A study in Nature Sustainability concludes that New Orleans has reached a "point of no return" and immediate relocation planning is necessary due to accelerating sea level rise and coastal erosion. #climatechange www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now, criminal gangs are setting their sights on a new treasure: critical minerals coveted by much of the world. 🎁 article:

Tropical forest loss declined significantly last year, falling 36% after reaching a record level in 2024. Still, the world lost 10.6 million acres of rainforest — an area roughly the size of Denmark, or more than 11 soccer fields every minute. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

California, Arizona and Nevada announced a new water-saving plan to help address worsening shortages along the Colorado River over the next two years. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The global rise of authoritarian practices exacerbates the climate crisis by prioritizing the consolidation of resources for a select few, often at the expense of planetary well-being and through the use of disinformation and societal dissatisfaction. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

A growing body of research indicates that the combined effects of toxic chemicals, commonly found in plastics and consumer products, and #climatechange stressors like heat and oxygen depletion are synergistically undermining fertility across diverse species. www.onegreenplanet.org/news/how-tox...

The First Conference On Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels, held in Santa Marta, Colombia, brought together 57 countries representing one-third of the world's economy to discuss practical strategies for phasing out fossil fuels, a significant shift from previous UN climate summits.

Napa Valley, a cool Winkler region II roughly 70 years ago, is now solidly in regions III and IV, and is on a track to eventually enter the hottest band, region V — a no-fly zone for Cabernet, which originated in Bordeaux, a more moderate climate than Napa. www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

Human-wildlife conflict is one of the biggest threats to African nature, but people like Moreangels Mbizah are finding solutions. Staggering that they manage (sometimes with great difficulty) to live with lions, buffalo and elephant, while we struggle with pine martens. share.google/D6tys14Lul1Z...

Adopting a plant-based meal once a week offers a significant environmental and health benefits, as meat-based diets are substantially more resource-intensive, with the meat and dairy sectors contributing heavily to global emissions, primarily through methane production. #climatechange

New data from the 2025 European State of the Climate report, published by Copernicus, reveals that Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, with at least 95% of the continent experiencing above-average temperatures. defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/europes-warm...

A new study by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich indicates that current climate models may underestimate the impact of large-scale wind patterns on regional rainfall, contributing to uncertainties in future precipitation forecasts. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Women's work songs, emerging from repetitive labor like grinding, pounding, and planting, serve as informal archives that register environmental shifts and their impact on survival long before they are documented in official records. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Climate change awareness is influencing home design, prioritizing energy efficiency through features like high-performance insulation, airtight construction, and strategic ventilation systems, alongside the increasing adoption of solar panels and battery storage for energy independence.

Peter H. Raven, a botanist and author who became one of science’s most influential voices on threats posed by climate change, deforestation, overpopulation and unchecked development, died on Saturday in St. Louis. He was 89. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

A total of nine states — Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia as well as D.C. — are completely covered by drought.

This @carbonbrief.org explainer on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is very good. Useful for experts and novices alike. Kudos to @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org, @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org and @kerryanncleaver.bsky.social. interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...

Explore Acts 17:22-31 and John 14 through an ecological lens. Learn how nature reveals God and why agape love is vital for environmental justice and advocacy. #EcoPreacher #ClimateJustice #CreationCare #Acts17 #John14 #EcoTheology #RCL #May10 @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

Rebuilding, repairing, or relocating after a disaster is time-consuming and expensive for everyone. But as Kayode Nelson Adeniji examines, renters and mobile homeowners—who are more likely to be marginalized before disasters—tend to face greater difficulties returning home: bit.ly/4t72c9E

By 2050, rising temperatures and shifting rainfall could cut viable coffee-growing land roughly in half globally, according to research in Nature Plants. The crop that wakes up half the planet is quietly being undone by the same forces its industry helps drive. Worth sitting with that for a minute.

Excellent new flood risk tool: floodzonemap.org pulls from multiple federal sources and combines them into one free lookup. Enter an address, get the FEMA flood zone map, state-level insurance data from NFIP, and county-level storm event histories going back 30 years.

In response to Russian attacks on vulnerable, often nuclear centralized power plants, #Ukraine is actively pursuing energy decentralization and a significant increase in renewable energy sources, which are more resilient, cost-effective to repair, and faster to deploy. www.dw.com/en/how-ukrai...

