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Ancient glacier finding reveals clues to how complex life on Earth evolved, scientists say.

From : "More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean."

An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day

Fighting Together for Life, Water, and Land: From Line 5 to Gaza

The deep connections between Line 5 and Gaza serve as a stark reminder of the urgent need for united, organized resistance to defend justice, the land, and human and nonhuman life.

"Exposing Reforms Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds"

Builder introduces hurricane-resistant homes exceeding Category 5 standards, offering safety and sustainability for families in storm-prone areas.

False information can be seen as a propagating through cognitive space. It does real harm. We collect some of the best insights for you in this short piece.

Inside : Are the answer to solving

"are we still cutting down more trees then we are planting "" yes!"

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Man With Sign, July 18, 02025

The week careens into Friday, and I wake well before the alarm, giving myself almost an entire hour of pre-vigil coffee and quiet. Eventually I head out, arriving at Roosevelt Circle at 7:30 and greeting Craige, who's been out all week. I'm holding up WE MUST BE BETTER ANCESTORS as my message du jour.

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"We don't have the talent now to progress on these research projects. It's setting us back by years, if not decades," he said.

The conducts on topics like , & that are high-priority to American . The agency has lost about 1,200 employees, more than 17% of its 2024 staffing level, to terminations & voluntary incentives to quit offered by the admin.

Today's post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. As you might expect the articles focus on the Trump administrations war on science and climate change and its effects.

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Were the canary in the coalmine: when will Russia take action on the climate

Worlds fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases pays lip service to tackling climate crisis and, with fossil fuels central to regimes legitimacy, it seems happier with status quo

Since the floods began on June 26, NDMA reports that at least 85 children have died. Aid organizations express concern about the safety of children, who are especially vulnerable to risks related to drowning and waterborne diseases

Trumps Climate Denial Isnt Just Stupid Its a Huge Opportunity for China

In 2025, denying the reality of the climate crisis isnt just absurd or irresponsible its a reckless act of strategic self-sabotage

Climate groups in Asia push for energy sovereignty amid US fossil fuel trade deals

350.org Asia today launched REImagine Asia, a campaign for community-led renewable energy, emphasising the need for rich countries and polluters to pay their climate debt so that developing countries in Asia can achieve energy sovereignty

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Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

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Well, these last days have been busy, thanks to stable weather conditions. Ideal!

So how was Spring for my forest. From a beetle perspective: not too bad. It seems like beetles were at last recovering from 2022 heat dome, despite drought. This 3 year time lag fits into the rare available European estimates. Finding a value for this recovery time has always been the main goal of this experiment.

Of course one point in time is not enough to infer a recovery process. It can be a glitch. Next year survey will matter a lot.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue it's a looming public health crisis. Our latest research unveils a new framework that uses machine learning to predict climate-driven health emergencies, like heatwaves and disease outbreaks, with greater accuracy.
The goal: shift public health from being reactive to truly proactive.
Read the full paper here:

Trump tariffs push Asia toward American LNG at the cost of climate goals

Buying more US LNG has topped the list of concessions Asian countries have offered in talks with Washington over President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on foreign good

Our chart of the week is on climate change this week, illustrating how it could add a further 74 percentage points to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)s already disheartening baseline projection for public sector net debt of 274% of GDP to reach 348% of GDP, or potentially 398% if economic shocks are included.

Climate, wildlife key predictors of bird flu outbreaks in Europe: Study

Environmental factors such as the temperature, the water level in lakes and ponds in winter, and the presence of mute swans (Cygnus olor) could be key reasons that predict the potential of an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) occurring in Europe, according to a study

Air pollution is linked to roughly one in seven premature deaths in Canada, while burning fossil fuels is linked to one in five deaths worldwide. Climate change contributes to health harms through extreme weather and heat, food insecurity, proliferating infectious diseases and more. Both climate change and air pollution are associated with severe mental health harms, including depression and suicide, especially impacting our youth

Subsidence threat rises in UK as climate extremes reshape risk landscape

Temperature records and prolonged dryness point to escalating claims

The fossil fuel industry pumped an extra 389m tonnes of carbon pollution into the atmosphere last year by needlessly flaring gas, a World Bank report has found, in an enormous waste of fuel that heats the planet by about as much as the country of France.

