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Andean alarm: Climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru - Guardian  (Mar 26) |
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Mar 26 · In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again Photographs by Harriet Barber Lake Palcacocha is high in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Peruvian Andes, sitting above the city of Huaraz at an altitude of about 4,500 metres. When the lake broke through the extensive moraines, or natural dams, holding it in place on 13 December 1941, it sent nearly 10m cubic metres of water and debris into the narrow valley towards the city, 1,500 metres below. The result was one of the most devastating glacial lake outburst floods – or “GLOFs” – ever recorded. The ... Read more ... |
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Fossil fuel firms could be tried in US for homicide over climate-related deaths, experts say - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Public Citizen, a non-profit group, proposed the idea last year to prosecute companies for millions of deaths due to climate crisis Each year, extreme temperatures take 5 million lives, while 400,000 people die from climate-related hunger and disease and scores perish in floods and wildfires. The radical idea, first proposed last year by consumer advocacy non-profit Public Citizen, may sound far-fetched, but it’s gaining interest from experts and public officials. “We’ve been really excited to see the curiosity, interest and support these ideas have garnered from members of the legal community, including from both former and current federal, state and local ... Read more ... |
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Here's why there is no nuclear option for Australia to reach net zero - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years The battle lines have been drawn over Australia’s energy future. With the nation signed up to net zero emissions by 2050, the Albanese Labor government is committed to renewables. The Coalition wants nuclear. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has a vision for meeting Australia’s energy needs that would include large-scale nuclear power plants and small modular reactors, a technology that is not yet proven, but which the shadow minister for energy, Ted O’Brien, says could be “up and running within a 10-year period.” While nuclear ... Read more ... |
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The maddening, nightmare quest to decarbonize my home - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Here’s what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas My wife and I live in a green, two-story colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in Burlington, Vermont. Each spring, the front of our home is lined with lilacs, crocuses, and peonies. The backyard is thick with towering black locust trees. We occasionally spot a fox from our office windows, or toddlers from the neighborhood daycare trundling through the woods. It’s an alarmingly idyllic home, with one exception: it runs on natural gas. The boiler, which heats our house and our water, burns it. So do the stove and the dryer and even the fireplace in the living room. About 60% of American ... Read more ... |
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Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · World water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the UN has said in a plea to countries to mend conflicts over water resources. Stress on water resources, which is being exacerbated by the climate crisis, as well as overuse and pollution of the world’s freshwater systems, is a large source of conflict, according to the latest UN world water development report. The impacts of sharing water, and the possibilities of harnessing cooperation over water resources into wider peace ... Read more ... |
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World's top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas - Guardian  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should 'abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”. The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce ... Read more ... |
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