See the crazy visuals coming out of Greenland’s heat wave right now. Earlier this month, an ice chunk the size of lower Manhattan broke off Greenland and melted into the sea.
That’s not even the most alarming thing that’s happened in Greenland this summer. Greenland does melt in the summer, but this year it started early: by May, temperatures were already breaking records and sea ice was retreating faster than usual. The country also lost 2 billion tons of ice in a single day in July. And now, the extreme heat wave that was plaguing Europe for the past week has moved up to the icy country.
Réchauffement climatique: Quelque 200 rennes retrouvés morts de faim dans l’Arctique. Réchauffement climatique: 66% des Français trouvent le gouvernement trop peu actif. Climat : changer nos habitudes ou le système ? Les gestes individuels, ça compte !
Si tous les êtres humains vivaient comme nous, Français.es, il faudrait presque trois planètes pour satisfaire nos besoins. Rejoins le mouvement climat. Il y a un an, le mouvement climat prenait un tournant populaire et inédit.
Au moment où le monde connaissait des catastrophes naturelles et une canicule record à l’été 2018, le ministre de la transition écologique français démissionnait devant son incapacité à agir. Scientists are getting better at predicting killer heat waves. This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The City of Lights could be the City of Lights Out tomorrow as temperatures approach a record of 107 degrees. And Paris isn’t the only place sweltering in this week’s heat. Cyclists in the Tour de France are wearing stretchy sacks of ice around their necks as they race toward the Alps, while commuters on the London Underground carry spare water bottles, and Spanish firefighters battle wildfires— all thanks to torrid air from the Sahara that got trapped between storm systems over the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Europe, forming a “heat dome” over the entire continent.
It’s similar to the extreme heat that lingered over the eastern United States for a 12-day stretch in July, breaking records and warming the Potomac River to 94 degrees. The ability to predict the next heat wave is a big deal to meteorologists. CETA : paradis des « investisseurs », enfer du réchauffement climatique. The big climate significance of the planet’s microbiome. Microbiology is totally having a moment right now.
Research on personal “microbiomes” — the variable composition of trillions of bacteria and other microscopic organisms that live in and on every organ in our bodies — continues to churn out headline-worthy findings. A person’s microbiome composition has been linked to everything from athletic performance to obesity and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s. Some researchers have gone so far as to call the gut, home to trillions of microorganisms, humans’ “second brain.” Greta Thunberg adds her voice to a new song by The 1975. International climate activist Greta Thunberg is using a new type of microphone to amplify her message: her pop music debut.
You can hear her on the first track off the U.K. band The 1975’s new album, Notes on a Conditional Form. Set to slow, tinkering piano, with occasional surges in synthesizer and saxophone, the 16-year-old’s distinctive speech calls for mass civil disobedience to force action on the climate emergency. “We are right now in the beginning of a climate and ecological crisis,” Thunberg begins. Much of the ensuing words echo Thunberg’s January 2018 speech at the World Economic Forum, though the band leaders and Thunberg worked on composing a new version specifically for the song. La Terre vit sa période la plus chaude depuis 2 000 ans. Climat : le réchauffement actuel, du jamais-vu en 2 000 ans Climat: En 2.000 ans, les températures n'ont jamais augmenté aussi rapidement et régulièrement qu'actuellement. Meet the deadly new fungus (possibly) brought to you by climate change. CETA ADOPTÉ, LA MACRONIE SE FOUT DE LA PLANÈTE.
Replay Sale temps pour la planète - Alpes, le défi climatique - France 5.
Plus que 2 heures pour le voir (ici). – alwen
Planter des arbres pour sauver le climat. Pourquoi c’est important La capture photosynthétique du carbone par les arbres fait partie des stratégies envisagées pour limiter la hausse des concentrations de CO2 dans le monde.
Canicule: Avec 40,1°C mardi, le record de chaleur a été battu à Rennes et en Bretagne. Du jamais vu en Bretagne !
Sécheresse et agriculture, la bataille des barrages. Soutenez-vous la démarche de Greta Thunberg, militante pour le climat ? Melting ice sheets, storm-damaged homes: For some, it’s a business opportunity. One person’s crisis is another’s opportunity.
While many are sounding alarm bells about the vast and far-reaching implications of the climate crisis, others have been quietly seeking out what financial benefits melting ice caps and hulking hurricanes might bring. Some call it profiteering; others call it practical. Here are just a few. Ces différentes sécheresses qui font que la France est à sec. How 21 meddling kids could force a climate turnaround. Back in 2015, a pack of 21 kids sued the United States to try to force government action on climate change.
Four years later, that case — Juliana v. United States, or, affectionately, Youth v. Gov — is still tangled up in the courts. And the kids are losing their patience. Une solution possible au réchauffement climatique: planter beaucoup d'arbres. La France a chaud, la terre a soif Climat: L’Islande va honorer son premier glacier englouti par le réchauffement.
