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.

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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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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climate change. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. More than ever before.

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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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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 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

APRIL 1, 2024

Here’s a selection of recent headlines, which I only wish I had made up for April Fool’s Day.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2024

This is according to the EU’s climate change monitoring service. The EU`s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that each of the last 10 months ranked as the world’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years. The data presents clear evidence about the warming trend.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The fascinating world of rainforests and the animals that inhabit them are the focus of the new exhibition opening February 17 at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Staff will explain what makes these animals unique, their special adaptations and how they live in the rainforest. Animal Trainings: 1 p.m. – There will be two shows daily.

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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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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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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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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Under Bolsonaro, deforestation of the Amazon soared to a 15-year high, with scientists warning that the world’s largest rainforest was nearing a tipping point beyond which there would be irreversible consequences for the entire planet. Read the full story from NBC News.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

An Indigenous patrol force protects Guyana’s Amazon Rainforest. The SRDC plays a large role in protecting the Amazon River and the rainforest that surrounds it in Guyana. Libanda said Namibia, which has battled drought throughout the past seven years, is increasingly vulnerable to climate change. 90,000 CATTLE .

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 31, 2024

Hypocritical The report highlights that the EU ’s role in this is particularly hypocritical as it goes against many of its policy drives on climate change, stopping deforestation and the decline of ecosystem, nature and biodiversity loss. In addition, the authors of the report highlight that the European Union (EU) provides 9.4%

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 2, 2022

There are few long-term studies on tropical bird population patterns, and the paper sheds light on how species deal with habitat loss and climate change.

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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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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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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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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 12, 2023

I loved nature and I always read about places like the Amazon rainforest or Madagascar rainforest and imagined going somewhere like that,” he recalled. This work is important because climate change effects coastal ecosystems.

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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.

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Environment Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

Climate change has never been more relevant – global warming is impacting everything we do, from the food we eat and the transport we use to the homes we live in, our family and friends, and the air we breathe. The post How to Spread the Word About Climate Change appeared first on Environment Blog. Get Your Voice Heard.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Climate change will lead to more extreme weather in Brazil , including droughts and floods. When we think about people who are incarcerated, I would argue that they are on the front lines of climate change.” – Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. 22 DISTRICTS. ON THE RADAR.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s not something that gets much attention in introductory climate courses or in campaigning. Sometimes it is left out of statistics, or reported separately as LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. That’s what’s captured in Land Use Change statistics, which can be positive or negative. So what are we talking about?

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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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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

What this case is truly about is made clear in Letitia James’ post on X, “The beef industry is one of the largest contributors to climate change, and JBS has falsely advertised its commitment to sustainability and endangered our planet.” So, Letitia James’ problem is with beef. We would be pleased to speak with your organization.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 16, 2024

We hear so much about climate change, but what we're trying to do at KBTC is to try to find an opportunity to give people ideas so that they can participate in the work.” DeAnne sees her most important role as educating the next generation about how climate change affects different communities, and what they can do to turn the tide. "We

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

The combined effects of the Cochiti Dam upstream and climate change have cut the river’s flow to a fraction of what it once was, and the overflowing banks from her father’s childhood are bone dry. Whitmer urged federal and state lawmakers to fund resilient infrastructure in the state and to take action to combat climate change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

here and here ) reported on a new study in Nature Climate Change that found that the need for action to address tropical deforestation is more urgent than ever. Recent articles (e.g., GCF Task Force members unanimously approved the Manaus Action Plan at a closed-door meeting on March 16. Photo credit: Daniel Melling.

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HumanNature

MARCH 9, 2024

Written by Bella Conrad The School of Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University invited Eduardo Brondízio, an anthropologist, to speak at the Lory Student Center on February 27 about place-based actions for sustainability in the Amazon rainforest.

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