
Tipping points: News links for ...[month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner picture: Photo by: Daria Devyatkina
Hothouse earth: Photo by: Bernard Spragg. NZ
Arctic carbon: Photo by: Daxis
Brakes gone: Photo by: Marcus Pink
Particulate Pollution: Photo by: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Tipping points: News links for ...[month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner picture: Photo by: Daria Devyatkina
Hothouse earth: Photo by: Bernard Spragg. NZ
Arctic carbon: Photo by: Daxis
Brakes gone: Photo by: Marcus Pink
Particulate Pollution: Photo by: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019
Photo Attributions
Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating
Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash
Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.
Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

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Climate News | February 2020
Links from news outlets and science journals sourced during January 2020
Newspaper and web articles
ABC News
Omnicide: Who is responsible for the gravest of all crimes? - ABC Religion & Ethics
AFR
Australia is no longer the lucky country
Al Jazeera
India suffers hottest decade on record | India News | Al Jazeera
Anthropocene
Colombia's hippo population is a fascinating ecological conundrum | Anthropocene
Meat isn't always the biggest driver of dietary carbon emissions | Anthropocene
Australian Academy of Sciences
Statement regarding Australian bushfires | Australian Academy of Science
Axios
Big Tech data centers probably aren't a climate change time bomb - Axios
The limits of BlackRock's new climate strategy - Axios
How Michael Bloomberg would decarbonize transportation - Axios
BBC
Space mission to reveal 'Truths' about climate change - BBC News
Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 - BBC News
Belfast Telegraph
Scores of countries signal more ambitious climate plans in 2020 - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Reductions in Arctic sea ice cannot be rapidly reversed, scientists say - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Bloomberg NEF
Energy, Vehicles, Sustainability – 10 Predictions for 2020 | BloombergNEF
Business Green
Reports: Cement sector facing 'dramatic' cost rise as climate pressure intensifies
Buzzfeed News
Davos Global Elites Solve Climate Crisis By Planting Trees
Carbon Brief
Video: Why studying Thwaites glacier is vital for forecasting sea level rise | Carbon Brief
In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms | Carbon Brief
Explainer: How 'Atlantification' is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer | Carbon Brief
State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2019 | Carbon Brief
Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says | Carbon Brief
CIFOR
Defining ecological restoration of peatlands in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Tenure challenges to implementing forest landscape restoration in northwestern Madagascar
Climate Change News
China-backed coal plants on EU’s doorstep hide huge carbon costs
Erosion crisis swallows homes and livelihoods in Nigeria
CNBC
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says climate change will soon reshape markets
Counterpunch
The Rumbling Methane Enigma - CounterPunch.org
Cryosphere-Discuss
Daily Mail
Eco-Business
Self-driving cars will not fix our transportation woes | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Following bushfires, expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Make Fuel and Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Says Study - EcoWatch
Beijing’s food vision: quality and quantity | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Economist
Ecowatch
Cancun Businesses Take Out Insurance Policy on a Coral Reef - EcoWatch
Madacascar Is Planting 60 Million Trees in Ambitious Drive Inspired by Its President - EcoWatch
EENews
El Pais
Euractiv
Massive rise in EV charging points needed to reach EU climate goals, analysis finds – EURACTIV.com
Euronews
Think you're more eco-friendly than your friends? This study says you're wrong. | Living
Foreign Policy
Foresight
Will gains outweigh the risks of an accelerated energy transition? - FORESIGHT
Forest Trends
Demand-side Regulation and Forest Risk Commodities - Forest Trends
Fortune
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Puts Climate Change at Center of Megafund’s Investment Strategy | Fortune
France 24
French cities and NGOs sue oil giant Total over 'climate inaction'
Guardian
Russia announces plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change | World news | The Guardian
Why Irish data centre boom is complicating climate efforts | Environment | The Guardian
Jakarta floods: cloud seeding planes try to break up heavy rain | Environment | The Guardian
We must tackle global energy inequality before it’s too late | Business | The Guardian
Australian bushfire smoke affecting South America, UN reports | Australia news | The Guardian
New Zealand bushfires flare amid fears country becoming more ‘flammable’ | World news | The Guardian
On the frontline of the climate emergency, Bangladesh adapts | World news | The Guardian
Grass growing around Mount Everest as global heating intensifies | Environment | The Guardian
Quorn to be first major brand to introduce carbon labelling | Environment | The Guardian
How scientists are coping with ‘ecological grief’ | Science | The Guardian
Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates | Environment | The Guardian
Oceans are as hot as humans have known them and we’re to blame | Environment | The Guardian
