The changing climate is affecting migratory birds such as nightingales. Photograph: FLPA/Michael Durham/Rex/Shutterstock   Migration to European breeding grounds from Africa is harder due to evolutionary changes Patrick Barkham @patrick_barkham Wed 1 Apr 2020 05.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 1 Apr 2020 05.53 BST The nightingale was feted by John Keats as a “light-winged Dryad of the trees”. But the much-celebrated small bird with a beautiful song … Continue reading the Guardian: Nightingales at risk due to shorter wings caused by climate crisis

By Damien Cave Photographs by Matthew Abbott Feb. 23, 202 RAINBOW FLAT, Australia — Standing in thick mud between burned trees and a concrete slab where his house had been, Peter Ruprecht admitted that he was not sure how or when to rebuild. He was still dizzied by what Australia’s increasingly volatile climate had already delivered: first a drought, then a devastating bush fire, then … Continue reading NYT: The Fires Are Out, but Australia’s Climate Disasters Aren’t Over

By Artspace Editors DEC. 19, 2019 Depending on who you talk to, the world’s environmental future runs the gamut from doomed to irrelevant, but one thing’s for sure: it is seldom poised to inspire anything less than rapturous anger in its discussants. Scientists say we have about a decade to turn this ship around, but Republican-inflected corporate interests and run-of-the-mill hubris seem fully prepared to … Continue reading Artspace: 5 Times Nature Won Over Art: Natural Disasters and Culture

The flooded roadway into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy.Credit…Andrew Burton/Getty Images Opinion How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios. By Eugene Linden SEE THIS LINK FOR FULL ARTICLE: Mr. Linden has written widely about climate change. For decades, most scientists saw climate change as a … Continue reading NYTimes: How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

The fires and the blackouts are connected to a larger problem in this state: a failure to live sustainably. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist Oct. 30, 2019 1930 Battling a grass fire in Knightsen, Calif., on Sunday.Credit…Jose Carlos Fajardo/San Jose Mercury News, via Associated Press 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my love for this place and its people runs deep and … Continue reading NYTimes: It’s the End of California as We Know It

Natalie Hanman The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope • Read an extract from her new book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal here Sat 14 Sep 2019 08.01 BSTLast modified on Mon 16 Sep 2019 13.12 BST Shares 5,919 Naomi Klein: ‘We are going to have to contract on … Continue reading the Guardian: Naomi Klein: ‘We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism’

Archaeologists working in the buried Roman city of Pompeii say they have uncovered a “sorcerer’s treasure trove” of artefacts, including good-luck charms, mirrors and glass beads. Most of the items would have belonged to women, said Massimo Osanna, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. A room with the bodies of 10 victims, including women and children, was excavated in the same house. Pompeii was … Continue reading BBC: Pompeii archaeologists uncover ‘sorcerer’s treasure trove’

Gregg Mitman, Donna Haraway, and Anna Tsing speak at the Plantationocene seminar. Photo by Romulo Ueda, 2019. By: Gregg Mitman Posted on: June 18, 2019 This is the sixth piece in a series on the Plantationocene—a proposed alternate name for the epoch often called the Anthropocene. The Plantationocene Series aims to create a conversation about multiple forms of plantations, both past and present, as well … Continue reading Edgeeffects: Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing

Melting glaciers is just one of the consequences of climate change.(Keystone/Arno Balzarini)   Swiss scientists have discounted allegations that the current climate change is a recurring phenomenon in the history of mankind. A team of researchers from the Swiss university of Bern gathered evidence showing that the previous periods of rising and dropping temperatures from the 14th to the 19thcentury were limited in space and … Continue reading SWI: Climate warming is global and fast, say Swiss experts

    EXCERPT> Soon after that shaking begins, the electrical grid will fail, likely everywhere west of the Cascades and possibly well beyond. If it happens at night, the ensuing catastrophe will unfold in darkness. In theory, those who are at home when it hits should be safest; it is easy and relatively inexpensive to seismically safeguard a private dwelling. But, lulled into nonchalance by … Continue reading New Yorker: The Really Big One An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.