"Scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group said one four-day period had been the rainiest ever recorded in the region. They said the floods had been made much worse by "

Dust from Africa sparked a massive phytoplankton bloom

Dust from southern Africa crossed the Indian Ocean in 2019, triggering an unexpected phytoplankton bloom near Madagascar

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Any government that believes economic growth is the answer, not redistribution, political renewal and rebalancing the economy for social and environmental wellbeing clearly doesnt have the most basic understanding of the nature and scale of the climate, nature, social and political catastrophe they are driving towards

4) please do not forget the cause of the hurricane, and thats . If you were on the fence about activism in this area, I hope this pushes you to act on the local, national, and global level.

5) continue to keep in your prayers if youre the spiritual type, thoughts if you are not. Its going to be a very long road to recovery.

6) speaking of recovery, some areas wont. Rivers have diverted, mountainsides have changed. Some communities will rebuild, others wont.

Extreme events in Antarctica including ocean heat waves and ice loss are expected to increase in frequency and intensity. As a result, vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has risen over tenfold in the past four decades due to climate change.

Well, that sucks.

> Authorities rescued 117 elephants, while at least one had already drowned and 30 more missing

**Thailand scrambles to save elephants from drowning in flood-stricken Chiang Mai**

LNG produces more emissions than coal

the concept of the age of cognitive complexity from safety engineering (hollnagel).

it is not even a stretch, safety from climate impacts. safety from societal breakdown. all complex systems problems.

Summer is over, but it will return. And it will be stronger: how to cool down Lisbon

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Climate activists 'drown' in oil, gas, and flames in shocking protest

Ocean Rebellion the organization is moving too slowly and catering to fossil fuel interests rather than tackling the urgent threats posed by LNG shipping

Communities suffer as UK's largest freshwater lake faces devastation from toxic algal bloom: 'Something must change'

"Water quality issues were decades in the making and will take decades to fix."

Trump Meets Hurricane Victims then Heads to Fundraisers with the Oil Bosses Driving the Climate Crisis

Hosting a fundraiser with Big Oil CEOs while were still counting the bodies from Hurricane Helene is like hosting a fundraiser with the NRA in the midst of a school shooting.

The Supreme Court refused Friday to block the Biden administrations new anti-pollution regulations, rules that impose tougher standards on mercury emissions from coal-fired plants and that regulate methane emissions from crude-oil and natural gas facilities.

Former climate change minister says country is caught between coal and climate

KARACHI: Pakistan faces a serious dilemma: it urgently needs cheap energy from indigenous sources like Thar coal, yet it is bound by international commitments to limit the use of fossil fuels, including coal, due to their harmful impact on climate change

Shipping Climate goals at risk as IMO fails to take improved energy efficiency seriously

Supreme Court rejects attempt to halt oil and gas methane standards in an important step for public health and the climate

Elected officials and activists call on Hochul to sign Climate Change Superfund Act

With the recovery efforts underway after Hurricane Helene, we have seen that repair efforts can fall on taxpayers. Here in New York, local officials and activists gathered to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill that supporters argue would relieve some disaster-related stress for local governments

Can shaming the worlds worst climate criminals save the planet

Climate Defiance activists direct their fury at the rich and powerful. Theyve also started working with them

Mexicos new president promises to resume fight against climate change

MEXICO CITY (AP) In her first days as Mexicos new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor and mentor, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy tran

Helene severely damages major hub for global climate data

Staff and data at National Centers for Environmental Information are safe, but many products will be offline indefinitely

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Is climate change making monsoons more extreme

Monsoons have become increasingly erratic each year, with experts pointing to climate change as a significant factor

SAO PAULO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in United Nations talks, Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told Reuters on Friday

I thought I was going to be fighting my first wildfire tonight. But luckily its already contained! Whew

We fight for every last single reef. The Great Barrier is part of us. When we allow others to harm the reef, we are allowing them to harm *us*.

Forgive the English Major Moment, but it is a bit of a bummer that killed a solid Robert Frost poem.

Ain't nobody saying the world will end in ice now.

I think regardless of how things all shake out, older people should be writing up their memories of what the climate in their area was like when they were kids, compared to what it's like now.

I don't think young people really know. It's different seeing data charts compared to hearing people's oral history of it.

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The definition of utter hypocrisy is GOP dickheads vocally demanding urgent relief for the victims of Hurricane Helene, when they voted against funding FEMA last week - totally shameless

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Helene marks our eighth category 4 or 5 hurricane in eight yearsas many as occurred in the previous 57 years.

Don't forget Appalachian small towns

The images list some of the small towns, cities, and communities that have been impacted by Hurricane Helene. These areas will need a lot of assistance and solidarity to begin recovery, and they won't have the resources or access compared to cities like Asheville.

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For a more lethal joint force, answer the Five Ws of climate change

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Ive been watching Weathered: Earths Extremes, a new show on :PBS: PBS that dives into the current science of and and their impact to our 21st century society and infrastructure.

But its not all doom and gloom! The show also looks into solutions that may save communities from climate , or bring about positive tipping points that can counter negative ones.

Hurricane Helene is a humanitarian crisis and a climate disaster

Behind the violence of extreme weather is that of the fossil fuel industry, and Americans are suffering for it
Rebecca Solnit