News links for March

 

1.          Adaptation

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Innovation, pastoralism and climate change in Africa’s drylands

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Lessons for adaptation pathways in the Pacific Islands

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2.          Business and Industry

 

How climate change mitigation is turning investment assumptions on their head - Financial Times - Partner Content by London Stock Exchange Group

 

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2.1        Carbon offsetting

 

Can you really carbon offset a power station? Sure – but it’s unimpressive | Graham Readfearn | The Guardian

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World’s biggest firms failing over net-zero claims, research suggests | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

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Why Do Environmental Justice Advocates Oppose Carbon Markets? Look at California, They Say - Inside Climate News

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2.2        Finance

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Harmful subsidies: why is the world still funding the destruction of nature? | Environment | The Guardian

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How Billions in Infrastructure Funding Could Worsen Global Warming - The New York Times

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Oil and gas bankers confront their own energy transition | Reuters

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Private equity’s dirty dozen: the 12 US firms funding dirty energy projects | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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3.          Climate effects

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Climate Change Is Stretching Mumbai to Its Limit - The Atlantic

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‘We relied on the lake. Now it’s killing us’: climate crisis threatens future of Kenya’s El Molo people | Global development | The Guardian

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3.1        Cyclones / Hurricanes / Typhoons

 

Blizzard-like 'bomb cyclones' get boost from warming oceans | TheHill

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Cyclone Batsirai: Whole villages swept away in Madagascar - BBC News

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3.2        Drought

 

Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming | Nature Climate Change

 

Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change

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Southwestern megadrought is driest period in over 1200 years - Los Angeles Times

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3.3        Ecology

 

Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains - Nowak - - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library

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Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish, Water and Indigenous Traditions - Inside Climate News

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Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal | Nature Climate Change

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3.3.1     Coral reefs

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Future loss of local-scale thermal refugia in coral reef ecosystems

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3.4        Economic effects

 

The engineers battling to stop global warming ruining roads - BBC News

 

The World Isn’t Ready for Climate-Change-Driven Inflation - The Atlantic

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3.5        Fires

 

‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder | Environment | The Guardian

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World-first research confirms Australia's forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion

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3.6        Heat

 

Flourishing plants show warming Antarctica undergoing ‘major change’ | Environment | The Guardian

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Guest post: Why does the Arctic warm faster than the rest of the planet? - Carbon Brief

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3.6.1     Wet-bulb (humid heat) extremes

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Measuring climate change: It's not just heat, it's humidity | AP News

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3.7        Ice

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TC - Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)

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3.7.1     Antarctic ice

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Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level since measurements began in 1979 | Antarctica | The Guardian

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3.7.2     Arctic ice

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Greenland’s ice is melting far faster, research claims | News | The Times

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3.7.3     Mountains

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Study finds glaciers may contain less ice than previously estimated - The Washington Post

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3.8     Oceans

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Oceans Are Warmer Than Ever, Creating Chaotic Global Weather

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Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014 | Oceans | The Guardian

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The recent normalization of historical marine heat extremes

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3.8.1     Acidification

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Hurricanes can cause ocean acidity to spike near the seafloor » Yale Climate Connections

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3.9      Rain, floods, hail and snow

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Brazil mudslides: Climate change makes favelas disasters waiting to happen - The Washington Post

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Increasing snowstorms in Northeast U.S. linked to climate change - The Washington Post

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Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard | Nature Climate Change

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3.10     Sea rise

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Opinion | Sea levels are rising at a staggering rate. We’re running out of time to act. - The Washington Post

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What the latest science says about Antarctica and sea-level rise » Yale Climate Connections

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4           Emissions

 

U.S. unveils $1.15 bln for abandoned oil and gas well clean-up | Reuters

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U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds | Reuters

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4.1        Coal

 

Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh | Reuters

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EXCLUSIVE India's state coal giant plans bulk exports for first time | Reuters

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Gas crisis brought Europe’s coal exit to a halt in 2021: study – EURACTIV.com

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Russia, China agree new coal deal for 100 million ton supply: state media

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4.2        Internet emissions contributions

 

Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian

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4.3        Land based emissions

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4.3.1     Deforestation and habitat

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Deforestation emissions far higher than previously thought, study finds | Deforestation | The Guardian

 

Deforestation triggering irreversible transition in Amazon hydrological cycle - IOPscience

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4.4        Methane

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Australia spending billions on new gas pipelines that may end up worthless stranded assets | Energy | The Guardian

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Biden administration to send $1.15 billion to states to plug orphaned wells, which leak planet-warming methane - The Washington Post

 

How Greenhouse Gases Released by the Oil and Gas Industry Far Exceed What Regulators Think They Know  - Inside Climate News

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Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane

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To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends - Inside Climate News

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4.5        Particulate pollution

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Climate change: Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China - BBC News

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5           Mitigation

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Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins | Nature Climate Change

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5.1        Albedo (reflectivity) interventions

 

Frontiers | A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk | Climate

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Trying to cool the Earth by dimming sunlight could be worse than global warming

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5.2        Carbon capture technologies

 

Limits to Paris compatibility of CO2 capture and utilization - ScienceDirect

 

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5.3        Cleaner energy

 

Guest post: Does renewable energy threaten efforts to conserve biodiversity on land? - Carbon Brief

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How Scotland is using waves and bubbles to generate energy - Washington Post

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Japan wants to burn ammonia for clean energy – but it may be a pyrrhic victory for the climate

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Neom: What's the green truth behind a planned eco-city in the Saudi desert? - BBC News

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Physicists create self-burning plasma, but is it a step towards sustainable nuclear fusion energy? - ABC News

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5.4        Negative emissions activities

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Europe aims to scale up infrastructure for permanent carbon removals – EURACTIV.com

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5.4.1     Forest and habitat drawdown

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How a humble mushroom could save forests and fight climate change

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5.4.2     Oceanic drawdown

 

Quantifying the carbon export and sequestration pathways of the ocean's biological carbon pump - Nowicki - - Global Biogeochemical Cycles - Wiley Online Library

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5.5        Nuclear power

 

France to build 6 nuclear reactors as part of climate goals | AP News

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Largest US public power company launches new nuclear program | AP News

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6           People

 

Climate change: Children push parents to be more conscious about global warming, research finds

 

Solving Climate Change Requires A New Social Contract | Time

 

The 1.5 degrees goal: Beware of unintended consequences » Yale Climate Connections

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6.1        Cultural loss and damage

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How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past

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Mapped: African world heritage sites threatened by sea level rise ‘to triple by 2050’ - Carbon Brief

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6.2        Food and crops

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Food Prices Approach Record Highs, Threatening the World’s Poorest - The New York Times

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Rare kinds of coffee, wine, and other foods could go extinct - Vox

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6.3        Health and safety

 

Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate | PNAS

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Signs of premature ageing found in monkeys after hurricane | Biology | The Guardian

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6.4        Indigenous peoples

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Culture change to address climate change: Collaborations with Indigenous and Earth sciences for more just, equitable, and sustainable responses to our climate crisis

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Nature’s Say: How Voices from Hawai’i Are Reframing the Climate Conversation  - Inside Climate News

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6.5        Media

 

The Brexiteer brigade are bored and now they're coming for net zero - New Statesman

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The global climate attention crisis – POLITICO

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6.6        Communities transitioning

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In Vermont, a Town Saved a Mountain, and a Mountain Saved a Town - The New York Times

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The coal country of tomorrow - ABC News

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6.7        Religions

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Vatican launches online platform to help Catholics fight climate change » Yale Climate Connections

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7           Politics

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7.1        Climate Justice

 

Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds - ScienceDirect

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7.2        National progress on emissions

 

Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On - The New York Times

 

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7.2.1     European Union

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EU presses on with green label for gas, nuclear

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7.2.2     Germany

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Germany appoints ex-Greenpeace chief as special climate envoy | Germany | The Guardian

 

Germany must bring African nations into its G7 'climate club'

 

Germany's diplomacy pivots toward fighting climate change | AP News

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7.2.3     Less developed countries

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Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are - Inside Climate News

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7.2.4    United States

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The rightwing US supreme court has climate protection in its sights | Laurence H Tribe and Jeremy Lewin | The Guardian

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8           Science

 

Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863, study finds | Daily Mail Online

 

Operational extreme weather event attribution can quantify climate change loss and damages

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Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire’s role in the Earth system | Nature Geoscience

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Scientists recommend a system of checkpoints to help guide climate engineering research | NOAA Climate.gov

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Trends in surface equivalent potential temperature: A more comprehensive metric for global warming and weather extremes | PNAS

 

It’s Not Just Climate: Are We Ignoring Other Causes of Disasters? - Yale E360

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8.1        IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report

 

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world - Carbon Brief

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U.N. climate change report warns of ‘dangerous and widespread disruption’ - The Washington Post

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