The Guardian
How to stay cool without air con – and help take some heat off the planet
7 min · · Research suggests UK homes are uniquely unprepared to cope with rising global temperatures – but there are greener solutions to uncomfortable heat than air conditioning · Shared by 79, including Neil Hart 💙
BBC
The truth about heat pumps and the power needed to run them
6 min · · Climate editor Justin Rowlatt on the challenge of how to warm the UK's homes - but not the planet. · Shared by 6, including Neil Hart 💙
atmos.earth
Sleep More, Save the Planet?
2 min · · Who has the right to sleep? In the ongoing climate crisis, it’s just another area where the scales are tipped toward injustice. · Shared by 973, including Neil Hart 💙, Thomas Pleil
Inverse
Are fake meats better for the environment? It’s more complex than you think
9 min · · Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. · Shared by 319, including Neil Hart 💙
The Guardian
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
4 min · · A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis · Shared by 313, including Svein Tveitdal, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dennis Schvejda, Beate Jordaan, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Wolfgang Blau, Kate Raworth, Markus Merz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Anna Jane Joyner, Prof Steve Keen, Neil Hart 💙, Tim, Dr. Genevieve Guenther
The Guardian
How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer
6 min · · In Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future, climate disasters kill tens of millions of people – and that’s a scenario he portrays as relatively optimistic · Shared by 44, including Neil Hart 💙
The Guardian
Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report
5 min · · Research from world’s top climate analysis coalition contrasts sharply with last week’s optimism · Shared by 73, including Claudia Sommer, Damian Carrington, Svein Tveitdal, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Greta Thunberg, Neil Hart 💙, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave)
WIRED
NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate
4 min · · The sale of a piece of crypto art consumed as much energy as the studio uses in two years. Now the artist is campaigning to reduce the medium’s carbon emissions. · Shared by 169, including Michael Seemann, Dave Cheney, Neil Hart 💙, Ceferino DÃaz, Nils Hitze, Kelsey Hightower, Backchannel, Hannes Grassegger, Ben Sandofsky, Lauren Goode, Damir Kusar, Marius Bleuer
The Guardian
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
10 min · · Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking is a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes · Shared by 303, including Gabriele, Alex Barrera, Alejandro Dominguez, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Katja Evertz, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Robert Macfarlane, Jane, Neil Hart 💙, Adrien Salazar
The Independent
New EU ‘right to repair’ laws require technology to last for a decade
2 min · · New devices will also have to come with repair manuals and be made in such a way that they can be dismantled using conventional tools · Shared by 132, including Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz, David Wallace-Wells, Stephan Woodtli, David Madden
The Guardian
Australian scientists warn urgent action needed to save 19 'collapsing' ecosystems
4 min · · A ‘confronting and sobering’ report details degradation of coral reefs, outback deserts, tropical savanna, Murray-Darling waterways, mangroves and forests · Shared by 69, including Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz
The Guardian
'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis
14+ min · · Robots on coral reefs, vast barriers to hold back the glaciers, simulated volcanic eruptions to offset global heating ... Can technology repair the mess we have made? Elizabeth Kolbert is not… · Shared by 193, including Sai Kan, Prof Michael E. Mann, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙
Reuters
Two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally, NGO says
· Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing. · Shared by 13, including Neil Hart 💙
The Guardian
Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds
2 min · · Rate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · Shared by 90, including Neil Hart 💙, Andrew Sullivan, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Damian Carrington, Jason Stanley, Ray Monk
BBC News (World)
Why 2021 will be turning point for tackling climate change
6 min · · Next year could be a "make or break" moment in the fight against global warming. · Shared by 62, including Katja Evertz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Neil Hart 💙, Nicolas Babin, Reto Knutti
The Guardian
40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction
4 min · · Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows · Shared by 94, including Katja Evertz, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Paola Antonelli, Alyssa C, Neil Hart 💙, Damian Carrington