The Washington Post The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies. Story here. Another disastrous wildfire season in Portugal. Wikimedia Commons.
The Washington Post Atop a jagged, 50-foot-high cliff on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera sit two enormous boulders known as “The Cow and the Bull.” Each is several… Details here.
New Internationalist Ireland has had its wettest winter and its stormiest winter in 150 years, but will miss its 2020 emissions targets. We are not learning our lesson fast enough, says Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik. Story here.
CommonDreams "We are only just beginning to feel the impacts of climate change." Story here. Waves crash against the International Airport of Nauro, a small Pacific island country. Photo - Matt Robertson
the guardian UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement . Story here. HIghway construction in Canada. PinP photo.
George Monbiot The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates. Story here. H Here in Canada, trees are also treated as a nuisance, to be gotten rid of. They rarely win the battle when "Big Ag" decides they have to go. Just watch the video, below, to see what we mean. PinP
NATIONAL OBSERVER Canadian scientists are racing to test a remedy that they hope will save bats from a deadly fungus that has already killed millions of the winged mammals across the continent. Story here. Hibernating healthy Virginia big-eared bats in W.V. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
npr In a normal year, Kevin Bradley, a professor of weed science at the University of Missouri, would have spent his summer testing new ways to control a troublesome little plant called water hemp. This has not been a normal year. Details here. Photo by Martina Nolte
EcoWatch Glyphosate —the most widely applied herbicide worldwide and the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto 's star product Roundup —is not just found on corn and soy fields. This pervasive chemical can be detected in everyday foods such as cookies, crackers, ice cream and even our own urine . Story here. Image by Brian Robert Marshall