Developers of large scale lithium-ion storage farms for renewable energy are facing increasing opposition from California communities worried about fires similar to the 2025 blaze in Moss Landing that was built before the establishment of current safety standards. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Despite a lack of reputable evidence, claims that large solar farms pose a public health threat are contributing to a nationwide backlash and proliferation of restrictions on solar development, even as consumer energy costs rise. www.propublica.org/article/mich...

La primera Conferencia para la Transición más allá de los Combustibles Fósiles en Santa Marta, Colombia, ha marcado el inicio de un diálogo global para establecer una hoja de ruta hacia la eliminación progresiva de los combustibles fósiles, destacando el valor de la ciencia en este proceso.

The Laudato Si’ Movement is participating in the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, urging a decisive and just transition beyond coal, oil, and gas. #climatechange laudatosimovement.org/news/laudato...

Cómo cubrir la conferencia en Santa Marta (Colombia) para la transición más allá de los combustibles fósiles. La cita internacional, la primera de este alcance, quiere presentar soluciones viables para reducir la producción y el consumo de petróleo, gas y carbón.

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

"An El Niño during the next 12 to 18 months could drive the average global temperature to about 1.7C degrees above the preindustrial level, climate scientist James Hansen said. Hansen doubts the world will cool back down to below the 1.5C degrees after El Niño." insideclimatenews.org/news/2504202...

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

More than 50 countries are convening in Santa Marta, Colombia, for the inaugural summit dedicated to phasing out oil, gas, and coal, aiming to advance discussions outside the traditional UN climate process where major producers have often hindered progress. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

The most optimistic scenarios for sea-level rise may no longer be achievable due to delayed climate action, with current trends already aligning with mid-to-high projections from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. theconversation.com/why-delaying...

France's environment ministers deliberately excluded #climatechange from the G7 environment summit agenda in Paris this week to avoid conflict with the United States, which has withdrawn from global climate agreements under President Donald Trump. www.rfi.fr/en/environme...

African leaders, policymakers, and experts are urgently calling for homegrown solutions to combat the escalating impacts of #climatechange, including rising temperatures, droughts, and floods, which are exacerbating food insecurity and displacement. www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/25/...

Since 2018, gray whale populations have experienced alarming declines, with many starving due to the disappearance of their primary food source in Arctic waters, a direct consequence of #climatechange. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/baja-...

A large, long-lasting and record-setting marine heat wave has set in and is forecast to persist and intensify, altering the weather conditions on the West Coast and adversely affecting the marine food chain. https://cnn.it/4mJKXJV

Increasingly severe climate impacts threaten traditional avenues for American families to get ahead, such as homeownership, stable employment, and affordable living costs. Climate action can help reverse the shrinking of the American middle class. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

More than five decades after the first #EarthDay, emerging toxins such as PFAS and microplastics, alongside #climatechange impacts like rising sea levels, increased precipitation, and extreme heat, pose significant threats to both the environment and public health. whyy.org/articles/vul...

In my latest installment in an ongoing series on climate change and hurricanes, I look at how strong a hurricane can get. In the Persian Gulf, where SSTs get to 95°F, a 300 mph hurricane is possible. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/how-...

Climate change, specifically warming temperatures and drought, can accelerate the development and spread of antibiotic resistance in environments like grassland soils. www.sciencenews.org/article/clim...

While millions of people care deeply about the environment, only a fraction take action on #climatechange. New research has uncovered the psychological reasons why some people get involved while others don't. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans tried and failed on Earth Day to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. 🎁 article:

Great white sharks, tuna and other mesothermic species, which maintain warmer body temperatures than the surrounding seawater, are facing a risk of overheating due to #climatechange induced ocean warming. e360.yale.edu/digest/great...

In a year of grim climate and environmental news, here are several hopeful signs about our planet’s future in honor of Earth Day. #climatechange 🎁 article:

Svalbard is thawing in April, and it’s not supposed to. 2026 ground temperatures at 0.2m depth in Svalbard spiking to 0°C in April, far exceeding the 1998-2025 median and maximum

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According to a new U.C. Berkley study, #climatechange in Central America is exacerbating existing issues like violence, discrimination, and weak state protection, thereby driving migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. www.law.berkeley.edu/article/huma...

San Francisco Bay has an increasing number of dead Eastern North Pacific gray whales, with a record 21 found in 2025 and seven so far this year, attributed to dwindling prey, #climatechange, and human activities. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The 2020s have experienced two significant fossil fuel shocks: Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz in 2026. The current "twin shocks" are accelerating the transition to electrotechnologies and a peak in absolute fossil fuel demand.