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Study: Central Asia’s Water Tower to Lose One-third of Glacier Mass by 2040 The smaller glaciers of the Tian Shan mountains respond more quickly to climate change.

The Tian Shan mountains, also known as the water tower of Central Asia, are a crucial source of water for the region. The Tian Shan mountain glaciers have lost “27 percent of their mass and 18 percent of their area” in the last 50 years.

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One Affordability Battle After Another: What to do about the growing damage from the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex Affordability of electricity and concerns about fossil fuel pollution, water resources, and job loss, have driven a rebellion against data centers that is both grassroots and bipartisan. Its time for ...

Affordability of electricity and concerns about pollution, water resources and job loss, have driven a rebellion against data centers that is both grassroots and bipartisan. People have figured out that AI data centers will be first in line for power and water, and that taxpayer will bear the costs.

5 soundbites from James Hansen's latest warning Plus tools to help share with a wider audience

James Hansen released his latest insights the other day. Reading them, Sarah Connor wondered how digestible the information is to the average person. So many of us glaze over at charts and graphs. So she created a short, useful summary of Hansen’s findings where the headings are simple soundbites.

The Collapse Chronicle February 20 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and “Love” The Collapse, 5 Soundbites From James Hansen’s Latest Warning, Growing Damage From the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex, New Calculation of Global Trends, Th...

The lead story for our current edition is by Jessica Wildfire, who has learned not just to observe and complain about collapse, but to do things, like growing food, installing solar panels, natural gas generators and transfer switches. Avoiding illness. Developing skills. In The Collapse Chronicle!

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Very good news. And proof that it can be done.

The Collapse Chronicle February 20 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and “Love” The Collapse, 5 Soundbites From James Hansen’s Latest Warning, Growing Damage From the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex, New Calculation of Global Trends, Th...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and “Love” The Collapse, 5 Soundbites From James Hansen’s Latest Warning, Growing Damage From the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex, New Calculation of Global Trends, The Paradox Supercharging Climate Change, Iran War Watch… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

The Collapse Chronicle February 18 The Age of Foreseeable Disaster, The Collapse is Here.

The Age of Foreseeable Disaster, The Collapse is Here. It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed, Techno‑Feudal Elite’s Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State, The Age of Abundance is Ending, Europe Urged to Prepare for 3C of Global Heating, Is Your Pension Funding the AI Bubble… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Oil Industry’s Latest Disaster: Trillions of Gallons of Buried Toxic Wastewater Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.

The oil Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe. But it was profitable.

THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE IS ENDING Three major Defence Agencies are quietly admitting what most still refuse to face: climate breakdown is coming for our food, and the cracks are already spreading.

The truth from Down Under, brought by Margi Prideaux: climate breakdown is coming for our food, and the cracks are already spreading. While the wealthy cling to logistics and illusion, the real defence strategy is soil and local growers who refuse to let their communities starve. And Margi lives it.

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say The planet is close to entering a death-spiral that could bring about a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth."

All that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. Multiple climate systems are all much closer to collapse than previously thought. The planet is close to entering a death-spiral that could bring about a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth."

Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study Without rapid cuts to fossil fuels and a shift to clean energy, climate change could drive over a billion into hunger by 2100, hitting Africa hard.

More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters. Things are going to get a lot worse. By 2100, climate change could drive more than a billion people into food crises.

The Collapse Chronicle February 16 Collapse: Living Without the Future We Were Promised, Climate Change Could Expose 1.1 Billion People to Hunger by 2100, Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Revoking Climate-Change Regulation: Wors...

Collapse: Living Without the Future We Were Promised, Climate Change Could Expose 1.1 Billion People to Hunger by 2100, Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Revoking Climate-Change Regulation: Worst Thing Trump Has Done, The Looting of the Earth… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Straining Water, Power, and Communities Communities oppose AI data centers over water & energy use, rising bills, & environmental harm as Big Tech rapidly expands infrastructure.

Data centers use vast amounts of water to cool servers and other equipment. Large data centers can use up to five million gallons of water a day, equivalent to the daily water needs of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Oh, and those servers will power the surveillance state as well.

C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything Yascha Mounk and C. Thi Nguyen examine what happens when life becomes a game—and the game stops being fun.

