The Shortlist from March 2021's News

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Why aren’t we more afraid of global warming? The psychology of procrastinating on climate change | The Independent

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Climate change cues tree swallows to nest earlier in spring » Yale Climate Connections

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To fight climate change, save the whales, some scientists say

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'Existential threat to our survival': see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing

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UN: New national climate pledges will only cut emissions ‘by 2%’ over next decade | Carbon Brief

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Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules - POLITICO

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Climate change is the top concern for UK students, outranking inequality, healthcare and the economy

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BLACKPINK named advocates for UN climate change conference

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How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble - BBC News

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Hurricane Hunters’ grueling pace in 2020 may not abate with climate change - The Washington Post

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Cancel all planned coal projects globally to end ‘deadly addiction’, says UN chief | Coal | The Guardian

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Passionate young voices demand to be heard on climate crisis

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How Do Countries' New Emissions-reduction Plans Stack Up? | World Resources Institute

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The climate crisis shows how rich people blow through their “fair share” of carbon emissions - Vox

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Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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Making Peace With Nature | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL MANN:. LET’S NOT HAVE THE NEW CLIMATE WAR BE A… | by Rupert Read | Mar, 2021 | Medium

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Blue carbon: how three Australian marine sites lock away 2bn tonnes of CO2 | Great Barrier Reef | The Guardian

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The top U.S. lobbying group for oil and gas is poised to embrace carbon pricing, report says | Fortune

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Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm | Carbon Brief

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Global oil companies have committed to 'net zero' emissions. It's a sham | Climate change | The Guardian

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Guest post: Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half | Carbon Brief

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Decadal variability modulates trends in concurrent heat and drought over global croplands - IOPscience

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The UN Environment Programme needs new powers

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An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change - The Washington Post

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In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers - The New York Times

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New normal for Atlantic hurricanes shows more frequent and intense storms - The Washington Post

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‘Climate neutral’ is a lie — abandon it as a goal

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We need to talk about fossil fuel mining that’s powered by renewable energy | by Ketan Joshi | LobbyWatch | Medium

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The climate crisis can't be solved by carbon accounting tricks | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

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Emerging dominance of summer rainfall driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity | Nature Communications

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A 20-Year-Old Climate Change Mystery Has Finally Been Explained - Bloomberg

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Methane emissions from Russian pipelines surged during the coronavirus pandemic

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Guest post: Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half | Carbon Brief

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Opinion | Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice? - The New York Times

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Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability | Climate change | The Guardian

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Climate change is flooding the Arctic Ocean with light – what it means for the species that live there

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Climate change causing faster snow melt in the Himalayas | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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The Himalayan hazards nobody is monitoring - BBC News

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Why companies involved with carbon removal tech struggle to pay for it

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Why a more equal world would be easier to decarbonise

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Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability | Climate change | The Guardian

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Oil Giants Prepare to Put Carbon Back in the Ground - The New York Times

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Food prices rise globally as countries compete to replenish stockpiles, bad weather hits crops - ABC News

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Global Changes in 20‐year, 50‐year and 100‐year River Floods - Slater - - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

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It's unavoidable: we must ban fossil fuels to save our planet. Here's how we do it | Climate change | The Guardian

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US envoy promotes climate alignment with Europe – EURACTIV.com

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Death rattle of the internal combustion engine sparks a political battle – POLITICO

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FedEx to spend $2 billion to buy electric vehicles and $100 million for Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture - The Washington Post

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New study challenges finding that climate change will drive dryland expansion | Carbon Brief

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Political party set up by school climate strikers takes on German Greens | Germany | The Guardian

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Why Extinction Rebellion hasn't taken off in the US — yet

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Meet the Climate Change Activists of TikTok | WIRED

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Europe’s sputtering nuclear renaissance – POLITICO

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Details behind Biden's '30 by 30' U.S. lands and oceans climate goal » Yale Climate Connections

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An honest look at 'Self-Portrait with Cephalopod' » Yale Climate Connections

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Is the ‘Legacy’ Carbon Credit Market a Climate Plus or Just Hype? - Yale E360

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Carbon offsets offer a fantasy of capitalism without crises

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Books, Reports, and Research Groups on Our Radar — Covering Climate Now

