Blogging the End of the World™
14 June 2016 (Siberian Times) – The abnormally hot weather has seen temperatures some 8C above average across a vast swathe of southern Siberia. On 12 June – Russia Day – new records were set in Novosibirsk (30.4C) and Tomsk (31.5C), and in Tuva Republic (31.7C). The Saudi Arabian-like heat wave, still ongoing, has stretched […]
By Gayathri Vaidyanathan9 June 2016 (ClimateWire) – In an armchair experiment where humans are thought of as no wiser than animals, scientists have found that climate change could empty some nations by 2100. A warming of 2 degrees Celsius would cause 34 percent of the world’s population to migrate more than 300 miles, to places […]
By Suzanna Caldwell9 June 2016 (ADN) – Here’s something Alaskans already know: It’s been really warm this year. But how warm? Record-breaking warm. According to the National Center for Environmental Information, the spring average temperature for the entire state was 32 degrees this year. The normal average for the state is a brisk 24 degrees. […]
By Daniel Grossman6 June 2016 (Yale e360) – We set off before dawn with my guide, Elton Mendes, steering a battered pickup through the Amazon jungle. He reached a hand out of the window and tugged on a stick tied to the wipers, squeegeeing drizzle off the windshield. After a short drive, he parked by […]
By Matthew Hill and Mustapha Muhammad9 June 2016 (Bloomberg News) – Yusuf Ibrahim, a tomato farmer in Kano, Nigeria, has lost almost 90 percent of his crop this year to Tuta absoluta. That prices for the fruit are 15 times higher than before the outbreak of the pest is little consolation; he can’t afford to […]
By Katie Herzog10 June 2016 (Grist) – It’s been 777 days since Michigan switched Flint’s water supply from Detroit to Flint River and residents began complaining that it looked, tasted, and smelled wrong; 478 days since a Flint resident informed the Environmental Protection Agency that her water contained high levels of lead; and 157 days […]
ROME, 2 June 2016 – Drought linked to El Niño and civil conflict have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37 from 34 in March, according to a new FAO report. The new edition of the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, released today, adds Papua New […]
By Bobby Magill7 June 2016 (Climate Central) – Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest level in 38 years last month, setting a record low for the month of May and setting up conditions for what could become the smallest Arctic ice extent in history, according to National Snow and Ice Data Center data released […]
9 June 2016 (IEP) – The 2016 Global Peace Index (GPI) shows the world became less peaceful in the last year, reinforcing the underlying trend of declining peace over the last decade. Results also show a growing global inequality in peace, with the most peaceful countries continuing to improve while the least peaceful are falling […]
By Olga Gertcyk25 May 2016 (Siberian Times) – The lake’s level is falling, and Mongolian hydro plans would disrupt inflows, and could cause a ‘tsunami’ of water, say campaigners. Newspaper Izvestia this week was blunt in assessing the eco-damage threat to Baikal, a natural reservoir which contains around 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater. ‘Baikal […]
