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Australia saw its coldest spring in decades and wettest on record for some regions

Spring was the coldest in decades for parts of Australia, a rare feat considering the influence of climate change ensures nearly every season is now warmer than normal.

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Brazil's Lula courts U.K., U.S. to join Amazon rainforest protection fund

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is asking Britain, France, the United States and others to donate to an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest, a bulwark against climate change, Lula advisers said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Climate Change is Driving Up Food Prices

Tip to journalists: COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story.

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Pat Baskett: Why climate mitigation equals defeat

The question of climate change prevention has been buried beneath anxieties about survival. Pat Baskett argues that if mitigation is the answer, we're already losing.

Newsroom.co.nz

White butterflies are filling Johannesburg's skies earlier than usual. Climate change is to blame

Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land in people’s gardens, allowing a closer look at the thin brown markings on their wings. Those markings give the butterflies their name:…

The Conversation

Is China ready to lead on protecting nature? At the upcoming UN biodiversity conference, it will preside and set the tone

As the world parses what was achieved at the U.N. climate change conference in Egypt, negotiators are convening in Montreal to set goals for curbing Earth’s other crisis: loss of living species.

The Conversation

‘Tireless fighter’ for social justice Rep. Donald McEachin dies at 61

Since coming to Congress in 2017, one of McEachin’s main priorities was to reduce the impact of climate change on marginalized communities.

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Editorial: The Saudis mastered 'sportswashing,' so now they're trying oil-washing

World leaders gathered in Egypt this month for a summit to address climate change, but thanks to heavy lobbying by Saudi Arabia, they couldn’t quite bring themselves to put into writing the two main culprits behind climate change: humans and their consumption of fossil fuels. If the major and minor…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We all know the Great Barrier Reef is in danger – the UN has just confirmed it. Again

You might be forgiven for thinking it’s Groundhog Day reading headlines about the Great Barrier Reef potentially being listed on the World Heritage “in danger” list. After all, there have been similar calls in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017.

The Conversation

‘Everything has changed’: Government rejects in-danger listing for Great Barrier Reef

The government will fight an in-danger listing for the Great Barrier Reef, saying it is working on climate change and other key threats.

The New Daily

Australia argues against 'endangered' Barrier Reef status

Australia’s environment minister says her government will lobby against UNESCO adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites

The Independent UK

Great Barrier Reef should be put on 'in danger' list, UN panel says

Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be listed as a world heritage site that is "in danger", a UN panel recommended on Tuesday, saying the world's biggest coral reef ecosystem was significantly impacted by climate change and warming of oceans.

Reuters

Can Asia-Pacific get to net zero?

The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets…

Bangkok Post

COP27 was disappointing, but 2022 remains an historic year for international climate policy

This year’s global climate negotiations at the COP27 in Egypt were disappointing. In particular, the international commitment to limit planetary warming to 1.5℃ remains on “life support”.

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Chasing future biotech solutions to climate change risks delaying action in the present – it may even make things worse

The world is under growing pressure to find sustainable options to cut emissions or lessen the impacts of climate change.

Salon

Why coffee could go extinct

Climate change might drive wild coffee extinct, which would have broad repercussions for the global industry

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The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave was a harbinger of what's to come, study finds

This event was not a black swan event, the study finds.

The Guardian - AU

Great Barrier Reef should be placed on world heritage ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report says

Experts from Unesco and IUCN find climate change threatens reef’s values and work to improve water quality is too slow

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Commentary: The world population hit 8 billion — but with a peak in sight. What lessons does that have for climate change?

In the 1960s and ‘70s, global population growth was a huge concern. Scientists and the popular press spoke of a population explosion that threatened to cause famine, poverty and depletion of the Earth’s natural resources. The world’s population had grown at an accelerating rate from just under 1 billion in…

Daily Record

Linlithgow MSP Fiona Hyslop hosts 'Poetry in Parliament' event aimed at providing powerful perspectives on climate change

The event featured several poets showcasing their work with an emphasis on climate change.

Reuters

COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say

Fossil fuel producers benefited from sympathetic treatment in Egypt at the COP27 climate talks, government officials said, bringing their influence to bear in rushed final negotiations and frustrating those who hoped for a more ambitious outcome.

The Conversation

Victoria faces a grave climate and energy crisis. The new government's policies must be far bolder

The Andrews Labor government has been returned in Victoria. It must now reckon with two particularly crucial challenges: runaway climate change and wartime-scale energy costs.

The Conversation

Women and girls at risk, at the end of the world: these subversive short stories reflect our anxieties

Anne Casey-Hardy’s Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls and Else Fitzgerald’s Everything Feels like the End of the World share feminist concerns. But while both use the short-story collection to explore latent social violence and collective anxieties, they are dramatically distinct.

The Guardian - AU

The Fijian island being strangled by vines

Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worse

Newsroom.co.nz

The planetary emergency we must avoid (spoiler alert: it’s not climate change)

Rather than expanding our renewable electricity production and developing an EV fleet, a degrowth approach would be to initiate a massive energy conservation programme and investing in cities where we can live, work and play within 15 minutes' walking or biking.

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