Biosphere in Crisis

Living near nuclear power plants is associated with higher cancer mortality, national US study reports A nationwide ecological study of US counties from 2000 to 2018 found that greater proximity to operational nuclear power plants was associated with higher cancer mortality rates, particularly among ad...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications reports higher cancer mortality rates in the United States (US) counties within 200 km of operational #nuclear energy plants compared with more distant counties
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"What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption and governance. We continue, knowingly, to accelerate processes whose consequences we can quantify with unsettling accuracy."

i appreciate the work Kevin has done here

well worth a read

it’s grim but bracing

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

Not satisfied with its war on British nature

The Starmer government takes the fight to the high seas and foreign shores

Disgusting and despicable

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Study challenges role of Antarctic meltwater in sequestration Long-standing theory that glacial melt water would release iron into the ocean, spark algae blooms and sequester carbon challenged by new data

🌊 New study challenges the role of Antarctic meltwater in carbon sequestration

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El Nino may return in 2026 and make planet even hotter The warming El Niño weather phenomenon could form later this year, potentially pushing global temperatures to record heights.

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 2, 2026 ~ a greater sorrow.

"there is a risk of 2026 being the warmest year on record even without El Niño, due to the global warming trend"

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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

February, 2026, finished as the 5th warmest February since 1940, at 1.50°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, and likely the 5th warmest February in the last 120,000+ years.

Hot times ahead!

Abrupt Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Communications Earth & Environment The northward shift and rapid displacement of the Gulf Stream provide an indirect early warning of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening and collapse, revealed by both high-resolution ...

Another potential early warning sign of an AMOC collapse described by vanWesten and Dijkstra. “These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping”

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

As climate disruption advances, cities become death traps........just before the entire biosphere becomes one.
Enjoy your cappuccino!😊
#overshoot

✌️😎🍄

Climate change: Doom versus gloom Should we hope for the best and prepare for the worst when tackling climate change?

"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social

If you think we are living in a wild west world, this is nothing compared to what #climate breakdown is set to bring

Nasty little wars, even nastier big wars, biblical migration, civil strife, plummeting food supplies and clean water availability, and ever more extreme weather

All coming to you...

👀 another reason for my declining running pace? CO2’s messing with my blood and bones 🤯

These data center developers asked Trump for an exemption from pollution rules Though the companies weren't granted exemptions, their requests illustrate the data center industry's desperate quest for energy.

AI supremacy.
Diesel generators.
Clean Air Act exemptions.

The future is here….and it still smells like combustion.

Turns out “innovation” mostly means finding faster ways to ignore limits.

Expert shares how to use iron sulphate to kill lawn moss and make grass greener Lawns will often come back after winter really weak and mossy, but there is a simple method to give the grass a boost without much effort.

What a pathetic article - they want you to kill moss
Moss is one of the greatest carbon sequesters on the planet
Mosses sequester around 6.43 billion metric tons more carbon in the soil than is stored in the bare patches of soil without any plants
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/ga...

Death is how the human species will adapt. Our leaders know that, and that's what they're choosing.

Confronting Human Exceptionalism — Population Balance The myth of human exceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape , shows how science and culture reinforce thi...

www.populationbalance.org/podcast/chri...

✅ Facts!👇🏼

“Staff learn which analyses will trigger scrutiny. Scientists learn which conclusions will be labeled “advocacy.” Managers learn what will complicate budgets or invite oversight. Over time, boundaries move inward…No one says “don’t go there.” People simply stop going there.”

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

'Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal [UK]…

England remains an anomaly across the world, as the only country apart from Chile where water, a natural resource, is owned by private companies for profit…'

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century, and Ca and P will be at the limit of their healthy ranges by the end of this century.”

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation

Geopolitical conflict isn’t just tragic. It slows climate action too.

A timely reminder as tensions rise in Iran…

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed — amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke."

(Søren Kierkegaard)

#collapse

Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?

Another example of human activity expanding faster than our ability to understand its consequences.

Wildlife policy has entered a strange phase where killing is marketed as education, profit is framed as stewardship, and eradication is sold as management.

Wolves are a complex part of functioning ecosystems being turned into a revenue stream.

This isn’t conservation. It’s commodification.

Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...

📣 Our latest IODP Expedition 361 paper:

Southern Ocean carbon stratification across the MPT

🌊 What controlled ice-age CO2?

Our new record reveals recurring deep carbon release — and a surprising decoupling after ~0.3 Ma.

Check it out 👇

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The Great Ocean Sync: How Melting Arctic Ice Links the World’s Most Powerful Currents This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Evolving synchronization of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in a changing climate” by Joh et al. (202…

Have you noticed synchronized SST anomalies between the Pacific and Atlantic in global maps? It’s not a coincidence. According to a new study in Science Advances by Joh et al. (2026), this "oceanic handshake" is directly linked to the retreat of Arctic sea ice. 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/03/01/t...

YouTube video by ITV News We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you to see

Great report, even though they often frame our predicament in terms of the economy. They also say dumb things like 'we must act now' etc...

#overshoot #collapse

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Global warming in the pipeline Abstract. Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney (fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2 ± 0.3°

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Human-made aerosols are the likely offset of GHG warming. Such aerosol cooling is a Faustian bargain because payment in enhanced global warming will come due once we can no longer tolerate the air pollution."

academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

James Hansen told us so: There’s an increasing climate sensitivity and a lot of warming in the pipeline

El Niño Is Returning With Another Stark Warning A science-fiction trope is the time traveler who visits the present day with a dire warning about the future only to be tragically ignored. It resonates because it’s so believable. In fact, Earth had ...

"El Niño of 2023 and 2024 delivered record-smashing temperatures. It was indeed frightening.. And Americans responded by putting a virulent climate-change denier back in the White House... El Niño is likely to return this year, threatening even higher temperatures."
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