
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 | March 2020
Links from news outlets and science journals sourced during February 2020
Newspaper and web articles
ABC News
AFP
Coronavirus outbreak slashes China carbon emissions: study | AFP.com
Anthropocene
People hate flight shame – but not enough to quit flying
Switching out grape breeds could save half the world's winelands from climate change | Anthropocene
Atlantic
A Travel Writer Envisions a Future Without Vacations - The Atlantic
Axios
BP's climate move could mean new pressure on Exxon and Chevron - Axios
Coronavirus throws oil demand into reverse for first time in a decade - Axios
Al Gore launches voter drive to make climate fight an election priority - Axios
Why big banks are breaking up with some fossil fuels - Axios
BBC
BBC - Travel - How climate change poisons our food
Climate change: Worst emissions scenario 'exceedingly unlikely' - BBC News
Climate change: Worst emissions scenario 'exceedingly unlikely' - BBC News
What happens to all the old wind turbines? - BBC News
Why is this seagrass so important? - BBC News
Australia fires were far worse than any prediction - BBC News
Belfast Telegraph
Hundreds of climate activists protest at British Museum over BP sponsorship - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Bloomberg NEF
1988 Global Warming Forecast by James Hansen Proved Mostly True - Bloomberg
Bill, Melinda Gates Add Climate, Gender to Foundation Priorities - Bloomberg
Business Green
BlackRock announces shift away from funding tar sands
Half the world's economy now eyeing net zero transition, analysis shows
Cambridge News
Carbon Brief
CCC: One fifth of UK farmland must be used to tackle climate change | Carbon Brief
Analysis: Why coal use must plummet this decade to keep global warming below 1.5C | Carbon Brief
Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change | Carbon Brief
Guest post: Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’? | Carbon Brief
Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere | Carbon Brief
Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’ | Carbon Brief
Guest post: Could climate change and deforestation spark Amazon ‘dieback’?
Guest post: How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to a ‘tipping point’?
Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’ | Carbon Brief
Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change? | Carbon Brief
Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix? | Carbon Brief
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Philanthropy Must Declare a Climate Emergency (Opinion) - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Charleston and the South Carolina coast flooded record 89 times in 2019 | News | postandcourier.com
CIFOR
Importance of Indigenous Peoples' lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes
Organic carbon burial and sources in soils of coastal mudflat and mangrove ecosystems
Pay, talk or 'whip' to conserve forests: Framed field experiments in Zambia
Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change
Climate Central
Report: The Case of the Shifting Snow | Climate Central
CNN
Big Oil under fire: Exxon's market value has crumbled by $184 billion - CNN
Twitter data shows major cities are flooding more than previously thought - CNN
CSIRO
Are you experiencing eco-grief? - CSIROscope
Daily Mail
Development Policy Centre
Eco-Business
Is your pension fuelling climate change? | Videos | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Why the European Union's green taxonomy is risky business | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights? | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Why 'net zero' is not good enough | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Europe fails to keep up on solar power | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
In Asia, finance may be the most effective weapon | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
China must ‘leap over Oil Age’ to meet climate challenge | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Cities turn to freewheeling public transport | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Speeding sea level rise threatens nuclear plants | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Bioenergy can land a blow against climate change | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Greenhouse gases have a puzzling double effect | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Dire prospects await corporate climate-wreckers in 2030—study | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
Ecologist
Rewilding food, rewilding farming
Ecowatch
Locust Swarms Prompt Somalia to Declare National Emergency - EcoWatch
10 Musicians Taking on the Climate Crisis - EcoWatch
Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere Hit Highest Level in 3 Million Years - EcoWatch
Eos
The Emotional Toll of Climate Change on Science Professionals - Eos
Euractiv
German cabinet signs coal phase-out bill – EURACTIV.com
Forbes
Who Needs A Groundhog When Climate Change Practically Guarantees An Early Spring
United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
Foresight
Embodied carbon the new frontier - FORESIGHT
Where to direct support for hydrogen without wasting money - FORESIGHT
Forest Trends
How to Plant a Trillion Trees and Get Real Climate Results - Forest Trends
Publications Archive - Forest Trends
France 24
Fossil fuel methane emissions 'vastly underestimated' - France 24
Grist
Major news networks devoted less than 4 hours to climate change in 2019. Total. | Grist
Guardian
Sea level rise accelerating along US coastline, scientists warn | Environment | The Guardian
Does writing books still matter in an era of environmental catastrophe? | Books | The Guardian
Modern ark: designs for the new climate reality – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
The eco gender gap: why is saving the planet seen as women’s work? | Environment | The Guardian
Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C | World news | The Guardian
Humanity under threat from perfect storm of crises – study | Environment | The Guardian
‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety | Environment | The Guardian
Fossil fuel pollution behind 4m premature deaths a year – study | Environment | The Guardian
'I've lost friends': the young climate strikers forced to go it alone | Environment | The Guardian
French ski resort moves snow with helicopter in order to stay open | World news | The Guardian
A climate emergency: what happens when the taps run dry? | Environment | The Guardian
Hive heists: why the next threat to bees is organized crime | Environment | The Guardian
How should Jeff Bezos invest his $10bn Earth Fund? | Environment | The Guardian
Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function | Science | The Guardian
World leaders urged to 'step back from precipice' of ecological ruin | Environment | The Guardian
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots | Technology | The Guardian
JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race | Environment | The Guardian
G20 sounds alarm over climate emergency despite US objections | World news | The Guardian
Meat company faces heat over ‘cattle laundering’ in Amazon supply chain | Environment | The Guardian
Accountants urged to help firms worldwide combat climate crisis | Business | The Guardian
Killer heat: how a warming land is changing Australia forever | Environment | The Guardian
Finance holds climate key but poor countries fear missing out | Environment | The Guardian
New cars producing more carbon dioxide than older models | Business | The Guardian
Luxembourg is first country to make all public transport free | Luxembourg | The Guardian
Independent
Wildlife emerging months earlier than normal as winters 'lost' to climate change | The Independent
Climate crisis: Antarctica snow turns ‘blood red’ | The Independent
Inews
Coal pollution dating back to 1780 found on Himalayas — before climbers arrived | inews
Inside Climate News
To prepare climate strikers for the future, we need to rewrite the history books
Uber and Lyft Are Convenient, Competitive and Highly Carbon Intensive | InsideClimate News
Meanjin
The End Of The World As We Know It
Medium
What If We’re Thinking About Agriculture All Wrong?
