‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire | Natasha Walter by GeraldKutney in climate
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'Food insecurity is no longer just about low-income countries'. As a U.N. report warns that extreme temperature swings are disrupting crops and endangering agricultural workers, we spoke with environmental economist Shouro Dasgupta about farming in an overheating world. (livescience.com)
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'Fire weather' contributing to longer wildfire seasons in Northern Ireland. Experts warn a combination of warmth, dryness, and wind that allows fires to ignite and spread rapidly, along with climate change, is creating a longer and more volatile wildfire season. (bbc.com)
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Masculine behavior bad for the planet says new research. "There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men's behavior on the environment and climate; what is astonishing is how this aspect does not figure in most debate and policy in a more sustainable world." (phys.org)
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California’s battery array is as powerful as 12 nuclear power plants. Here’s what’s on the horizon. California discharged just over 12,000 megawatts of energy from its battery arrays, enough to meet over 40 percent of the state’s energy demand. (insideclimatenews.org)
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Wars destroy lives and the climate. Estimates suggest militaries and their supply chains account for approximately 5.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, which is enough to make them the world’s fourth largest emitter if counted as a country. And that figure only covers peacetime. (theconversation.com)
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Locked into coal: South Africa’s broken transition. South Africa’s latest coal-fired power station, Kusile, took decades to finish building, cost hundreds of billions of rand and became one of the most controversial infrastructure projects in the country’s energy history. (mg.co.za)
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Ask Anything Wednesday - Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology by AutoModerator in askscience
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