As climate change continues to impact global weather patterns, warmer temperatures are expected to exacerbate the pest problem in cities like Miami, Atlanta, & New York City. With pest sightings expected to rise, its clear that effective pest control measures are needed to protect public health & prevent further infestations

Pretty sure needs to be visited by 3 ghosts this holiday season

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing climate change from net zero

The findings suggest that acknowledging environmental problems is psychologically linked to traits such as warmth and compassion. These traits are stereotypically associated with femininity in many cultures. Consequently, men who feel pressure to prove their manhood may avoid environmentalist attitudes to protect their gender identity

Earth's growing heat imbalance driven more by clouds than air pollution, study finds. Via sciencex.physorg

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #15!!

more downpours in store for soaked california with additional mudslides and debris flows possible
more downpours in store for soaked california with additional mudslides and debris flows possible

Plant-based hold a key role in mitigating . Public institutions share responsibility for leading efforts: A shift to diets can significantly reduce GHG due to the size of & their influence on people:

Een tikkende tijdbom in de aardkorst onder Siberi

De inwoners van Siberi voelen de grond onder hun voeten wegzinken het smelten van de door de opwarming van het klimaat verandert hun wereld voorgoed. Fotograaf Natalya Saprunova zag hoe zij op uiteenlopende manieren omgaan met de ramp die zich voltrekt.

"Borrowed time: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis"

Five climate wins of 2025 that prove theres still hope for the planet.

Despite the influx of climate doom and irreversible damage, 2025 scored some pretty big victories for the planet.

"Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero"

This managu is so fresh and purely organic it almost looks like it knows it
Every time I pass by the garden, its standing there proudly, waving at me like, Today is my day! No chemicals, no shortcuts just good soil, patience, and love. Harvesting it feels like a small celebration, and cooking it Thats the real reward.
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This tomato plant has turned into a whole nursery
Tiny fruits everywhere left, right, hiding under leaves my favorite kind! I check on it every morning, afternoon, and just passing by in the evening like a worried parent. Each new tomato feels like a small miracle. Farming really teaches you joy in little things and patience too, because Im counting them already

Mercedes to Pay $150 Million Over Claims It Cheated on Emissions Tests. Via nytimes

Solid-State Batteries: The Bet Promising to Change Electric Vehicles

Kunnen we klimaatverandering tegengaan door vervuilers te straffen

De aarde warmt steeds verder op en de tekenen van klimaatverandering worden in de wereld steeds duidelijker. Waar we tien jaar geleden afspraken om het liefst onder de anderhalve graad opwarming te blijven, zijn we nu op weg naar een opwarming van 2,8 graden. Kunnen we het tij nog keren "Het recht is een van de belangrijkste middelen om daar wat aan te doen"

about 25 million natural Christmas trees are cut and sold in the United States each year

in the United Kingdom, around 227,000 miles of wrapping paper are used every Christmas, enough to wrap the Earth nearly 9 times, and much of which is non-recyclable

the UK discards more than 40 million worth of unwanted Christmas presents

200,000 tonnes of edible food are wasted in the UK during the Christmas period

about 25 million natural Christmas trees are cut and sold in the United States each year

in the United Kingdom, around 227,000 miles of wrapping paper are used every Christmas, enough to wrap the Earth nearly 9 times, and much of which is non-recyclable

the UK discards more than 40 million worth of unwanted Christmas presents

200,000 tonnes of edible food are wasted in the UK during the Christmas period

Back at Basen*

! Kind of. We had a really good field test of the system in this, our first week in Antarctica (though thank goodness for satellite wifi connection** to the rest of the world so LISAs genius creator could assist in troubleshooting). It was a bit of a struggle and I would say we came out partial winners, with a much deeper understanding of how the box is actually put together and more importantly some really interesting data (yay!) that Clement is busy processing already Im very excited to see how it turns out as it will help to direct our following field sorties.

This is the first field deployment of LISA in Antarctica, and even if she didnt give up all the secrets of the snow, its still an achievement worth celebrating that we got half of it, and an interesting half too.

We chose a coring site around 60km from Wasa, so it was a long slow snow-scooter tour up Plogbreen (the plough glacier named after our neighbouring nunatak Plogen, the plough) and on to the flat plateau of Ritscher Flya at about 1000m elevation.

It was a pretty wind and snowy site, in a (thankfully not too strong on this trip), which was intentional, as one of the aims of our study is the effects of strong winds on snow accumulation. As preparing to leave took most of the day (especially doing the chemistry mixes for LISA), we headed up in the afternoon and then stayed out overnight in these fantastic little cabins on skis.

The Polar Research institute in Sweden calls them arks and they are really a very nice solution to the problem of cold and wind and trying to work in quite extreme conditions. Pulled by a snow-scooter and with a stove inside for melting snow and heating, theyre really very cosy to sleep in and it makes a big difference to be able to warm up when for example youve been sitting in a snow pit at -15C with a hefty wind chill on top and are covered in spin drift snow (as me how I know).

We were greeted by this beautiful halo around the sun upon waking, with sun dogs on either side, caused by the ice crystals in the sky. In fact we nick-named the site diamond dust because of the clear sky precipitation on the first morning.

We soon got into a good rhythm with Henrik driving the coring, Clement logging and Ninis and myself assisting with the cores.

And then it was time to get LISA going and a very long and slightly frustrating day followed. Thankfully, by bedtime and having reconstructed quite a lot of the inner tubing of the box, we got LISA ready for work the next day.

I dug t always one of my favourite activities, its good to get your hands in the snow and really feel what is going on, and we identified some really intriguing layers. Lots more work to be done there to work out what is going on.

As added entertainment, Ninis was interviewed live from the top of the ice sheet by Swedish TV live from the fieldcamp (check out God Morgon Sverige on TV4, 23rd December if youre interested). However, after 2 nights out it was time to pack up and head back, 3 cores worth of data richer, for a shower, laundry and a Christmas Eve day off.

On Christmas eve daytime it was my turn with a brief 2 minutes to explain our project on Danish TV2 news (at 12.15 CET in case you have an account and would like to see me looking wind swept). Juleaften, Christmas Eve, is the big day of celebration in the Nordic countries, so we took an almost day off, doing some washing, cleaning the living modules and enjoying plenty of good food courtesy of the Swedish chef Raymond who prepared a Christmas dinner feast later, perfect after a long Christmas hike over the nunatak.

Field Photos

Given the administration I think its worth thinking about what services we use, to become less dependent on US tech and social media companies. Therefore, while were out here, in case you want to see more field photos, though sharing is a bit intermittent as it depends on the internet link and due to the expense of the data, were trying not to use too much.

I am also posting over , though there is much that makes me uneasy about that platform, so I will keep posting on the f too (and indeed the quality of interaction is often better there strangely, given I feel that the platform is smaller than blue sky).

*The Swedish research station Wasa is located on a nunatak in Antarctica called Basen (its pronounced Baasen, like the sound a sheep makes in english)

**Yes we are on starlink. Its incredibly impressive performance wise, but Id rather not be supporting the nazi man-child, the sooner makes an alternative for users like us, the better, though preferably without in low earth orbit. In fact if any EUTEL folks are reading this, Id be delighted to test out a lightweight system for polar field scientists for you

Well, as long as there are temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius in Iceland these days, please dont try to tell us that there is no , people!

"Average global temperature to hit 1.4C above preindustrial levels in 2026, warns UKs Met Office"

People who fight against disinformation are being attacked

for all the spineless people on this planet

"China creates new 'bone-free' fish for the dinner table"

In 2025, Mark Carney revealed that he is a villain

Tech Thoughts Environmental concerns amid rising data center demand in too hot PH

Ordered a used camera lens from one of Kitamuras Tokyo shops on Sunday. Within the city deliveries are typically very fast, and so I thought I would save some time and train fare shipping it to my apartment instead of picking it up myself.

Turns out, they ship all online orders from Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku. (A 1.5h flight from Haneda.)

And so, four days later, my little cheap used lens is still somewhere along its cross-country journey to make it across town

Americans Are Experiencing a Rapid Rise in Cold Weather Deaths

money > a livable planet. Says so right in the article

"The government says the progress on environmental benefit expected with the export ban is not proportional to the economic impact."

Arctic sea ice melt slowdown since 2012 linked to atmospheric pattern shift. Via sciencex.physorg

Don't bother: stay grounded!

I lied to someone yesterday. No, I am not fine.

Not when its raining on Christmas Eve a hundred miles from Canada. Not when a virus whose clear and present danger has been proven by thousands of ignored scientific papers has now been on the loose for a tenth of my lifetime (and Im far more fortunate than the young, having lived a wonderful rich life involving hundreds of now absent people) and the holidays are mostly filled with silent loss of what once was.

Not when the country I love is continuing its jack-booted march back into the past that my grandmother fled a century ago. When the news has become a minefield of unexploded despair I now avoid after a lifetime of involvement and waving signs and knocking on doors.

No, I am really not fine. And because this is dystopia, no, I did not ask a fucking machine to write this for me.

and a lot of other shit I havent even mentioned. Ho fucking ho.

What happened after the
My take on and here

Ottawa replied by email that since its launch, the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund has received hundreds of applications from across the country. However, the fund has exceeded its available resources.

is here and were changing the rules to increase production of fossil fuels because "We have too much regulation, not enough action.

Doctors sound alarm over major health issues caused by regular, daily activity: 'There is a particularly critical need for action'

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm around unsafe cooking practices that threaten the health of more than 2 billion people around the world

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Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

This is . $1 billion to relocate people on ONE SMALL LAKE. If you can persuade them to move. Yet some say no big deal, people will just move as the makes some areas uninhabitable.

"The study concludes that allowing the lake to return would involve a planned relocation strategy at a cost of approximately one billion dollars for property buyouts."

Time for giant
My take here