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"Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Against the odds, the business journal Forbes has good coverage of the Climate and Nature Emergency Briefing.
BBC apparently didn't bother.
UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
https://www.forbes…

UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

So why was COP30 such a failure? Didn't "we" understand what is happening?
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

So why was COP30 such a failure? Didn't "we" understand what is happening?
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown.
“When we compare the total terrestrial water storage data with climate datasets, the trends broadly correlate,” said Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction at UCL.

Afrikas #Regenwälder haben sich seit 2010 von einer #CO2-Senke zu einer Quelle von Emissionen entwickelt.
Laut einer neuen Studie ist die #Entwaldung in Regionen wie der Demokratischen Rep…

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

On the day the Tories announce they cease the already inadequate efforts to decarbonise, in the face of climate breakdown, it would be a good day to read our piece on the issue. It includes links to the long piece on which it's based.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/08/01/rene

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE as pdf or …

Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn #environment

Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of plastic—spreading them considerable distances, and increasing exposure and impact within the environment.

Meer dan 1.100 doden t.g.v. regenval in Zuid-Oost Azië
#klimaatverandering
"Human-caused climate breakdown has increased the occurrence of the most intense and destructive tropical cyclones, though the overall number of storms per year has not changed globally. This is because warming oceans provide more energy, producing stronger storms. Extreme rainfall from tropic…

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-per…

really great that we have a government made up of criminals who purposefully completely ignore this for personal gain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts

Chris Packham:
“Why are we unbelievably pulling back on rapidly and forthrightly addressing the greatest crisis to ever threaten our species, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss?
“Climate denialism has been a mainstream thing again, thanks to the well-oiled machines of the rich, powerful and influential lobbyists from the fossil fuel and other industries.
"We have declared war on our one and only home, we’ve set or house on fire."

‘The glacier is slowly melting, it’s clearly visible’ – This is climate breakdown https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/nov/10/lake-palcacocha-glacier-melt-peru-this-is-climate-breakdown…

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is #ClimateBreakdown https…

"Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

"Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said:
“Kemi Badenoch’s desperate attempt to sound like Donald Trump on climate change is taking her party further away from the interests of future generations, businesses, and the needs of ordinary people.
"Millions of lives are already being ruined and nature is being pushed to the brink. An act of political vandalism of this scale will not be easily forgiven or forgotten."

Replacing Climate Change Act is political vandalism that would abandon future generations | Friends of the Earth
Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business and turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now and future generations, says Friends of the Earth.

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-crisis-depleting-europe-groundwater-reserves-analysis

"Environmental damage is putting European way of life at risk, says report"
#Europe #Environment