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News links for April

 

Climate effects

 

Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse - report - BBC News

 

Increasing extreme melt in northeast Greenland linked to foehn winds and atmospheric rivers | Nature Communications

 

Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming | Nature Climate Change

 

Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame | New Scientist

 

Unusually heavy snowfall on US west coast is ‘once-in-a-generation’ event | Extreme weather | The Guardian

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Drought and fire

 

Argentina's 'unprecedented' drought pummels farmers and economy | Reuters

 

Horn of Africa drought is set to become the region’s worst on record | New Scientist

 

Somalia drought: 43,000 died in 2022 and this year’s toll will be higher, study finds | The Independent

 

Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by up to 5% in 2020, study finds | Ozone layer | The Guardian

 

Why the world needs a fire department - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

 

 

Ecology

 

Animals and People Are Clashing More Frequently Thanks to Climate Change, New Study Says - Inside Climate News

 

Climate change is pushing tigers and leopards into snow leopard’s mountainous territory in Nepal

 

Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish | Nature Climate Change

 

Continent-wide declines in shallow reef life over a decade of ocean warming | Nature

 

Nature in danger as mountain forest loss quickens - BBC News

 

Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time | Evolution Letters | Oxford Academic

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Heat and melting ice

 

Argentina's record-breaking heatwave has 'no similarities in history' | CNN

 

Europe experienced second-warmest winter on record | Reuters

 

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater | Nature

 

Arctic ice has seen an 'irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says - The Washington Post

 

‘Everyone should be concerned’: Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded | Antarctica | The Guardian

 

Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 | Antarctica | The Guardian

 

Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness | Nature

 

Sea level rise from West Antarctic mass loss significantly modified by large snowfall anomalies | Nature Communications

 

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Rain, floods and cyclonic winds

 

California storm: Atmospheric river hits with record rainfall, floods

 

Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?

 

Factbox: Cyclone Freddy among Africa's deadliest storms | Reuters

 

Flash floods: why are more of them devastating the world’s driest regions?

 

Floods kills at least 10 in southeast Turkey, Anadolu says | Reuters

 

Freddy: The deadly cyclone that lasted more than a month - BBC News

 

Heavy rainfall from New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle ‘more common on warmer planet’ - Carbon Brief

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Emissions

 

​Biden approves controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska | Alaska | The Guardian

 

Climate ambitions for European aviation: Where can sustainable aviation fuels bring us? - ScienceDirect

 

Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

 

US electricity from renewables surpasses coal for first time | The Hill

 

 

 

Mitigation

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Cleaner energy

 

China’s electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices | Nature Communications

 

Geothermal is gaining momentum as a climate-friendly energy source

 

Global renewables capacity grew by 10% last year-IRENA | Reuters

 

 

Drawdown​

 

Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding | Biofuels | The Guardian

 

Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme | Carbon offsetting | The Guardian

 

Carbon credit rule-makers must engage Indigenous People

 

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise - BBC News

 

Deforestation is reducing rainfall all over the tropics | New Scientist

 

Forget geoengineering. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Right now | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian

 

Here’s to reviving the ancient practice of silvopasture | Aeon Essays

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Regrowth of degraded tropical forests offsets ‘a quarter’ of deforestation emissions - Carbon Brief

 

Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming | New Scientist

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Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation | Nature

 

US firm to bid to turn DRC oil permits in Virunga park into conservation projects | Democratic Republic of the Congo | The Guardian

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Society

 

A favourite reef, a beloved atoll: Marshall Islands parents name children after vanishing landmarks | Marshall Islands | The Guardian

 

‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action | Arizona | The Guardian

 

Climate Activism as a Possible Solution to Parents` Climate Grief - Mountain Mamas

 

Climate change and conflict | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

 

How Buddhism can inform climate activism: a conversation with Kritee Kanko » Yale Climate Connections

 

More than lip service: In the struggle to curb climate change, we must listen to women – POLITICO

 

Opinion | How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine ‘abundance.’ - The Washington Post

 

Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It | The New Yorker

 

Risk of isolation increases the expected burden from sea-level rise | Nature Climate Change

 

When Climate Change Melts Your Relationship - The New York Times

 

Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of them young children | Global development | The Guardian

 

'The day I couldn’t find grains; I fled to Kenya', the ordeal of Somalis fleeing hunger | Africanews

 

Hollywood’s Climate Adviser - The New York Times

 

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Business

 

Aramco: Saudi state-owned oil giant sees record profit of $161bn - BBC News

 

EU agrees world's first bond issuance rules to combat greenwashing | Reuters

 

Food brands struggling to weather the 'polycrisis' unleashed by war and climate change | Reuters

 

In a first, coal company agrees to use social cost of carbon - E&E News

 

Naomi Oreskes on the fossil fuel industry's "fight for its life" | Semafor

 

Opinion | A Rush to Mine the Deep Sea Is Underway. It Must Be Stopped. - The New York Times

 

Quality standards to hold carbon offsetting industry to account | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

 

Stop insuring carbon projects 'immediately', activists tell bosses | Reuters

 

‘Terrified for my future’: climate crisis takes heavy toll on young people’s mental health | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Yellen warns climate change is causing major financial losses in U.S.

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International Cooperation

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Are debt-for-climate swaps finally taking off?

 

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now | Ralph Regenvanu and Seve Paeniu | The Guardian

 

DRC's dilemma: Generate oil wealth or combat climate change? – DW – 03/15/2023

 

Explainer: Have European countries violated human rights through climate inaction? | Reuters

 

In the name of the planet, Wales curtails roadbuilding | The Economist

 

International courts and climate change - The Hindu

 

International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster – here’s how it could

 

It's time to bring in climate change when talking about terrorism

 

Japan’s 'green transformation' would derail the energy transition in Asia

 

'Loss and damage' climate fund should be in place this year -Egyptian negotiator | Reuters

 

New cars sold in EU must be zero-emission from 2035 - BBC News

 

New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide | Oil | The Guardian

 

Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks - BBC News

 

Q&A: How the EU wants to race to net-zero with ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’ - Carbon Brief

 

Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change - Carbon Brief

 

United Nations adopts landmark resolution on climate justice | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Vulnerable nations join alliance to prepare loss and damage plans

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Who has contributed most to global warming?

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World's highest court can set out countries' climate obligations after Vanuatu secures historic UN vote | CNN

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Science research

 

Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades - Carbon Brief

 

Arctic climate modeling too conservative, says new research

 

Do back-to-back disasters show first climate tipping point is upon us? | New Scientist

 

Enhanced Asian warming increases Arctic amplification - IOPscience

 

Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change - ScienceDirect

 

Global Surface Ocean Acidification Indicators From 1750 to 2100 - Jiang - 2023 - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems - Wiley Online Library

 

Guest post: What 13,500 citations reveal about the IPCC’s climate science report - Carbon Brief

 

Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future? | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

IPCC's conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change

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Opinion | IPCC report is latest reminder climate change is about to get worse - The Washington Post

 

Projected West Antarctic Ocean Warming Caused by an Expansion of the Ross Gyre - Gómez‐Valdivia - 2023 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

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UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster - BBC News

 

World can still avoid worst of climate collapse with genuine change, IPCC says | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | The Guardian

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