Wilderness
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Wilderness
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Warming. Sea level rise. Shipping lanes.
What happens in Greenland doesn’t stay in Greenland.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
Scientists expect atmospheric rivers to grow more powerful, arrive more frequently, and last longer as the earth’s climate keeps warming.
www.kuow.org/stories/nort...
The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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My guide:
This is what you call a delicious reporting trip:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/c...
Indigenous people are demanding land rights not just as a restoration of their right to manage their territories but also as a climate and nature fix.
How will countries respond, not just during COP30 but beyond?
Watch this space.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/c...
In which @kbennhold.bsky.social is calm and elegant and I am shouting at the cellphone cam and my glasses keep sliding off my nose
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
...and yes, the average global temperature is undeniably going up, mainly from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
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Really bad news: Forests are beginning to lose their superpower
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Electric cars are becoming normal...except not so much in the U.S.
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Take a look at this hockey stick of solar power.
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10 years after the Paris climate pact, there's some good-ish news.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We did ,shortly after the piece posted
09.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Prince William urges the world to listen to the world's Indigenous people. "We are reminded that true climate leadership is listening to those who are true stewards of nature."
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China's Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang casts China as the antidote to the U.S.: a country that keeps its promises.
"China is willing to accelerate a green transition in all areas of economic and social development.”
Pokes at US trade restrictions
Brazil's President Lula rightly say diplomatic saloons are far from the lives of everyday suffering.
Lula casts himself as an ally of the Amazon but has given his nod to oil drilling in the Amazon
UN SecGen Antonio Guterres delivers his signature scold: "Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation. Too many leaders remain captive to fossil fuel interests."
At the same time investment in renewables was bigger than in coal, oil, gas.
I'm at #COP30 in Brazil
Chair of @wmo-global.bsky.social opens the conference with dire stats about rising temps (1.4 C above preindustrial levels) and record concentration of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
“Let COP30 be remebered when the world hcanged course, with the Amazon as its witness”
Central to Brazil’s COP30 agenda: money for countries to protect their standing forests.
Big challenge: attracting investors to pony up $100 billion
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/c...
Natural gas prices are relatively low, thanks to a frac'ing-fueled drilling boom... So why are gas utility prices reaching record highs? Answers are in my @npr.org Climate Desk story: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
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H/t @rabihalameddine.bsky.social
02.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
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How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
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Rob Jetten looks on course to be the next Dutch prime minister.
Quick reminder that he was once the nation's climate and energy minister:
"I work every day to put the Netherlands on course towards a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest."
Quite the contrast with Geert Wilders...
2X increase in the most extreme hurrucanes!
Looking at every Cat 4 & 5 in the Atlantic since 1980 (reliable records/ data gathering) I broke the record into 2 equal parts.
1980-2002 and 2003-2025
The most recent period has more than double the number of most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic!…
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Donald Trump is meeting Xi Jinping in South Korea.
There's a lot at stake for a lot of countries.
Not least the host country -- South Korea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
This is so very, very bad. And yes, climate change plays a role. bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/10/meli...
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“It was a lack of respect,” he added, “for local cuisine, for our culinary tradition.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...
