Corrupt Anthony Albaneses resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor cant say it wasnt warned..

"A giant chunk of glacier-covered mountain has collapsed with catastrophic effect and, whatever the mechanics of the disaster in Nepals Langtang national park, this is what human-caused climate crisis looks like. The likelihood of it happening again will rise as temperatures increase and the ice within rock and soil formations melts.

Anthony Albanese was in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum, speaking with the leaders of countries that could lose some or all of their homelands this century due to sea-level rise driven by emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, a senior member of his Labor government visited the Northern Territory outback and posed for photos laughing alongside the NT chief minister as they jointly turned the tap to release the first gas from what is potentially one of the worlds largest fossil fuel reservoirs."

The Battery Gap: Building Industrial Strength for a Military Edge

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Some of Australias biggest companies are planning for an unbearable climate future

As global heating heads to 1.8C, is it time to consider the Voldemort of climate policy

To Predict Tree Death, Scientists Tapped Gamma Rays To Peer Underground
(Airborne radiation sensors could help forecast and prevent drought-driven tree mortality
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Over an 18-month period starting in 2023, the dense forests of Western Australia WA experienced a record-setting drought. Jarrah trees towering 35 metres high died off in patchy brown splotches, turning 400 square kilometres - 3% of the forest - into brittle, fire-prone stands. The event led researchers to wonder whether there was a better way to predict where such die-offs might occur both there and in other forests, a problem that has long been tricky to solve because important factors such as soil depth are hidden underground
Now, those same researchers have unveiled a surprising new tool for predicting tree mortality: gamma rays link above. Resulting from the natural decay of the potassium-40 isotope from granite-rich bedrock, the radiation acts as a proxy for soil depth, which in turn signals how much water a tree can access during drought. The new method could be applied to other highly weathered soils, which cover one-third of Earths ice-free land...
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"... PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: During a record-breaking drought and heat event in 20232024, forests in southwestern Australia experienced widespread, patchy die-off. While we know that extreme weather triggers these events, it is often a hidden factor, the thickness of soil and the depth to underlying bedrock, that determines which trees live or die. Trees growing in shallow soil over solid rock are highly vulnerable due to limited water storage. Here, they show how to map these hidden zones from the air using gamma rays that are naturally emitted by potassium in the ground. Like southwestern Australia, many parts of the world have highly weathered soils where potassium has been washed out of the upper layers of soil. However, they showed that higher potassium areas signal that potassium-rich bedrock is closer to the surface and this is sensitive for tens of meters. By comparing gamma ray maps with ground-based geophysical surveys and satellite data, they showed that these potassium hotspots accurately predict where forests are most likely to experience die-off during a drought. These types of soils cover about one-third of the Earth's land, so the method provides a powerful new tool for managers to identify and protect vulnerable forests from future, hotter droughts

The Canadas Changing Climate Report warns that Canadians should prepare to live with 5 warmer climate, and (Nunavut) :flagnu: could expect 10

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Le Rapport sur le climat changeant du Canada met en garde que les Canadiensiennes devraient se prparer vivre avec un climat 5 plus chaud, et le (Nunavut) :flagnu: pourrait sattendre 10

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Heathrow Airport expansion risks for the Climate Change Act

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Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them

Strengthen Africas Seed Systems El Nio Threat Becomes Reality Again

severe thunderstorm watch through early friday in maryland
severe thunderstorm watch through early friday in maryland

buildings, homes damaged after suspected tornado hits detroit's east side
buildings, homes damaged after suspected tornado hits detroit's east side

British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days without power or water, as the UN said the El Nio climate phenomenon was supersizing before our eyes, exacerbating extreme weather events worldwide:

Supersizing before our eyes: approaching record El Nio 'is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis'

"This exceptional El Nio... has the potential to deliver a massive blow to communities and economies across the world (). We are already seeing disruption and devastation from droughts and floods, and we expect these impacts to increase as El Nio intensifies."

