Some Cubans depend on sugar water as food shortages bite
Some Cubans depend on sugar water as food shortages bite
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240919-some-cubans-depend-on-sugar-water-as-food-shortages-bite
Subsidized food, without which most Cubans would not eat at all, is becoming ever more scarce and expensive as the government, battling sanctions, struggles to pay for imports.
Report finds that oil and gas sponsorship of global sports hits $5.6 billion, but this scale of “sportswashing” is likely to be an underestimate, authors say
Oil and Gas Sponsorship of Global Sports Hits $5.6 Billion, Report Finds
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/17/oil-and-gas-sponsorship-of-global-sports-hits-5-6-billion-report-finds
Oil and gas companies are spending an estimated $5.6 billion on sports sponsorships, seeking to extend their social licence to boost production of fossil fuels even as the climate crisis intensifies, according to a new report. Top sports sponsors include Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company ($1.3 billion); British oil major Shell ($469 million); […]
Spain is moving from a Mediterranean to desert climate, study says
Spain is moving from a Mediterranean to desert climate, study says
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/09/16/barcelona-and-majorca-will-shift-to-a-desert-like-climate-by-2050-new-drought-study-warns
Summer has increased by an average of 36 days across Spain over the last 50 years.
Superbugs ‘could kill 39m people by 2050’ amid rising drug resistance
Superbugs ‘could kill 39m people by 2050’ amid rising drug resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/16/health-superbugs-antimicrobial-resistance-amr-39m-deaths-infections-bacteria-gram-study
Child deaths from infections see ‘remarkable’ decline but AMR fatalities of over-70s likely to rise by 146%, study finds
Stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline of Norway’s seabirds
Stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline of Norway’s seabirds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/17/stark-before-and-after-photographs-reveal-sharp-decline-of-norway-seabirds-aoe
When Rob Barrett set out to survey one of the country’s largest colonies in the 1970s there were too many birds to count. Now, his pictures and archive images show a species decline echoed around the world
'Catastrophe' as Central Europe deals with deadly floods
Central Europe floods: Rush to shore up flood defences amid deaths and evacuations
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jwp3ppp6xo
Torrential rain from Storm Boris has swelled rivers across central and eastern Europe, with one person confirmed to have drowned in Poland.
An incredible shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green | CNN
An incredible shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/weather/sahara-desert-green-climate/index.html
There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.
3 massive Los Angeles-area wildfires have scorched more than 100,000 acres in a week
California Line Fire updates: Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-line-fire-updates-wildfire-suspect-arrested-65600/story?id=113578920
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department arrested a man Tuesday in connection with the Line Fire ravaging southern California since Sept. 5.
Hanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll passes 150
Hanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll nears 200
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240911-landslide-devastates-vietnam-village-as-yagi-toll-rises-in-se-asia
Residents of Vietnam's capital waded through waist-deep water Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the area's strongest typhoon in decades rose to at least 179, with neighbouring…
Agriculture has a plastic problem and it’s threatening the future of food
Agriculture has a plastic problem and it’s threatening the future of food
https://india.mongabay.com/2024/09/agriculture-has-a-plastic-problem-and-its-threatening-the-future-of-food/
Sridhar Jayagouda, a young farmer in Alarwada village on the outskirts of Belagavi city in Karnataka, is preparing for the monsoon crop of paddy by clearing beds of capsicum his family recently harvested. Once the plants are uprooted, he pulls out thin films of plastic covering the raised soil beds. That’s about 40,000 feet or […]