"A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces."
By Katie Surma for Inside Climate News: https://archive.is/KSGQ1
#repression #habitability #activists #ElNiño #Brazil #Colombia #Ecuador #France #Honduras #Guatemala #Mexico #India #Indonesia #Peru #Philippines #Turkey #Somalia #Palestine
So, conceptually, there are certain planetary bodies that may be more conducive to life than Earth ("Superhabitable Planets"). Some planets around mid-type K dwarfs might fit that concept, maybe, in the model.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20240081
Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture
* Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >>
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/
* "The heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase water demand and cut milk output. They're standing there with their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals." >>
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/record-heat-causes-mass-poultry-deaths-france-2026-06-24/
#FossilFuels #Climate #HotPlanet #FactoryFarming #livestock #Meat #poultry #cattle #pigs #DieOff #ExtremeHeat #water #cyanobacteria #eutrophication #Birds #wildlife #Biodiversity #MassMortalities #carcasses #agriculture #Pathogens #PoultryFlu #overstocking #habitability
Record temperatures have been causing mass poultry deaths in western France since June 22, Reuters reported. The heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit), is also behind the drowning of 40 people. Météo-France, the French national weather service, wrote in a statement that June 24 and 25 were the hottest days recorded in […]
* Fourth toddler dies in France as Europe’s brutal heatwave forecast to shift east
“Extreme heat will occur more frequently, for longer duration and with greater intensity as global warming continues...The extreme temperatures had been made possible by the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-shift-east-child-deaths-france-cities-heat-stress
* Johan Rockström on Planetary Boundaries (podcast)
“In the mid-1950s, we humans shift from being this small world on a big planet to now being a big world on a small planet. We've simply filled up the whole space. When you've reached that saturation point, the old economic paradigm doesn't work anymore. We've come to the end of the road of this idea that you can exploit for free and then waste without any consequences." >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-solve-the-climate-crisis-johan-rockstr%C3%B6m-on/id1823942833?i=1000774198725
#FossilFuels #ClimateExtremes #HotPlanet #heatwaves #boundaries #limits #habitability
One conclusion that I've made while living through record breaking hotter summers and poorer quality air is that I would much rather have breathable air and a habitable temperatures outdoors then a billion dollars. The quality of life afforded by having the ability of going outside and not feeling like I'm dying is worth way more that any about of money.
whats quite tragic is that I'm now realizing that this is something I've taken for granted.
Planetary survival: An equal and habitable world is possible
"Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions. The report aims to rectify those limitations by incorporating inequality studies, climate science and proposals for creating a political coalition capable of reforming the world’s financial architecture. The World Inequality Lab is calling for hefty wealth taxes, reduced working hours, dietary changes and new investment priorities."
"The key, Piketty added, was to address inequality and planetary habitability together."
Liveability:
"Less mining, more education"
"Taxing extreme wealth"
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival
#FossilFuels #climate #inequality #habitability #education #meat #transition #energy #mining #extractivism #transition
Some politicians will swear up and down that Indians are better acclimated to air pollution and thus it's not a concern for them.
by Rishika Pardikar for Drilled: https://drilled.media/news/air-pollution-India
Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis in the country for decades. Documents related to an update of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) show how the denial has constrained policymakers.
Philosopher Baptiste Morizot and jurist Laurent Neyret argue that the principle of #habitability should be established as a "guiding value" of law.
For real impact, three approaches are proposed:
* The constitutionalization of the "principle of habitability".
* The criminalization of serious breaches of habitability, which can be likened to international crimes.
* Internationalization through a binding treaty protecting living conditions on Earth.
The White House announced a plan to cancel over 50 #space missions as part of a devastating 46% cut to #NASA #science.
The proposal would likely eliminate thousands of jobs at an agency that has just launched astronauts to the #Moon for the first time in decades, and dozens of other space missions would see their operations reduced or slowly wound down to a halt.
The following missions are to be cancelled:
1. The Habitable Worlds Observatory being built to search for #life on dozens of Earth-like planets beyond our Solar System while addressing fundamental questions about our #Universe.
2. OSIRIS-APEX capitalizes on the exceptionally rare 2029 Earth flyby of the potentially hazardous #asteroid #Apophis to advance planetary defense strategies and reveal how Earth’s #gravity alters an asteroid’s surface and interior.
3. The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will deliberately search for signs of life on #Mars by analyzing the composition of samples collected from as deep as 2 meters below the surface.
4. The DAVINCI mission is an atmospheric probe that will be deployed to our sister planet, #Venus, and provide the first detailed measurements of the composition and chemistry of its #atmosphere.
5. Initially focusing on #Jupiter’s interior, atmosphere, and aurora, #Juno is already orbiting Jupiter and has expanded during its extended mission to be a full system explorer capable of investigating the Galilean satellites, rings, inner moons, radiation belts, and boundaries of Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
6. VERITAS will create unprecedented, global, high-resolution datasets of Venus designed to answer a fundamental question for rocky #planets: how did Earth and her twin Venus evolve into two entirely different examples of planetary #habitability?
https://www.planetary.org/articles/meet-the-people-behind-nasas-endangered-missions
Immersion in a hot toxic soup
From humans, wildlife and invertebrates: Simultaneous exposure of toxins and climate harms likely to cause reduced fertility
An " ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures."
"The chemicals are ubiquitous in consumer goods, so humans are often regularly exposed."
“There is enough evidence in both areas to act to reduce our impact on the planet...The solution to the systemic problems would involve reining in climate change and reducing the use of toxic chemicals." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study
#biodiversity #immersion #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #toxins #plastic #ForeverChemicals #pollution #WesternCountries #harm #ToxicChemicals #Pfas #organochlorines #pyrethroids #Phthalates #ConsumerGoods #ClimateHarms #habitability #HealthHazards
Eric Maugendre about carbon
Dr. Or M. Bialik
BellingenNSW
SwindlerOfInsanity
Estelle Platini
Rachel Abdallah
Mikko Tuomi
