December 27, 2023

Climate News: Mitigating wildfires ⁠with Carsten Brinkschulte from Dryad Networks; The electric car dilemma; Climate records topple in 2023

45 minutes

Climate change has some utterly horrific and devastating side effects and one of the most pressing and obvious right now is wildfires - Carsten Brinkschulte, from Dryad Networks, talks with Will Lockett about how to mitigate wildfires;

"How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis";

"Inland From Bondi Beach, ‘Heat Islands’ Make Australia’s Summer Deadlier";

"Blizzard Conditions Disrupt Travel Across Northern and Central Plains";

"A sinking nation is offered an escape route. But there’s a catch.";

"How a Category 5 atmospheric river supercharged deadly East Coast storm";

"El Niño is nearing historic strength. What this means and when it will end.";

"Bad air forces Pakistan to shut schools and markets and seed the clouds";

"Wild east coast weather: two people killed by falling trees, more than 100,000 Queensland homes without power";

"Nine people dead including nine-year-old girl as severe storms ravage east coast";

"Seven easy climate actions that I learned many people aren’t doing";

"Is climate change speeding up? Here’s what the science says.";

"‘Rights of nature’ are being recognised overseas. In Australia, local leadership gives cause for optimism";

"The colonial cul-de-sac: Land loss, land use and the devastation left behind";

"U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Air Pollution Rule";

"Brazil’s Congress Passes Bill to Pave Highway Through Heart of Amazon Rainforest";

"Americans Abandoning Neighborhoods Due to Rising Flood Risk, Study Finds";

"Grass or Grain? What Cows Are Fed Could Determine Farms’ Carbon Footprints";

"Animals Take Refuge in Forests and Avoid Human-Dominated Areas in Hotter Regions, Study Finds";

"Euroviews: We can't save the world with electric cars";

"‘Take It Down and They’ll Return’: The Stunning Revival of the Penobscot River";

"A Community-Driven Path to Replenishing Groundwater in a Parched Region";

"Chart: The US hits new highs for oil and gas production";

"New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics";

"High heat, low ice and fossil fuels: the climate records that tumbled in 2023";

"No more hot air: Australian climate activism and political satire – in pictures";

"Canary Media’s top 10 clean energy stories in 2023":

"Taylor Swift Fan at Brazil Concert Died of Heat Exhaustion";

"Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done";

"WTF Happened to the Methane Monster?";

"UK becomes first G20 nation to halve carbon emissions";

"Beetaloo Madness: protestors, farmers, First Nations unite to fight US gas frackers";

"Italy and Spain experienced some of the world’s most costly climate disasters in 2023";

"The underbelly of electric vehicles";

"Climate change in pictures: 2023 was a year of deadly weather, protest crackdowns and historic deals";

"Nuclear dreams rudely awoken by blast of CSIRO reality";

"From wind-powered islands to urban forests: Positive environmental stories from 2023";

"‘A very tragic Christmas’: 10 people dead after spate of severe storms across eastern Australia".

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By Robert McLean