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Week 42:

“Once they’re gone, they’re gone”: the fight to save the giant sequoia. Link
The fight for world’s largest forest. Link
Mother Earth doesn’t like to be naked. Link
Giant iceberg breaks off east Antarctica. Link
Ocean Cleanup Mission finally collects plastic. Link
Silent skies: Billions of North American birds have vanished. Link
Deforestation intensifies warming in the-Amazon rain forest. Link
Five years after New York declaration, forest-promises-go-unmet. Link
Marine heatwave hits Pacific, raising fears of a new hot “blob”. Link
Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says. Link
Weltklimarat rechnet mit 280 Millionen Flüchtlingen durch-Meeresspiegel-Anstieg. Link
Climate change is making spiders mean. Link
Flammenhölle Amazonas: Brände zerstören Braziliens grüne Lunge. Link + Link + Link
Scientists have been underestimating the pace of climate change. Link
The reason Antarctica is melting: shifting winds, driven by global warming. Link
Latest data shows steep rises i CO2 for seventh year. Link + Monthly Average CO2. Link
It’s raining plastic: microscopic fibres fall from the sky in the Rock Mountains. Link
We must change food production to save sthe world, says leaked report. Link
Heatwave hits Greenland melting 11 billion tons of ice. Link
Tree planting has “mind-blowing potential” to tackle climate crisis. Link
Can Africa’s Great Green Wall combat climate change and massmigration? Link + Link
After scorcing Europe, heatwave is poised to melt Greenland. Link
Manmade Antarctic snowstorm could save coastal cities from rising seas. Link
The age of consequences. Link
The rain in Spain: how an ancient Arabic technique saves Alicante from floods. Link
Leben wir auf Kosten der Dritten Wel?t Was jeder wissen sollte. Link
Two million in Zimbabwe’s capital have no longer water as city turns off taps. Link
“Precipitous fall in Antarctic sea ice since 2014 revealed. Link
Glacial melting in Antarctica may become irreversible. Link
Welcome to the fastest heating place on earth. Link
Dutch bus stops help bees. Link
Device could bring both solar power and clean water to millions. Link
Arctic permafrost is going through a rapid meltdown – 70 years early. Link + Link
Shell is not agreen-saviour. It’s a planetary death machine. Link + Link
The story of a 4-pound Boohoo dress: cheap clothes at high cost. Link
Europe swelters under devatating heatwave. Link
Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice. Link
Human civilization will crumble by 2050 if we don’t stop climate change now, new paper claims. Link
US beekeepers lost 40 of honeybee colonies over past year, survey finds. Link
Global warming pushes microbes into damaging climate feedback loops. Link
No, climate action cant be separated from social justice. Link
We must transform lives to save this burning planet. Link
Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon surges to record high. Link
It is absurd to question whether we can afford to keep our planet liveable. Link
Frightening number of plant extinctions found in global survey. Link
Most meat in 2040 will not come from slaughtered animals report. Link
Renewable energy is quickly becoming cheaper than fossil fuels, report finds. Link
Worlds biggest sovereign wealth fund to ditch fossil fuels. Link
How Monsanto manipulates journalists and academics. Link
The unseen carcinogenic danger lurking in New-York-city’s public park. Link
Pentagon nuclear war plans: fallout would have wiped out many more countries than previously estimated. Link
The ocean is sinking into Earth’s mantle, and a dead supercontinent is partly to blame. Link
How much plastic do you consume every day. Link
Mysterious Antarctic ice holes explained. Link
What is the Gulf of Mexico dead zone? Link
Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds. Link
Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off. Link
Safer air for the kids? Grow more houseplants. Link
Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle-climate-crisis-study. Link
“We need everyone”: Greta Thunberg calls on adults to join climate strikes. Link
Republicans aren’t just climate deniers. They deny the extinction crisi -too. Link
Specieswatch: farmers fight to save Britain’s disappearing earthworms. Link + Link
Could you give up flying? -Meet the no plane pioneers. Link
Latest global school climate strikes expected to beat turnout record. Link.
