‘Last Sunday, around 1,000 people closed the world’s largest coal-exporting port in Newcastle, Australia and other bold actions are happening at power stations, oil refineries, pipelines and mines everywhere from the Philippines, Brazil and the US, to Nigeria, Germany and India.’

Source: Civil disobedience is the only way left to fight climate change | Kara Moses | Opinion | The Guardian

‘The head of the United Nations climate science panel has declared it is still possible to avoid a dangerous 2C increase in global warming – despite more than a dozen record hot years since 2000. But the costs could be “phenomenal”, he said.’

Source: UN climate science chief: it’s not too late to avoid dangerous temperature rise | Environment | The Guardian

‘A Minnesota judge found the preponderance of evidence did not favor coal industry climate science denial’

Source: Coal made its best case against climate change, and lost | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian

‘Earlier this year, large wildfires hit spots on opposite ends of the world — Tasmania and Oklahoma-Kansas. Last year, Alaska and California pushed the U.S. to a record 10 million acres burned. Massive fires hit Siberia, Mongolia and China last year and Brazil’s fire season has increased by a month over the past three decades.’

Source: It’s not just Alberta: Fires fuelled by warming climate are increasing – Technology & Science – CBC News

‘Everyone has heard about climate change caused by fossil fuels, which threatens to raise Earth’s average surface temperature by about 3-5°C by the year 2100 unless we take major steps toward mitigation. But there’s an eerie silence about the other major climate change threat, which might lower Earth’s average surface temperature by 7°C: a decade-long mini ice age caused by a U.S.-Russia nuclear war.’

Source: Climate Change for the Impatient: A Nuclear Mini Ice Age

‘Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on coastlines in the Pacific, according to Australian researchers.’

Source: Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits | Environment | The Guardian

‘Hundreds of environmental activists have invaded the UK’s largest opencast coalmine and halted operations across the vast site.’

Source: Climate protesters invade UK’s largest opencast coalmine | Environment | The Guardian

‘The hot water temperature that drove the devastating bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef this year was made 175 times more likely by human-caused climate change, and could be normal in just 18 years, according to preliminary findings by leading climate and coral reef scientists.’

Source: Great Barrier Reef bleaching made 175 times likelier by human-caused climate change, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian

‘Shinto priests from Lake Suwa in the Japanese Alps started monitoring climate data almost 600 years ago, scientists have discovered, by keeping records of the dates when the lake froze during winters going as far back as 1443.’

Source: Japanese priests began recording climate data nearly 600 years ago – ScienceAlert

‘At the United Nations, high-ranking leaders from more than 170 countries are signing the sweeping climate agreement that was reached at last COP21 climate meetings.’

Source: Earth Day Brings Celebrations, Signing Of Historic Climate Pact : The Two-Way : NPR