Mongabay
Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study
Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading
In Afghanistan, climate change complicates future prospects for peace
What starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there: Fires melting Andes glaciers
Carbon uptake slower than expected in Amazon secondary forest: Study
Return of indigenous crops helps reduce farm distress and restore ecosystems
Listening to marine mammals is helping scientists understand Arctic impacts of climate change
Moscow Times
Climate Change Is Moving Russia's Taiga North, Scientists Warn - The Moscow Times
NASA
Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records
New York Magazine
Jeff Bezos’s $10 Billion Climate Pledge Is Actually Tiny
New York Times
The End of Australia as We Know It - The New York Times
New Yorker
Will Big Business Finally Reckon with the Climate Crisis? | The New Yorker
Newsweek
15 Years after the Kyoto Protocol Went into Force, the Climate Crisis is Worse Than Ever
NOAA
A Coral Bleaching Story With an Unknown Ending | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
PBS NewsHour
‘King tides’ documented globally show risks of climate change | PBS NewsHour
PhysOrg
Secondary forests provide deforestation buffer for old-growth primary forests
Real Money
Jim Cramer: Once Again, Why Fossil Fuels Are on the Wrong Side of History - RealMoney
Renew Economy
Trio of Belgian companies announce totally “green hydrogen” plant | RenewEconomy
Reuters
Global airline group to launch carbon exchange platform to address climate change - Reuters
Credit Suisse, others back initiative to factor CO2 cuts into shipping finance - Reuters
Netherlands' $515 billion pension fund to accelerate cuts to fossil fuel investments - Reuters
Locust swarms threaten more countries in eastern Africa - FAO - Reuters
Climate protests shut BP's London headquarters on CEO's first day - Reuters
EU power plant emissions show sharpest fall since 1990: report - Reuters
Canada readies aid for Alberta as deadline for massive oil sands project nears: sources - Reuters
Column: Structurally cheaper LNG should displace coal from Japan, and broader Asia - Reuters
Australia plans new bank stress tests to assess climate change impact: sources - Reuters
Arid conditions in Ivory Coast endanger cocoa mid-crop: farmers - Reuters
Global CO2 emissions from power generation flatten out: IEA - Reuters
Plant a trillion trees: U.S. Republicans offer fossil fuel-friendly climate fix - Reuters
The ski resort with no snow contemplates a warmer future - Reuters
Munich Re targets growing global energy weather hedges - Reuters
Investors urge Japan to strengthen climate targets ahead of U.N. summit - Reuters
Column: Coal-fired power is losing 'unfair fight' in India to renewables - Reuters
Global warming causing 'irreversible' mass melting in Antarctica: scientist - Reuters
UK watchdog to scrutinise how companies, auditors calculate climate risk - Reuters
Moscow meltdown: Russian capital has warmest January as experts point to global warming - Reuters
Europe's infrastructure at high risk from climate change: U.N. study - Reuters
Indonesia's low-lying capital flooded for second time this year - Reuters
Column: Coal-fired power is losing 'unfair fight' in India to renewables - Reuters
EU planning carbon border measures ‘as soon as possible’ - Reuters
Science Alert
We've Vastly Underestimated How Much Methane Humans Are Spewing Into The Atmosphere
Science Daily
Glacier algae creates dark zone at the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet -- ScienceDaily
Scientific American
"Unprecedented" Locust Invasion Approaches Full-Blown Crisis - Scientific American
Peru's Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming - Scientific American
Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End - Scientific American Blog Network
Scripps Institution
Smithsonian
South China Morning Post
Japan’s spectacular sea ice floes may soon be a thing of the past | South China Morning Post
Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change and bushfires have strong link, experts say
Australia fires: Climate change may contributing to rise in 'rare' firestorms, says UNSW study
NSW fires: Australia's 'black summer' blazes of epic proportions
Telegraph
Industrial Revolution means UK has moral responsibility to lead on climate change, Michael Gove says
The Conversation
Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous
Greta Thunberg seeks trademarks to prevent commercial misuse
Climate action shouldn't mean choosing between personal and political responsibility
Why some green policies can actually harm progress on climate change
How is climate change affecting fishes? There are clues inside their ears
We calculated emissions due to electricity loss on the power grid – globally, it's a lot
Why SF₆ emissions from the renewable energy sector should not be considered a ‘dirty secret’
222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations
Climate change means longer take-offs and fewer passengers per aeroplane – new study
Plane, train, or automobile? The climate impact of transport is surprisingly complicated
The Hill
BP withdraws from industry groups, citing climate disagreements | TheHill
The Times
Scottish budget will be centred on climate fight as summers get hotter | Scotland | The Times
The Times view on BP and climate change: Beyond Carbon | Comment | The Times
Flooding: We need dams not trees to protect villages, say scientists | News | The Times
Shell rejects ‘arms race’ with BP over carbon cuts | Business | The Times
