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News links for February

 

Climate effects

 

Australia fights a highly destructive termite aided by climate change - The Washington Post

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China warns of more floods and heatwaves in 2023

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Climate change: We’ve entered the era of unnatural disasters. Here’s what we must do

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Dozens of billion-dollar weather disasters hit Earth in 2022 » Yale Climate Connections

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Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective - American Meteorological Society

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New climate reality: Less warming, but worse impacts on the planet - The Washington Post

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Relentless rain, record heat: study finds climate crisis worsened extreme weather | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Wild Weather Swings Are Robbing California of Its Trees - The New York Times

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More than 2,400 lives will be lost to bushfires in Australia over a decade, experts predict | Health | The Guardian

 

Cold weather

Why Can a Warming Climate Increase Snowfall? - The New York Times

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How Climate Change Is Shaping California’s Winter Storms - The New York Times

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California snowpack deepest in four decades | The Hill

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Compare This Snow Season to Every Winter for More Than 50 Years - The New York Times

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Drought

Future global streamflow declines are probably more severe than previously estimated | Nature Water

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Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events | Nature Sustainability

 

How Water Finally Became a Climate Change Priority - Scientific American

 

Ecology

Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange | WIRED

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Climate change is leaving African elephants desperate for water

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Death in the marshes: environmental calamity hits Iraq’s unique wetlands | Iraq | The Guardian

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Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption | Nature Sustainability

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Exclusive: Huge chunk of plants, animals in U.S. at risk of extinction | Reuters

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Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic "Like Wildfire" : ScienceAlert

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Shrinking body size and climate warming: Many freshwater salmonids do not follow the rule - Solokas - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

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Heat

‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe | Extreme weather | The Guardian

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Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe - The Washington Post

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Los Angeles is becoming too hot to bear. Can it design its way cooler? | Los Angeles | The Guardian

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Record warm winter in parts of Europe forces closure of ski slopes | Europe | The Guardian

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Australia could swing from three years of La Niña to hot and dry El Niño in 2023 | Australia weather | The Guardian

 

European weather: Winter heat records smashed all over continent - BBC News

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Climate change: UK's 2022 was hottest year on record, says forecaster | Reuters

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How a wildly warm winter is rippling through Europe and the U.S. - The Washington Post

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NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

Snowless slopes spoil holiday skiing in Switzerland | Reuters

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UK’s record hot 2022 made 160 times more likely by climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Melting ice

Glacial lake outburst floods threaten millions globally | Nature Communications

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Glacial lake outbursts put 15 million people at risk to catastrophic flooding, researchers find - CNN

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Half of Earth's glaciers will vanish this century, study finds - The Washington Post

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Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming - Carbon Brief

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More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice | Nature Climate Change

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Scientists Report a Dramatic Drop in the Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice - Inside Climate News

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Rain, floods and cyclonic winds

California's Atmospheric River Blitz is a Mild Reminder of an Inevitable Climatic Calamity

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Here's how climate change may be fueling tornadoes - The Washington Post

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Here's how climate change may be fueling tornadoes - The Washington Post

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New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day | Reuters

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'Once in a century' flood cuts off communities in northwestern Australia | Reuters

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Philippines: Christmas Floods Kill 51 and Strand Thousands - The New York Times

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Support for Pakistan has ebbed away – yet its deadly floodwaters have not | Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif | The Guardian

 

The other 'big one': How a megaflood could swamp California's Central Valley » Yale Climate Connections

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Emissions

BP scales back climate targets as profits hit record - BBC News

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Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands | Nature

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Exclusive: China Energy places order to import Australian coal | Reuters

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How Plastic Pollution Causes Climate Change

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Net zero possible in 2040s, says outgoing UK climate business expert | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Stranded assets and early closures in global coal mining under 1.5∘C - IOPscience

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Mitigation

Exclusive: World Bank seeks more funds to address climate change, other crises -document | Reuters

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Canada oil sands producers to begin evaluating proposed carbon storage site | Reuters

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‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn - The New York Times

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World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack | Sovereign wealth funds | The Guardian

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Cleaner energy

Fusion vs Fission: A Climate Mitigation Dilemma

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Germany has built LNG terminals in months. Wind turbines still take years. - The Washington Post

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Germany, Norway want to tie the knot with new hydrogen pipeline – EURACTIV.com

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Is a Dam in Rural Portugal a Key to Our Alternative Energy Future? - The New York Times

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Putting solar panels in grazing fields is good for sheep | New Scientist

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Renewable spurt pushes power towards emissions 'tipping point' | Reuters

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The Missing Minerals: To Shift to Clean Energy, America Must Rethink Supply Chains

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Drawdown

The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis | Oceans | The Guardian

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Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples - Carbon Brief

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Brown gold: the great American manure rush begins | Farming | The Guardian

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Quantifying global carbon dioxide removal deployment - IOPscience

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Society

Texas agriculture agency says climate change threatens state’s food supply | The Texas Tribune

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A Boston-area organizer is helping communities get ready for more extreme heat waves » Yale Climate Connections

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‘A partner you can rely on’: Falling in love while the climate changes » Yale Climate Connections

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Better insurance could effectively mitigate the increase in economic growth losses from U.S. hurricanes under global warming | Science Advances

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Climate change is transforming Australia’s cultural life – so why isn’t it mentioned in the new national cultural policy?

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Epidemic of kidney disease in Nepali workers presages climate change future of the world - The Washington Post

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Extinction Rebellion says 'we quit' – why radical eco-activism has a short shelf life

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Florida Neighborhoods Are Gentrifying in the Wake of Hurricanes, Study Finds - Yale E360

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Forest Equity: What Indigenous People Want from Carbon Credits - Yale E360

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Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study | Insects | The Guardian

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How Climate Change Affects Book Preservation - The New York Times

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How evangelicals moved from supporting environmental stewardship to climate skepticism

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How faith can inspire environmental action

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Society isn’t changing fast enough to stop climate change: study | The Hill

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The amazing system plants use to shape their roots and why it could help protect crops from climate change

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Media

'Boys will be boys': why consumers don't punish big polluters for greenwashing lies

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8 artists who are grappling with climate change and imagining a better world » Yale Climate Connections

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The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing | Environment | The Guardian

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Politics and International Cooperation

Energy giant ExxonMobil sues EU to block energy windfall tax - BBC News

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Exclusive: World Bank seeks more funds to address climate change, other crises -document | Reuters

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Four West African nations get $311 million from World Bank for renewables | Reuters

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John Kerry Says Oil Chief Leading COP28 Is 'Terrific.' It's Terrifying | Opinion

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Australian review finds no problem with carbon offset programme | Reuters

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France’s Hottest Year Was Also 2nd Driest, Putting Climate Pressure on Government

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Science research

Mathematical Alarms Could Help Predict and Avoid Climate Tipping Points - Inside Climate News

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On some aspects of the response to stochastic and deterministic forcings - IOPscience

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Can microplastics pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration? - ScienceDirect

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Extreme climate change and contemporary analogs for cities in mainland China in a 2.0 °C warmer climate - ScienceDirect

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Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening | Nature Communications

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Why scientists are using the word scary over the climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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