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Since Hurricane Ian, Manatee County Animal Welfare is helping to find and place lost and missing pets. The number of strays has doubled.


Patch 

Stray Pets Double After Hurricane Ian: Manatee County Animal Welfare

Poor countries want compensation for the impacts of climate change. COP27, in November, may force the issue

The Economist

What is climate “loss and damage”?

You don’t need to be an economist to know that the financial markets are a bit jittery at the moment and people are once again using the dreaded “R” word - recession.



Forbes

Could Economic Headwinds Blow Climate Change Commitments Off Course?

More than 100,000 customers in Puerto Rico are still waiting for power to be restored two weeks after Hurricane Fiona dumped historic amounts of rain and knocked out power across the island.

NPR 

More than 100,000 clients in Puerto Rico are still without power 2 weeks after Fiona

By the time Lieutenant Colonel Sean Cross realised he was in trouble, it was too late to turn back. Cross's plane slammed into the wall of Hurricane Michael, a violent Category 5 hurricane that in October 2018 was barrelling towards the coast of Florida.

Financial Times

The new era of stronger hurricanes: bigger storms, better forecasts

A nationwide shortage of critical electrical equipment could complicate the restoration of power in Florida, industry officials say.

Politico

Floridians could face weeks without power if Ian leaves grid 'beyond repair'

In the tropics termites play crucial roles in ecosystems by recycling dead wood and thereby cleaning up forests.

Sustainability Times

Will termites aided by climate change help drive emissions?

A new survey finds growing concerns over climate change are impacting a number of key considerations, including the decision to avoid having children.



Green Queen

Climate Change Fears Driving 40% of People to Avoid Having Children

‘Some fatalities’ and widespread power outages reported

Ian batters Florida: ‘Some fatalities’ and widespread power outages reported

Extreme weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and heat waves, are increasing in intensity, frequency and duration due to climate change. 

World Economic Forum

 How disaster-hit areas can get the power back on and build resilience for next time

‘It was apocalyptic, a real disaster’

The Independent

Power restored to parts of Cuba after Hurricane Ian left millions without electricity

Tree growth is as much a response to the environment as it is to the genetic make-up of the tree. 

EcoWatch

Trees Are Getting Bigger in Response to Climate Change 

Palm trees are hardy perennials. There they are on scenic sandy beaches across much of the world, providing picturesque contrasts to them. Yet this seeming ubiquity of palms hides an alarming truth: nearly 1,000 palm species are at risk of going extinct around the planet.

Many palm species are facing the risk of extinction

High in the Peruvian Andes, there is a glacier whose disappearance has been linked to the departure of the gods.

Carbon Brief 

Loss and damage: What happens when climate change destroys lives and cultures?

By now, most of you have read about the tempest over the World Bank president, David Malpass. (Here's a cheat sheet if you haven't.)
Truth is, it's just the tip of the iceberg.

The New York Times

Who pays for climate havoc?

Hurricane Ian officially formed as a Category 1 storm on Monday, bearing down on the Cayman Islands and Cuba as Floridians were warned to "be ready" for extreme weather in the coming days.

Hurricane season is in full swing. Here's why storms are getting stronger

While the island struggles to recover, Fiona has moved on, hitting the Dominican Republic and colliding with Canada’s Eastern Seaboard on Saturday, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, parts of the Caribbean and Florida are bracing for Hurricane Ian, which is expected to build to a Category 4 hurricane by Tuesday.

Grist

Puerto Ricans were already angry about the power grid. Then came Hurricane Fiona

As Unesco pledges $350,000 to safeguard sites, questions are raised about the country’s long-term commitment to restoring and protecting key locations in the face of the climate crisis

The Art Newspaper

Pakistan’s heritage has suffered the brutal effects of record monsoon rains—what happens now?

A new report from Oxford University found that switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world a whopping $12 trillion US dollars by just 2050.

Oil Price

Climate Change Could Cost The Global Economy $23 Trillion By 2050

At least 12 people were struck by lightning while 24 others died after their homes collapsed during unrelenting rains.

Al Jazeera

Lightning, heavy rains kill at least 36 in India

Post-tropical storm Fiona battered eastern Canada with hurricane-strength winds, torrential rains and huge waves which swept away houses and left hundreds of thousands without power.


