#pollution

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Mediterranean climate's future: Study suggests swing between droughts and downpours

From its olive groves to its coastal cities, the Mediterranean depends on a delicate balance of rain and sun, but climate change is tipping the scales

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-mediterranean-climate-future-droughts-downpours.html

Climate refugees from Bangladesh face a political storm in India

Undocumented Bangladeshi climate migrants in India lack legal protections and face rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and crackdowns, all amplified by the ruling BJP government and Hindu nationalists

https://www.himalmag.com/politics/india-bangladesh-bjp-climate-migration

Avec quelque 1500 points de divergences les négociations à pour un traité sur le toujours... dans l'impasse

Les discussions ont atteint une "étape critique". "Nous n'avons pas obtenu suffisamment d'avancées". Les pays pétroliers s'opposent toujours à des efforts sur la réduction de la production de plastique. https://www.rts.ch/info/environnement/2025/article/negociations-sur-le-plastique-a-geneve-impasse-et-divergences-persistent-28963765.html?rts_source=rss_t

Si aucun accord international n'est conclu, les déchets plastiques devraient tripler d'ici 2060 https://news.un.org/fr/story/2025/08/1157233

La pollution plastique est répandue sur toute la planète, comme ici à Bali, en Indonésie.

The Southwest is rapidly losing groundwater due to overpumping and climate change, study finds

They found the Southwest U.S. – including Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and California – has lost massive amounts of groundwater. That’s due to overpumping by cities and farmers & persistent drought

https://knpr.org/2025-08-07/the-southwest-is-rapidly-losing-groundwater-due-to-overpumping-and-climate-change-study-finds

How climate change and urbanisation are fuelling deadly lightning strikes in India

It accounts for 35.8% of all weather-related deaths, making it the leading cause of death due to natural forces in the country

https://www.indiatoday.in/environment/story/lightning-strikes-deaths-india-climate-change-urbanisation-global-warming-2767651-2025-08-07

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

is deliberately de-orbiting older satellites to ‘burn up’ in the pristine upper atmosphere.

‘Burn up’ actually means ‘leave a bunch of metal vapour in the upper atmosphere’.

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Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere.
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Scientists are only just studying what this may do to the atmosphere (and life on earth). Early indications are not good.

People should be *really* worried about this and keep an eye out for future updates. Especially given the seems to be turning into a lawless joke.

Cc @sundogplanets

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=08&year=2025