Today in climate change (30 June 2023)

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Protecting children from heat stress: A technical note https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/protecting-children-heat-stress-technical-note

Firefighters battle blaze at Tara as climate change and El Niño risk threaten to fan fire season ‘on steroids’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-26/fire-season-warning-for-australia-this-winter/102524078

Experience exceeds awareness of anthropogenic climate change in Greenland https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01701-9

Why Texas Could Be As Hot As The Sahara Desert This Week https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2023/06/26/why-texas-could-be-as-hot-as-the-sahara-desert-this-week/

El Niño digs in its heels https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/el-nino-digs-in-its-heels/

Pioneering research has confirmed that the current level of rainfall recharging groundwater in southwest WA is at its lowest for at least the last 800 years https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/pioneering-research-has-confirmed-current-level-of-rainfall-recharging-groundwater-southwest

‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/its-absolutely-guaranteed-the-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-sea-level-rise

Spring 2023 in Europe: extremes amidst a relatively wet, average season https://climate.copernicus.eu/spring-2023-europe-extremes-amidst-relatively-wet-average-season

A Climate-Resilient Future for All Canadians https://www.iisd.org/articles/statement/canada-national-adaptation-strategy

‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/we-could-lose-our-status-as-a-state-what-happens-to-a-people-when-their-land-disappears

Fractured foundations: how Antarctica’s ‘landfast’ ice is dwindling and why that’s bad news https://theconversation.com/fractured-foundations-how-antarcticas-landfast-ice-is-dwindling-and-why-thats-bad-news-207814

Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities https://www.wri.org/insights/cities-systems-change-urban-transformation

In Brazil’s Favelas, Green Roofs Might Help Relieve the Heat https://undark.org/2023/05/22/in-brazils-favelas-green-roofs-might-help-relieve-the-heat/

Most Americans underestimate the popularity of policies to protect the climate https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/most-americans-underestimate-the-popularity-of-policies-to-protect-the-climate/

Global warming is disrupting humanity’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ on Earth https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/global-warming-is-disrupting-humanitys-goldilocks-zone-on-earth/

Renewables supply more than half German electricity demand in first half of 2023 https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-supply-more-than-half-german-electricity-demand-in-first-half-of-2023/

How is climate change impacting the world’s ocean https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/ocean-impacts

Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal. There is nowhere left to hide https://www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/air-quality-index-nyc-fires-smoke-b2354703.html

What makes people adapt together? An empirically grounded conceptual model on the enablers and barriers of collective climate change adaptation https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1213852/full

Off the charts’: Earth’s vital signs are going haywire https://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/off-the-charts-earths-vital-signs-are-going-haywire/

Volcanoes’ Future Climate Effects May Exceed Standard Estimateshttps://eos.org/research-spotlights/volcanoes-future-climate-effects-may-exceed-standard-estimates

Mountains Vulnerable to Extreme Rain from Climate Change https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/06/28/mountains-vulnerable-to-extreme-rain-from-climate-change/

Enhancing Climate Change and Environmental Reporting in South-East Asia https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/enhancing-climate-change-and-environmental-reporting-south-east-asia

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