Il est urgent d’agir : découvrez nos visuels pour la pétition du Recours Climat Citoyen ! – Notre affaire à tous. As coral reefs suffer from climate change, researchers aim at a new target: snails. It seems like it’s always bad news for coral reefs.
The ocean is acidifying, the Great Barrier Reef has experienced significant bleaching, and — if warming temperatures continue — 99 percent of reefs will be similarly damaged by the end of the century. Desperate to help coral survive climate change, scientists have tried many strategies to improve reef resilience. They’ve developed marine-protected areas, built coral nurseries, and even started genetically engineering “super-corals” that can withstand bleaching.
But a new study from Duke University suggests that a simple, local intervention can give corals a big boost — by plucking off snails. After a bleaching event, coral reefs are weakened and vulnerable to disease. A Duke University researcher compares corallivores to “Dracula, constantly sucking the energetic reserves out of corals.” Exxon says climate lawsuits violate its right to free speech. Seriously. Just a short time ago, it seemed like Exxon might finally be forced to reckon with the harm it had inflicted through the digging up, selling, and burning of fossil fuels.
A wave of cities led by San Francisco and Oakland filed suit against Exxon and other major polluters last year, alleging that the companies had purposefully misled the public about the effects of climate change in order to keep profits high. In March, a federal judge handed the California cities a small win: the chance to publicly debate polluters in court about their role in denying climate science. But if we’ve learned anything from the way the tobacco industry rapidly went on the offensive when it was accused of peddling cancer sticks, it’s that getting industry to fess up to its wrongdoings is easier said than done.
And Exxon, it seems, will do anything to shift the blame from its own shoulders, even if that means spinning an entirely new narrative around who the real victim is. Yeah, sounds crazy! S5 : Réchauffement climatique : la fin du chocolat ? Le 21 juin 2018. Despite Trump, Wall Street is breaking up with fossil fuels. Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and a founder of 350.org.
He is a member of Grist’s board of directors. If you’re looking for good news on the climate front, don’t look to the Antarctic. Last week’s spate of studies documenting that its melt rates had tripled is precisely the kind of data that underscores the almost impossible urgency of the moment. And don’t look to Washington, D.C., where the unlikely survival of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to prove the political power of the fossil fuel industry. It’s as if he’s on a reality show where the premise is to see how much petty corruption one man can get away with. But from somewhat less likely quarters, there’s been reason this month for hope — reason, at least, to think that the basic trajectory of the world away from coal and gas and oil is firmly underway. And the third problem for the fossil fuel industry?
That’s work we’re capable of. Coral-reefs-protect-us-from-floods-for-now. Climate-change-is-causing-slower-more-devastating-hurricanes. DIESEL A L'HUILE DE PALME : UNE CATASTROPHE POUR LE CLIMAT. NOAA: Like 2017, 2018 will be a record year for floods. Thanks to global warming-induced sea-level rise, coastal waters are increasingly spilling into communities.
In a report released Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration quantified the extent of that inundation with some sobering statistics. The bottom line: As a whole, the U.S. is experiencing more coastal flooding than ever. NOAA scientists analyzed data regarding high-tide flooding —defined as flooding that causes public inconveniences, like road closures — from nearly 100 coastal water-level gauges across the country in the past meteorological year (May 2017 through April 2018).
Since 2000, the report says, parts of the U.S., primarily along the eastern seaboard, have experienced more than a 250-percent increase in yearly flooding. And in the coming meteorological year, he said, “Records are expected to continue to be broken.” Here are the takeaways from Sweet and his colleagues’ findings: 2017 was a record-breaking year for flooding. Le «seuil limite» des 2 °C, la bonne blague climatique - Page 3. The-meat-industry-is-jeopardizing-the-paris-agreement.