UNICEF
Vox
The sustainable fashion conversation is based on bad statistics and misinformation - Vox
Climate change: “Social tipping points” are the only hope - Vox
How the Pentagon plans for climate change - Vox
Carbon offsets, the popular climate change mitigation tactic, explained - Vox
Washington Post
Britain's Boris Johnson launches climate action - The Washington Post
How Europe Turned Into a Perfect Landscape for Wildfires - The New York Times
Europe just posted its warmest January on record - The Washington Post
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability - The Washington Post
Trump budget cuts funding for health, science, environment agencies - The Washington Post
January was most unusually warm month on Earth without an El Niño - The Washington Post
WIRED
The Arctic Is Getting Greener. That's Bad News for All of Us
It's time to say goodbye to our most ambitious climate target ever | WIRED UK
World Economic Forum
Global food security is under threat from climate change | World Economic Forum
World Resources Institute
Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in the Arctic | WIRED
Want to Grow Trees? Consider These 5 Lessons | World Resources Institute
Intense Boreal Forest Fires a Climate Concern | World Resources Institute
4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Countries and Sectors | World Resources Institute
Yale Climate Connections
Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil » Yale Climate Connections
Climate fiction for climate action » Yale Climate Connections
Books about life in the Anthropocene » Yale Climate Connections
There's no substitute for Earth, astronomer says » Yale Climate Connections
How climate change affects mental health » Yale Climate Connections
The pros and cons of enhanced geothermal energy systems » Yale Climate Connections
Farms inside shipping containers could grow more local produce » Yale Climate Connections
New and recent books about hope in a time of climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Emperor penguins imperiled by climate change, study finds » Yale Climate Connections
Yale E360
Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming - Yale E360
Academic articles
AAAS Science
Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s massive ocean currents | Science | AAAS
Climate of the Past
Current Biology
Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests: Current Biology
IOP Science
To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming? - IOPscience
Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic - IOPscience
Climate variability or anthropogenic emissions: which caused Beijing Haze? - IOPscience
The role of transport electrification in global climate change mitigation scenarios - IOPscience
Repeated leak detection and repair surveys reduce methane emissions over scale of years - IOPscience
Shifting velocity of temperature extremes under climate change - IOPscience
Nature
Early climate models successfully predicted global warming
No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era | Nature
Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter | Nature
Preindustrial 14 CH 4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH 4 emissions | Nature
First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’
Perma | Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter | Nature
Nature Climate Change
Little influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude climate | Nature Climate Change
Earlier leaf-out warms air in the north | Nature Climate Change
Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes | Nature Climate Change
In the line of fire | Nature Climate Change
A fiery wake-up call for climate science | Nature Climate Change
The role of climate variability in Australian drought | Nature Climate Change
Research is not immune to climate change | Nature Climate Change
Nature Communications
Nature Energy
Energy modellers should explore extremes more systematically in scenarios | Nature Energy
Financial herding must be checked to avert climate crashes | Nature Energy
Climate risks are becoming legal liabilities for the energy sector | Nature Energy
Event-based models to understand the scale of the impact of extremes | Nature Energy
Energy finance must account for extreme weather risk | Nature Energy
Nature Geoscience
Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw | Nature Geoscience
Nature Plants
Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech | Nature Plants
PLOS One
The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers
PNAS
Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival | PNAS
Science
A sustainable wood biorefinery for low–carbon footprint chemicals production | Science
Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget | Science
Science Advances
Scientific Reports
150-year-old plankton gives first evidence that climate change stops shells growing
Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton | Scientific Reports
Springer Link
Soil carbon sequestration in grazing systems: managing expectations | SpringerLink
Migration and Household Adaptation in Climate-Sensitive Hotspots in South Asia | SpringerLink
Wiley Online Library – Earth’s Future
Wiley Online Library – Geophysical Research Letters
Wiley Online Library – Global Change Biology
Wiley Online Library – Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Wiley Online Library – Journal of Flood Risk Management
Wiley Online Library – Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences