurposing used #EV #batteries and renewables for on-site green power...for #AI computation.
#climate #climatefight #climatechange #globalwarming #energy #environment #science #power #decarbonization #grid
https://sweetlightning.ghost.io/ai-data-centre-powered-by-renewables-and-used-bev-batteries/
Sweet Lightning · AI Data Centre Powered by Renewables and Used BEV BatteriesSynergistic pairing of renewable energy with used BEV batteries to power AI data centre standalone microgrid.
"NatWest sets £200bn climate and transition finance goal for 2030"
#NatWest #Finance #Banks #Climate #ClimateChange
https://www.edie.net/natwest-sets-200bn-climate-and-transition-finance-goal-for-2030/
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ProPublica8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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US EV charging network *still* growing
Private sector is building rapidly, esp retailers adding chargers, and also, Tesla’s still at it (glass half full?)
"This is a long journey; it spans more than one administration, one political climate, one economic climate, for that matter.”
#climatechange #climatehope #ev #electrifyeverything #electrification
"Charging Infrastructure Zooms Ahead Despite Trump Attacks"
Researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise. #ClimateChange
ProPublica“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
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In the deep dive of episode 6 of the Raised Beaches Podcast, I discuss about how carbon dioxide has changed through time, from daily to 485 million years!
Really important parts of the EU-US trade deal which I haven't seen yet covered in regular media, because they mostly focus on the tariffs:
https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/114930536851424709
Todon.eub9AcE (@b9AcE@todon.eu)This is important.
As you have probably seen, yesterday the firmly reactionary and authoritarian, right-wing Ursula von der Leyen capitulated EU's economy to Trump's tariff extortion aggression, but most reporting only covers the tariffs themselves (highest in 70 years excepting Trump's initial assault) but neglect the absolutely devastating part that EU agreed to obligate itself to import habitat devastating fuels like fossil gas/oil for a value of $250 billion a year for three years!
As this https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eus-pledge-250-billion-us-energy-imports-is-delusional-2025-07-28/ economic analysis article shows, that is not just a habitat devastating increase, but "delusional [...] completely unrealistic and unachievable".
Then on top of that "a bilateral tariff exemption for [...] aircraft, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said" https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/world-news/869745/eu-us-agree-zero-for-zero-tariffs-on-goods-including-aircraft-von-der-leyen/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss which exempts the most polluting form of transport.
Then also, also, there is included an obligation to buy more weapons from USA, while demilitarization and deescalation is the only path to return to peace.
This rewarding of economic terror has now shown Trump that extortion pays, so WILL directly cause severe instability at the whims of the "very stable genius",
instead of standing firm until Trump has to give up.
This also threw all smaller countries, unable to resist as EU can, under the Trump train.
Liberia’s Novel Plan to Save Its Forests.
Plagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate. But its new strategy to make direct payments to communities that agree to prohibit cutting and protect their trees is seen as a potential model for other developing nations. #ClimateChange
https://e360.yale.edu/features/liberia-forest-payment-scheme
Yale E360Paying the People: Liberia’s Novel Plan to Save Its ForestsPlagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate. But its new strategy to make direct payments to communities that agree to prohibit cutting and protect their trees is seen as a potential model for other developing nations.