What “rewilding” really means for forestry and heather moorland. Link
Is modern life poisoning me? I took the tests to find out. Link
Explained: the toxic threat in everyday products, from toys to plastics. Link
From lipstick to burgers:-how our lives have become so chemical dependent. Link
CO2-concentration Mauna Loa Observatory: absolute record. Link
Bomb carbon from Cold War nuclear test found in the ocean’s deepest trenches. Link
Bolsonaros plan to unlock the Amazon: split its indigenous peoples.Link
9 Unusual ways air pollution harms your health. Link
How my son and I took our love of nature and turned it into a book. Link
There is a tree in in this North Carolina Swamp that’s at least 2624-years old. Link
The impossibly cute Pika’s survival may say something about our own future. Link
Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, scientist-warns. Link
The battle to save the worlds biggest bumblebee from extinction. Link
Supporting bio-Industrial meat production?A vicious, untreatable killer leaves China guessing. Link + (beware of content following gruesome video) Link + If you want to save the world, vegetarism is not the answer Link + Should we stop eating meat? Not when humans are the real weapons of climate destruction Link
The world lost a Belgium sized area of primary rainforests last year. Link
Australia declares “war on cats”. Link
Unhealthy air plaques our national parks, just like it plaques our cities. Link
Only a third of worlds great rivers remain free flowing, analysis finds. Link
Why biodiversity is a bigdeal?. Link
Biodiversity and nature’s contributions continue dangerous decline, scientists warn. Link + Link + Link
Death of the birds and the bees across America. Link
Plastic bag found at the bottom of World’s deepest ocean trench. Link
Global 5G wireless networks threaten weather forecasts. Link
Alarming rate of forest loss threatens a crucial climate solution. Link
Bee saviour sugar cards could help starving bees. Link
Dare to declare capitalism dead. Link
“Death by a thousand cuts”: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018. Link
It’s time to start demanding justification for drilling in the Arctic refuge. Link
What would Earth look like if all ice meldted. Link
Millions more Americans breathing dirty airv as planet warms study finds. Link
How a key energy technology can help developing countries . Link
Arctic warming will cost at least 24-trillion dollar-more than we thought, study finds. Link
Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse. Link
With widespread deforestation, North Korea-faces an environmental disaster. Link
Saving ecosystems to protect the climate, and vice versa: a global deal for nature. Link
Extinction Rebellion proposal inspired by Irish climate, abortion breakthrough. Link
Rwandan farmers lead tree-planting effort to meet rising wood demand. Link
4 Ways to cut plastic’s grwoing greenhouse gas emissions. Link
This scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plants. Link
Encounters with the Keeling Curve. Link
Microplastics are blowing in the wind. Link + Link
Global warming is pushing Arctic toward “unprecedented state”, research shows. Link + Link
Is climate change really causing walruses to jump off-cliffs? Link
Buildings are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate. Link
French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning armer. Link
The young Republicans breaking with their party over climate change. Link
Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints. Link
Norway won’t drill in Arctic archipelago for billions of barrels of oil. Link
Humans have caused the most dramatic climate change in 3 million years. Link
Mountain glaciers are major contributors to rising seas. Link
Why the Guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast. Link
Canada warming at twice the global rate, climate report finds. Link
“Historic breakthrough”: Norways giant oil fund dives into renewables. Link
Saudi Aramco says climate lawsuits “could result in substantial costs”. Link
Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to 25tn a year, researchers-find. Link
Mutilated dolphins wash up on French coast in record numbers. Link
Toxic air will shorten childrens lives by 20 months, study reveals. Link
If you want to feel happier, just spend 20 minutes in nature. Link
What happens to Greenlands’ Helheim Glacier. Link
As sea ice disappears, so do nutrients for wildlife. Link
