AvatarAnna SchulzFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Five Graphs That Changed the World: See Groundbreaking Data Visualizations by Florence Nightingale, W. E. B. DuBois & Beyondopenculture.com - Colin MarshallAlmost two and a half centuries after its first publication, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is much …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarChina's supply chain is melting in extreme heat. Whose will be next?Protocol - Brian KahnBlistering temperatures have baked a large portion of China, curtailing power to factories. It shows the new supply chain woes that await if we don’t …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarHow to Assess Your Home’s Risk From Climate Changeverified_publisherLifehacker - Emily LongLearn about how likely fires, floods, and extreme heat will be before you buy. Seems we can’t go more than a few days without an alarming headline …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarAfrica drought: Some children just ‘one disease away from catastrophe’ UNICEF warnsUnited NationsOn Tuesday, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers” without …
AvatarAnna SchulzFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSee where musicians are located in the Music Galaxy based on similar listenersboingboing.net - PopkinSee where musicians are located in the Music Galaxy based on the overlap of their listeners. The greater the overlap between audiences, the closer …
AvatarAnna SchulzFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIconic Infographic Map Compares the World’s Mountains and Riversvisualcapitalist.com - Nick RoutleyToday, highly detailed maps of our planet’s surface are just a click away. In times past, however, access to information was much more limited. It …
AvatarAnna SchulzFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSatellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissionsspace.com - By Tereza Pultarova"These are large emissions, and we see quite a lot of them on the global scale, much more than we had expected." Huge amounts of uncounted emissions …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarThese researchers are trying to stop misinformation from derailing climate progressverified_publisherNPR - Shannon BondSean Buchan has started every day of the past two weeks at his computer, tracking narratives about the COP26 U.N. climate summit. He looks for claims like one about the electric cars ferrying dignitaries around Glasgow being powered by diesel generators. That isn't true: the cars were recharged by …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarOut of time: Climate talks go past deadline over coal, cashAssociated Press - By FRANK JORDANS, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEINGLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Going into overtime Friday night, negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow were still trying to find common ground on phasing out coal, when nations need to update their emission-cutting pledges and, especially, on money. Talks are at a “bit of a stalemate,” and the …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarUN, US officials urge action to avert climate disasterAssociated Press - By Frank JordansBERLIN (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights official and U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate envoy called Thursday for countries to step up the fight against global warming, describing it as an issue of sheer survival for humankind. In a statement ahead of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, the global …
AvatarAnna SchulzAvatarAvatarPoorest countries to gain from new climate funding plan to break Cop26 impasseverified_publisherThe Guardian - Fiona HarveyClimate finance plan needed to gain backing of developing nations for any deal at Glasgow talks
AvatarAnna SchulzFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEU-funded River Otter estuary flooding begins in Springdevonlive.com - Daniel ClarkWork on a landscape-scale project to address the impact of climate change by returning a Devon estuary and flood plain to a more natural condition is …