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Trees have a hidden climate superpower: They keep absorbing carbon long after growth stops https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/trees-have-a-hidden-climate-superpower-they-keep-ab…

Trees have a hidden climate superpower: They keep absorbing carbon long after growth stops
For decades, forests have occupied a central place in discussions about climate change. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, convert it into organic matter and store part of that carbon in their trunks, branches and roots.

US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/

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The #UnitedNations General Assembly adopted a draft resolution [1] calling "on all UN Member States to take all possible steps to avoid causing significant damage to the #climate and #environment

Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information | Climate.us
Climate.us is not an official U.S. government website. It is an independent nonprofit project created to protect public access to climate knowledge and continue the plain-language, science-reviewed communication that made Climate.gov an essential resource for educators, journalists, decision-makers, and communities across the country.
https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches-independent-website-trusted-climate-information

Trump 'science' versus climate science.
A modern Vatican versus Galileo.
Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-trumps-false-claims-ab…

Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario - Carbon Brief
In this factcheck, Carbon Brief looks at Trump’s comments, the debate around RCP8.5 and the “good” and “bad” news within the latest scenarios.

"Oil and gas giants to grow production despite climate goals, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

Oil and gas giants to grow production despite climate goals, study finds
New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has revealed that leading fossil fuel companies are planning to increase production, conflicting with their public emissions reduction targets.

"Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’"
#Accusations&Confessions: "Zeldin said, a “cabal” of elites promoted climate science to further their agenda."

"Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’"
#Accusations&Confessions: "Zeldin said, a “cabal” of elites promoted climate science to further their agenda."

Our planet’s soils contain enough of the subterranean fungi that sustain plant life and help regulate the climate to stretch from the Earth to the sun almost three-quarters of a billion times, a groundbreaking new study has found.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are networks of tubular cells called hyphae that sustain life on Earth by forming critical partnerships with more than 70% of plants.
The networks, which have been forming for about 475 million years, provide nutrients and w…

US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/

Climate change is not always in the news anymore but it is going on...
https://www.zmescience.com/science/the-last-stable-glaciers-on-earth-are-starting-to-collapse/

The Last Stable Glaciers on Earth Are Starting to Collapse
Climate change doesn't really care what you think.

https://theconversation.com/scientists-have-scrapped-the-worst-case-climate-scenario-because-action-is-making-a-difference-283675
Climate action makes a difference. The lesson to take from this is *n…

Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116421829038049972
"The comfort of uncertainty" 🎯
Valid in general for the way the world has treated results from climate science. Used by some fossil fuel companies and the likes of Russi…

Women's work songs as a record of environmental change - research by Reetika Revathy Subramanium.
https://theconversation.com/what-womens-work-songs-reveal-about-the-changing-climate-280964
Wonderfully wide comparison - all ac…

Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-science-oil-gas-fossil-fuel-judges-jim-jordan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p38#a260502p38

Still Eating Your Patients
Seventeen years ago I asked whether every veterinarian should be required to be a vegetarian. The question has sharpened since then. The right word now is vegan, because the line between dairy cow and veal calf is no longer plausibly deniable, and because the climate science on animal agriculture has overrun the old fence between eggs and the slaughterhouse. The provocation in 2009 was short, almost a snapshot of a paradox.

Still Eating Your Patients | David Boles, Blogs
Seventeen years ago I asked whether every veterinarian should be required to be a vegetarian. The question has sharpened since then. The right word now is vegan, because the line between dairy cow …

#Klimaforschende haben das bisherige Worst-Case-Szenario #RCP85 aus neuen #Klimamodelle​n gestrichen.
Grund ist, dass der massive Ausbau von

Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

"Dozens of British businesses pledge to set science-based emissions targets"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #Climate

Global warming hit 1.37°C in 2025, with Earth accumulating heat at an accelerating rate #environment

Global warming hit 1.37°C in 2025, with Earth accumulating heat at an accelerating rate
Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming. Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37°C in 2025, and its level is projected to surpass 1.5°C in about four years. Crucially, the rate at which heat is accumulating in Earth's system suggests high levels of future warming. These are some of the key findings from the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) report, published in Earth System Science Data.

I guess fossil fuel companies follow tobacco industry playbook: first deny and discredit the science, later deny responsibility. It'll work until a big case is won and a precedent it established. But by then most of the current management will be retired, so sadly it'll likely pay off...

