No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires

Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.

#news #disaster #climate #environment

#Canada: #Evacuation order issued as #wildfire threatening Fort #McMurray draws closer

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

#alberta #news #emergency #climate #environment #disaster

Evacuation order issued as wildfire threatening Fort McMurray draws closer | CBC News

Thousands of residents in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray continues to draw closer to the community.

Less money for Russia, less CO2 for the climate.

#Politics
#Climate

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156439/us-bans-russian-uranium-nuclear-energy-ukraine-war

The US moves to stop buying uranium from Russia and start producing it at home

But domestic mines and uranium mills already face opposition.

Completely lacking in detail, but nice to know it can be done.

#Nature
#Climate

BBC News - Alok Shukla wins prize for Hasdeo Aranya forest campaign - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxepvdewkno

Alok Shukla wins prize for Hasdeo Aranya forest campaign

Alok Shukla has spent years fighting to protect a key Indian forest from mining companies.

How #Saudi tech is addressing the lack of #construction #sand

source: https://www.agbi.com/construction/2023/12/how-saudi-tech-is-addressing-the-lack-of-construction-sand/

However 95 percent of the sand on #Earth, including the vast sands of the Arabian Peninsula, is unsuitable due to its fine particle size.

This means riverbeds across the world are over-mined, causing pollution and flooding, while also shrinking aquifers and deepening droughts.

#news #science #Arabia #dessert #environment #climate #building #co2 #concrete

How Saudi tech is addressing the lack of construction sand | AGBI

ClimateCrete, a technology developed in Saudi Arabia, aims to significantly increase the use of desert sand in concrete manufacturing

Brazil's tree-clearing efforts contributed to this self-inflicted situation.

♲ Europe Says - 2024-05-10 17:28:08 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1207273/ Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold? | Brazil #Climate

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Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of sheating with disastrous results for #humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said: “I am extremely worried about the costs in human lives.”

#news #future #science #climate #earth #heat #temperature #problem #politics #nature #environment

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair | Climate crisis | #climatechange #globalwarming #climate #crisis #science #research #politics

Is this the new Fine Product of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation similar to synthetic tea? FIE!
The question that should be asked is whether or not this "coffee" has caffein in it.

♲ Europe Says - 2024-05-07 04:48:07 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1199441/ The synthetic coffee revolution: are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing? | Coffee #Climate

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Well, there is a trick to it, as anyone who regularly rides the city bus in the scorching desert heat can tell you. Especially on weekends.

♲ Europe Says - 2024-05-06 03:34:04 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1197204/ Can you survive summer indoors without AC? In Arizona, many don’t #Climate

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New meaning to the term "gaslighting".

♲ Europe Says - 2024-05-05 20:39:13 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1196595/ How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations — I filed this story six months ago. Where do you think we should take our reporting on this topic next? #Climate

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The Apocalypse already came and went--it's what's been called The Dark Ages, so it's Eurocentric, similar to the deal with Noah's flood that didn't cover the whole globe. Lots of artistic license was taken with those tales.

♲ br00t4c - 2024-05-03 22:13:06 GMT

Dinner party conversation turns morbid: Chat about the apocalypse is becoming more mainstream#apocalypse #climate

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/apocalypse-apocalyptic-ai-nuclear-climate-b2539482.html

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#Death Toll From #Rain, Flooding In Southern #Brazil Rises To 13

Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/death-toll-from-rain-flooding-in-southern-brazil-rises-to-13-bc96d822

Entire communities in #RioGrande do Sul have been completely cut off as persistent rains have destroyed bridges and blocked roads, and left towns without even telephone or internet services.

#weather #climate #news #disaster #energency

Death Toll From Rain, Flooding In Southern Brazil Rises To 13

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the country's south Thursday, where the death toll from floods caused by torrential rains has risen to 13.

The #future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7LDk4D3Q3U

#environment #nature #climate #pollution #economy #capitalism #consume #extinction #humanity #earth #SteveCutts #art #artwork

#California exceeds 100% of #energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

Source: https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/

#usa #environment #climate #news #Solar

California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.

SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE OF METHANE EMISSIONS

#MethaneSAT #Environment #Methane #Pollution #Climate

MethaneSAT

Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.

#environment #energy #climate

https://www.volts.wtf/p/rising-electricity-demand-requires

Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.

What’s the best way to handle rising US electricity demand? Contrary to what some large utilities and regulators think, it’s not building new fossil gas plants. In this episode, Eric Gimon and Michelle Solomon, coauthors of a new report from...

#Climate
#Nature

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world - BBC News

Huge gullies that open up suddenly, swallowing homes and businesses, are advancing at a worrying speed, warn experts.

Clouds from all these protracted wars can't possibly help.

♲ Europe Says - 2024-04-20 22:54:07 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1167658/ Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone. In 2023, global levels of the greenhouse gas rose to 419 parts per million, around 50 percent more than before the Industrial Revolution. #Climate

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The next few days will sadly result in what we were afraid of. There is a high-risk potential for a catastrophic morning frost across most of central #Europe. The air mass is so cold for late April that it could significantly damage blooming fruit trees, vineyards, and crops.

#Weather #Climate #Environment #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #TomorrowIsTooLate