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People: News links for December 2018

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Civil action: The resistance begins

 

BBC News   Climate change protests leads to '22 arrests' over blockade

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BBC News   Climate protesters glue themselves to Downing Street gates

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Climate Home News   Extinction Rebellion eyes global climate campaign of non-violence

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Climate Home News   Quebec youth launch climate lawsuit against the Canadian government

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Eco-Business   Britain’s climate protests: ‘We are rebelling on behalf of life itself’

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Eco-Business   Juliana vs United States: An inter-generational fight for climate justice

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Inside Climate News   With Democratic Majority, Climate Change Is Back on U.S. House Agenda

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NBC News   6 ways ordinary people can prevent climate change, according to researchers and advocates

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NPR   Young Activists Can Sue Government Over Climate Change, Supreme Court Says

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Sydney Morning Herald   Why aren't they doing anything?: Students strike to give climate lesson

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The Canberra Times   Yes, Prime Minister, I'm striking from school: consider it a climate lesson

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The Conversation   ‘Keep it in the ground’: what we can learn from anti-fossil fuel campaigns

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The Guardian   Claws out: crab fishermen sue 30 oil firms over climate change

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The Guardian   Climate change strike: thousands of school students protest across Australia

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The Guardian   Dozens arrested after climate protest blocks five London bridges

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The New York Times   Climate Change Protest Draws Thousands of Australian Students

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The New York Times   What if We’re All Coming Back?

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The Sydney Morning Herald   'New weapon': courts offer hope for driving serious climate action

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The Washington Post   Federal judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline, saying Trump administration review ignored ‘inconvenient’ climate change facts

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The Washington Post   France’s climate change commitments trigger rising diesel prices and street protests

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The Washington Post   Supreme Court refuses to block young people’s climate lawsuit against U.S. government

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World Resources Institute   Unlocking Climate Action: Building a Landscape Restoration Movement from the Ground Up

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Yale   Arizona woman organizes Latina moms to speak up on climate change

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Yale   In a new climate fiction course, students will imagine solutions

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Yale   Teen gun reform activist takes on climate change

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Human suffering: It’s now

 

ABC [Australia]   Fighting climate change: How emergency services are battling changing conditions

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BBC News   California wildfires: Air quality rated 'world's worst'

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Bloomberg   Americans Will Pay Billions More For Climate Change, and That’s the Best Case

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Bloomberg   Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn’t Ready, Report Says

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Carbon Brief   The Lancet: Extreme heat threatens ‘systemic failure’ of hospitals

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CBC   Growing 'ecological grief' is the mental health cost of climate change

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Climate.gov   The Karuk’s relationship with fire: Adapting to climate change on the Klamath

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Climate.gov   Urban Adaptation Assessment

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Eco-Business   Millions of small Asian farmers miss out on seeds resilient to climate change—study

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Eco-Business   The impact of climate change on language loss

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Financial Times   Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’

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Forbes   When The Seas Flood the Coasts, Expect The Biggest Gentrification Wave Ever

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Grist   To share or not to share? Tribes risk exploitation when sharing climate change solutions.

 

India Climate Dialogue   Migrant workers turn climate refugees twice over

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Phys.org   Climate change damaging male fertility

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Springer   Climate change impacts on the distribution of venomous snakes and snakebite risk in Mozambique

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The Conversation   Climate change and migration in Bangladesh – one woman’s perspective

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The Guardian   Climate change already a health emergency, say experts

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The Guardian   The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen review – hope in an age of crisis

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The Guardian   The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change

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The Sydney Morning Herald   Mental health added to impact of climate change as global damage grows

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The Washington Post   Heat waves caused by climate change could impair male fertility across generations, scientists warn

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The Washington Post   How climate change is affecting rural Honduras and pushing people north

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Yale   This NYC neighborhood is getting ready for more floods

 

Wiley   Protected areas act as a buffer against detrimental effects of climate change—Evidence from large‐scale, long‐term abundance data

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Politics: Will government save us?

 

AFR News   China vows to improve action on climate change as it prepares for UN summit

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BBC News   Climate change: EU aims to be 'climate neutral' by 2050

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Business Green   Spain targets 90 per cent carbon cuts under new climate strategy

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Climate Home News   EU finance ministers call for transparency in climate finance

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Climate Home News   Lead or sue? Pacific islands take twin tracks on climate change

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Climate.gov   Talking with IPCC Vice-chair Ko Barrett: On climate change and consensus building

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E&E News   Every president since JFK was warned about climate change

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EcoWatch   Ireland to Become World's First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

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MPR News   What's the 'Green New Deal' and why do environmentalists want it?

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Politico   Paris is burning

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Reuters   Big Oil outspends billionaires in Washington state carbon tax fight

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Reuters   China says work far from complete on national CO2 scheme

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Reuters   New EU energy targets put bloc on course to overshoot climate goals

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The Guardian   EU states call for tough action on deforestation to meet 2020 UN goal

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The Guardian   France demands UK climate pledge in return for Brexit trade deal

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The Guardian   G20 nations still led by fossil fuel industry, climate report finds

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The Guardian   Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds

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Think Progress   North Carolina joins Paris agreement, citing historic storms like Florence

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World Resources Institute   Bipartisan US Climate Change Bill Aims to Cut Emissions by 90 Percent

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Photo Attributions

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Heading: People: Photo by: Takver

Heading: Public viewpoints: Photo by: Ivy Dawned

Heading: Civil action: Photo by: Takver

Heading: Human suffering: Photo by: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Heading: Politics: Photo by: Falcon® Photography 

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