!environment@beehaw.org
Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they're not breaking news).
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!environment
@beehaw.orghttps://zerotracker.net/analysis/net-zero-stocktake-2023
From intent through integrity to implementation. We analyse the quantity and quality of net zero targets across all nations, the 2000 largest publicly-traded companies, and the worlds's biggest regions and cities.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23774540/geoengineering-european-commission-eu-climate-security-risks
The move comes after a startup sparked alarm with its geoengineering experiments.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/28/time-is-short-for-tories-and-labour-to-show-leadership-on-the-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Neither party is showing much appetite for the hard policy decisions that are necessary to cut CO2 emissions – and time is running out
https://lighthouse-eco.co.za/b/2eP
The largest land mammal in America is rehabilitating a vast grassland in Coahuila, benefiting hundreds of species in a reserve that can theoretically store 6.3 million tons of carbon in its soil
https://www.wired.com/story/a-grid-collapse-would-make-a-heat-wave-far-deadlier/
Climate change is making summers hotter, blackouts more common, and heat-related illness more dangerous. The power system may be resilient—but it still has vulnerabilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/canada-wildfires-released-record-breaking-carbon
This year’s wildfire season is already worst on record as nearly 600m tonnes of carbon has been released since early May
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66016584?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
An eyewitness has captured the moment a large funnel cloud tore through a neighbourhood in the US state of Indiana.
https://lighthouse-eco.co.za/b/2e7
A team of researchers from the Departments of Geosciences, Atmospheric Sciences, and Statistics at Innsbruck has reported a doubling in the number of detected lightning strikes in the high altitudes of the European Eastern Alps over the last 40 years.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/climate-change-causes-a-mountain-peak-frozen-for-thousands-of-years-to-collapse
Fluchthorn in the Silvretta Alps is now around 60 feet (19 m) shorter than it was before — and more mountains are expected to follow suit as temperatures thaw the permafrost holding them together.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/us-extreme-weather-report-national-weather-service-storms-torando-hail
Outages concentrated in south-eastern US, with severe thunderstorms in Ohio valley and suspected tornado in Indiana