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Earth - A Global Map of Wind, Weather and Ocean Conditions - Use the menu at bottom left to toggle different views. For example, you can see where wildfires/smoke are by selecting "Chem - COsc" to see carbon monoxide (CO) surface concentration.
Climate Reanalyzer (University of Maine) - A source for daily updated average global air temps, sea surface temps, sea ice, weather and more.
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A July 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) claims that U.S. tide gauge measurements "in aggregate show no obvious acceleration in sea level rise beyond the historical average rate." However, a new study by Chris Piecuch, a physical oceanographer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Ins...
Piecuch's results "directly contradict" the claims made in the DOE report that are based on a cursory discussion of tide gauge time series from just a handful of locations, the study states. "U.S. tide-gauge records taken collectively do show an obvious RSL acceleration above the long-term historical average trend."
Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
Levels of carbon dioxide clogging the atmosphere soared to unprecedented levels last year, a UN report found in October. As well as the unrelenting burning of fossil fuels and the fallout from rampant wildfires, scientists fear the Earth’s natural “carbon sinks” may be beginning to fail.
Shlomo Ben-Ami calls for stronger resource-sharing arrangements and more robust technology transfers.
Countries across the Middle East are facing acute water shortages, owing to poor resource management, accelerating climate change, and regional power politics. In the absence of concerted diplomacy, water will soon be another flash point in a chronically unstable region.
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
Climate change will make the world “much nastier place” -video
“The cost of action is far less than the cost of inaction.”
Climate change will make the world “much nastier place”
It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming?
The decline of the coal export industry could come even faster than expected, and we need to do more to manage the economic risks
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/environment/p/1554071/its-two-years-since-we-were-told-the-age-of-fossil-fuels-will-end-when-will-australia-g
A recent report by Oil Change International found Australia led the world in expanding its oil and gas industries between 2015 and 2024, increasing production by 77%.
On coal, Australia is shipping more of the thermal stuff than it was a decade ago. And the Albanese government has approved at least 32 fossil fuel developments and expansions since its election in 2022, overwhelmingly for export
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This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.
During the last global coral bleaching event in 2023 and 2024 , the Great Barrier Reef experienced the highest temperatures for centuries and widespread bleaching. With bleaching events becoming more frequent, the very existence of coral reefs is under threat.
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51255216
A small brown line snakes its way through the rainforest in northern Sumatra, carving 300 metres through dense patches of meranti trees, oak and mahua. Picked up by satellites, the access road – though modest now – will soon extend 2km to connect with the Tor Ulu Ala pit, an expansion site of Indonesia’s Martabe mine. The road will help to unlock valuable deposits of gold, worth billions of dollars in today’s booming market. But such wealth could come at a steep cost to wildlife and biodiversity: the extinction of the world’s rarest ape, the Tapanuli orangutan.
The network of access roads planned for this swath of tropical rainforest will cut through habitat critical to the survival of the orangutans, scientists say. The Tapanuli (Pongo tapanuliensis), unique to Indonesia, was only discovered by scientists to be a separate species in 2017 – distinct from the Sumatran and Bornean apes. Today, there are fewer than 800 Tapan
CLIMATE TRACE: Track Emissions, PM2.5 Particulates and the Worlds Worst Polluters from your armchair | Paul Beckwith - Youtube (Invidious)
Paul Beckwith shows off the very cool Climate Trace tool and explains why it is such an awesome source of emissions data. Not a totally new tool or anything, but I think this video is a great reminder the tool exists and is friendly introduction to a powerful tool for exploring the data around global emissions to see for yourself what the numbers actually show on these things.
"Causing irreversible environmental instability:" Panel Unveils “Dark Side” of the China’s Green Energy Push in Tibet
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46910935
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China’s dominance in the renewable energy supply chain—especially in rare earth minerals, copper and lithium processing—has led to massive industrial expansion in Tibet. While promoted internationally as sustainable climate action, many projects have instead resulted in water contamination, ecosystem collapse, cultural displacement, and intensified political repression.
“Under the guise of green energy development, Tibet is being reshaped to fuel China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions,” said Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, Deputy Director of the Tibet Policy Institute, in his welcome address. “These mines and mega-dams are marketed as climate-friendly, but they have devastated Tibet’s rivers, grasslands, wildlife habitats, and traditional communities.
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck's Worth of Waste Each Second | Scientific American
An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, data shows
Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage truck’s worth every second, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
A Headless Mystery
Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.
As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine, and the risk of mass displacement, the World Meteorological Organization warned Thursday.
The 22 Arab region countries covered in the WMO’s new State of the Climate report produce about a quarter of the world’s oil
Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier future.
Site deletes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales
“The risk doesn’t go away; it just moves from a pre-purchase decision into a post-purchase liability,” Eby said. “Families discover after a flood that they should have purchased flood insurance, or discover after the sale that wildfire insurance is unaffordable or unavailable in their area.
Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health
It could be a sign of what’s to come.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54187689
Hurricane season is over. Here’s why the US never got hit.
An atmospheric anomaly kept the U.S. from being pummeled by a hurricane. But hurricane season was exceptional in some bad ways, too.
Back in April, scientists read the tea leaves — or, more accurately, heaps of data — and predicted an above-average hurricane season over the summer and autumn, with nine or 10 named storms, four of which could grow to major strength. Yet hurricane season ended Sunday without even one of them making landfall in the United States for the first time in a decade. That was extraordinary in a good way, but the season was also extraordinary in many bad ways.
So how did the U.S., which was walloped by Hurricane Helene and four other tropical cyclones last year, escape disaster even as the Caribbean suffered mightily from Melissa in September?
First off, forecasters could make those predictions in April by considering a few factors. Hurricanes are atmospheric engines fueled by warm water, and the Atlantic Ocean has been do