CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Wait, making people's lives healthier while providing much needed employment?!? Un-possible!Read more → https://grist.org/cities/can-replacing-illinois-toxic-lead-pipes-lead-to-a-workforce-boon/#Grist #Climate #Cities

I've been considered a bit of a "fun-guy" myself!Read more → https://grist.org/science/long-overlooked-as-crucial-to-life-fungi-start-to-get-their-due/#Grist #Climate #Science

Crowd sensing for the environment: Citizen science and plant apps map how urbanization alters city soils and climateAcross Europe, built-up areas are warmer, drier, and darker than the green spaces within the same cities. Their soils are more alkaline, saltier, poorer in nutrients, and more strongly disturbed by mechanical soil management than those in parks or urban forests.phys.org/news/2026-01-crowd-en…#CitizenScience #environment #plants #urbanization #climate #soil #city #CrowdSensing

House Bucks GOP Leadership and Approves Battery Recycling Program https://www.bocvip.com/1270943/house-bucks-gop-leadership-and-approves-battery-recycling-program/ #CLIMATE

They hung electrical heaters across patches of a flowery grass meadow up in the Rockies and raised the air and top soil temperature by 2C. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoeThen they paid 6000$ per year on electricity and waited for 29 years to see how the heated patches might change compared to their surrounding. The soil changed its composition of fungi and microbes, and became 20% drier. The plants changed to more shrubs. I'd like to know a few more things. Like, nothing else was changed but temperature? So not more moisture in the air, not more rain, and in changed patterns.Then the experiment's outcome isn't a blueprint for what's in store for the rest of that meadow.Also: the shrub-ification is a bit odd. Did grazing wildlife avoid the warmed patches because of, maybe, the electrical humming? I assume, these questions get addressed in the text but the paper is paywalled. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2510936123#Climate #Ecology

#FirstNationsModern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answersA new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate changehttps://grist.org/indigenous/modern-agriculture-is-collapsing-under-climate-change-indigenous-farming-has-answers/#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

#EliotJacobson #ClimateCasino #codeUFBO.O"Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024."https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3mhsudqgot227#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

"Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change"#Climate #ClimateChangehttps://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/record-torching-march-heat-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change/

The Earth’s #climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the #atmosphere and #ocean and melting of ice.Extreme events around the world, including intense #heat, heavy #rainfall and tropical #cyclones, cause disruption and devastation and highlight the vulnerability of our inter-connected economies and societies.The ocean continues to warm and absorb carbon dioxide. It has been absorbing the equivalent of about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades.Annual sea ice extent in the Arctic was at or near a record low, Antarctic sea ice extent was the third lowest on record, and glacier melt continued unabated.These rapid and large-scale changes have occurred within a few decades but will have harmful repercussions for hundreds – and potentially thousands – of years. https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/earths-climate-swings-increasingly-out-of-balance

@TimWardCam @Akshay In particular, I wish they'd finally figure out what they're doing with the EPC ratings. Under the current 2030 EPC C target, heat pumps score worse than efficient gas or oil boilers, which I find totally absurd.And then there's the plumbers who will either ignore any questions about getting a building's heating system ready for switching to a heat pump, or reply with "don't bother, just get a new boiler."

The Trump regime has paid a French company $1Bn to NOT replace oil with renewables. #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #oil #iranwarhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation

@NewsDesk @CNN Nice that we’re finding a use for all that tax money DOGE saved. And then, about a billion more.

@W_Lucht I hope the French give him their very typical French answer of "go fuck yourself you animal"

CBC: Are we in for a super El Niño this year? Early projections say maybe, and this worries climate scientistshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/science/super-el-nino-9.7133680?cmp=rss#heatwaves #climateemergency #climate

Stating the blindingly obvious:"The media is distorting the truth about the public and net zero"https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-j4yld#UKPol #NetZero #Climate #media

Groundbreaking study finds a natural way to fight climate changehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/03/22/climate-change-study-beavers-have-big-impact/89228448007/?utm_medium=activitypub#Climate#ClimateChange

Started watching the new Spielberg-produced The Dinosaurs series on Netflix, about the rise of dinosaurs following an era of carbon dioxide rise, warming oceans and torrential rains. I wonder if somewhere in the future, a new dinosaur species will make a documentary about those stupid humans who made themselves go extinct by causing a new era of global warming.#dinosaurs #humans #Earth #GlobalWarming #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #environment #humanity #pollution #history

RE: https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/116273646613778026This is the good stuff.• The depaving groups reclaiming urban green space: These forward-thinking organizations have depaved parking lots – and turned them into paradise.Article includes comments from @seachanger who heads a depaving org in Portland, Oregon, USA. The movement is worldwide.#depaving #rewilding #climate #urban

OPEC Production Cuts 2026: Why Saudi Arabia Holds All theSaudi Arabia's strategic calculus in 2026: OPEC+ production cuts, spare capacity constraints, Russia-Saudi dynamics, and the price target the Kingdom actuallyhttps://theboard.world/articles/energy/opec-production-cuts-2026-why-saudi-arabia-holds-all-the#Energy #Oil #Climate

https://electrek.co/2026/03/19/the-world-added-a-record-814-gw-wind-solar/ “Solar made up the bulk of new additions in 2025. Globally, nearly 4 GW of solar was installed for every 1 GW of wind… Solar, wind & batteries give importers a genuine path to energy security, one that is cheaper, faster to deploy, and doesn’t come with geopolitical strings attached.” #environment #climate #energy #technology