Residents with their dog walk in front of a canoe sitting on a cracked ground at a Sau reservoir, as the Iberian peninsula is at its driest in 1,200 years, in Sant Roma De Sau, Spain, January 31, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Jewell Baggett, 51, sits on a bathtub amid the wreckage of the home built by her grandfather, where she grew up and three generations of her family lived, and which Hurricane Idalia had reduced to rubble, in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, August 30, 2023. "Mama didn't have much, but God dammit, it was hers," Jewell said. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
A firefighter looks on during the efforts to control fire in a rainforest located in the municipality of Canta, Roraima state, Brazil, February 29, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Hassan Kassar, 69, who said he lost his daughters, two of his sons and his granddaughter when a deadly storm hit the city, sits inside his damaged house, in Derna, Libya, September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori
Should we continue emitting copious amounts of carbon, expecting future technology to save us? Absolutely not.
Should we be hopeful technological advancements will help mitigate the impacts of #ClimateChange? Absolutely yes.
It will always be cheaper, wiser, and more equitable to reduce emissions today than to remove them in the future, #degrowth, but improving efficiency of direct air capture is something we should celebrate as a needed complement.
Earth hits full year of back-to-back monthly heat records.
Planet Earth hit 12 consecutive months where the global average temperature reached a record high, according to new data released on Wednesday. #ClimateChange
What is fantastic about composting worms is that not only they are able to process an insane amount of waste and help us limit greenhouse gasses from landfills, but we often forget that they produce one of the most powerful manure that can be made at home.
If you apply the worm castings in your garden, you will boost the biology in your soils and provide a lot of nutrients for your plants.
If you want to do something for the #climate a worm bin is a very good start.
Six people have died in the #floods these last days in #germany.
Three drowned in their cellars, a woman drowned when her car was swept into the water, another woman has found dead in a channel & a firefighter died in a boat accident on the way to rescue a stranded family.
A streak of record-setting #heat that began last summer has now persisted for an entire year across the globe, researchers announced Wed, pushing #Earth closer to a dangerous threshold that the #world’s nations had pledged not to cross.
Temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C #warming threshold over the past year, & scientists warn they will again soon.
Restaurants Create a Mound of Plastic Waste. Some Are Working to Fix That.
A small but growing number of restaurants are moving away from single-use plastic take-out containers, which usually end up in the trash because they can’t be recycled. #ClimateChange#Food#Restaurant
New map shows vast potential for geothermal energy beneath entire US.
Much of the vast fleet of U.S. military bases, coal plants and industrial facilities sits atop a prime resource for clean energy: layers of hot rock deep within the earth. #ClimateChange
"Seventy-one percent of Americans say #EnergyPolicy is at least one important factor in thinking about their vote for the next president in November [including 78% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans], and 64% say the same about #ClimateChange, [including 84% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans]."