Rebuilt wetlands can protect shorelines better than walls. Link
Forests are a low-tech but high-impact way to fight climate change. Link
Trees are the not-so-secret weapon in keeping our cities cool. Link
Dust from melting glaciers could create clouds. Link
Can soil microbes slow climate change. Link
We can now speak the universal language of honey bees. Link
Destruction of earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted. Link
Aspen leaves inspire an new energy harvester fit for Mars. Link
After 25 years of failure we should abandon UNFCCC. Link
Don’t know how to save the planet? This is what you can do. Link
Hunderte Forscher slagen Alarm: Wenn wir nicht sofort handeln kollabiert uns Ökosystem. Link
Nebraska flooding seen from space. Link
We are all tortoises. Link
Climate change claims its first mammal extinction. Link
Coral refugees: certain corals could “outrun” climate change. Link
Greta Thunberg nominated Nobel Peace Prize. Link
Birthstrikers: meet-the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends. Link
“Almost certain extinction”: 1200 species under severe threat across world. Link
Why scientists should support the youth climate strike. Link
Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates, findsr esearch. Link
Energy oil majors turn to rural Africa in grab for world’s next billion customers. Link
Energy Execs: Climate Change a concern, but oil & gas will be needed for decades. Link
In California, rising seas pose a bigger economic threat than wildfires, quakes. Link
To limit solar geoengineering’s side effects, the right “dose” is-needed. Link + Link
!! One scientist who read the paper published on Monday said it was not comprehensive enough to conclude that solar geoengineering – most likely involving spraying sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, thereby mimicking gas from volcanoes and reflecting the sun’s heat – would be safe.

Some climate advocacy groups argue that banking on an unproven technology could hamstring efforts to reduce carbon dioxide still spewing from power plants and cars.
Climate solution: use carbon dioxide to generate electricity. Link
Radioactive glass beads may tell the terrible tale of how the Fukushima meltdown unfolded. Link
Carbon tax plans: how they compare and why oil giants support one of them. Link
Rain is triggering more melitng ont the Greenland ice sheet- in witner too. Link
Why Antarctica icebergs are green. Link
Adults failed to take climate action. Meet the young activists stepping up. Link
Burning wood for power breaches EU treaty, new lawsuit claims. Link
Heatwaves sweeping oceans like wildfires, scientists reveal. Link
The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canadas vanishing boreal forest. Link
Weeds flourish and fish decline in lake Victoria’s “deadest” corner. Link
Last chance to see? Five species under threat in the age of Trump. Link
“Fallingout of trees”: dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress. Link
Microplastic pollution revealed “absolutely everywhere” by-new-research. Link
Coal ash contaminates groundwater at 91% of U.S. coal plants, tests show. Link
What China can learn from New-York city about wastewater management. Link
Mosquito borne disease could threaten half the globe by 2050. Link
UN aviation body agrees to close carbon emissions loophole. Link
French experts propose trillion-euro EU climate finance pact. Link
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez right to ask if the climate means we should have fewer children? Link
Switzerland puts geoengineering on UN environment agenda. Link
Clouds may hold the key to future warming. Link + Link + Link
Fuel to the fire: How geoengineering threatens to entrench fossil fuels and accelerate the climate crisis. Link + Link
Scientists pin down cause of mysterious “icequaks” shaking Antarctica. Link
As Russian military moves into thawing Arctic, U.S. strategy shifts. Link
Concrete the most destructive material on Earth. Link
Ply in the sky: the new materials to take us beyond concrete. Link
Iceberg twice the size of New-York is set to break away from Antarctica. Link
The ocean is running out of breath, scientists-warn. Link
Arctic bogs hold another global warming risk that could spiral out of control. Link + Link
Plummeting insect numbers “threaten collapse of nature” Link + Link + Link + Link
Worlds food supply under severe threat from loss of biodiversity. Link + Link
European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population. Link + Link