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"Before plants and animals recolonize after a wildfire, fungi get to work.

Fischer and other scientists think that aside from making carbon more accessible, fire fungi play an important role in revitalizing the structure of the soil after a severe burn."

https://www.biographic.com/how-fire-fungi-help-put-burnt-landscapes-back-together/

"March is coming in like a lion across the central and eastern U.S. with severe weather and widespread abnormal warmth. Climate Central analysis shows that the unusually warm early springtime temperatures forecast for March 6, up to 34°F above-average across the Upper Midwest, are at least twice as likely due to human-caused climate change."

Also increased risk for severe weather across the Central Plains: strong thunderstorms, large hail, and tornadoes.

https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert/central-us-march-2026

"What if we don’t need “the” solution to human-caused climate change, but a smorgasbord of solutions?

Building on landmark work from two decades ago, the new paper divvies up the gargantuan challenge of reducing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions by splitting the task into a less individually daunting set of potential approaches. These are called “wedges” – manageable slices of a much bigger carbon-reduction pie."

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/six-trillion-ways-to-solve-climate-change/

"A new international study published in the journal Science, with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, warns that wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks – all of which are fuelled by climate change – are putting crucial carbon sources at risk."

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/05/scientists-sound-alarm-over-europes-forests-as-216000-hectares-at-risk-even-if-warming-hal

"Reg Platt founded Emergent in 2016 as a way to connect apartments and low-income housing projects to the benefits of solar—and lobbied for a change in regulation that would allow his company to supply electricity directly to customers from locally installed solar panels—allowing them to reap the rewards of cheaper, cleaner energy.

Residents enrolled in the program have already saved 15% on their energy bills."

https://time.com/7380169/low-income-solar-power-access-uk/

"The Bechdel Test was first coined in 1985 when cartoonist Alison Bechdel created a comic strip that proposed new film criteria: A movie should have at least two women in it who talk to each other about something other than a man.

A story passes Good Energy’s Climate Reality Check if two conditions are met: Climate change exists in the world and at least one character acknowledges it."

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/climate-change-bechdel-test-movies

Here is a cool online bookstore:
Bookshop sends the profit it makes from selling you books to the independent local book store of your choice.

https://bookshop.org/pages/bookstores

My fave bookstore is run by a couple, with young children, who run a bookdrive so that kids in the community can read for free. I think it's the coolest thing.

"While the EU has ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases - the main cause of climate change - its efforts have fallen short on adapting to the extreme weather climate change is already fuelling, according to the EU's advisers, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

"It is a lack of coherence, a lack of coordination, and also a lack of budget," said the advisory board's chair, Ottmar Edenhofer."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-ill-prepared-worsening-climate-change-advisers-say-2026-02-16/

RE: @nexta@mstdn.social

Do not try this at home.
But it's pretty cool.

Train derails in Switzerland amid fatal avalanches across the Alps

"The very high current risk levels in the mountains have been produced by a combination of factors including recent heavy falls of snow, combined with high winds that have deposited heavy and unconsolidated accumulations on an already unstable snowpack produced by lean snow conditions earlier in the season."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/16/train-derails-switzerland-fatal-avalanches-alps

EU avalanche warning Grade 5 risk conditions are categorised as “extraordinary” and rare."

RE: @minouette@spore.social

Kitchen table math is math

RE: @Snoro@mastodon.social

Canadian insurers serve home owners with higher rates and decreased coverage as extreme weather events raise costs.

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"Scientists flew drones equipped with special kit through the exhaled droplets, or "blows", made when the giants come up to breathe through their blowholes. They detected a highly infectious virus linked to mass strandings of whales and dolphins worldwide." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdrpkj8111o