Why do record ocean temperatures matter? | Environment | The Guardian
The case for ... never demolishing another building | Cities | The Guardian
James Murdoch criticises father's news outlets for climate crisis denial | Media | The Guardian
Australia fires are harbinger of planet’s future, say scientists | Australia news | The Guardian
Driving into a city should become as antisocial as smoking | Gaby Hinsliff | Opinion | The Guardian
The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones | Cities | The Guardian
IMF: climate crisis threatens global economic recovery | Business | The Guardian
The five: changes in animal behaviour due to global heating | Science | The Guardian
Study finds shock rise in levels of potent greenhouse gas | Environment | The Guardian
World’s consumption of materials hits record 100bn tonnes a year | Environment | The Guardian
Lloyds set to halve carbon emissions it finances in 10 years | Business | The Guardian
Lonely Planet launches carbon-neutral tours | Travel | The Guardian
Huffpost Australia
Number Of Animals Feared Dead In Australia’s Wildfires Soars To Over 1 Billion | HuffPost Australia
Irish Times
Winter of 2018/2019 warmest since records began in 1900
Lighthouse
Eco-anxiety climbs as fires, smoke and animal deaths trigger fear and trauma | The Lighthouse
Los Angeles Times
What's tangling up the humpback whales? A food chain snarled by climate change - Los Angeles Times
Manoahnow
Medium
SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH A LOAN - The Otherlab Blog - Medium
MIT
Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined - MIT Technology Review
Mongabay
Irrigation linked to reduced rainfall in northern India
Two storytellers unmask the human face of climate change
Mother Jones
Australia’s Wildfire Catastrophe Isn’t the “New Normal.” It’s Much Worse Than That. – Mother Jones
NASA
Nature
Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming
Paris taught me how to do what is necessary to combat climate change
Australia: show the world what climate action looks like
New Scientist
Our current food system can feed only 3.4 billion people sustainably | New Scientist
New York Magazine
New South Wales Fires In Australia: The World’s Response
Newsweek
Bears in Ukraine Aren't Hibernating Because It's Too Warm, Have Started Suffering From 'Insomnia'
When It Comes to the Australian Bushfires, Rupert Murdoch is an Arsonist | Opinion
NOAA
A visit to the zoo: climate patterns that can precede ENSO | NOAA Climate.gov
Teaching Global Climate Change in Your Classroom | NOAA Climate.gov
2010-2019: A landmark decade of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters | NOAA Climate.gov
PhysOrg
Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?
Physics World
Crops at risk from changing climate – Physics World
Politico
Merkel: Tackling climate change a matter of ‘survival’ – POLITICO
Renew Economy
New Zealand passes historic zero carbon bill with near unanimous bipartisan support | RenewEconomy
Reuters
Australia strengthens bushfire defenses as economic, environmental costs mount - Reuters
Years of drought threaten South Africa's wildlife industry - Reuters
Australia bushfires: Visualizing the scale of Australia's bushfires
Soaring SUV sales keep carmakers on collision course with climate policy - Reuters
Australia's massive fires could become routine, climate scientists warn - Reuters
EU sets out trillion euro plan to avert 'climate crash' - Reuters
'We can't close our eyes' to climate change, says Marshall Isles ex-president - Reuters
Sports need to do more to combat climate change: lobby group - Reuters
Central banks can't save the world from climate change, BIS says - Reuters
Climate change pushes investors to take their temperature - Reuters
Last decade most expensive for natural disasters - report - Reuters
Exclusive: BP's Looney goes all-in on climate goals and explores overhaul - Reuters
Oil and gas sector keeps faith in low-carbon energy: survey - Reuters
Priority status for EU fossil fuel projects raises green hackles - Reuters
EU's 'Green Deal' guru detects hints of U.S. climate shift - Reuters
Global carbon trading turnover at record $214 billion last year: research - Reuters
Huge hydroelectric project to help Portugal eliminate coal: PM - Reuters
SBS
Scientific American
Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms - Scientific American
What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human - Scientific American Blog Network
Scotsman
Coastal erosion in Scotland is immediate threat - and worse than predicted - The Scotsman
Sydney Morning Herald
NSW fires: Penrith in Sydney's west approaches 50 degrees
NSW fires: Australia's first climate change refugees
An 'absolutely seminal moment': climate change opinion shifting in face of fires
Institutional investors increasingly taking their own climate action
Climate refugees cannot be forced back home
Technology Review
“A Trillion Trees” is a great idea—that could become a dangerous climate distraction
Telegraph
Italy to become first country to make studying climate change compulsory in schools
Extinction Rebellion activists embroiled in row over whether flying is ever acceptable
The Conversation
6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media
Why we should be wary of blaming 'overpopulation' for the climate crisis
The Times
Warmer seas force turtles to travel twice as far for food | News | The Times
Potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 rises to record levels despite ban | News | The Times
Thomson Reuters Foundation
World risks 'disaster' as reuse of natural resources ...