Euronews

Powerful storm batters Canada, destroying houses and causing outages

The powerful storm has Fiona slammed into Canada's Atlantic coast, knocking out electricity to more than 500,000 homes. Police have described the strong winds and heavy rains in the country's east as nothing they had ever seen.


Storm Fiona batters Canada's east coast

Like many nations in the Global South facing the wrath of climate change, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif noted Pakistan had little responsibility for it.


Pakistan PM decries climate carnage: 'Did not contribute to this'

Days after Hurricane Fiona, power had not been restored for most people.

ABC News

Puerto Rico's power grid is struggling 5 years after Hurricane Maria. Here's why.

Tropical Storm Ian, which formed late Friday over the Central Caribbean Sea, could threaten Florida as a major hurricane early next week after cutting across western Cuba, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Ian Forms, and Florida Prepares for Its Effects

Climate change and habitat destruction may have already caused the loss of more than one-tenth of the world's terrestrial genetic diversity, according to new research.

Science Daily

It may already be too late to meet UN genetic diversity target, but new findings could guide conservation efforts

UN ruling creates 'a pathway' to allow climate victims to force national governments to address their plight.


Australia climate change inaction violated islanders' rights: UN

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will change the face of today’s petrol stations as we know them, requiring a transition to become ‘mobility stations’ of the future, offering a wider range of power sources and convenience services.

Engineering News

Electric vehicles will change the face of fuel stations 

After such a long, hot, dry summer – and with the prospect of more extreme weather events on the horizon – autumn this year may be very different to the season John Keats celebrated in his ode.

The Guardian

Autumn has arrived in the UK – but the season is not like it used to be

Tropical Storm Hermine, which formed on Friday, could threaten Florida as a major hurricane early next week after following a path across western Cuba, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Hermine Forms as Florida Prepares for Its Potential Effects

When it comes to the climate crisis, Russia is a study in contradictions. It is the fourth most climate-polluting country in the world, but it is also warming twice as fast as the international average, The Guardian pointed out

Russian Activists File Country’s First-Ever Climate Lawsuit

Numerous private Brazilian companies trying to slow the destruction of the Amazon forest are using a large climate conference in New York this week to lure investors to support preservation plans. Investors are increasingly trying to develop carbon offset credits to help companies and government to meet targets for emissions reductions, which could be a benefit for Brazil.

Reuters

As the Amazon burns, Brazilian firms tap investors in New York for help

A 3,000km cycle ride across the continent reveals the consequences of climate change – and what we can do to stop it

The New European

Europe’s vanishing winter

Promoting the sustainable development of marine environments requires planning, just as we have long had spatial planning for land-based activities. Now researchers are showing that marine planning must take climate change into consideration.


Climate change may impact marine environments more than anything else

Climate events will not just be felt through more frequent natural disasters and extreme temperatures, but they will soon have a daily impact on our lives in the way of food. 

5 Foods You Eat Everyday Could Disappear Because Of Climate Change, From Coffee To Potatoes

Once again a country that is among the least responsible for climate change -- Pakistan generates less than 1 percent of the world's carbon emissions -- is bearing the brunt of its dangerous impacts.

UNICEF USA BrandVoice: Deadly Floods In Pakistan Linked To Climate Change

Most Brits think Spain, Greece, and Turkey will be 'too hot' to visit by 2027, as climate change drives temperatures up.

Brits think Spain, Greece and Turkey may soon be too hot for holidays

Africa's contribution to climate change is historically negligible. Around 15% of the world's population lives on the continent but contribute less than 3.8% of greenhouse emissions responsible for global warming.


Climate Home News

When the EU and US score climate points off China, Africa suffers

Luma Saqqaf, the CEO of Ajyal Sustainability Consulting, has spent three decades at the forefront of Islamic finance, sustainability and entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa, also known as the MENA region. 

The Sustainable Finance Podcast

Climate Change Impacts & Sustainable Finance Trends in MENA Region

The historic heat waves that roasted the U.S. and Europe over the summer may have subsided. But a record marine heat wave is gripping large expanses of the North Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans.


Axios

Climate change drives record North Atlantic marine heat wave

The Amazon Rainforest’s biodiversity impacts weather patterns, crop growth and carbon levels around the world. However, gold mining in the area is having a devastating ecological effect. In an NBC News Investigation, Cynthia McFadden travels to Peru to report on the issue.

NBC News

Amazon Rainforest severely impacted by gold mining

Five years after Maria, another slow-moving storm "catches the island at the very worst moment."


