September 2023 – Page 2 – Climate Desk

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Wired

A billion-dollar plan to fix farm emissions might make things worse

griculture is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the US is getting serious about reform. But some scientists say current efforts are misguided.

Matt Reynolds · September 15, 2023
Guardian

Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean

Countries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment

Karen McVeigh · September 15, 2023
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business

How much change can human systems tolerate before society collapses?

David Spratt · September 15, 2023
Grist

In 2022, a land defender was killed every two days

A new report finds that Indigenous peoples made up more than a third of those deaths.

Lyric Aquino · September 15, 2023
Mother Jones

We need to talk about roadkill

It’s the environmental problem no one is paying attention to, argues Ben Goldfarb in his new book “Crossings.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · September 14, 2023
Guardian

Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies

Claimants to argue lack of adequate action is breach of human rights, in largest climate legal action to date

Sandra Laville · September 14, 2023
Undark

In search of safer refuge: the challenges of replicating nature

Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better birdhouse?

Marta Zaraska · September 13, 2023
Grist

What would happen if the world cut meat and milk consumption in half?

Agricultural emissions would fall by almost a third. But getting there wouldn't be easy.

Max Graham · September 13, 2023
Inside Climate News

Experts warn of denialism comeback’ ahead of November’s global climate talks

Even amid a disaster-filled summer marked by record heat, climate misinformation continues to spread online at alarming rates.

Kristoffer Tigue · September 12, 2023
Guardian

Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds

Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers

Fiona Harvey · September 11, 2023
Guardian

Fossil fuels beget climate chaos, in a win-win for private equity

Some PE firms “profit off both sides of disasters.”

Nina Lakhani · September 7, 2023
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Detective McDavitt and the curious case of the clown wedgefish

Scientists were writing an obituary for this species when a lawyer turned internet sleuth found evidence of its existence in an unlikely place.

Brian Howey · September 7, 2023