Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climate change. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. More than ever before.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

Eastward, across gnarled rivers and historic indigenous homelands, the great Amazon Rainforest paints this basin shades of green, refreshing much of the world’s oxygen. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climate change. For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China. I don’t purport to be an expert on that.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These fires, often deliberately set as part of land clearing efforts for cattle or agriculture, are becoming even more intense in the face of the climate crisis and exposing millions to dangerous air pollution. The global implications of this – coupled with other tipping points across the world’s ecosystems – are staggering to contemplate.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 7, 2022

By Georgina Gustin The world’s largest rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from droughts and fires, pushing it farther toward a threshold where it could transform into arid savannah, releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 24, 2024

By Georgina Gustin Climate change was the primary driver of a massive drought in the Amazon basin in 2023 and will likely cause future extreme droughts, with potentially dire consequences for global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from World Weather Attribution.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible. Their effects are practically irreversible.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climate change will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climate change. More fundamentally, sustainability problems are interconnected and lend themselves to interdisciplinary study. Sending a Message.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A report produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central finds that 2024 was quite a year for extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. WWA studied 16 floods; out of those, 15 had been driven by climate change-amplified rainfall. Image credit: WWA.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2025

However, theres no question that its much more damaging to the climate than other staple grain crops. Analysis: Climate change drives down yields and nutrition of Indian crops You can look up my previous article to read up on why that is. Half the world eats rice every day, so thats perhaps not surprising.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest covers an area of 6 million square kilometres in northern South America [1]. Unfortunately for the species that inhabit the rainforest, 75% of Amazonian soils are acidic, infertile, and nutrient-deficient [3]. Transport of Saharan dust to the Amazon rainforest. References.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

An Indigenous patrol force protects Guyana’s Amazon Rainforest. The SRDC plays a large role in protecting the Amazon River and the rainforest that surrounds it in Guyana. Libanda said Namibia, which has battled drought throughout the past seven years, is increasingly vulnerable to climate change. 90,000 CATTLE .

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The Applied Ecologist

AUGUST 1, 2023

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Charlotte Raven, a second-year PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, shares her story.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro bans outdoor fires ahead of the burning season in the Amazon rainforest. Climate is going to challenge our economies and the health of all people who live here.” – Cathy Whitlock, a Montana State University paleoclimatologist. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 3, 2021

by Kavya Prahdan, graduate student at the University of Washington I am Kavya Pradhan, a graduate student in the Hille Ris Lambers lab at the University of Washington where I study forest plant communities, their responses to climate change, and potential for climate change adaptation. ” — Kavya Pradhan.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

For example, it would be possible to prosecute destruction of the Amazonian rainforest as genocide if it could be established that the destruction was intended to destroy an ethnic group as such ( this claim has been made, but it’s a tough one). Culpability attaches to proceeding to act (or failing to act) in full knowledge of the risk.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’d like to learn more about how TNC researchers have been advancing the science around the impacts of climate change, we have been actively (1) researching the impacts of climate change and the potential of (2) natural climate solutions , such as forests, to capture and store carbon. 1 Case, Michael J.,

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2022

An astounding new species of rare orchid has been discovered in the cloud rainforest of Northern Ecuador.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 2, 2022

There are few long-term studies on tropical bird population patterns, and the paper sheds light on how species deal with habitat loss and climate change.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

The combined effects of the Cochiti Dam upstream and climate change have cut the river’s flow to a fraction of what it once was, and the overflowing banks from her father’s childhood are bone dry. Whitmer urged federal and state lawmakers to fund resilient infrastructure in the state and to take action to combat climate change.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s not something that gets much attention in introductory climate courses or in campaigning. Sometimes it is left out of statistics, or reported separately as LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. That’s what’s captured in Land Use Change statistics, which can be positive or negative. So what are we talking about?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

here and here ) reported on a new study in Nature Climate Change that found that the need for action to address tropical deforestation is more urgent than ever. Recent articles (e.g., GCF Task Force members unanimously approved the Manaus Action Plan at a closed-door meeting on March 16. Photo credit: Daniel Melling.

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Environment Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

Climate change has never been more relevant – global warming is impacting everything we do, from the food we eat and the transport we use to the homes we live in, our family and friends, and the air we breathe. The post How to Spread the Word About Climate Change appeared first on Environment Blog. Get Your Voice Heard.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

Biodiversity experts say climate catastrophes are destroying the habitats of African animal species. Climate change is disrupting ecosystems and affecting the survival and suitability of species to live in their usual habitats.”. Shyla Raghav, Vice President of Climate Change at Conservation International.

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Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2022

Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”. knoblochi ’s extinction seems to have been climate change, hunting by archaic humans may also have played a role. While the main cause of C.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The last few days saw two major developments in international rights-based climate litigation, with the adoption of a new resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and a long-awaited decision on a climate case by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Recent Developments on rights-based climate litigation.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Under Bolsonaro, deforestation of the Amazon soared to a 15-year high, with scientists warning that the world’s largest rainforest was nearing a tipping point beyond which there would be irreversible consequences for the entire planet. Read the full story from NBC News.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the Sargasso Sea, Sargassum provides a rich environment for wildlife that has been called a floating rainforest. Another possible source is one we know all too well, climate change. These massive, disruptive sargassum blooms could become the “new normal” due to climate change, spelling disaster for our beaches.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

National Geographic reports that local agroforestry cooperative in Brazil called RECA could become a model for agriculture in Brazil—one that requires far less land than cattle ranching, preserves biodiversity, protects soil and water, and sequesters carbon in its trees, mitigating climate change.

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