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The Ocean is essential to life on Earth, regulates the climate, supports rich biodiversity, sustains livelihoods, and inspires cultures and societies. However, unregulated human impacts are putting the Ocean and its ability to contribute to humanity at risk. The Starfish Barometer is a new initiative launched on World Ocean Day (8 June 2025) to provide a concise, science-based annual overview of the multiple dimensions of the Ocean through the lens of its interdependence with humanity. Each year, the Starfish Barometer will present a carefully curated selection of Ocean-related developments, chosen for their global significance and grounded in the most up-to-date scientific evidence, intended for a broad non-specialist audience. Rather than offering an exhaustive review, it will spotlight key aspects, robust, evidence-based, and reflective of major developments of the year. The Starfish Barometer emphasizes the two-way relationship between humanity and the Ocean: we impact its future, and it shapes ours. Its

Brutal El Nino, drought, war threatens food supply

Exxon warns oil inventories will hit dangerously low levels in weeks, forcing prices to shoot higher. […]

We infer that 2026 is likely to be the warmest year in the period of instrumental data, based on a physics-based approach with identifiable assumptions. This approach may help us learn something in 2026 about the mechanisms of climate change. The figures in this post and our other current papers will be continually updated on our website,2 when they remain relevant. We are also now on Substack3.

De uitstap uit fossiele brandstoffen vergt meer dan technische klimaatmaatregelen. Op een conferentie in Colombia staat de vraag centraal of staten bereid zijn de macht van multinationals in te perken en de energietransitie te verankeren in mensenrechten.

Même sans grande marche pour le climat, même en période d’instabilité politique et militaire, le Belge garde une attention particulière aux problèmes climatiques. C’est ce qui ressort de la vaste enquête menée par le SPF Santé publique, enquête menée tous les quatre ans depuis 2005. Les gestes quotidiens d’économie d’énergie ou de tri des déchets sont rentrés dans les mœurs, mais les citoyens estiment que les autorités belges et européennes doivent maintenir ou accélérer la transition climatique. C’est un peu moins le cas quand on s’attaque à leur portefeuille.

À l’occasion de la journée de la terre, l’Agence Média Palestine s’est entretenue avec William Mina, médiateur et animateur de collectifs auprès d’acteurs de l’économie sociale et solidaire, aussi impliqué dans des mouvements d’écologie politique et de solidarité avec la Palestine et le Liban.

Around 153 BCE, Cato the Elder, one of Rome’s most prominent senators, began ending every single one of his speeches with the same words: “Carthago delenda est”, or “Carthage must be destroyed”.

We can’t know how long the war in the Middle East will last. Nor can we know who will “win” it, and in which terms. What we know is that the destruction already wreaked on things and people is immense, and it keeps escalating. The longer the war, the bleaker their perspectives in a region already plagued by all sorts of problems, including drought, soil degradation, ecosystem damage, scarce agricultural resources, declining fertility rates, and more.

Climate change is causing measurable harm globally1,2. Political and legal efforts seek to link these damages with specific emissions, including in discussions of loss and damage (L&D)3,4; however, no quantitative definition of L&D exists5,6, nor is there a framework to link past and future emissions from specific sources to monetized, location-specific damages. Here we develop such a framework, which is integrated with recent efforts to estimate the social cost of carbon7. Using empirical estimates of the non-linear relationship between temperature and aggregate economic output, we show that future damages from past emissions—one component of L&D—are at least an order of magnitude larger than historical damages from the same emissions. For instance, one tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 caused US$180 in discounted global damages by 2020 ($40–530) and will cause an additional $1,840 through 2100 ($500–5,700). Thus, settling debts for past damages will not settle debts for past emissions. In other illustrative esti