The report presents a compelling legal and economic case that the structural resource exploitation and ecological degradation inflicted during colonial rule constitute a distinct category of harm, separate from the transatlantic slave trade, with estimated damages running into hundreds of trillions of dollars

El Nio: quarter of UK food imports including rice, coffee and cocoa from parts of world most exposed
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As climate change turbocharges El Nio, up to 17bn of UK food imports are in the line of fire

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New analysis finds that a third runway at Heathrow would blow a hole in the UKs ability to meet legally binding climate targets

The case for aviation expansion hinges on sustainable aviation fuels and greenhouse gas removals but there is currently no evidence that these technologies can support the scale of expansion envisaged by the government

The climate scientists behind the report recommend the government rejects plans for a third runway

Australias new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups

Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuels

Bear attacks in Colorado are climate attacks

The burning of fossil fuels is substantially responsible for the loss of bear habitat and food

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) captured 30% of all new car registrations in August 2026, with sales surging 30% year-on-year

But the region has long been one of the major blind spots on the oceanographic map. Where research vessels often must turn back, narwhals can continue swimming.

Now we suddenly have measurements from places we can use in our models, giving us a much more complete picture of the ocean. It is absolutely fantastic to use the animals in this way

Cleaner Air, Smarter Toddlers

New research links climate policies to improved early-childhood development

Data from the US suggests banks are already responding to physical climate risk before a disaster hits - with consequences for small businesses and local economies.

Whether buying a home or opening a local business, affordability is no longer the only question people should be asking, says Associate Professor Kristle Romero Cortes. They should also consider what their property might look like in 10 or 20 year

Nine in ten pharma firms expect climate disruption to hit medicines supply chains

Nearly nine in ten (87%) pharmaceutical companies across the G7 expect climate-related disruption to their medicines supply chains to increase in the years ahead, according to new research from the British Standards Institution (BSI)

Based on operational and announced projects, calcined clay could unlock 26 million metric tons per year of lower-carbon cement capacity, but even with an optimistic 35% blend, this represents less than 1% of the 4000 million metric tons of cement produced globally today

The report documents the consequences of recurrent droughts in Angola and the impacts of drought-induced displacement to Namibia on Angolan women and children. It stated that displaced individuals in Namibia faced serious human rights violations, including arrests, detention, lack of access to essential services such as health care, and deportation, which is contrary to the principle of non-refoulement

BoM forecasts strongest El Nio on record as research points to alarming climate change influence

Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Nio has already broken records, with Pacific Ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months

Plug-in solars advantage over rooftop panels is the low price: roughly 30 percent cheaper per watt than a large rooftop residential system. Installation is usually free because they generally dont need professional installation, roof mounts, permits, or up-front financing

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My sister just had a soundbite in a spot about ENSO (El Nio) on NPR All Things Considered.

She did some of the foundational research on ENSO & paleoclimate using coral which is what everyone is referencing now to say that this year is the worst in forever.

more than 300,000 without power in southeast michigan after severe storms
more than 300,000 without power in southeast michigan after severe storms

tolerance, they find, is only part of the equation, and reliance upon it as the metric is what leads to the misleading claim about s resilience. The other main factor is needs. And while Arabica and production have similar annual needs, in practice the two species vary greatly
In short, isnt necessarily equipped to handle longer periods of dry weather

Western is getting the first cold snap of the year, and I am loving it.

All the transplants and alcoholics are hating it, but fuck them, they're all motorists who caused it. The cloud formations are something new, and we've had a lot of cloud formations, but these are something we've never had in western Washington.

I'm so going to love this winter.

Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are no good outcomes

Scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere.

El Nio is being supersized before our eyes. The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up.

The race now is between rising risks and our commitment to take climate action and protect people. We must win that race.

EXTRAORDINARY 45C in EUROPE
Most extreme heat event in Mediterranean history
Thousands of records smashed in Spain,Portugal,Morocco,Algeria,Tunisia,France,Croatia,Bosnia,Albania,Montenegro,Bulgaria,Greece,Senegal,Niger,Mali....
We are seeing something beyond any imagination
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