The world has lost an amazing woman today. What a life. RIP Dr Jane Goodall.

There's no thought about the consequences to the natural world - “The wildlife there have existed for and evolved over thousands of years in a connected ecosystem and this wall will sever populations in half”

“What men call progress has killed our history” - Soya beans are now cultivated in 25 of Brazil’s 27 states and cover more than half the nation’s arable land, from the pampas to the equator.

"Sometimes they cry and say they cannot fetch more, but what else can we do?"

"...This isn’t a problem we can simply air-condition our way out of. Cities need an immediate funding boost to improve insulation and ventilation of buildings, develop heat plans and create shade cover where possible.” ~Anna Walnycki, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Insanity rules.

“But as the climate crisis has accelerated, it is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”

“More than 60 percent of the species in Europe are in a bad or poor condition”

“Our results apply only to intact, mature forests, which is where we are watching closely. They suggest the Amazon forest is remarkably resilient to climate change. My fear is that may count for little, unless we can stop the deforestation itself.”

"Even if the diagnosis is dire, the window of cure is still open. Failure is not inevitable; failure is a choice. A choice that must and can be avoided.”" ~Johan Rockström, The Potsdam Institute.

'Nearly three-quarters of drought-prone regions, including those with major reservoirs, face a high risk of severe and persistent droughts by the end of the century if humans keep burning planet-heating fossil fuels, the study found.'

How sad - 'In the historic port city of Basra, beekeepers following centuries-long traditions are struggling to produce honey as the salinity of water in Shatt al-Arab rises, along with extreme heat and persistent droughts that have disturbed the bees' delicate ecosystem.'

'An NGO study published in early July estimated that 88 percent of Turkey risks desertification.'

The average American born in 2024 will likely face up to $500,000 in additional lifetime costs from climate crisis, and those who experience more severe effects will see up to $1m in costs, the Costs of Climate Change: Financial and Economic Impacts on California report states.

Chile has suffered several droughts in the last 15 years, but farmers – who face severe water shortages – and residents also blame Anglo American for buying up the rights to use local water.

“This climate problem is really major for us. I believe that if things continue the way they are, the very existence of tea farming in this area will be threatened.” ~Nancy Githaiga, Kenyan tea farmer

'The internet has been a lifeline for students, especially girls barred from secondary schools and universities, but the shutdown has cut off even that option in northern Afghanistan.'

"We're seeing nearly a 100 percent die-off in a population of fish in response to a heating event," says Buston, who leads the Marine Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory. "This should be a big warning for ourselves as well."

“The downstream effects of these marine heatwaves is likely to be significant in terms of how they impact marine organisms, ecosystem structure, fisheries and the weather in the Pacific Northwest. Stay tuned.”

“The reefs have changed so much that they’re not even slightly doing what the reefs of the past used to do,” said Alice Webb, a coral reef ecologist at the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study. #biodiversityloss

“If we had not continued to burn fossil fuels over the last decades, most of the estimated 24,400 people in Europe wouldn’t have died this summer.” ~Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London

"We haven't recovered what we spent on agriculture; we've lost money. I can't finance next year and I can't cover the cost of food and drink"

'The ecological, climatic and geopolitical importance of the Caspian Sea means its fate ultimately matters far beyond its receding shores. It provides a key case study in how climate change is transforming major inland water bodies across the world, from Lake Titicaca to Lake Chad.'

“These countries are rich in natural resources and have vast areas of land under pressure for food and feed production. Conflict over the extraction of such resources and over the use of such land often leads to violence against defenders trying to uphold their rights.”

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One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

“This study adds a crucial new step: it connects the dots between specific climate disasters and the companies whose emissions made them possible. This bridge could become a cornerstone for legal and policy action to hold polluters accountable.”

“We were quite surprised about the microplastic levels we found – it was much higher than previously estimated,” said Nadiia Yakovenko, a microplastics researcher and study co-author with France’s University of Toulouse.

“Everything is founded around the reindeers: The food, the language, the knowledge of mountains. Everything is founded around the reindeer herding. "If that ceases to exist, the Sami culture will also cease to exist.”

'Obesity now exceeds underweight in all regions of the world other than sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, UNICEF added. In some Pacific Island countries like Niue and the Cook Islands, the worst-affected globally, nearly 40% of 5-19-year-olds have obesity, the report said.'

“This is what acid mine drainage looks like,” said Tim Lyons, a biogeochemist at the University of California, Riverside. “But here, there’s no mine. The permafrost is thawing and changing the chemistry of the landscape.”

Great ending sentence to this article - "Still, you have to wonder, if these creatures built to survive this can no longer survive, what’s going to happen to us?"

Maybe the jellyfish are trying to tell humans something? - 'In August, generation at another major nuclear site in France was also disrupted by jellyfish, after a "massive and unpredictable" swarm forced the Gravelines plant to temporarily cease operations.'

"A key driver of these wild swings? A double whammy of heat and dryness, increasingly arriving together"

I can't even imagine - “It wasn’t like this before,” said Manju Kurmi, who has worked in tea gardens for 40 years, during which she used to pick about 110 kg (243 lb) of leaves a day. “But now that it’s grown hotter, I can only manage around 60 kilograms (132 lb).”

Met Office climate scientists have found that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would have been in a "natural" climate, with no human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

After years of drought, "the marshes are dead," says water buffalo herder Watheq Abbas. The Chibayish marshes in southern Iraq, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been almost destroyed. Cattle breeders, hunters and herders are losing their livelihoods.

"With a 5-metre drop in the sea level, seals lose up to 81% of their breeding sites, and with a 10-metre drop, they are almost completely deprived of suitable sites"

Oh, 2100, so why worry? - “Even in some intermediate and low-emission scenarios, the Amoc slows drastically by 2100 and completely shuts off thereafter. That shows the shutdown risk is more serious than many people realise.”

“People in informal settlements struggle the most – with poor housing, limited water access, and inadequate electricity – to keep cool” #heatwaves

By burning fossil fuels, we are emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 30 times faster than at any point in the last 100 million years.

"I just don't think this can be repeated enough: particulate matter remains the greatest external threat to human health on the planet, period"

“If sharks and their resilience were to be weakened by ocean acidification in combination with other stressors such as overfishing and plastic pollution, this could trigger cascading and domino effects across many marine ecosystems.”

"On top of that, four out of five combustion plants are located near communities with lower-than-average United Nations Human Development Index scores, meaning poorer and more vulnerable populations bear the brunt of the pollution."

"Whether it's a political war or a climate war, we're suffering on all sides," said Maalouf, 42, whose family has been making wine for six generations.

'Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire'

We think that climate change is the key factor. Increasingly, it's actually been prioritized as the main threat of facing monarchs, especially since 2005"

Wise words to heed - “The climate is changing, and it’s us who have to adapt to it — not the other way around”

"This is crunch time. We're going to have to adapt in a much more rapid way" #waterscarcity

“Many of us have experienced heatwaves and survived unscathed – or so we thought. [This research] now shows that exposure to heatwaves affects the rate at which we age.”