C’est une première. Une plaque commémorative sera inaugurée le 18 août sur le site de l’ancien Okjökull (littéralement « glacier Ok » en islandais), dans l’ouest de l'Islande, a-t-on appris lundi, par des chercheurs islandais et de l’Université Rice aux Etats-Unis à l’initiative du projet. « Il s’agira du premier monument érigé en l’honneur d’un glacier disparu à cause des changements climatiques dans le monde », a déclaré Cymene Howe, professeure d’anthropologie à l’Université Rice, citée dans un communiqué. « En marquant le décès de l’Ok, nous espérons attirer l’attention sur ce qui se perd à mesure que les glaciers de la Terre disparaissent », ajoute l’anthropologue. Study Predicts More Long-Term Sea Level Rise from Greenland Ice. Colombian coffee farmers are paying the price for climate change. This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
At first glance, Finca El Ocaso, located in the hills outside Salento, Colombia, could be mistaken for a natural forest: Rows of squat Arabica coffee trees are interspersed with plantain, banana, and lime and shaded by towering nogal cafatero trees, whose high canopy hosts flocks of chattering parrots and other birds. Scientists: Let’s just spray trillions of tons of snow on Antarctica? Human-made snow isn’t just good for allowing mediocre skiing conditions to continue well into May.
It could save coastal cities around the world, like Hong Kong and New York City, from sea level rise, a new study found. In Western Antarctica, ice is breaking off into the sea faster than it’s naturally replenished by snowfall due to warming ocean currents. The proposal: build tens of thousands of wind turbines in the volatile Antarctic region, which would be used to power machines to desalinate and heat ocean water. They’d make and spray trillions of tons of snow onto the West Antarctic ice sheet, destroying a unique marine ecosystem in the process, but preventing the loss of the ice sheet, which is essential to preventing sea level rise.
The researchers found that spraying snow “at a rate of several hundred billion tons per year over a few decades” over an area roughly the size of Scotland would indeed stabilize the area and prevent future ice loss. MACRON ENTERRE DÉFINITIVEMENT L'ÉCOLOGIE. CETA : VOUS ÊTES AU SERVICE DES LOBBIES ! Le record absolu de chaleur a été battu près du pôle Nord. Alors que juin a battu un record de chaleur dans le monde entier ou encore que le retour de la canicule est annoncé pour la semaine prochaine en France, le record absolu de chaleur vient d’être enregistré près du pôle Nord. 24% des aéroports RyanAir seraient déficitaires et subventionnés au détriment du climat. Cachez ces fossiles que l’on ne saurait voir. La ville de Paris se déclare en «état d'urgence climatique» Le Bulletin de Ruffin #57 : préparons la crise ! Are pistachios the nut of the future?
Inside a climate-controlled laboratory at the Duarte Nursery outside Modesto, California, an experiment is taking place that could help determine what food we will eat for decades to come. Rows of steel racks contain numerous tiny almond, apple, walnut, pomegranate, pecan, avocado, fig, and pistachio trees in small translucent plastic cylinders. The saplings, planted in a high-nutrient agar mix that accelerates growth, are no more than 2 inches high and a few weeks old. Each is being subjected to versions of the stresses experienced just outside these walls in fields across the Central Valley: declining levels of water, escalating levels of salt. First major U.S. insurance company moves away from coal. This story was originally published by the HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Climate advocates have been pressuring U.S. insurance companies to end their support for the dirty energies driving the global crisis, and last week they claimed their first big win. Chubb Ltd., the nation’s largest commercial insurance company, announced it will move away from insuring and investing in coal. It becomes the first major U.S. insurance company to take such action, joining more than a dozen European and Australian insurers that have already adopted similar policies. Chubb will no longer underwrite the construction of new coal-fired power plants, according to the policy. It will also stop investing in companies that generate more than 30 percent of their revenues from coal mining or production, as well as phase out existing coverage for mining and utility companies that exceed the 30 percent threshold. In annual reports to the U.S. Don't Stop Now, Chubb! Les activistes climat ne sont pas des terroristes. What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.
Millions of years from now, what will be left of us? At the rate we’re going, nature might well have taken over. Moscow and Mumbai will be sand and gravel cast across the desert expanse; New York City and Amsterdam will be sediment on the ocean floor, softened by the unrelenting tides. But beneath the Earth’s surface, preserved in bedrock, some of the structures that supported life aboveground might still be intact: subways, quarries, and sewage systems.
To piece together the story of our species, a hypothetical archaeologist might have to hunt for clues underground, much as today we dig for fossils to learn about the past. Stop building a spaceship to Mars and just plant some damn trees. This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming planet and the resulting devastation that it will bring upon the Earth. But a new study, out Thursday in the journal Science, offers a sliver of hope for the world: A group of researchers based in Switzerland, Italy, and France found that expanding forests, which sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, could seriously make up for humans’ toxic carbon emissions. OPEC head: Climate activists are the ‘greatest threat’ to oil industry.
U.N. report: ‘Human rights might not survive’ climate crisis. L’Alaska balayé par une canicule exceptionnelle 2014, mystérieuse année de bascule pour la fonte des glaces en Antarctique