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New Jersey city expands its urban forest, trains residents to care for the trees » Yale Climate Connections The We Grow Camden initiative aims to plant 3,000 trees across the city.

Trees cool neighborhoods, filter air pollution, and soak up stormwater. In this city, they also represent the idea “that the future is worth nurturing,” says Justin Dennis of the Trust for Public Land.

Protecting 30% of Belize’s seas is bold, certainly, but sustaining the protectors themselves is the real challenge.

Water conflicts are rising globally, but local issues deserve attention too. From Tehran's drying reservoirs to Bangladesh's arsenic wells and the flood-drought tensions at the Farakka Barrage, water insecurity fuels unrest at all levels!

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals. In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report

Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms

Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal

Hybrid flood defences are promising, but coasts aren’t one‑size‑fits‑all. Sandy beaches, muddy estuaries, rocky shores, cliffed coasts, deltaic systems, and coral reef fringes each face flood pressures differently, demanding contextual, sediment‑aware, and tailored approaches.

So special that you’ve explored Sri Lanka’s beauty through your passionate cycling, and now heartbreaking to see its fragility in this devastation. Disasters remind us that lives and landscapes are bound together, and resilience must be built with foresight!

Maximizing Climate Returns: Albedo Accounting for Smarter Carbon Investments New research shows how the albedo effect influences how well forest restoration projects can help cool the Earth.

A moment for reflection... literally.

New research shows how the albedo effect (Earth’s reflectivity) influences how well forest restoration projects can help cool the Earth.

As AR7 advances, the dedicated Special Report on Cities and the new methodology on carbon removal mark a fresh dimension in the IPCC’s work, offering hope for the pathways ahead!

How cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide Extreme weather kills more than 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia as cyclones turbocharge rain systems

1,100+ lives lost across SE Asia show how cyclones intensify monsoon rain to chain disasters! Strengthening multi‑hazard early warning, resilience measures, infrastructures, emission reduction efforts r critical & #Adaptation must rise to match the scale of risk. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is a powerful action, blocking coal ships highlights the urgency. Transitioning away from fossil fuels isn’t optional; it’s survival!

Opposition list riddled with contradictions.

Cyclone Ditwah exposes the peril of underestimating climate extremes. Sri Lanka’s loss is not only in lives but in the urgent lesson that preparedness anchored in multi‑hazard early warning must evolve as fast as the storms themselves!

That’s alarming..and it underscores how urgently flood preparedness and community resilience measures are needed right now!

In Tehran, promises to reduce food and water waste clash with the reality of near-empty reservoirs. Without major reforms to urban water governance, these pledges won't be enough to address the city's looming water scarcity.

Cyclone #Ditwah sparked chain disaster in #SriLanka. Landfall @Trincomalee brought torrential rain, triggering #landslides in Badulla, Nuwara Eliya, Floods drowned Colombo & Gampaha. 69 dead, 34 missing, 18k displaced. Warnings came late too narrow, too little. Multi‑hazard forecasting must evolve.

Homemaking in communities recovering from disaster - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research This report summarises findings from a collaborative scoping project on the topic of homemaking in Malawi, following extreme weather events.

Read our new #briefing on homemaking in #Malawi📙 How can we support a holistic approach for disaster-affected communities?

This report summarises findings from a collaborative scoping project after #ExtremeWeather events in Malawi.

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Watch the new WCRP video!

See how global climate scientists work together to provide trusted, actionable climate information:

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#ClimateAction #ScienceforAction

@sciencecouncil.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social

San Clemente floats idea for offshore reef to retain sand, create new surf break A three-year study proposes the 1,500-foot-long reef off North Beach, while the city also announced big permitting milestone to haul in sand.

A report that finds San Clemente can save its beaches using nature-based solutions was presented to city officials hoping to figure out a solution to its shrinking shoreline. The proposed project could have the added benefit of a new, man-made surf break #cawater www.ocregister.com/2025/11/25/s...

Southern #Thailand submerged, floodwater rising 2m+ in #HatYai #Songkhla. Blocked routes, fierce currents, scarce boats, gunfire of distressed locals confront rescuers in red zone. The 1‑in‑300‑year event caused 33 dead, 465K+ affected. Airlifting ICU patients implies historic #Disaster severity.

Do annual UN climate talks magically fix the climate crisis? No. But this is what consensus-building looks like. And it matters.

#COP30 drove higher collective ambition, set shared rules and put every level of climate action under intense scrutiny.

Our reflections: https://nature.ly/3M7sicB

25.11.2025

'A terrifying landslide hit Parombunan a short while ago, in Sibolga City, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Casualties have been reported.'

via WeatherMonitors [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

Coral reefs protect coasts, nurture biodiversity, and help feed millions.

But they’re vanishing fast.

Every fraction of a degree counts in the fight to #SaveOurOcean.

The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left | Editorial Editorial: A fragile Cop30 consensus is a win. But only a real bargain between rich and poor nations can weather the climate shocks that are coming

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The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

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#Thailand #Flood Emergency: #HatYai #Songkhla submerged, 25 dead, 440k+ affected. Hospitals face blackouts & boat evacuations, power poles collapse. Urgent action underway. Extreme rainfall shows systemic fragility, long‑term #CCA needed. #ThailandFLood #ClimateAction @firehorse249791.bsky.social

#COP30 delivered some steps forward, but resilience for vulnerable communities remains the real test. As GNDR’s Climate Change Lead Adessou Kossivi highlights, commitments must now turn into concrete action! @globalnetworkdr.bsky.social #GNDRatCOP30

Frontiers | Enhancing public understanding of extreme weather events in a changing climate through ClimaMeter ClimaMeter is a real-time platform designed to provide rapid, science-based assessments of extreme weather events and their links to climate change. ClimaMet...

Enhancing public understanding of extreme weather events in a changing climate through ClimaMeter
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🔴 ⚠️ ⛈️ 🛰️ In less than 12 hours a series of extreme #weather events have affected N.#Italy,with #landslides and #floods from #Tuscany to #FriuliVeneziaGiulia with 2 deaths in the area of Gorizia. ⬇️ 12hours on Nov.17 of FCI IR from Meteosat12 #EUMETview #climateemergency

A bar graph showing how long over time every climate COP has gone since 1995.

#COP30 is set to close in two days, and the Brazilian presidency is confident that the gavel will fall on time, or early.️

Such a conclusion would be an outlier: Since 1995, only 4 COPs ended early or on time.

Check out our graphic to see how climate COPs compare in terms of overtime. 👇

Scientific‑empirical evidence shows #NatureBasedSolutions like oyster reefs enhance #muddy coastal resilience by attenuating hydrodynamic energy, stabilizing soft‑sediment shorelines, supporting biodiversity, a powerful dimension of #CoastalProtection relevant to archipelagic state Fiji. @iisd.org