With techniques such as cross-ventilation and materials such as clay, architects around the world are adapting schools to climate change without the use of air conditioning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/climate-change/schools-built-extreme-heat-aircon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #education #climatechange #schools #heatwaves #architecture #pritzkerprize

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/energy/pakistan-solar-national-grid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #pakistan #solar #renewables #energy

Landmark ruling - Latin America’s highest human rights court found countries there are legally obliged to protect people from climate harms. This obligation includes tougher govt regulations for fossil fuel extraction
#climatechange #environment #law
#auspol has no such law

https://theconversation.com/a-top-court-has-urged-nations-to-clamp-down-on-fossil-fuel-production-when-will-australia-finally-start-listening-259996

This painting is based on Uji, my favourite place I visited during a trip to Japan. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #Art#Illustration #TraditionalArt#AnimeArt#Environment

The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, a report has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/16/sustainability/39-trillion-economic-losses-wetlands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #wetlands #climatechange #environment

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

#climatechange #carboncapture #forests #trees #environment

Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture has been newly designated as an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar Convention, marking the 54th wetland in the country to be registered. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/lake-inawashiro-ramsar-convention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #environment #environmentministry #wetlands

China’s ‘green great wall’ in Inner Mongolia traps 3 more deserts.

Last straw checkerboard placed at Badain Jaran Desert completes 1,856km green belt that also runs across the Tengger and Ulan Buh deserts.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3317376/chinas-green-great-wall-inner-mongolia-traps-three-more-deserts

#china #environment

Wildfires have scorched hotspots in several Mediterranean countries this month, with blazes forcing thousands of people into lockdown in Catalonia in Spain, and encroaching on France's second-biggest city of Marseille. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/climate-change/europe-wildfires-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #wildfires #europe #heatwaves

Karachi is a striking example of how rising temperatures can turn cities into pressure cookers, as its 17 million residents endure overlapping crises of toxic air, flooding, poor waste disposal and climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/climate-change/when-its-this-hot-we-are-enduring-not-living/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #pakistan #asia #climatechange #heatwaves

As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece have turned to a cheaper alternative: liquids in unlabeled bottles that contain products banned in the European Union. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/sustainability/europe-pesticide-farmers-costs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #pesticides #agriculture #greece #europe #eu

A new coating that cools solar panels by absorbing moisture during the night and releasing it during the day results in greater power output and lifespan.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927796X25000932

#Science#Energy#Environment#SolarPower

Eliminate corporate tax-cuts on aviation expenses ... that will remove some unburned kerosene off the air

save on tire consumption

It takes the monthly budget of an African village for an executive to fly a few hours away because the train takes 30% longer to be present to a useless meeting, and it is all a big tax-cut/state subsidy to aviation industry and kerosene pumpers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/pilot-climate-crisis-aviation-industry-flying#Greenhousegasemissions #Airlineemissions #Airlineindustry#Climatecrisis#Environment#UKnews

"The total amount of rainfall is not really changing but it is being condensed into more of these short, high-intensity events and then longer periods of drought. So we’re basically getting more drought and more #floods because the rainfall is being condensed into these high-intensity events." https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-rural-texas-resources-floods/

#Texas #weather#ClimateChange #science #news #politics#USpol #environment #water #flooding#CentralTexas#Kerrville