Martin MiddlewoodGlobal Warming Ozone-Depleting Substances May Have Driven Arctic Warming, Study Finds ecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson The world awakened to the hole in the ozone layer in 1985, which scientists attributed it to ozone depleting substances. Two years later, in …
Martin MiddlewoodWorld Economic Forum Read Yuval Harari's blistering warning to Davos in full weforum.org - Yuval Harari • Humanity faces three existential threats this century, warned historian Yuval Harari at Davos 2020. • Technology risks dividing the world into wealthy …
Martin MiddlewoodInnovation This map shows where people on the coasts will flee to once sea levels rise Fast Company - Adele PetersProjecting the migration patterns of people leaving coastal cities shows which cities need to prepare for a population influx. Sea-level rise in the U.S. won’t only affect people living on the coasts—as
Martin MiddlewoodGlobal Warming Extreme Arctic melting has a new suspect: The same powerful gases screwing over the ozone Mashable - Brittany Levine BeckmanThey were once abundant, in our hairsprays, bug sprays, and refrigerators. And then scientists figured out these substances ripped a hole in the ozone layer, leading to a 1987 plan to phase them out that
Martin MiddlewoodPollution China Announces Major Phaseout of Single-Use Plastics ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane China, the world's No. 1 producer of plastic pollution, announced major plans Sunday to cut back on the sale and production of single-use …
Martin MiddlewoodEvolution Human impact on nature 'dates back millions of years' BBC News - Helen BriggsThe impact of humans on nature has been far greater and longer-lasting than we could ever imagine, according to scientists. Early human ancestors living millions of years ago may have triggered extinctions,
Martin MiddlewoodBiodiversity UN Biodiversity Chief: Humans Risk Living in an 'Empty World' With 'Catastrophic' Consequences ecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world …
Martin MiddlewoodScience Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don’t Call It Climate Change.) The New York Times - Christopher FlavelleWASHINGTON — The Trump administration is about to distribute billions of dollars to coastal states mainly in the South to help steel them against natural disasters worsened by climate change. But states
Martin MiddlewoodLiberal View Nobel economist: Trump’s economy is an absolute disaster for people and the planet Raw Story - Joseph Stiglitz, Common Dreams It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters …
Martin MiddlewoodScience How Long Do We Have Before Arctic Ice Melts Away? WIRED - Shannon Hall With the frozen top of the world melting to liquid, an expedition set out to untangle the physics and help forecast its future. "Pull out your ice …
Martin MiddlewoodScience The five: changes in animal behaviour due to global heating The Guardian - Jonathan ChanLast week it was reported that rising ocean temperatures and changing sea currents are causing leatherback turtles’ journeys from nesting to feeding grounds to double in length. After laying their eggs
Martin MiddlewoodPollution Single-Use Plastics 101 NRDC - Courtney Lindwall A straw with our iced coffee, a plastic bag to carry our takeout, a wrapper on a candy bar: taken individually, each seems harmless. These modern …
Martin MiddlewoodElectric Vehicles Climate Crisis Weekly: Indonesia loses two Unesco islands to sea-level rise Electrek - Michelle Lewis• Two islands in an Indonesian Unesco world biosphere reserve have disappeared due to rising seas. • Microsoft announces it will be carbon negative by 2030. • Australian firefighters saved the world’s
Martin MiddlewoodNatureToward an equitable future for all species (Dr. Helen Kopnina, Dr. Eileen Crist, Joe Gray, Dr. Katarzyna Nowak, Dr. John nature.com - Nature Research Sustainability Community We are in a planetary recession marked by biodiversity collapse, climatic upheavals, freshwater shortages, global toxification, and unprecedented …
Martin MiddlewoodDavid Bernhardt Trump's Interior Department Doesn’t Care What You Think sierraclub.org - By Paul Rauber | Jan 17 2020 Overwhelming public opposition doesn't matter when it comes to rolling back environmental protections You always suspected it was true but here comes …
