Two thirds of the world experienced record breaking heat last year, and the Guardian has visualised where and when in this useful interactive feature.
Also a neat interactive, Grist have mapped all the announcements of climate spending by the Biden administration. All up in the air now that the Trump has cancelled the funding, but it’s a striking map of climate investment across the United States, and I’d love to see something similar in the UK one day.
This week I came across Context, a news platform from the Thomson Reuters Foundation that covers climate, inclusive economy and technology stories. Not sure why it’s taken me so long to find it, as it’s excellent.
Reasearch in Chile demonstrates the viability of fog harvesting to provide water in desert communities, which makes me want to watch Dune again.
Also in South America, the price of solar power has fallen so far that it is reaching the remotest communities of the Amazon, captured in this great photo essay from Dialogue Earth.
This week’s articles
Waste tyres – a progress update
A few years ago I wrote a couple of posts about tyres, a sustainability headache that I hadn’t heard much about. I thought I’d revisit it to see if there was any update, but it appears that we’re not much closer to solving the problem, and the number of tyres produced every year has risen.…
Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now, by Jaron Lanier
I’ve done quite a bit of thinking about social media over the last year. It’s been prompted by world events, an almost complete collapse of their usefulness to me, personally and professionally, and by the change I’ve seen in others. I have friends who I know as intelligent and compassionate people, but whose online presence…
The Earthbound Report 