Hurricane Fiona threatens Puerto Rico's fragile recovery

Hurricane Fiona has battered Puerto Rico, shutting off power to the entire island and sending floods into towns and cities.


Climate leaders sound alarm over Hurricane Fiona's 'devastating consequences'

Hurricane Fiona knocked out electrical power to the entire commonwealth of Puerto Rico starting on Sunday, reviving memories of Hurricane Maria, the deadly Category 4 storm that struck in 2017 and exposed the feeble nature of the island's electrical grid.

What Has Happened to Puerto Rico's Power Grid Since Hurricane Maria?

More than 1,000 species of trees commonly found in cities are under threat from the climate crisis, researchers have found.


Climate crisis threatens survival of 1,000 urban tree species

Puerto Rico’s entire power grid was once again knocked offline on Sunday, after Hurricane Fiona battered island with high winds and extreme rainfall that has led to catastrophic flash flooding across much of the country.

Puerto Rico’s Power Grid Failed Again in Worst Disaster Since Hurricane Maria

The latest data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, shows that in Europe this August was by far the warmest on record. 

Hottest ever August and lowest Rhine level since 2018

For years, Puerto Rico’s power grid has been crippled by a combination of woes: aging equipment, poor maintenance, mismanagement, corruption and a series of storms. On Monday, like a recurring nightmare, more than one million customers were again living with blackouts after Hurricane Fiona swept across the island.



Puerto Rico’s Power Grid Was Already Fragile and Inefficient

More than 7 million people urged to take refuge as Typhoon Nanmadol hits south-west of country with 150mph winds



Rare 'special warning' issued as violent typhoon makes landfall in Japan

Droughts and heatwaves fuelled by climate change have endangered food supplies across Europe this summer.



How a summer of droughts, floods and fires is hiking up food prices

Climate Change | Effects

CA likes to see itself as a leader in climate policy. Going from fossil fuels to renewable energy also will mean a major reshuffling.

How Can California Workers Transition To Green Energy Jobs?

The tiny island nation of Barbados could wield a big green hydrogen stick while demonstrating that energy and food security can coexist

CleanTechnica

Barbados Seeks Green Hydrogen With Sheep, Too

Hurricane Ian will be remembered as one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history, leaving an estimated 2.5 million people in Florida — and all of Cuba — without electricity as the death toll mounts. This comes days after Hurricane Fiona battered Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, wiping out power to huge swaths of those islands.



The Hill

Hurricane Ian amplifies urgent need for resilient, renewable and just energy grid

Anthony Grande moved away from Fort Myers three years ago in large part because of the hurricane risk. He has lived in southwest Florida for nearly 19 years, had experienced Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017 and saw what stronger storms could do to the coast.

This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage

Electric utilities in Florida were on high alert Tuesday as Hurricane Ian’s winds and massive storm surge began to threaten the state’s west coast, possibly leading to widespread blackouts that officials said could last for days.

E&E News

‘There is no such thing as a hurricane-proof power grid’

Climate change is becoming more and more real every day: all over the world, we are witnessing a clear increase in climate disasters. Moreover, the latest IPCC report warns us of possible “tipping points” from which the climate transition could become not gradual, but sudden and irrevocable.

ArchDaily

​The Built Environment Industry has a Huge Responsibility in the Climate Crisis

Jeremy Corbyn announces the Right to Clothing Campaign at The University of Manchester, in a bid to make clothing more sustainable and affordable.

MANCUNION

Jeremy Corbyn speaks to students at the Right to Clothing Campaign launch

Puerto Rican officials are trying to reopen roads blocked by damage from Hurricane Fiona — even as the Category 4 storm itself speeds on toward Bermuda and the Canada’s Atlantic provinces Maritimes, The Associated Press reported. 
“No one comes here to see us. I am worried for all the elderly people in this community,” resident Nancy Galarza told the AP.

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Thousands in Puerto Rico lack basic services

More than half of adults globally say climate change has already had a “severe” impact on their lives. A recent survey found that in 27 countries, over a third expect to be forced from their homes by climate change within 25 years and seven in ten expect severe impacts to affect their countries within the next decade.

Climate change: Adaptation vs mitigation - Insights from 4 leaders

The risk of energy cuts are “improbable” in the colder months, according to French electricity and gas grid operators who nevertheless urge extra efforts on demand reduction to avoid the risk of blackouts in extreme scenarios.

