Record numbers of sea turtles have nested this year, Turtles have adapted to changing climates over millions of years, but today’s rapid changes may be happening too quickly for them to evolve. Photo: Archive image: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
The number of turtle nests is breaking records on American beaches. But global warming threatens their survival, AP reports.
In Florida, preliminary state statistics show more than 133,840 nests for hawksbill turtles breaking records from 2016. The same is true for green turtles, where the estimate of at least 76,500 nests is well above the previous record from 2017.
But climate change poses challenges for the newborn turtles to survive the first year. Beaches are shrinking as sea levels rise and more powerful tropical storms are expected. According to Oceana, an international conservation group, warmer air is changing the corridors of ocean currents in the oceans that the turtles use to migrate and also the odds of survival.
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Christina Nordh
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An axolotl in an aquarium. Photo: WIKIPEDIA
Pollution has caused Mexico’s axolotl population to decline by 99.5 percent in just two decades. Now ecologists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University are launching a campaign to save the fish-like salamander. For 600 pesos, you can virtually adopt the little water monster.
There used to be an average of 6,000 axolotls per square kilometer in Mexico, today there are only 36, according to the National Autonomous University’s latest count.
– Time is running out for xochimilco. The “invasion” of pollution is strong: football pitches, floating dens. It’s so sad. What I do know is that we have to work quickly, says researcher Luis Zambrano Gonzalez at the university to the AP.
An axolotl lives in wetlands and small watercourses on the outskirts of Mexico City. It grows between 15 and 45 cm long and weighs 55 to 225 g, but today it rarely grows more than 22 cm long.
Axolotl means water god.
Christina Nordh
yesterday14.38
The Australian activist group Rising Tide on Saturday stopped the loading of coal in the port of Newcastle in eastern Australia, writes Reuters.
About 1,500 protesters were on site, 300 of them in the loading tunnel, during the 30-hour blockade which is scheduled to end at 4pm Australian time on Sunday.
– Right now, due to the number of people in the loading tunnel, all loading has been stopped for safety reasons, said a spokesman for the port in a press release on Saturday.
Australia is the world’s second largest coal exporter after Indonesia.
Christina Nordh
24 Nov10.23
The climate activist escaped punishment when the case was brought up in the Stockholm District Court. Photo: Anna Tärnhuvud
A climate activist is sentenced for disobedience to law enforcement after a car blockade in Stockholm earlier this year. However, the Stockholm district court decides that he will not receive any punishment, because he acted to protect the climate, reports P4 Seven-way.
“It is a matter of acute emergency and therefore it is clearly unreasonable to impose a penalty,” writes the district court.
The verdict is a so-called jury verdict, where two of the three jurors in the case voted down the legal judge. At 2–2, the mildest results for the defendant must be sentenced, which is why the man now escapes punishment.
– As a legal judge and the third member of the jury, I wanted to convict and did not consider that there were conditions for a remission of penalties, says chief councilor Axel Peterson to P4.
– It is clear that the outcome stands out, he says further.
So-called jury verdicts are often changed on appeal in a higher instance, TT writes.
Christina Nordh
24 Nov09.07
Just Stop Oil activists at a protest in London on October 27 last year. Photo: AP
Almost ten years ago, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, warned about climate change. He blamed the Western lifestyle for an environmental disaster. He also criticized the rulers of Great Britain for not taking the lead in the fight against climate change and called government “deeply irresponsible”.
Now more than a hundred famous actors, writers and prominent climate scientists have joined him and signed a petition for the climate. They call what is happening with the weather globally a “collective insanity” that is driving the “destruction of life on Earth”, write The Guardian.
According to the petition, the British government ignores the scientifically proven reality of the climate and ecological crisis, that despite this it continues to develop more sources of fossil fuelsSee more
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I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.