- www.theguardian.com PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows
Study detects synergistic effect making substances more dangerous, raising alarm since humans are exposed to both
- www.earth.com Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening
AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.
- www.theguardian.com Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense
Unintelligible as it is, new book is part of a ‘manifesting’ trend offering the young and spiritually lost an illusion of control
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Burning old TVs to survive: The toxic trade in electrical waste
www.bbc.com E-waste: Burning old TVs - the toxic trade in electrical wastePeople around the world are extracting valuable materials from e-waste despite huge health risks.
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Extreme drought in Colorado could come every 6 years — instead of every 1,000 — due to climate change, study finds
www.denverpost.com Climate change could bring extreme drought in Colorado every 6 yearsWarmer temperatures caused by climate change could make megadroughts occur once every six years in Colorado and the West by the end of the century if humans continue business as usual, according to research in the journal Science Advances.
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This is climate breakdown: a new series exploring the real impacts on people
www.theguardian.com This is climate breakdown | The GuardianLatest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
- phys.org Plastics contribute to 'triple planetary crisis' impacts
The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and biodiversity.
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The End of the Liberal West
www.project-syndicate.org The End of the Liberal West | by Joschka Fischer - Project SyndicateJoschka Fischer considers what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for Europe and the post-war world order.
- www.theguardian.com ‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle
On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as the melting permafrost leaves little behind
> On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as the melting permafrost leaves little behind
- news.mongabay.com The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say
It’s been clear for some time: We’re in the midst of a rapidly escalating global plastics crisis. More than 11 billion metric tons of virgin plastics were produced worldwide from 1950 to 2022. And the rate of production has soared, with at least 71% of all plastics ever made produced in the 21st cen...
- www.theatlantic.com The ‘Democracy’ Gap
Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.
- www.nytimes.com Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red
As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse.
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Last Week In Collapse is a weekly newsletter which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization.
substack.com Last Week in Collapse | SubstackI write the weekly newsletter "Last Week in Collapse," which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization. A slightly modified version is also posted every week to r/Collapse (without images, but for free).
> I've been following this blog since my reddit days and I've found it to be a valuable source of information on global events relating to the poly-crisis.
- www.resilience.org Clean energy alone can’t save us
Only by shifting decision-making power away from bureaucratic institutions (like parliaments) and mechanisms (like the profit-driven capitalist market) towards grassroots participatory organs (such as popular assemblies and councils of delegates) that a new, much more sustainable, ecological, and de...
- www.theguardian.com Pollution in Delhi hits record high, cloaking city in smog
Indian capital imposes emergency measures including closing schools and offices and barring heavy vehicles
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'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns
www.bbc.com 'The sixth great extinction is happening', warns climate expertConservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.
- www.theguardian.com Australia operates ‘immigration prisons’, human rights lawyer tells UN
In closed hearing, lawyer Allison Battison says Australia has a ‘terrifying’ record of detaining people unlawfully for indefinite periods