Martin MiddlewoodPolitics Florida to purchase 20,000 acres of Everglades wetlands to protect from oil drilling CNN - By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNNWashington (CNN) — Florida has reached a deal with a real estate company to acquire 20,000 acres of the Everglades that is slated for oil production in order to protect the wetlands, Florida's governor
Martin MiddlewoodRupert Murdoch James Murdoch Slams His Father’s Climate-Denying Media Empire ecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn spoke out against the climate crisis denials pushed by his father's media empire in an exclusive statement …
Martin MiddlewoodWorld Economic Forum Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 will rest on these 3 pillars weforum.org - Shunichi Miyanaga • Net-zero emissions is possible - but far from simple. • Heavy industry and hard-to-abate sectors pose particular challenges. • Support from leaders and …
Martin MiddlewoodFossil Fuels How Hard Is It to Quit Coal? For Germany, 18 Years and $44 Billion The New York Times - Somini Sengupta and Melissa EddyGermany announced on Thursday that it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal — but not for another 18 years, by 2038. The move shows how expensive it is to stop burning the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel,
Martin MiddlewoodClimate Change Climate change won’t result in a new normal but in constant, horrifying new disasters Fast Company - Adele PetersFrom “wet bulb” heat waves that create deadly humidity to cascading economic effects of sea level rise, a new report catalogs some of the unanticipated consequences of runaway global warming. At an intense
Martin MiddlewoodPolitics Trump Admin Ordered ‘Climate Censorship’ in Plans to Lease Texas Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane An environmental group has uncovered another case of "climate censorship" ordered by the Trump administration. Administration officials had references …
Martin MiddlewoodWorld News World's most endangered tribes: Portraits from around the globe capture beauty of indigenous people dailymail.co.uk - By James Mills for MailOnline A series of stunning portraits of indigenous tribes around the globe has been released by a British photographer to highlight the threats they face …
Martin MiddlewoodGlobal Warming Ocean temperatures hit highest levels ever recorded newatlas.com - Nick Lavars Where some consequences of climate change are plain to see, like the bushfires currently ravaging Australia, others require us to look beneath the …
Martin MiddlewoodWetlands Sandy Bottom wetlands to receive protection for 'national ecological significance' citizen-times.com - Karen Chávez ASHEVILLE - Do the thousands of drivers who zip down N.C. 191 through Bent Creek each day know they are passing through one of the rarest habitats in …
Martin MiddlewoodWildfires The UN Wants to Protect 30% of the Planet by 2030 ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane The draft comes a little more than six months after a UN study issued a dire warning about the state of the earth's biodiversity, finding that one …
Martin MiddlewoodNews Venice canals nearly dry, months after historic floods Fox News - Louis CasianoWeeks after Venice, Italy, suffered some of its worst floods in more than 50 years and was mostly underwater, its famous canals have dried up and been left unnavigable because at low tide. The boats and
Martin MiddlewoodGreenland Greenland’s Ice Melt Rate Has Now Accelerated To A Whopping 234 Billion Tons Of Ice Lost Per Year Forbes - Laura TenenbaumWhen scientists in the 1990s measured the amount of ice melting off the Greenland Ice Sheet, they observed it losing 25 billion tons of ice per year. Now a consortium of 89 polar scientists from 50 scientific
Martin MiddlewoodAustralia How First Australians' ancient knowledge can help us survive the bushfires of the future The Guardian - Sign inThe debate about climate change in Australia is, among other things, a tragedy of massive proportions – and a distraction from the reality that we have one planet that is, without doubt, changing a lot
Martin MiddlewoodScience How scientists are coping with ‘ecological grief’ The Guardian - Gaia VinceMelting glaciers, coral reef death, wildlife disappearance, landscape alteration, climate change: our environment is transforming rapidly, and many of us are experiencing a sense of profound loss. Now,
