Usha Alexander

What will Europe's weather be like in 2030?

14.01.2025 09:55 — 👍 83    🔁 27    💬 6    📌 0

Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures - Carbon Brief Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world.

"Our new paper, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates that, in some locations, crop yield shocks can be predicted more than six months ahead of time and – in certain cases – before a crop is even planted."

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-u...

10.12.2024 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Increased demand for metals and minerals needed for clean energy transition puts 4,000+ species at risk, finds study

4,642 species of vertebrates are threatened by mineral extraction around the world through mining and quarrying, and drilling for oil and gas.

phys.org/news/2024-07...

10.12.2024 07:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...

10.12.2024 06:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Climate scientists will spend years debating this enormous Absorbed Solar Radiation increase.

Some will call it a strong aerosol forcing, some a climate feedback, some 'the pattern effect'.

The result is the same = more heat accumulating faster on Earth, accelerating regional and global warming.

09.12.2024 14:47 — 👍 70    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 3

Thanks to climate change, olive oil is becoming a luxury due to price - as I’m sure you’ve noticed. It is the most shoplifted item in half of Spain’s supermarkets. When I lived in Greece it was a cheap staple. Not anymore.

25.11.2024 11:01 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0