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"It's scary. It really is," said Mike Flannigan, [a fire scientist at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia] "A lot of people are ignoring this, or [saying] 'it won't be in my backyard." But it's going to be in just about everyone's backyard soon." phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'By absorbing more than 90% of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, "oceans are warming faster and faster," said Angelique Melet, an oceanographer at the European Mercator Ocean monitor.' phys.org/news/2025-06...

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'... today’s reefs are already struggling, with UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recently expressing “utmost concern” about the state of the Great Barrier Reef in particular. This is due to warming, acidification and pollution.' theconversation.com/will-surging...

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"We are having a hard time imagining that all coral reefs could really die off," said Melanie McField ... who described a "sort of pre-traumatic stress syndrome" among her colleagues. "But it is likely in the two-degree world we are rapidly accelerating to." phys.org/news/2025-06...

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'More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remain active and affect air quality in parts of Canada and the US, according to officials.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Monday ice update - it's the freeze season in the #Antarctic (austral winter), but the rate of sea ice growth has slowed in the last week. This graph is showing the current sea-ice extent anomaly (departure from average). More graphs at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

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'In one sample alone I was shocked to find a total of 12 pink and clear fibres of polyester. This is the UK’s most popular wild mammal, and no one knew they were ingesting plastic.' theconversation.com/from-soil-to...

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'"Our results imply that, rather than a substantial decline, the AMOC is more likely to experience a limited decline over the 21st century—still some weakening, but less drastic than previous projections suggest," Bonan says.' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'As global temperatures rise and heatwaves grow more deadly, roofs have become battlefields in a ... climate war. It’s happening as the Trump administration and Congress move to derail measures designed to make appliances and buildings more energy efficient.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"It's amazing sometimes how rapidly they can collapse," said Lonnie Thompson, a glacier expert at the Ohio State University. "The instability of these glaciers is a real and growing problem, and there are thousands and thousands of people that are at risk." phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'... FEMA Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide 2025 talks about public involvement in planning but strips any mention of equity, income or social vulnerability. It mentions using “projections for the future” to plan but removes references to climate change.' theconversation.com/hurricane-se...

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'The January report authored by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and University of Exeter found that the world is facing an increasing risk of “planetary insolvency,” when ecosystems become so degraded that they can no longer help prop up human society.' insideclimatenews.org/news/3005202...

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'Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🔥 A warehouse of rubber products is on fire in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region!

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"War has broken out in Olenegorsk," Russians complain about the attack on Olenya airfield. It is reported that FPV drones were launched from trucks in several regions of Russia. "The truck is parked at a gas station in Olenegorsk.

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A powerful explosion is reported in Russian Severomorsk. Submarines with nuclear weapons are based there. Upd. According to other reports, it might be Olenegorsk, near Olenya airfield.

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Reportedly, this is Belaya airfield, Irkutsk region of Russia. In terms of cost-efficiency ratio, #Ukraine's operation on June 1, 2025, is unprecedented. A single FPV drone can cost as little as $300 to $600. Russia's modernized Tu-95MS strategic bomber is valued at more than $100 million.

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The Spiderweb special operation in which several Russian airfields were attacked, took over a year and a half to prepare,it is reported The operation by SSU was extremely complex from a logistical standpoint.The SSU first smuggled FPV drones into Russia,followed by mobile wooden buildings later.

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An explosion has rocked Severomorsk, Russia: the city is home to a nuclear submarine base A powerful explosion has rocked Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, home to Russia's nuclear submarines. www.rbc.ua/rus/news/ros...

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Video shows Israeli forces assaulting a disabled Palestinian sanitation worker in southern Nablus, occupied West Bank.

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“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.” Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.

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A fifth airfield, "Voskresensk" in the Moscow region, has been attacked 👀💣🔥

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Burning russian planes, anyone?? 🍿🔥

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I'm never going to get tired of posting BURNING RUSSIAN AIRFIELDS 🔥🍿

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Today is a day that will go down in history and one of the most successful sabotage operations of all time. At least 2, possibly 3 air bases struck by FPVs simultaneously destroying large numbers of Russian strategic bombers.

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Quite a day in the war. First attacks on bridges i Russia and now this.

