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News links for June

 

Adaptation

India is trying to adapt to extreme heat - The Washington Post

To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies in Planning Adaptations - Inside Climate News

 

 

Business and Industry

Climate change is hurting insurers, report says | Reuters      

Climate: Airline giant KLM to face legal action over greenwashing

Companies confront a new climate challenge: home offices | Reuters

Corporations Pledge to Buy ‘Green’ at Davos Gathering - The New York Times

‘Go after the money’: Goldman environmental prize winner honoured for urging banks to divest from coal | Fossil fuel divestment | The Guardian

Record number of polluters set CO2 emissions targets - BBC News

Germany, India sign $10.5B green development deal | The Hill

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Climate effects

Clusters of Weather Extremes Will Increase Risks to Corn Crops, Society – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Hundreds of Iraqis hospitalised as thick sandstorm blankets country | Iraq | The Guardian

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Drought

Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift | Nature Communications

Droughts increase 29 percent in a generation, only getting worse: UN | The Hill

Middle-east’s 10 weeks of sandstorms a new sign of climate change

Recent European Drought Was the Most Intense in At Least 250 Years - Yale E360

Slow progress on Great Green Wall prompts soul-searching at UN desertification summit

 

Ecology

Climate change disrupting ‘the language of life’ across all types of ecosystems | The Independent

Higher tree diversity is linked to higher tree mortality | PNAS

 

Coral Reefs

Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached | AP News

NASA's ECOSTRESS Detects ‘Heat Islands' in Extreme Indian Heat Wave – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

Heat

Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts

Guest post: What have been the most extreme heatwaves in history? - Carbon Brief

Spain, France and Portugal among countries experiencing record-setting heat - The Washington Post

 

Heat – South Asia

‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C | Climate crisis | The Guardian

A climate scientist on India and Pakistan's horror heatwave, and the surprising consequences of better air quality

Climate change made India and Pakistan’s 2022 early heatwave ‘30 times more likely’ - Carbon Brief

 

Ice

Mountain Ice

As record-setting heat blasts Pakistan, a glacial lake floods village - The Washington Post

 

Oceans

Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs | New Zealand | The Guardian

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years - Inside Climate News

 

Acidification

World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns | Reuters

 

Rain, floods and hail

Did Warming Play a Role in Deadly South African Floods? Yes, a Study Says. - The New York Times

Israeli study: Climate change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080 | The Times of Israel

Millions Displaced and Dozens Dead in Flooding in India and Bangladesh - The New York Times

People in Brazil's Amazon rainforest again reel from floods | AP News

Planetary waves, cut-off lows and blocking highs: what's behind record floods across the Southern Hemisphere?

The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere | Nature Climate Change

West coast India’s rainfall is becoming more convective | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

 

Secondary climate effects

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts - Inside Climate News

 

Tornadoes

At least 11 dead in wake of Michigan tornado, Canada derecho » Yale Climate Connections

 

Wet-dry extremes

Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes | Nature Geoscience

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Emissions

McKinsey expects fossil fuels to peak by 2030 – Energy Monitor

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

 

Aerosols

New Research Shows Aerosol Emissions May Have Masked Global Warming’s Supercharging of Tropical Storms - Inside Climate News

 

Coal

India ramps up coal production amid record-setting heat and blackouts - The Washington Post

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Land based emissions

Deforestation and habitat

Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth

The Brazilian Amazon has been a net carbon emitter since 2016 | The Economist

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Methane

Oil Giants Sell Dirty Wells to Buyers With Looser Climate Goals, Study Finds - The New York Times

US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster | Oil | The Guardian

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Oil

DR Congo approves auction of oil blocks in one of the world's largest carbon sinks

 

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Mitigation

Carbon removal technologies

Catching carbon | Nature Geoscience

The birth of the carbon removal market

US presses ahead with plan to invest $3.5bn in four direct air capture hubs | BusinessGreen News

What you need to know about carbon dioxide removal » Yale Climate Connections

 

Cleaner energy

‘Alarming’ Climate Records In 2021 Prompt UN Call To Triple Renewable Energy Investment To $4 Trillion

IEA expects record renewable growth despite cost, supply problems | Reuters

Supply chain delays and steel costs are part of ‘perfect storm’ stalling renewable energy growth | Renewable energy | The Guardian

 

Degrowth

Integrating degrowth and efficiency perspectives enables an emission-neutral food system by 2100 | Nature Food

 

Negative emissions activities

Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country - Roe - 2021 - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

 

Agricultural drawdown

Rural land abandonment is too ephemeral to provide major benefits for biodiversity and climate

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Forest and habitat drawdown

Climate Change Will Limit How Much Carbon Forests Take Up, New Research Shows - Yale E360

Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration | Nature Geoscience

Tropical vegetation benefits less from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide than researchers previously thought

What Happened to Forests in 2021? | Global Forest Watch Blog

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Nuclear

The dangerous business of decommissioning America’s nuclear plants - The Washington Post

Warming French rivers could take more nuclear supply offline | Reuters

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People

How the climate crisis and masculinity intersect | The Saturday Paper

Lessons from European renewable energy communities » Yale Climate Connections

Western Architecture is Making India's Heatwaves Worse | Time

Climate change is making our homes uninsurable

 

Belief systems

Why is climate 'doomism' going viral – and who's fighting it? - BBC News

 

Carbon footprints

Readers reply: what is the single most effective thing I could do to reduce my carbon footprint? | Life and style | The Guardian

 

Cultural loss and damage

‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

 

Food and crops

India bans wheat exports to try and tame prices as a scorching heatwave curtailed output

Pakistan's mango production to fall by 50% due to heatwave, water shortage | Reuters

As war and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis | World news | The Guardian

The coming food catastrophe | The Economist

 

Mental health

Suicides indicate wave of ‘doomerism’ over escalating climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The kids are not OK » Yale Climate Connections

 

Indigenous peoples

New book says Indigenous knowledge is key to fighting climate change » Yale Climate Connections

 

Media

Analysis: Fashion Industry Efforts to Verify Sustainability Make 'Greenwashing’ Easier - Inside Climate News

Mega, giga, terafire: New language to capture monster blazes

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Politics

National progress on emissions

After COP26, nations struggle to make progress on climate amid the pandemic, political fights and the war in Ukraine - The Washington Post

Global Fossil Fuel Commitments Database

The west can cut its energy dependency on Russia and be greener | Jeffrey Frankel | The Guardian

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Australia

After many false dawns, Australians finally voted for stronger climate action. Here's why this election was different

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Brazil

Brazil president announces carbon market, thin on details | AP News

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Europe including UK

Climate change: UK’s net zero target is under threat because there’s no plan to pay for it

EU lawmakers back effective ban on new fossil-fuel cars from 2035 | Reuters

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Less developed countries

Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It - Inside Climate News

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Small island states

Island states back Vanuatu's quest for climate justice at the UN

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United States

Biden Administration Cancels Oil Drilling Sales in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico - The New York Times

 

 

Science

Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C - IOPscience

Guest post: How climate scientists should handle ‘hot models’ - Carbon Brief

John Doerr Gives Stanford $1.1 Billion for Climate School - The New York Times

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Summations

Climate action on CO2 emissions alone won’t prevent extreme warming - study | Reuters

Climate change indicators hit record highs in 2021: UN

Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences | Live Science

We need optimism – but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous | George Monbiot | The Guardian

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