Time
Why Fossil Fuel Companies Are Reckoning With Climate Change | Time
Report: YouTube Has Been Promoting Climate Denialism Videos | Time
Tortoise Media
Undark
In India, Indigenous Tribes Clash With the Government Over Trees
Vox
1.5 degrees Celsius: the sad truth about our boldest climate change target - Vox
Voice of America
2019 Was Hottest Year on Record for Russia | Voice of America - English
Washington Post
Daily weather now bears the fingerprints of global warming - The Washington Post
Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration - The Washington Post
Australia’s apocalyptic fires are a warning to the world - The Washington Post
Animals killed in Australia fires: Species could go extinct, scientists warn - The Washington Post
Particles lofted from Australia bush fires will circle the globe - The Washington Post
‘We’re building an army’: Jane Fonda caps off weeks of climate protest in D.C. - The Washington Post
Firenadoes, ember attacks and megafires: Australia is seeing sci-fi weather - The Washington Post
2019 capped the hottest decade on record, say NASA and NOAA - The Washington Post
Newfoundland blizzard breaks snow records, buries cars and homes - The Washington Post
How planting trees can help in the fight against climate change - Washington Post
What does ‘dangerous’ climate change really mean? - The Washington Post
In Australia; fires stoke environmental movement - The Washington Post
How China’s Belt and Road initiative is choking the Mekong River - Washington Post
Weather Underground
Highest Atmospheric Pressure in More than 300 Years of London Recordkeeping | Weather Underground
World Economic Forum
This chart shows the global fatalities of extreme weather events | World Economic Forum
Illegal logging has to be stopped - here's how | World Economic Forum
World Resources Institute
2020 Could Be the Year Carbon Removal Takes Off | World Resources Institute
10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade | World Resources Institute
Yale Climate Connections
Cancun businesses take out insurance policy on a coral reef » Yale Climate Connections
Large HVAC manufacturers could play huge role in cutting carbon pollution » Yale Climate Connections
New York City spends billions on flood protection » Yale Climate Connections
Mountain snowpack grows less reliable as the world warms » Yale Climate Connections
Residents of Midlothian, Illinois, fight back against 'terrifying' floods » Yale Climate Connections
Cities and towns can't solve climate change on their own » Yale Climate Connections
Yale E360
As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Flood Buyouts Fail to Meet the Need - Yale E360
Academic articles
American Meteorological Society – Journal of Climate
Copernicus – Climate of the Past
CP - Distorted Pacific–North American teleconnection at the Last Glacial Maximum
IOP Science
Emissions in the stream: estimating the greenhouse gas impacts of an oil and gas boom - IOPscience
Global warming to increase violent crime in the United States - IOPscience
Nature
Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes | Nature
Two-million-year-old snapshots of atmospheric gases from Antarctic ice | Nature
Nature Climate Change
Natural halogens buffer tropospheric ozone in a changing climate | Nature Climate Change
Human fingerprint in global weather | Nature Climate Change
Nature Food
Nature Geoscience
Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial | Nature Geoscience
Complex evolving patterns of mass loss from Antarctica’s largest glacier | Nature Geoscience
Nature Medicine
Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths | Nature Medicine
Nature Sustainability
Nature Communications
Paris Climate Agreement passes the cost-benefit test | Nature Communications
PNAS
Water level changes, subsidence, and sea level rise in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta | PNAS
Climate change and the opportunity cost of conflict | PNAS
Influence of Arctic sea-ice variability on Pacific trade winds | PNAS
Regional Studies Association – Climate and Development
Mixed manifestations of climate change in high mountains: insights from a farming