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Opinion | Taylor Swift Is Singing Us Back to Nature - The New York Times

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Climate change: 'Default effect' sees massive green energy switch - BBC News

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Is this the end of forests as we've known them? | Trees and forests | The Guardian

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Poorest people will suffer worst from cities’ heat | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia

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Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability | Nature Geoscience

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‘There's no ice’: warming seas chill Quebec’s seal tourism | Environment | The Guardian

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The Greenland ice sheet may be more vulnerable than we knew to global warming, new study shows - The Washington Post

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Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years' | Climate change | The Guardian

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Ending over mending: planned obsolescence is killing the planet | Technology | The Guardian

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‘Reading the writing on the wall’: why Wall Street is acting on the climate crisis | Climate change | The Guardian

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Peatland on fire again as burning season starts in Indonesia

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Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds | Marine life | The Guardian

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Conditional attribution of climate change and atmospheric circulation contributing to the record-breaking precipitation and temperature event of summer

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2020 in southern China - IOPscience

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Technologies to deliver food and climate security through agriculture | Nature Plants

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Where Climate Scientists See Danger, Russia Sees an Opportunity - Bloomberg

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As the Mekong delta washes away, homes and highways are being lost | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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Unleashing the climate market | Opinion | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 now hitting 50% higher than pre-industrial levels | Carbon Brief

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Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix

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Don't believe hydrogen and nuclear hype – they can’t get us to net zero carbon by 2050 | Energy | The Guardian

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‘Garbage’ models and black boxes? The science of climate disaster planning - POLITICO

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Joe Biden’s climate ambitions must include land rights for Congo forest communities

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In Brussels, green still means white – EURACTIV.com

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Peatland on fire as burning season starts anew in Indonesia | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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Global Warming Was Already Fueling Droughts in Early 1900s, Study Shows - Inside Climate News

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Drawdown Impossible? | Climate Now

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Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal | Environment | The Guardian

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Clock is running on our reliance on vegetation as a steady 'carbon sink' » Yale Climate Connections

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We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide | The New Republic

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The New Humanitarian | Disaster risk reduction and climate change: Revenge of the nerds

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Climate change risks new cold war in Arctic, warns Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg | News | The Times

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Protests aim to put climate (not COVID) top of global agenda – POLITICO

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Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World's Growing Demand for Food - Inside Climate News

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‘Without a carbon cap, you can’t provide strong support for a carbon peak’ | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

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New research says preserving at least 30 percent of the ocean will improve the health of the planet - The Washington Post

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Climate fight 'is undermined by social media's toxic reports' | Climate change | The Guardian

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Climate Anxiety - Scientific American

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Apocalypse how? - Why Hollywood struggles to tell stories about climate change | Prospero | The Economist

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Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change | Nature Communications

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Global climate strike: Activists around the world defy Covid restrictions | The Independent

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'Arctic warming causing heatwaves in India', says study- The New Indian Express

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7 Reasons Why Artificial Carbon Removal is Overhyped | by Dr. Jonathan Foley | Mar, 2021 | GlobalEcoGuy.org

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One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study | Soil | The Guardian

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Lightning in the Arctic - Holzworth - - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

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Guest post: How climate change drove food insecurity in the 2007 Lesotho drought | Carbon Brief

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Irrigation canals covered in solar panels are a powerful combination

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President Biden is crafting a plan to quickly and deeply cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions - The Washington Post

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A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO 2 | Nature

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Scientists need to face both facts and feelings when dealing with the climate crisis | Climate change | The Guardian

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Carbon markets are proving resilient to the coronavirus pandemic

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'We want to be included': First Nations demand a say on climate change | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian

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Pollinators are our secret weapon in the fight against global warming | New Scientist

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Brazil meat giant JBS vows net zero by 2040 amid record profits | Brazil | The Guardian

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Wind industry warns not building enough to curb global warming | Reuters

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Oil Giants Prepare to Put Carbon Back in the Ground - The New York Times

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Crisis in the Himalayas: climate change and unsustainable development | Financial Times

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Japan’s Kyoto cherry blossoms peak on earliest date in 1,200 years - The Washington Post

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Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive | Investing | The Guardian

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