In 2025, overlooked climate challenges included the warming effects of reduced pollution, stalled progress in green hydrogen and rising financing costs for renewables. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/30/world/2025-bad-climate-news-you-missed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #climatechange #2025 #carbonemissions #fossilfuel #coal #renewables #greenhydrogen
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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I feel like we are failing the easiest possible trolley problem, where the entire world and all of its inhabitants are tied to one set of railroad tracks, and if we decide to pull a lever the train will just run over a small pile of money instead.
Konrad Förstner 💻🧬🦠
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Overlooked #hydrogen #emissions are #heating #Earth and supercharging #methane
New #research shows rising hydrogen emissions since 1990 have indirectly intensified #climatechange and amplified the impact of methane. Limiting #leaks from future hydrogen #fuel projects and cutting methane emissions will be key to securing benefits from hydrogen as a clean-burning #alternative to #oil and #gas.
Overlooked #hydrogen #emissions are #heating #Earth and supercharging #methane
New #research shows rising hydrogen emissions since 1990 have indirectly intensified #climatechange and amplified the impact of methane. Limiting #leaks from future hydrogen #fuel projects and cutting methane emissions will be key to securing benefits from hydrogen as a clean-burning #alternative to #oil and #gas.
With fewer than half of Filipinos estimated to have undertaken disaster drills or to own a first-aid kit, the board game Master of Disaster aims to boost lagging preparedness in a country prone to natural disasters. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/asia-pacific/philippines-disaster-readiness-game/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #climatechange #typhoons #disasterpreparedness #earthquakes
Despite gloomy headlines, 2025 saw climate progress with cleaner grids, falling cement demand, rising EV adoption, solar industry shifts, and batteries stabilizing electricity markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/29/world/positive-climate-news-you-this-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #climatechange #2025 #evs #solar #carbonemissions #cement #fossilfuels
Aral Balkan
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In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/the-earth-is-nearing-an-environmental-tipping-point/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/the-earth-is-nearing-an-environmental-tipping-point/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Nikos Roussos 🍉
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People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year.
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. #ClimateChange
alcinnz
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Here is my #Introduction for #ScienceMastodon
I am ecologist interested in soil biodiversity and global change.
We work on many factors of global change, including: #climatechange #microplastics #pollution
Our focal organisms are #fungi and we work on saprobic fungi as well as on fungi forming #mycorrhiza
#SoilEcology #environment #SoilBiodiversity #Berlin #microbiology #MicrobialEcology #soil #GlobalChange #ecology #EnvironmentalScience #pesticides #GlobalWarming #PlasticPollution
Joachim
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Mothers exposed to PFAS-contaminated water had 191% higher risk of their newborns dying within the first year of life, compared to mothers whose water sources were not downstream from contaminated sites.
Exposed mothers were also 168% more likely to give birth extremely prematurely (before 28 weeks of gestation) and 180% more likely to have babies with extremely low birth weights. #ClimateChange
Mothers exposed to PFAS-contaminated water had 191% higher risk of their newborns dying within the first year of life, compared to mothers whose water sources were not downstream from contaminated sites.
Exposed mothers were also 168% more likely to give birth extremely prematurely (before 28 weeks of gestation) and 180% more likely to have babies with extremely low birth weights. #ClimateChange
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year.
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. #ClimateChange
2025 was not a good year for environmentalists or climate scientists as action against warming faced headwinds around the world. In Japan, adaptation measures offered a rare bright spot. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/12/28/climate-change/climate-review-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #donaldtrump #us #cop30 #wildfires #heatwaves
It has been a decade since 195 countries committed in Paris to limit global temperature rise, and France has since embraced a leadership role by placing ecology at the center of its energy policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/28/world/ten-years-after-the-paris-agreement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #cop30 #cop21 #parisagreement #climatechange #carbonemissions #emmanuelmacron
mat
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Der modernisierte #Windpark Muel in Spanien liefert nach dem #Repowering mehr als doppelt so viel Strom wie zuvor.
Drei neue #Windturbinen ersetzen 27 ältere Anlagen, wodurch rund 21.000 Haushalte versorgt werden können. Über 99 Prozent der Altkomponenten, darunter 81 #Rotorblätter, wurden recycelt oder wiederverwendet.
Das Projekt erhielt ein #ZeroWaste-Zertifikat und wird durch die EU gefördert.
#Kreislaufwirtschaft #ErneuerbareEnergien #energy #climatechange
Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the idea of the United States being the custodian of the international rules-based order has been cast aside, lending new urgency to long-simmering questions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/28/world/filling-americas-shoes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #china #donaldtrump #climatechange #taiwan #uschinarelations #wto
Claudius Link
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2025 One of Costliest Years for Climate Disasters: Report
The top-10 costliest climate disasters include wildfires, cyclones, extreme rainfall and flooding, and droughts spanning four continents. Together, they resulted in economic losses of $120 billion
https://earth.org/2025-one-of-costliest-years-for-climate-disasters-report/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