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#climatechange #environment #ecology #science

"Scientists have scrapped the worst‑case climate scenario – because action is making a difference"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts (Annika Hammerschlag/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-oceans-data-trump-science-a9539443dfaa32b3a67468a25f8b2674
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p115#a260602p115

Ocean sensors will go dark under Trump funding cuts | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/climate-oceans-data-trump-science-a9539443dfaa32b3a67468a25f8b2674

Barry Jones had been thinking about climate change since the 1960s.
But as he would discover, foresight rarely aligns with political incentives.
“I would say to Bob Hawke: ‘Look, we’ve got to take the issue of climate change seriously’,” he recalls.
“And he’d say, ‘but when’s the impact going to be seen at its worst?’
“And you think, well, it might be another 25 years
and he’d reply:
‘Well, you come back to me sometime later, before the 25 years is up, …

The man who knew too much: Barry Jones on Albo, Putin and the end of the line
At 93, the Labor legend and former science minister is eyeing the “exit ramp”. But he isn’t going quietly, taking aim at Anthony Albanese’s lack of courage on reform and a political system that has lost its way.

Interesting #science and #engineering solutions in Colombia
"The pioneering technologies range from low-cost solar water heaters to a children's see-saw that doubles as a water pump, from edible forest gardening to biofuel. Some were inspired by traditional methods used by local indig…

'One of the harshest places on Earth': The 1960s green 'Utopia' that tried to reinvent the world
In an extreme environmental and political climate in remote Colombia, one maverick village has relied on homegrown inventions to survive.

"Report: UK ranks second globally for climate adaptation technologies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Report: UK ranks second globally for climate adaptation technologies
According to a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Imperial College London, the UK is emerging as a world leader in climate resilience solutions.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states
under a reorganization plan announced this week,
threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
The agency plans to consolidate its research division into a centralized office in Fort Collins, Colo.,
and move field researchers to locations in nearby states.
But employees said they feared the move would lead many s…

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-reversing-biodiversity-loss-critical-disastrous.html

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn
Halting and reversing the global decline in biodiversity is now urgent to avoid destabilizing Earth's vital systems that support human well-being. That's the stark message of a new paper published today in Frontiers in Science. The authors warn that without protecting remaining intact biomes and ecosystems, climate and development goals will be impossible to achieve.

Die Klimaforscherin Kate Marvel hat ihren Posten bei der US-Raumfahrtbehörde #NASA aufgegeben und begründet dies mit politischen Eingriffen in die #Klimaforschung.
Seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident #Trump

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist, Resigns From NASA
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p77#a260427p77

The idea of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to combat climate change might be a necessary intervention,
but it always sounded like a longshot.
Unfortunately, it seems like the strategy is already hitting a wall.
A new reportpublished this week found that ongoing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) efforts are barely putting a dent in the fight against global warming
— and that for them to start making an impact, they would need to be scaled up at a rate that rivals the ado…

Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News
A new report warns that carbon removal efforts are woefully behind schedule, and will need to scale up at an incredible rate to give us a fighting chance.

"Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn"
#Biodiversity #Environment

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn
Halting and reversing the global decline in biodiversity is now urgent to avoid destabilizing Earth's vital systems that support human well-being. That's the stark message of a new paper published today in Frontiers in Science. The authors warn that without protecting remaining intact biomes and ecosystems, climate and development goals will be impossible to achieve.

Friends, EDF Action Votes here.
We’re sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s cuts at NASA, NOAA, and FEMA.
He fired dozens of scientists
and decommissioned satellites that tracked climate and weather patterns
— including burning one up in the atmosphere.
Our ability to track the weather,
prepare for natural disasters,
and support science is being taken from us.
We have to protect NASA, NOAA, and FEMA’s weather prediction capabilities,
…

I just gave to EDF Action Votes!
EDF Action votes is doing everything they can to elect environmental champions who will take climate action.

According to reporting by Bloomberg, about half of the data centers slated to open in the US in 2026 will either face delays or outright cancellations.
The publication interviewed analysts at market intelligence company Sightline Climate, which in research first flagged by Ed Zitron last week noted that 12 gigawatts worth of power-consuming data centers are set to open in the US this year.
But here’s the catch:
they say only a third of those are actually under construction r…

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

A federal judge today temporarily blocked the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) from
transferring control of a supercomputing facility operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to a different institution.
Transferring the facility risked disrupting the center’s infrastructure
and could potentially degrade its climate forecasting and scientific capabilities,
ruled Colorado District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson.
The ruling marks the fir…

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce:
Climate-Resilient Health Systems for Sustained Value Chains, Healthcare Access and Services
#health systems can be made climate resilient, with two novel conceptual frameworks on
• sustained access to #healthcare
• maintaining healthcare provision
for identifying failures & guiding #adaptation.
#ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Research #Science

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce the first of two reports:
Healthcare System-of-Systems Vulnerability
#HealthSystems #Health #Healthcare #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChage #ClimateCrisis #SocialRiskManagement #Research #Science #Adaptation