Africa loses up to 9 percent of GDP annually due to climate crisis: UN Official

Africa wants climate compensation, not loans

Africa is responsible for only 4% of annual global carbon emissions but will be hit hard by the effects of climate change

Postdoctoral research position - modeling migration networks and the impact of climate change 100 %

Antarcticas oldest ice arrives in UK for analysis on climate shifts World News

Antarcticas oldest ice has arrived in the UK for analysis which scientists hope will reveal more about Earths
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"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO emission estimates"

Canadian man charged with hijacking that caused security scare at Vancouver airport

VANCOUVER, British Columbia A Canadian man has been charged with hijacking a small plane after he caused
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My Perspective on Agroclimatic Adaptation in Eastern Europe: The Case of Belarus

Belarusian agriculture faces a climate tipping point: traditional crops are on the way out, and only bold adaptationthink corn, sunflower, and sorghumcan keep the fields alive

(In Russian)

New publication: has short-term effects on fungal communities leading to long-term effects on .

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And now that we have all read the explainer above on , the Antarctic Circumpolar Current(s),
we can better appreciate what Matt England explains here from about minute 50 onwards
He actually answers a question I put to him beforehand on Bluesky, regarding my confusion about salinification versus freshening.

The beginning of this episode hosted by Dan Miller and Leon Simons
is all about Matt's paper with Rahmstorf and others about the 2023 bananas in the North Atlantic. You may recall: low wind speed as primary cause by far for the marine heatwaveS 2023 that gripped regions of the North Atlantic one after the other.
Matt explains the multiple ways wind over oceans contribute to cooling.
a) mixing b) white caps on the waves = albedo increase c) ocean spray or fog = albedo increase, and one more I now forget.

As is Dan Miller's habit, he also quickly asks Matt about , bringing SO2 into the .
Matt's reply: 1) angry that fossil fuel industry should be let off the hook by this
2) realistically, the political mindset lets Matt expect that geo engineering will be done.
3) whether he supports this is not answered.
4) as an afterthought, he adds that ocean acidification from relentless CO2 emissions does continue despite geo-engineering, and also the CO2 take-up and later re-release into the atmosphere continues.

Dan Miller also grazes his pet topic . Matt politely agrees that it is a bananas factor  but a small one.

Then comes the Southern Ocean part (thank you!).
At which point the question is also raised and answered with a NO: whether seafloor on Antarctica's continental shelf might thaw and cause a methane bomb.

And only one short moment at the end on collapse, about which Matt also published a paper recently, namely the impacts non-Europe areas, such as teleconnections to adjacent basins and into the Southern Hemisphere

I think, my question stole precious time from the AMOC part.

UK rivers are showing high levels of a stubborn PFAS pollutant linked to climate and health risks

Trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent by-product of industrial chemicals and refrigerants, has been detected in nearly every UK river tested

La Terre emmagasine deux fois plus de chaleur que prvu. Les modles dcrochent. On encaisse.

A nice explainer on Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Digestion of the recent SMOC paper caused confusion for me because they speak of salinification  in contrast to the frightening freshening that is going to slow down the ACC by 30 to 40% by year 2050. (Ja, you're reading it right! The ACC is set to slow by 30 to 40% within the next 25 years! *)

The confusion originated from me not being aware of the ACC having several named radii with distinct properties.
Like concentric circles. Their names from outer to inner circles:

* Subtropical Front
* Subantarctic Front
* Polar Front
* Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front
and the
* Southern Boundary of the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Knowing this now makes both, the explainer article and also the recent findings easier dot digest and resolves the confusion.
I had not been aware of this at all and my unlearned mind had filed everything relating to and under "ACC".
Maybe, if the name was Antarctic Circumpolar CurrentS, with the plural S, it might have been a pointer that I am missing something crucial.

* 2 papers on this published in 2023
by the same team around Matt England in Sydney:
model predictions for 2050 are -30 to -40%
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versus observation-based, -30% are already accomplished:
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Found This Week #426:

Profit For Good conference, Just Transition Commission report, AI agent directory, Seth's notes to self, & ASCII moon!

Friday watch tip: How do we know Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas The new explainer video from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab shows you how with a simple experiment that you can try!