From the Ground Up: Transparent Pathways to Regenerative Food Systems

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A new report shows that since 1990, the EU-27 has slashed sulphur dioxide by 95%, nitrogen oxides by 66%, ammonia by 36%, and fine-particle pollution by 41%, overshooting all targets agreed in 2016, and already 16% ahead on the tougher 2030 SO target. The remaining frontier: cutting farm ammonia and smoke from wood-burning heaters.

"Because of all the hills, you have a steep ground surface. So when you get intense rainfall, the rain falls on the ground and it runs off quickly because of those steep slopes and it really just accumulates in rivers and becomes this deadly wave of water that travels downstream very fast."

The number of people without access to electricity has been cut by 292 million in the last decade - despite the global population increasing by around 760 million during the same period. That means 92% of humanity now has electricity, up from 87% in 2010. Increasingly, that electrification is being driven by renewables, and hundreds of millions more people are no longer cooking over open stoves.

This is the highest temperature I ever experienced in Norway. Although the forecast suggests it will only last for an hour or so, the past week has been in similar conditions and it will continue for a few more days. This is certainly the hottest summer in the last five years.

: With increases in sea surface temperatures, the risk posed by Vibrio bacteria increases. These live naturally in brackish coastal waters, esp. when are high, which is increasingly common due to climate change:

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Future promotes the global threat of the (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) to ash species

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Higher leaf positions associated with biotrophic pathogen infection

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United Nations Global Risk Report 2024

Reuters (paywall) -- The UN's climate budget will climb by 10% next year, a hike agreed to by nearly 200 states: Bloomberg Philanthropies will cover the absent U.S. share (22%), while will pay 20%, up from 15%.

video lecture and literature review

2024: "Short-term mis-information and dis-information risks are at the very top"

Apple tree
Long gone
Cut down
Parking lot
No orchard
No pies
No ecosystem
No love
No stump
No reminder
Just gone

Scientists achieve net-negative greenhouse gas emissions via electrified catalysis. Via physorg.news

The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on , a joint effort by the UN, UNESCO, UNFCCC, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Morocco, the United Kingdom, Sweden and civil society partners, has launched a call to action ahead of COP30 in Brazil.

What's Contaminating Water Across All 50 U.S. States Full List.

The study found that for 481,000 Americans across 29 states, levels of arsenic in drinking water exceeded the legal limit.

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Why hates

No, Trump has not given up on the conspiracist mania to kill the popular agency

and how it is still possible to degrade women to things men can use abuse and get rid of when they speak out or refuse to give in to the insanities of those "men"

is a preview of chaos to come

is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly

By Abrahm Lustgarten
July 10, 2025

Excerpt: "President Lyndon B. Johnson was briefed in 1965 that a climate crisis was being caused by burning fossil fuels and was warned that it would create the conditions for intensifying storms and extreme events, and this country including 10 more presidents has debated how to respond to that warning ever since. Still, it took decades for the slow-motion change to grow large enough to affect peoples everyday lives and safety and for the world to reach the stage it is in now: an age of climate-driven chaos, where the past is no longer prologue and the specific challenges of the future might be foreseeable but are less predictable."

Heatwaves, floods and sea level rise: UK weather extremes are increasing.

Published this morning, the UK's Met Offices annual climate stocktake report confirms it: baselines are shifting, records are broken more frequently, and extreme heat and rainfall are becoming the norm.

Observations show that our climate in the UK is now notably different to what it was just a few decades ago.

Shade-dwelling Clematis.

LyondellBasell Achieves A Climate Change Score in CDPs 2024 Assessment, Highlighting Sustainability Progress

HOUSTON, July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced it has improved its climate change
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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down

In both parties were offering me new pipelines. Rather than throwing away my vote I chose the electable party closest to my ideals knowing will have to work to move PM to better policy once elected & that work begins on Day 1.

Yeah, Climate Change is that big a threat to us all, glad you're saying it now....should have been saying it 20 years ago when we could have made a difference.
But 'fuck the younger generations' isn't it At least the Rich had fun....

Still getting their bonuses though, still paying out to the Shareholders while neglecting infrastructure...

2026 FIFA World Cup expansion will have a big climate footprint, with matches from Mexico to Canada heres what fans can do

Ridurre drasticamente le emissioni: unica soluzione per un futuro sostenibile. Ma attenzione all'effetto boomerang sul clima!

Saudi Arabia () goes all in on EVs.

Using them and making them.

Plus charging network by end of 2026 (!!!):
"trying to cover about 70 to 80% of travel requirements across the Kingdom"

Anyone else get a weather warning of possible hail storms tomorrow

Man With Sign, July 14, 02025

I wake with the alarm and climb out of bed feeling rather bleary and tired. Pre-vigil coffee and toast gets me started, and I head out to Roosevelt Circle, arriving at 7:29 to greet Craige, who's already holding up a sign that says "We're not going back." I set up my ALL-BLACK signage and settle in for vigil the skies are clear and the sun shines.

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New pope is leading on climate action, linking it with care for the vulnerable, esp in global South.

New mass for climate care!

Moving toward Vatican being world's first carbon neutral country, via big solar farm!

A big deal, given Church's influence globally and within US, plus the amount of property they own.

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Electric fans: they cool our faces while slowly warming the face of the planet. They run on electricity to fight the heat, not realizing theyre part of the reason its hot in the first place. It all makes the same logical sense as blowing on hot soup with a flamethrower.

Another Day of Extreme Heat, Extremely Poor Air Quality, and the Extremities of putting up with Donald during

Snow in the yard Must be no global warming, just like how ice in a drink means the stoves not on fire.

Climate Change 2025

Flash Flooding in the Iranian city of Shiraz.

CLIMATE CHANGE 2025

 A major study spanning four decades reveals that severe winter storms are shifting away from traditional snow belt regions toward the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies, potentially changing where Americans should brace for brutal cold and heavy snow

'Varkhi' tornado in Belarus

Belarus is facing a new climate reality: tornadoes are becoming more frequent and severe. Julys EF2 tornado in Varkhi village is a wake-up call for adaptation and climate resilience. Scientists urge investment in resilience and adaptation as tornadoes become a new normal for Belarus.

it is, as usual, about that time of the month again, unfortunately. I am almost out of food, and Oregon is experiencing a heat wave with 90+F/30+C highs this week (the only A/C I have is in my room), so I'd like to go for low-effort meals.

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