A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A report produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central finds that 2024 was quite a year for extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. WWA studied 16 floods; out of those, 15 had been driven by climate change-amplified rainfall. Image credit: WWA.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belm in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations. Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement.

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Physics World

JULY 24, 2025

A shortage of data is hampering efforts to establish the role of climate change in extreme-weather events in the tropics and global south. So say an international team of scientists , who claim the current situation is a “scientific injustice” and call for more investment in climate science and weather monitoring in poorer countries.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 21, 2025

Fourteen years after flooding killed more than 1,000 people on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines , Indigenous growers are restoring a natural floodplain to help protect and rejuvenate the rainforest community. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Fresh: From the Great Lakes Region Boundary Waters Canoe Area : As U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change. The Energy Department under Trump has reportedly hired at least three scientists who are well-known for their rather unscientific rejection of the overwhelming consensus on human-caused climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Then there was this BBC headline from March that you probably saw in some form: Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit. The new four-lane highway at issue would cut down Amazon rainforest “for COP30,” seeming to capture the hypocrisy of Brazil hosting the megaevent. Less party and more results, Taveira says.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Though its northern and central regions are lush with tropical weather and rainforests, the south is historically dry, comprising vast desert stretches. But the climate has become so variable, with vast dry periods, then sudden and unpredictable monsoon events, that harvests have become impossible to reliably cultivate.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. There is, therefore, no legally valid option to simply omit to combat climate change,” the ruling said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Greenland Ice Sheet, like the Amazon rainforest, is fast approaching a juncture of degradation that the Himalayan and Tien Shan glaciers have already breached.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climate change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 28, 2023

“The Territory,” a documentary about the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people’s fight to protect their land, spotlights the unique natural music of the rainforest. By Kiley Bense Watching the first few minutes of “The Territory,” a new documentary set in the Amazon rainforest, is like listening to a symphony of deforestation.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The re-election of president Jair Bolsonaro would severely harm the Amazon rainforest, while his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is promising to reverse much of the recent environmental damage and meet climate change targets

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climate change. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 16, 2024

Global warming made hot, dry weather that fuels wildfires more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

Eastward, across gnarled rivers and historic indigenous homelands, the great Amazon Rainforest paints this basin shades of green, refreshing much of the world’s oxygen. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climate change. For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China. I don’t purport to be an expert on that.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In Mexico , the rushed development of a tourist train across the Yucatan peninsula threatens biodiverse rainforests and Indigenous communities, drawing UN attention. Cranberry farmers in Massachusetts and New Jersey are reckoning with their future amid unpredictable rainfall and a changing climate. . More Water News.

2022

Inside Climate News

MARCH 7, 2022

By Georgina Gustin The world’s largest rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from droughts and fires, pushing it farther toward a threshold where it could transform into arid savannah, releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 24, 2024

By Georgina Gustin Climate change was the primary driver of a massive drought in the Amazon basin in 2023 and will likely cause future extreme droughts, with potentially dire consequences for global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from World Weather Attribution.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible. Their effects are practically irreversible.

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climate change will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climate change. More fundamentally, sustainability problems are interconnected and lend themselves to interdisciplinary study. Sending a Message.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest covers an area of 6 million square kilometres in northern South America [1]. Unfortunately for the species that inhabit the rainforest, 75% of Amazonian soils are acidic, infertile, and nutrient-deficient [3]. Transport of Saharan dust to the Amazon rainforest. References.

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The Applied Ecologist

AUGUST 1, 2023

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Charlotte Raven, a second-year PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, shares her story.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An Ecuadorian court rules against a mining operation in a protected rainforest. Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled last week that mining in a protected region of the Los Cedros rainforest violates the rights of nature. The rights of nature, like all the rights established in the Constitution Ecuadorian law, have full normative force.

2021

Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro bans outdoor fires ahead of the burning season in the Amazon rainforest. Climate is going to challenge our economies and the health of all people who live here.” – Cathy Whitlock, a Montana State University paleoclimatologist. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

For example, it would be possible to prosecute destruction of the Amazonian rainforest as genocide if it could be established that the destruction was intended to destroy an ethnic group as such ( this claim has been made, but it’s a tough one). Culpability attaches to proceeding to act (or failing to act) in full knowledge of the risk.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 3, 2021

by Kavya Prahdan, graduate student at the University of Washington I am Kavya Pradhan, a graduate student in the Hille Ris Lambers lab at the University of Washington where I study forest plant communities, their responses to climate change, and potential for climate change adaptation. ” — Kavya Pradhan.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’d like to learn more about how TNC researchers have been advancing the science around the impacts of climate change, we have been actively (1) researching the impacts of climate change and the potential of (2) natural climate solutions , such as forests, to capture and store carbon. 1 Case, Michael J.,

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency. But climate change is different. Next time: siting renewables and transmission.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2022

An astounding new species of rare orchid has been discovered in the cloud rainforest of Northern Ecuador.

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