‘WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – A Canadian court on Thursday overturned approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, ruling that Ottawa failed to adequately consider aboriginal concerns, in a blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to balance environmental and economic issues.’

Source: Court quashes Canadian approval of Trans Mountain oil pipeline | Reuters

‘Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to warming and associated climatic changes during the last glacial-to-interglacial transition, which was comparable in magnitude to warming projected for the next century under high-emission scenarios.’

Source: Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change | Science

‘…Getting rid of coal power is a huge challenge. Even as Germany has scaled up wind and solar, it has also been shutting down its low-carbon nuclear plants. Coal — the most carbon-intensive energy source — has been largely left untouched, and now generates 40 percent of the country’s electricity. Much of that is from lignite, a low-grade and particularly dirty form of coal.’

Source: ‘The Biggest Climate Story No One Is Talking About’ | The New York Times

‘The summer of 2018 has been noteworthy for the all-time heat records smashed around the world, from California to Sweden and Japan.’

Source:  Global heat waves animation shows records broken in 2018 | Axios.com

‘Dr. Barber’s message to the community members in the church last week would have been largely recognizable to civil rights leaders of generations past, addressing issues of poverty and racism. But he and Mr. Gore were here in Greensboro to focus on another concern that many in the audience believed was just as insidious: pollution from North Carolina’s coal-powered electrical plants.’

Source: A Leader in the War on Poverty Opens a New Front: Pollution | The New York Times

‘Harvard researchers say rising levels of carbon dioxide are going to have an impact in a place you might not expect: hundreds of millions of people’s diets worldwide, which will become less nutritious.’

Source: Harvard researchers say climate change will impact diets of millions worldwide | Boston Globe

‘PARIS: Once-a-century rains that have pounded Kerala and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with the predictions of climate scientists, who warn that worse is to come if global warming continues unabated.’

Source: India’s devastating rains match climate change forecasts | The Economic Times

‘This week, the failure to pass legislation that would have reined in greenhouse gas emissions precipitated Malcolm Turnbull’s ouster as prime minister. He was elbowed out by Scott Morrison, an ardent champion of the Australian coal industry who is known for having brought a lump of the stuff to Parliament.’

Source: Climate Change Policy Toppled Australia’s Leader. Here’s What It Means for Others | The New York Times

‘…At the high end, that’s the climate equivalent of putting an extra 31 million cars on the road. It’s more carbon dioxide than many midsize nations like Belgium or Greece put out in an entire year. And it comes at a time when global emissions are still rising, while scientists say they need to be falling rapidly to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.’

Source: What Trump’s Coal and Car Plans Could Mean for Climate Change | The New York Times

‘Climate change is not a future problem. Climate change is a current problem. Yet the United States—despite this recent history—has pulled back from a number of already insufficient commitments to reversing emissions and global warming. Faced with this vacuum, American nongovernmental organizations and states have stepped forward with campaigns designed to reinvigorate climate activism and policy making. But they have a long way to go, especially in connecting a mainstream climate movement with the majority of the victims of those disasters.’

Source: The Victims of Climate Change Are Already Here | The Atlantic