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Commentary: With climate change, we may witness sequoia forests convert to chaparral

In downtown L.A., in the parking lot of the Automobile Club of Southern California, sits a quaint monument, one century old. It’s a cross section of a giant sequoia, propped on its side, with arrows pointing to tree rings marking era-defining events. Meanwhile, in the Sierra Nevada, thousands of crown-scorched…

Los Angeles Times

The UN says access to a healthy environment is a human right. Here's what it means for Australia

The United Nations recently declared that access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a universal human right.

The Conversation

Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues

More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in the coming months could be a great deal worse, despite global commitments to never let the 2011 famine happen again.

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Climate change must be a catalyst for reform of the World Heritage system

Over the last few years, many parts of the world have been devastated by extreme droughts, floods, wild fires and heatwaves linked to climate change. But climate change is not only influencing our weather: it also poses an existential threat to the outstanding universal value (OUV) of many of the…

The Conversation

When Mars went through climate change

A new study sheds light on the question of whether Mars ever supported life

Salon

Archbishop of Canterbury criticises tax cuts for the rich

Justin Welby ‘deeply sceptical about trickle-down theory’ and can see no moral case for budgets that disproportionately affect poor

The Guardian - UK

Cross country skiers given cold shoulder as Falls Creek climate change planning sparks trail row

Olympian and former resort director join battle to preserve nation’s leading cross country skiing area from development

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‘It brings it home’: Archbishop of Canterbury highlights climate crisis in Australia with visit to Lismore

Justin Welby says churches should encourage direct action on climate change as he sees boarded-up shops and unliveable houses in far-flung parish reeling from disasterGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

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UK Police Charge Two Women after Soup Thrown at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery, British police said on Saturday. A video posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group, which has been holding protests for the last two weeks in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK police charge two women after soup thrown at van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'

Reuters

Frozen Planet II scientist in tears at desolate island once populated with penguins

A scientists on Frozen Planet II was overcome with emotion as he visited an island where penguins used to live, and described how climate change was killing of the Adelie penguin

Daily Mirror

Somalia: The curse of famine

In the past few decades, Somalia’s droughts have increased both in intensity and in number due to climate change. It is now facing a famine that threatens the lives of millions of people, especially children. The United Nations says there are staggering levels of malnutrition among children under the age…

France 24

Developing nations suffering from climate change will demand financial help

The chairperson of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming U.N. climate summit has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.

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Poor nations to demand climate justice, finance at UN summit

The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda

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Cotton on: one of Australia's most lucrative farming industries is in the firing line as climate change worsens

The northern Murray-Darling Basin produces 93% of Australia’s cotton. Cotton is one of Australia’s biggest agricultural industries – worth about A$2 billion each year – and a steady supply of water is crucial for production.

Tribune News Service

Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts

DRESSLERVILLE, Nev. — Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the blazes produce.

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Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back

All around us, climate change is worsening existing disadvantage. In Australia, we need only look to low-income households hit harder by rising energy and fuel prices, and flood responses in northern New South Wales overlooking the needs of people with disability.

Reuters

Protesters outside IMF, World Bank meeting venues demand urgent climate action

Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington D.C. on Thursday, expressing opposition to funding of fossil fuels and demanding urgent action to tackle climate change.

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Canada's drought-stricken British Columbia bracing for floods when rains return

Canada's British Columbia province on Thursday warned residents to prepare for flooding when rains eventually return after a prolonged drought exacerbated by climate change that has raised concerns about long-term damage to ecosystems ranging from glaciers to salmon rivers.

The Independent UK

Ozone hole grows this year, but still shrinking in general

The ozone hole over Antarctica got bigger this year, which is unusual

The Conversation

Climate change: UK test for new oil and gas fields' impact on emissions targets is not fit for purpose

Liz Truss’s government is expected to fast-track permits for new North Sea gas fields to boost fossil fuel extraction on the UK’s continental shelf.

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To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the government's reluctance to help is holding us back

Without changes to people’s behaviour and lifestyles, it will be impossible for the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the government is failing to put in place the conditions that would enable this to happen – or even recognise its relevance in cutting emissions and meeting climate…

Irish Mirror

Warning life on Earth on brink of catastrophe as climate change and destruction of nature undermine planet

Wildlife populations have fallen nearly 70% globally since 1970, the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report reveals – equivalent to a wipe-out of everyone in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania and China

Daily Mirror

Monkeys forced to spend more time and abandon treetop homes, study finds

Scientists warn climate change and deforestation are the factors leading to a new wave of primates spending more time on the forest floor ground

The Conversation

Bees face many challenges – and climate change is ratcheting up the pressure

The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022 doesn’t just affect humans. Heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms also threaten many wild species – including some that already face other stresses.

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