The Climate Recap

Water crisis, power cuts worsen misery in Pakistan’s hottest city | Al Jazeera New Mexico wildfire grows to state's largest in history | Axios ‘Flash droughts’ are Midwest’s next big climate threat | Grist New Zealand announces ‘landmark’ 15-year climate change action plan | UPI Michael Bloomberg Plans a $24 mil Investment in Clean Energy | NYTimes The global impact of local carbon cuts | Axi...

Ukraine war: Global wheat prices jump after India export ban | BBC News Texans told to conserve energy as six power plants go offline amid heatwave | The Independent New Mexico governor seeks more US aid for wildfire response | AP News Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear destructive path across US upper Midwest | Reuters Where homes will face the most wildfire risk in the next 30 years | Axios...

Satellite images reveal global losses of tidal wetlands over past two decades | Carbon Brief Living costs in outer suburbs would be slashed under plan to ‘electrify everything,’ analysis finds | The Guardian UK Starts £120 Million Fund to develop nuclear power technology | Bloomberg Scotiabank’s exit from CAPP is a blow to Canada’s oil and gas lobby | The Narwhal Saudi Aramco passes Apple as world...

China, Hong Kong Brace for Potential Record-Breaking Rainfall | Bloomberg Rains, Hydro Generation, Covid Add to China’s Easing Coal Demand | Bloomberg Fire burns at least 20 homes in wealthy California town of Laguna Niguel | Reuters Climate change to make droughts longer, more common, says UN | AP News Droughts increase 29% in a generation, only getting worse: UN | The Hill How can carbon labels...

‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022 | The Guardian Great white sharks expand northern range by 370 miles as oceans warm | The Independent Vanuatu’s push for legal protection from climate change wins critical support | The Guardian EU to Boost Solar Energy to Cut Russian Gas, Draft Shows | Bloomberg New Energy Bill unveiled in Queen’s Speec...

As record-setting heat blasts Pakistan, a glacial lake floods village | The Washington Post Texas shatters heat record as temperature reaches 112ºF | Independent ‘Fifty-fifty chance’ of breaching 1.5ºC warming limit | BBC News Avoid using gas as ‘transition’ fuel in move to clean energy, study urges | The Guardian China’s sea level touched new high in 2021, government study shows | Reuters Climate...

Forest kill at least 8 people in Siberia as high winds amper rescue | Reuters Governments risk $340 bil in legal claims for limiting oil and gas projects, study finds | Climate Change News Water scarcity could worsen in over 80% of world’s croplands by 2050 | The Independent Filipino inquiry finds big polluters ‘morally and legally liable’ for climate damage | The Guardian America’s net-zero front...

India’s Modi asks states to prepare heat action plans amid rising temperatures | Reuters Thousands sickened, one dead as latest severe sandstorm hits Iraq | Al Jazeera Land-use emissions embodied in international trade | Science Investor-state disputes threaten the global green energy transition | Science Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans – and That Humans Are Requ...

Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein | Nature Lichtblick seeks to build up to 1-GW portfolio of German wind, solar | Renewables Now Blow for Barclays as 20% of shareholders reject climate strategy | The Guardian Orsted moves forward with plans to grow corals on wind turbines | CNBC Stanford University given $1.1 bil by venture capitalist for climate change scho...

(Utah) Gov. Spencer J Cox issues drought emergency order | Governor Spencer J Cox: To Save Water Amid a Megadrought, Law Vegas Outlaws Grass | The New York Times Scientists identify heat-resilient coral patches in Hawaii | Popular Science Billie Eilish to host climate event at the O2 Arena | The Independent Passing vehicles could help generate electricity to run street to run street lights in UK t...

‘We are living in hell’: Pakistan and India suffer extreme spring heatwaves | The Guardian Bamboo, white paint, coconuts: India’s hands-on battle for survival in the blistering heatwave | The Independent Firefighters battling New Mexico blaze brace for wind | AP News Flood and cyclone-prone areas in eastern Australia may be ‘uninsurable’ by 2030, report suggests | The Guardian Major Japan railway...

How farmers in Earth’s least developed country grew 200 million trees | National Geographic Newsom: California rethinking Diablo Canyon nuclear closure | LA Times Lone star tick that makes people allergic to red meat is in DC | Washington Post EPA staff backs status quo on ozone limits in blow to enviros | E&E News Source list- https://heavenly-sceptre-002.notion.site/Climate-Recap-May-3-ac2dc...

