Flux continu

Blog edited by Sam Carana, with news on climate change and warming in the Arctic due to snow and ice loss and methane releases from the seafloor.

De klimaatbeweging vindt het makkelijker om tegen fossiele industrie actie te voeren, dan voor groene industrie. Dat laatste is echter noodzakelijk om een ecologische transitie te winnen.

Le mouvement climatique estime qu’il est plus facile de faire campagne contre l’industrie fossile qu’en faveur d’une industrie verte. Cette dernière est toutefois nécessaire pour mener à bien une transition écologique.

If currently implemented policies are continued with no increase in ambition, there is a 90% chance that the Earth will warm between 2.3°C and 4.5°C, with a best estimate of 3.5°C.

Le vote, qui se déroule du 6 au 9 juin, n’est que la première étape d’un processus qui aboutit à la désignation de la Commission européenne.

VN-klimaatbaas Simon Stiell hoopt dat de volgende klimaattoppen het met veel minder bezoekers kunnen stellen. De laatste top in Dubai was een recordeditie met bijna 84.000 deelnemers.

Plastics in the marine environment have become a major concern because of their persistence at sea, and adverse consequences to marine life and potentially human health. Implementing mitigation strategies requires an understanding and quantification of marine plastic sources, taking spatial and temporal variability into account. Here we present a global model of plastic inputs from rivers into oceans based on waste management, population density and hydrological information. Our model is calibrated against measurements available in the literature. We estimate that between 1.15 and 2.41 million tonnes of plastic waste currently enters the ocean every year from rivers, with over 74% of emissions occurring between May and October. The top 20 polluting rivers, mostly located in Asia, account for 67% of the global total. The findings of this study provide baseline data for ocean plastic mass balance exercises, and assist in prioritizing future plastic debris monitoring and mitigation strategies. Rivers provide a m

Omniprésente dans le débat public depuis l’explosion des intelligences artificielles (IA) génératives, l’IA suscite les fantasmes de nombreux commentateurs. Elle n’est ni neuve ni vraiment intelligente, mais pose de nombreuses questions. Explications.

New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.

Humanity at risk if we keep thinking everything is under control

We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.

6 Europese lidstaten, onder leiding van de Oostenrijkse minister van Landbouw, vragen versoepelingen van de ontbossingswet die eind dit jaar van kracht wordt. Die moet verhinderen dat nog producten op de Europese markt komen waarvoor bos is gesneuveld. Hun vraag wordt vandaag in Brussel besproken op de bijeenkomst van Europese Landbouwministers.

Current methods to calculate the so-called social cost of carbon largely leave out how many future people our emissions will kill. This study tries to correct that.

Marine heat waves will become a regular occurrence in the Arctic in the near future and are a product of higher anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a study just released by Dr. Armineh Barkhordarian from Universität Hamburg's Cluster of Excellence for climate research CLICCS. Since 2007, conditions in the Arctic have shifted, as confirmed by data recently published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. Between 2007 and 2021, the marginal zones of the Arctic Ocean experienced 11 marine heat waves, producing an average temperature rise of 2.2 degrees Celsius above seasonal norm and lasting an average of 37 days. Since 2015, there have been Arctic marine heat waves every year.

In Munich I heard both Ukrainians and Alexei Navalny’s widow tell us why Putin must be defeated, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Wies Willems, beleidsmedewerker grondstoffen bij Broederlijk Delen, overloopt de hoopgevende en zorgwekkende evoluties in Latijns-Amerika, een continent tjokvol mineralen en metalen die onmisbaar zijn voor de energietransitie.

The auto industry is making too many cars powered by fossil fuels.

Pour Philippe Baret, professeur à la Faculté des bioingénieurs de l’UCLouvain, « transformateurs » et distributeurs sont largement responsables de la situation que dénoncent les agriculteurs.

Au Forum économique mondial, une table ronde sur les risques de nouvelle pandémie a été interprétée comme une preuve de complot des élites mondiales.

Previously, anthropogenic ecological overshoot has been identified as a fundamental cause of the myriad symptoms we see around the globe today from biodiversity loss and ocean acidification to the disturbing rise in novel entities and climate change. In the present paper, we have examined this more deeply, and explore the behavioural drivers of overshoot, providing evidence that overshoot is itself a symptom of a deeper, more subversive modern crisis of human behaviour. We work to name and frame this crisis as ‘the Human Behavioural Crisis’ and propose the crisis be recognised globally as a critical intervention point for tackling ecological overshoot. We demonstrate how current interventions are largely physical, resource intensive, slow-moving and focused on addressing the symptoms of ecological overshoot (such as climate change) rather than the distal cause (maladaptive behaviours). We argue that even in the best-case scenarios, symptom-level interventions are unlikely to avoid catastrophe or achieve more