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60 tiny things about life right now that drive me stark raving mad

Everything is awful. War, falling living standards, anthropogenic climate change. So here, in no particular order, is a list of profoundly unimportant things about being free and alive in 21st-century London that annoy me and, I hope, will come to annoy you:

Evening Standard

Climate change group needs to do more in Dumfries and Galloway, insists councillor

A cross-party working group set up to tackle major environmental issues cannot just be a 'talking shop', says Gail Macgregor

Daily Record

UK offers new North Sea oil, gas licenses despite opposition

The British government has opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration, despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the fight against climate change

The Independent UK

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The new plan to fight a coral reef disease devastating the Caribbean

Some say NOAA's new plan to tackle a coral disease in the Caribbean might not come fast enough.

Axios

Chicago homeowners welcome energy-efficient upgrades in green push

With a new $3 million grant, nonprofit Elevate is targeting 100 low-income homes over two years, replacing natural gas appliances with electric units as Illinois phases out fossil fuels that contribute to climate change.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alarm bells of a 'climate sub-prime' facing finance, as insurance on home loans gets tricky

The insurance industry admits that some parts of the country will become increasingly difficult to insure as extreme weather takes hold. What does this mean for bank loans that are underwritten by them and prospective homebuyers taking them out?

ABC News

EPA will center climate change response in Texas on sea level rise, floods, drought and severe storms

The federal agency plans to increase efforts to help states adapt to the effects of climate change most damaging to each region.

The Texas Tribune

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Climate change: the fairest way to tax carbon is to make air travel more expensive

Despite the fact that poorer people generally have lower emissions, taxes on the carbon dioxide (CO₂) our activities emit tend to affect people on low incomes more than richer people. Having less money means you can ill afford a switch to an untaxed alternative, like an electric car, or pay…

The Conversation

Caribbean countries to seek 'loss and damage' as top priority at COP27, document says

Caribbean nations will unite to seek "loss and damage" compensation for the impact of climate change at the upcoming COP27 climate talks in Egypt, according to a report summarizing conclusions of a recent regional summit.

Reuters

Forestry leaders scramble to turn massive new funding into trees

MISSOULA, Mont. — Foresters, nursery managers and urban planners have long sought funding to grow more trees, replant burned areas and help marginalized communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

Tribune News Service

Catastrophic effect of warming temperatures on river life in Wales

There has been a troubling decline in wildlife in streams monitored for the last 42 years

Wales Online

‘Humongous threat’ to city as £81 million extra funding needed for Avon flood works

The threat of rising sea levels and severe floods is expected to grow due to climate change

Bristol Post

Missing snow puts famed New Zealand ski areas on precipice

New Zealand’s Tūroa ski area closed three weeks early because it has hardly any snow

The Independent UK

Climate change fingerprints found all over this summer's scorching droughts

Global warming made drought conditions that gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere 20 times more likely, study finds.

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The Independent UK

Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likely

Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study

The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis made summer drought 20 times more likely, scientists find

Record northern hemisphere drought in 2022 hit crops and power stations, worsening food and energy crises

The Guardian - AU

Albanese meets Solomons PM – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Biden says Hurricane Ian ‘ends discussion’ over climate change as DeSantis looks on

The president traveled to Florida’s Gulf Coast where some communities were obliterated by the near Category-5 storm

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The Conversation

Has Patagonia defined a new gold standard for business responsibility?

Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made headlines recently with the decision to give his family’s $3 billion company, and its future profits, to the fight against climate change. In his words, “Earth is now the company’s only shareholder.”

The Conversation

Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. We’ve found their traces in Australia’s past, and expect more to come

Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts…

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: A global epidemic of bad thinking

Bad thinking is different to stupidity or ignorance, but is a sort of rampant confirmation bias, where countervailing evidence is ignored.

The Conversation

Climate risk index shows threats to 90 per cent of the world's marine species

Climate change impacts marine life through a bewildering web of complex pathways.

The Independent UK

Low-income communities learn to tackle climate-fueled heat

Some low-income communities of color around the United States are learning to tackle extreme neighborhood heat fueled by climate change through nonprofit programs that educate and engage

The Guardian - UK

Science fiction exhibition in London takes visitors on a journey into space

Voyage to the Edge of Imagination at the Science Museum uses AI and interactive exhibits to create an immersive experience

The Conversation

Searing summers in European cities pose a continent-wide health inequality challenge

Europe has experienced its hottest summer in recorded history. Globally, the temperature during August 2022 was 0.3°C higher than the average for the month between 1991 and 2020.

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