We've all heard the saying that, "what gets measured gets done." But measure what, exactly? Is not some part of life essentially unquantifiable or untrackable? Managers tend to reach for quantitative justification compulsively, even when the metrics are known to be bad.

Are politicians dumber than algae? The corals of the world are telling us something that most government and politicians – whether through corruption, fear or impenetrable ignorance – are unwilling to divulge: our planet is now heating...

The corals of the world are telling us something that most government and politicians – whether through corruption, fear or impenetrable ignorance – are unwilling to say: our planet is now heating at catastrophic rates. Julian Cribb asks whether our politicians are dumber than algae. Good question.

China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

In a news environment that is a steady drumbeat from bad to worse, this is a rare positive note.

The Coming Economic And Social Collapse Why is the stock market high while the people are low?

Our economy is propped up upon toothpicks: For profit healthcare. Energy is booming. Crypto is whipping up a buying frenzy. Data center construction and AI, is spreading like an unvaccinated epidemic. Elites control housing, finance, and all debt. And while prices rise, profiteers make even more.

The Oil Industry’s Latest Disaster: Trillions of Gallons of Buried Toxic Wastewater Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.

The oil and gas industry’s most common method for disposing of its annual trillion gallons of toxic wastewater is to inject it deep underground. Both industry and regulators knew decades ago it wasn’t safe. Results include pollution, cave-ins, earthquakes, and contamination of underground deposits.

Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.

Dept. of No Data, No Problem: A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.

The Collapse Chronicle February 14 Six possible outcomes of Trump’s climate policy change, regime pulls supercomputers out of key weather research center, China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months, Seeing the ...

Six possible outcomes of climate policy change, Regime pulls supercomputers out of key weather research center, China’s CO2 emissions now ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months, See the future in the ruins of the past, Profiting from the deportation boom, Stop calling it broken… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Walls They’re Building Aren’t for Our Safety We are part of the disposable class

Sarah Connor: “A group of powerful people shape the world to fit their needs. They tell the public to “move on” while they build doomsday bunkers in remote locations, private security forces, and tech replacements for human labor… The audacious goals of the elites are real. You better believe it.”

Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled? Hansen: If the current La Niña minimum temperature is high, we'll know that global warming has accelerated again.

Thomas Neuberger draws realistic conclusions from James Hansen’s December climate letter. He notes, “no scientist has predicted too much warming; for decades, every projection has been for too little. Those conservative estimates are what keep us watching the game instead of pummeling politicians.”

The Walls They’re Building Aren’t for Our Safety We are part of the disposable class

The powerful shape the world to fit their needs. They tell the public to move on while they build doomsday bunkers in remote locations, private security, and tech replacements for human labor— all right in the open. And we're like, "nah, they cant really be planning for half of us to die, are they?"

The UK Government Blocked this Climate Intelligence Report — Here’s What It Said Supressed since last year and only now revealed thanks to an FoI request — this MI5 climate change report makes for chilling reading

Remember the story of an UK Intelligence Agency climate change report so damning that its publication was blocked by the UK government? It has finally been released pursuant to a FOI report. Here’s a summary, and you can see why the government had been very reluctant to release it.

The Collapse Chronicle February 12 No Turning Back This Climate Crisis, Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled?

No Turning Back This Climate Crisis, Has Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled? The Walls They’re Building Aren’t for Our Safety, Links Between Climate Change and Geophysical Hazards, Blackouts Are Coming, How America Got So Sick, Overconsumption Made Us Insufferable… in The Collapse Chronicle!

'This Is Your Money': Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion | Common Dreams "When you're counting the way that costs have gone up for American families over the last year, be sure to include the cost of getting cheated," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cost Americans nearly $20 billion in just a year, according to a report released Monday. The White House’s hostile takeover and gutting of the CFPB has cost us nearly $20 billion in rent extraction.

Hedge Fund Manager Says, 'The Collapse Of America Was As Dumb As You Thought It Would Be' As Trade Deficit Soared 94% Despite Trump's Tariffs Spencer Hakimian, founder of Tolou Capital Management, drew wide attention this week when he responded to a CNBC article about the soaring U.S. trade deficit

Year-over-year the trade deficit reached $839.5 billion through November, up 4% compared to the same period in 2024. The supposed point of the tariff agenda is to reduce the trade deficit. But what we have seen was the exact opposite: the largest widening of the deficit in more than 3 decades.