February 17, 2023. Scientists have identified 27 amplifying climate feedback loops that have major implications for climate reasesch and policy. See news story by Inside Climate News for more information.
September 21, 2022. Deadly floods in Pakistan have resulted in more than 1,500 deaths and are affecting roughly 16 million children. This flooding is likely related to climate change. Photo credit: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid, CC BY 2.0.
August 1, 2022; PNAS. In a new study, scientists argue that the potential for "anthropogenic climate change [to] result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction" is a dangerously underexplored topic.
July 7, 2022, PNAS: Opinion piece by Christopher Wolf and Bill Ripple
Ripple, W. J., DellaSala, D. A., Baumann, F., Gregg, J. W., Betts, M. G., Law, B. E., Bradshaw, C. J., Wolf, C. (2021). Zoonotic Diseases and Our Troubled Relationship With Nature. American Journal of Health Promotion, 35(9), 4-7.
July 27, 2021, The Guardian: Carbon emissions, ocean acidification, Amazon clearing all hurtling toward new records
July 30, 2021, Smithsonian Magazine: The authors say tropical coral reefs, the Amazon rainforest, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets may have passed dangerous tipping points
EcoWatch, Jan. 8, 2021: One year after over 11,000 scientists from 153 countries came together to declare a climate emergency and urge ambitious action, the Oregon State University researchers who launched that effort said on Wednesday that an urgent massive-scale mobilization is necessary to address the human-caused global crisis.
The climate crisis is getting worse and a “massive-scale mobilization” is needed to avert disaster, according to the latest assessment by a group of scientists led by a pair of Oregon State University researchers.
While there’s uncertainty about how the novel coronavirus originally infected people, it might have started as viral spillover (transfer) from bats or other wild animals. One emerging hypothesis based on DNA evidence is that, because of natural habitat destruction, horseshoe bats in China were forced into cities. Under increased stress, the bats shed viruses that were picked up by people and perhaps other animals in an early infection cluster.