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#Ukraine has once again proven that Russia can and must be defeated — forced into peace through strength. Today is yet another day of humiliation for Putin. Just like when the Moskva was destroyed, the Kerch bridgd was struck, the Black Sea Fleet ships were sunk and Kursk region was invaded⤵️

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'The Pentagon is the largest single fossil fuel consumer in the US, already accounting for about 80% of all government emissions ... defence secretary Pete Hegseth, wrote on X: “The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting.”' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“Because of this kind of lack-of-informed approach that we’re taking, you’re investing in hard military security now, increasing global emissions for that reason, and worsening the climate crisis further down the line.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"The forest initially appeared to be resistant to the drought," said Lucy Rowland, an ecology professor at the University of Exeter. That began to change about 8 years in, however. "We saw a really big decline in biomass, big losses and mortality of the largest trees." phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'China is the world’s largest importer of “soft commodities,” which include soy, beef and forest products, and is also home to the world’s biggest banks, giving it a growing and critical role in the fate of the world’s forests.' insideclimatenews.org/news/3005202...

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'Hello and welcome to the latest edition of “lo and behold, the dystopian thing that women and activists warned would happen ends up happening”.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Israel har dræbt +31 palæstinensere søndag morgen. De blev skudt ved nødhjælpsudleveringssteder i Rafah og nær Netzarim Corridor. +115 er sårede. IOF åbnede ild, da de sultende forsøgte at nå til nødhjælpen, som Israel stadig bruger som våben mod Gaza. Det er stadig en krigsforbrydelse. #dkpol

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The main political divide today is not left vs right, nor progressive vs conservative. It is between those who care about others and egotists.

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'Trees naturally release compounds known as biogenic volatile organic compounds, or BVOCs. These interact with other gases to form particles that reflect sunlight and encourage cloud formation, both of which help cool the atmosphere ...' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'"... these new findings suggest that, to some extent, ecosystems globally will slow the trends in one key driver of these changes—elevated atmospheric CO2," [Professor Wright] said.' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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'Nearly 200,000 hectares of forests have been scorched in just the past month in Manitoba, three times the annual average for the past five years, according to officials. Across Canada, there are currently 163 active fires, with half of them considered out of control.' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

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Today was the last day of school in many Ukrainian schools. The childhood of many #Ukrainian kids is very different from their peers in other countries. This video gives a glimpse of their experiences.

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"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

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'Exceeding a globally agreed temperature limit is scary. Perhaps scarier is the speed at which we appear to be breaking our promises.' theconversation.com/climate-chan...

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'The bureau [BoM] said the above-average temperatures would continue through winter, with warmer than usual minimum and maximums likely or very likely in every state and territory.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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'The insurance sector will continue to grow – and profit – until it no longer can due to climate change and other pressures. But it is not a future crash of insurers that should be of primary concern. It is the real-time collapse of insurance for households ...' theconversation.com/nsw-is-again...

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Fra en gåtur langs Sose Bugt på Sydbornholm den 29/05: Natur & naturligvis (militærfly på vej til Rønne Lufthavn, hvor F35-fly efter sigende skal udstationeres).

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'For hver tønde olie, der brændes af, hvert ton CO2, der udledes, for hver en brøkdel af en grad, temperaturen stiger, vil hedebølger påvirke flere mennesker. Særligt ældre og folk med kroniske sygdomme er sårbare over for meget høje temperaturer.' www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...

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'The extreme weather is making life unbearable and economically unviable for a chronically underserved region where coal was once king, and climate skepticism remains high. Yet little is known about flooding in the Appalachian region.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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'Warming temperatures have both shrunk the Alps' glaciers and have made them more unstable. Swiss glaciers, severely impacted by climate change, melted as much in 2022 and 2023 as between 1960 and 1990, losing in total about 10% of their volume.' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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"... since [glaciers] adjust over longer timescales, their current size vastly understates the magnitude of climate change that has already happened. The situation for glaciers is actually far worse than visible in the mountains today," says Schuster.' www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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'Research in Antarctica suggests glacial troughs there enhance the mixing of cold and warm waters, but few observations have been collected to determine whether the same is true of Greenland's troughs.' phys.org/news/2025-05...

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