Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation

[ Despite this, the positive ruling for the KlimaSeniorinnen is being touted as hugely significant by legal experts. In this case, the court did not accept complaints from individuals within the group, but it did accept complaints made by the group itself as an organization—a distinction that could influence how people collectivize and approach European … Read more

Greta Thunberg arrested at climate protest in The Hague

[ Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested at a climate protest in The Hague, Netherlands Saturday. Thunberg was one of the dozens of people who police detained when in the process of removing protestors who were obstructing part of a road in The Hague, The Associated Press reported. She was spotted flashing a sign for … Read more

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

[ On April 12, 2019, Boston University finally fired David Marchant for sexually harassing Willenbring. (The university said it could not corroborate her claims of physical and psychological abuse.) Marchant released a statement, which the journal Science quoted as vowing that he had “never” sexually harassed anyone, “not in 1998 or 1999 in Antarctica or … Read more

One Couple's Quest to Ditch Natural Gas

[Two climate journalists decided to decarbonize their home. Here’s what happened. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Genx Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are … Read more

Climate change endangers 70 percent of world’s wine regions: Study

[ Rising global temperatures could decimate global wine production over the new few decades, according to a study published Tuesday in the science journal Nature. Researchers estimated that as much as 70 percent of the world’s suitable regions for wine will become too warm this century, including as much as 90 percent of wine’s best … Read more

Enjoy Your Favorite Wine Before Climate Change Destroys It

[ More subtly, heat influences volatile compounds that turn into gas—that’s the “nose” you get when tasting wine—which break down under higher temperatures. “The profiles tend to get pushed to what sensory scientists would call the ‘cooked’ side of the spectrum: more jammy, or like cooked fruit,” says Gambetta. “This can be a good thing. … Read more

The US Is About to Drown in a Sea of Kittens

[ Scientists, conservationists, and cat advocates all agree that unchecked outdoor cat populations are a problem, but they remain deeply divided on solutions. While some conservationists propose the targeted killing of cats, known as culling, cat populations have been observed to bounce back quickly, and a single female cat and her offspring can produce at … Read more

Earth on brink of surpassing key warming threshold: UN weather agency 

[ The United Nations weather agency issued a “red alert” Tuesday, warning the Earth is at risk of surpassing the global warming limit following last year’s record-breaking temperatures and other environmental changes. The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) latest report, released Tuesday, confirmed 2023 was the warmest year on record, sitting at an average of 1.45 degrees … Read more

‘Sopranos’ Actor Michael Imperioli Boots Climate Activist Who Disrupted Broadway’s ‘An Enemy Of The People’

[ A group of climate activists disrupted Thursday night’s performance of An Enemy Of The People on Broadway, bringing the show to a brief halt. Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli then intervened and physically confronted one of the protestors who was yelling “no theater on a dead planet.” The best part? Imperioli stayed in character the … Read more