India sweats over worst power cuts in six years during extreme heat | Reuters India Passenger Trains Make Way for Coal to Stop Power crisis | Bloomberg Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals | Carbon Brief Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience | Nature Droughts to increase human migration at least 200% | Futurity Around 24% of sharehold...

Tropical forest loss in 2021 emitted as much CO2 as India | Axios Forest Monitoring, Land Use & Deforestation Trends | Global Forest Watch World must ‘urgently rethink global food systems’ to avoid loss of land degraded, UN warns | The Independent Insatiable greed degrading land around the world | BBC Adding Rock Dust to Farmland could get UK almost halfway to its carbon removal goal | Yale En...

India heat wave to worsen, near all-time records | Axios Parched southern California takes unprecedented step of restricting outdoor watering | The Guardian Two Wyo rivers under restrictions due to low snowpack, drought | WyoFile Contributions of mangrove conservation and restoration to climate change mitigation in Indonesia | Global Change Biology New Zealand unveils pan to tackle climate crisis...

Indigenous leaders convene at UN to push for human rights protections Vulnerable nations set to pilot loss and damage funding facility Incorporation of novel foods in European diets can reduce global warming potential, water use and land use by over 80% Britain moves ahead with mandatory climate plans for companies Tories could lose 1.3 mil voters if net zero target ditched, poll Why Wynn Bruce, c...

Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs  New Mexico: 2 wildfires have combined as fires also rage in Arizona and Nebraska Scenarios for mitigating CO2 emissions from energy supply in the absence of CO2 removal Extinction Rebellion activists light flares and ambush energy secretary on Earth Day Thousands protest plan to raze German village for coal mine  Electric car...

Siberian wildfires burning unchecked because Russian military units which usually fight them are at war How climate change is driving forest loss in India Europe suffered year of climate chaos in 2021, EU report Emerging weed resistance increases tillage intensity and greenhouse gas emissions in the US corn-soybean cropping system The US climate has shifted dramatically since April 1970 On Earth D...

Housing Crisis Propels High Death Toll in South Africa Floods Thousands flee as Arizona wildfire almost triples in size Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves HC seeks Centre’s stand on plea for implementation of India’s promises on climate change European Commission analysing higher 45% renewable energy target for 2030 Germany to ban Russian oil imports by end of year after Ukraine invasio...

Global flood losses hit $82 bln last year, as study highlights UK risk | Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-flood-losses-hit-82-bln-last-year-study-highlights-uk-risk-2022-03-30/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20220331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter  Incredible before and after photos show just how much this critical reservoir has dr...

An Unprecedented Record Low Antarctic Sea-ice Extent during Austral Summer 2022 India Risks Power Outage as High Temperatures Boost Coal Demand Fires then floods: Argentina province underwater months after blazes Singapore and New Zealand to jointly tackle climate change ‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast Just Stop Oil calls one-wee...

Endangered rivers: Colorado River is most threatened the US, new report Rightwing populist parties blight climate policy, study finds Six arrested after climate activists scale oil tanker in central London  Nasa climate scientist who was arrested speaks about his tearful protest New GCSE in climate science to be launched Climate Innovation Challenge provides Google Cloud credits Hollywood missing...

Factbox: Hot air? Where Macron and Le Pen stand on climate and energy Trump-era EPA chief Scott Pruitt files to run for Senate in Oklahoma Black, Latino areas have a higher level of oil drilling, study shows Companies, not FDA, approve most chemicals in food New EPA data shows fewer staff overseeing more pesticide regulations Source list- https://www.notion.so/Climate-Recap-April-19-38d7871cd1d84f...

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula Atmospheric rivers could cause collapse of Larsen C Ice Shelf: study Even the Cactus May Not Be Safe From Climate Change Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems New York Approves $4.5 Bil Plan to Buring NYC Hydropower Riverkeeper statement regarding the Champlain Hudson...

South Africa floods: deadliest storm on record kills over 300 people Tornadoes leave people ‘trapped in their homes’ in Louisiana Elderly couple killed and more than 200 homes destroyed in New Mexico wildfire ‘Historic’: global climate plans can now keep heating below 2ºC, study shows Guarding against the next pandemic with a LinkedIn for science XR scientists glue hands to business department in...