From The Guardian Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. India’s farmers have already faced mounting hardship, with millions saddled with high debts, low incomes and heavy crop losses in the face of increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather conditions brought on by the climateContinue reading “‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades”
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We face daunting global challenges. Here are eight reasons to be hopeful
From The Guardian “Humans are wired with a “negativity bias” that triggers a stronger emotional response to bad news than good news – evident in the journalism maxim “if it bleeds, it leads”. This loss-aversion behavior served a purpose in our evolutionary past, when information and resources were scarce, but in the age of endlessContinue reading “We face daunting global challenges. Here are eight reasons to be hopeful”
‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil
From The Guardian “‘Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.’ “Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate summit to be heldContinue reading “‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil”
‘Like touching climate change’: glaciers reveal records of the way the world was
From The Guardian “Glaciers, especially in non-polar regions, are very much at the forefront of global warming,” said Barbante. “They are water reservoirs for millions of people, so if the ice completely disappears there will be huge problems. We are witnessing what is happening and it must be documented so we can leave something forContinue reading “‘Like touching climate change’: glaciers reveal records of the way the world was”
Only strong action on emissions can restore economic stability, UN climate chief says
From The Guardian “Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, was speaking in Panama, where recent years of drought drove the water to perilous lows that disrupted international trade. “But he said investors around the world were “ready to hit the go button on huge investments” if they had the right signalsContinue reading “Only strong action on emissions can restore economic stability, UN climate chief says”
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