Euractiv

Risk of winter blackouts ‘unlikely’, say French energy grid operators

Climate change is making heatwaves worse. Many people have already noticed the difference – and so too have other animals.



The Conversation

Young cold-blooded animals are suffering the most as Earth heats up, research finds

Known as the Green Moon, the plains of Jaén in southern Spain are filled with millions of olive oil trees making this the heartland of one of the country's biggest exports.



Spanish farmers struggle to adapt to worsening heatwaves and droughts

From backyards to sidewalks, communities in Philadelphia and beyond see food-bearing trees as a path to food justice and climate adaptation.


Cities are planting trees. Why not make them fruit trees?

As the world warms and water becomes increasingly scarce, this highly adaptable single-celled organism just might become a prime player on your dinner plate.



Why algae could be a 'magic crop' for a drought-stricken world

Forest V is a switch to sustainable thinking in engineering climate-smart and energy-efficient buildings.


Dawn 

101 Group is all set to introduce Pakistan's first Vertical Forest & Luxury Apartment Complex

The demise of Australia's thunder birds 40,000 years ago has previously been blamed on human nest raiders and crippling bone disease. However new research reveals the extinction of dromornithids may have been down to something far more mundane: that they were just too slow to adapt to a changing environment.

Extinction of Australia's thunder birds 40,000 years ago caused by failure to evolve with climate change

Roads melting, fires raging, people dying – the fact we are living in a climate crisis has never been more apparent than at this moment in time. Across the globe, temperatures in cities across Europe, Asia, and the US have reached record highs once thought impossible.

Earth.Org

5 Great Urban Solutions to Tackle Climate Change in Cities

The Earth's current warming rate due to greenhouse gas emissions could lead to the planet crossing several "irreversible" and "dangerous" climate tipping points by the 2030s, a new study warned.

Earth spiralling towards multiple climate 'tipping points' under current warming

Fiji's plans stand out for being based on how much money it will need to meet climate goals.



GreenBiz

What the world can learn from Fiji's national climate strategy

Residents are already being urged to cut their power use during those hours due to a previously declared Flex Alert, but Cal-ISO is calling on people to step up their conservation efforts further to avoid rolling blackouts.

CBS News

Energy Emergency Alert 1 issued from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to conserve state power grid

Extreme weather this summer has slashed harvest forecasts, with experts warning that it could exacerbate the global food crisis.

Summer of extreme weather 'threatening global food supplies'

 As this heat wave barrels across the West, the worst is yet to come. Sunday marked the fifth day in a row of Flex Alerts asking people to conserve energy. Meanwhile, some people found themselves without the essentials to beat this heat.

Heat wave expected to get worse as the most vulnerable population copes with high temperatures

Arab cities are still recovering after severe flash floods last month killed migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and forced more than 3,800 people to evacuate, damaging homes and critical infrastructure.

Deadly flash floods in UAE highlight need for resilience investment

A species of carpet shark is evolving to better survive warming seas and the climate crisis

Epaulette sharks can walk on land for two hours, researchers say

Mr. Flavelle is the climate adaptation reporter for The New York Times. For this story, he tried out two dozen shirts, pants and suits designed for the heat.



Dressing for Hot: How a Warming Planet Is Changing What We Wear

President Biden recently signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law. This law provides $362 billion for climate change mitigation and adaption, the largest spending bill to address climate change in US history

ESG - A Compass For Climate Mitigation?

Cities across the global south are overheating and facing stark impacts from climate change, especially in the second most urbanized region in the world, Latin America.


Overheating megacities are a climate problem and solution – a Latin America case study 

There is a tension at the heart of how we build our world. We want our buildings and infrastructure to last. The projects we're starting today are supposed to be standing 20 or 30 years from now. We also need to reduce our emissions on a massive scale in the same timeframe. But the infrastructure we're designing today is not ready for the zero-carbon world of 2050.


Why We Need AI For Sustainable Infrastructure

Companies should be paying more for more environmentally friendly food sources, spending money on technologies to reduce food waste and figuring out new business models.

The world is reeling from three crises: nature; biodiversity loss; and poverty. Food systems contribute greatly to all.


Three ways agri-businesses can feed the world sustainably through circular food systems

With climate change emerging as a significant retirement issue, you may be wondering what retirees can do to protect themselves and their families. It turns out there's a lot you can do -- adapting your lifestyle, protecting your finances, and, if you're so inspired, participating in activism.


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