Single-use plastic production increased from 2019-2021

Reuters: Polluting single-use plastic production rose globally by 6 million tonnes per year from 2019 to 2021 despite tougher worldwide regulations, with producers making “little progress” to tackle the problem and boost recycling, new research showed on Monday. Single-use plastics have emerged as one of the world’s most pressing environmental threats, with vast amounts of…

The 2022 COP27 Results

Stuff: In a landmark deal, delegates from nearly 200 counties at the COP27 climate summit have agreed to set up a loss and damage fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters. On Sunday, negotiators approved the historic deal that would help compensate poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon…

Report: Europe warming twice as fast compared to rest of world

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published the report State of Climate in Europe, with conclusions including: The Guardian: There are a number of reasons why Europe has warmed more quickly than other parts of the world. It has a high percentage of land mass, which warms faster than sea. The Arctic and generally the high…

Nigeria Floods Displace more than a Million and Kill 500 People

Abuja, Nigeria CNN — More than 1.4 million people have been displaced and about 500 people have died in some of the worst flooding Nigeria has seen in a decade, the country’s humanitarian ministry said Wednesday. As of Tuesday, “over 1.4 million persons were displaced, about 500 persons have been reported dead, 790,254 persons moved out of…

Alert: We are close to triggering irreversible ecosystem and weather changes

Our environment involves many different systems, and some of them are close to changing in drastic ways, for human time scales irreversible. Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points Science (Study): Climate tipping points are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead…