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What a week's disasters tell us about climate and the pandemic

Extreme weather presents an even bigger threat when economies are crashing and ordinary people are stretched to their limits.
www.nytimes.com

Stranded by the climate crisis

Global environmental disasters are forcing thousands of people to flee their homes, their countries, and everything they know.

thewalrus.ca

Water, water everywhere?

Could a famously rainy country like the UK really run low on water? Through a combination of climate change and population growth—it might.
www.nationalgeographic.co.uk

Climate explained: Why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth

It is easy for people in the industrialised world to blame population growth elsewhere for environmental damage. But increased consumption is just as important – if more confronting.
theconversation.com

How smart city planning could slow future pandemics

The COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to rethink how cities are designed—and make them better equipped to stop disease from spreading.

www.wired.com

Climate music to soothe and terrify you

The datasets used in this musical piece correspond to three main human drivers of climate change: fossil fuel use, population growth, and land use change between 1880—2080.

therealnews.com

Joel Kotkin: The new geography of America, post-coronavirus

Nearly two in five urban residents are considering a move to a less crowded place.
thehill.com

Making life cheap

Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables.

newrepublic.com

A make or break moment for cities

The future of America’s urban areas will depend on the help they receive—or don’t—from the federal government.
www.theatlantic.com

Cities have a small window to save themselves from cars.

Everyone is reconsidering their transportation mode right now. Automobiles don’t have to win.
slate.com

Empowerment or 'kicking down'? The truth about population concern

Population Matters Director Robin Maynard responds to environmental writer George Monbiot's denigration of population campaigners in a recent Guardian piece.
populationmatters.org

Megacity slums are incubators of disease

COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world's richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
theconversation.com

Essay: Why social distancing won’t work for us

For millions of people in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, there's no such thing as socially distancing yourself.

thecorrespondent.com

Get ready for a COVID-19 vaccine information war

Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
www.nytimes.com

Coronavirus is going to make some people move

The pandemic isn’t just going to change how we live—it’s going to dictate where we live, too.
www.politico.com

“We don’t know what else is out there.” Five ways new diseases emerge — and what we can do about them

From forests and farms to our own back yards, there's a lot we can do to reduce future risks of pandemic outbreaks.

ensia.com

Soil pathogens rise as temperatures do

Pathogenic plant fungi are likely to multiply and spread as rising temperatures warm soils, which will add to the challenges of maintaining world food production alongside other climate change-driven crises and a burgeoning human population.

cosmosmagazine.com

Millions more Americans will face climate disasters with warming

If population and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, roughly one-third of the U.S. population could feel one or more extreme weather events annually by 2050.

www.scientificamerican.com

Maternal malnutrition, low birth weight and short gestation kill lakhs of Indian children every year

Nearly 68% of the under-5 deaths in India can be attributed to the child and maternal malnutrition whereas 83% of the neonatal deaths are due to low birth weight and short gestation, according to two new studies.

www.deccanherald.com

Human activities are responsible for viruses crossing over from bats and causing pandemics like coronavirus

Population growth, global travel and climate change provide opportunities for cross-species transfer.

theconversation.com

Accepting death by coronavirus or climate crisis is not an option

The worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It’s that people come to accept mass death—to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as “just how it is.” Yet that is the proposition being thrust on us now.
earther.gizmodo.com

Auckland water shortage: Treated sewage a future option as city deals with climate change, population growth

If climate and population trends persist, Aucklanders could one day be drinking treated sewage - if they can get over the "yuck" factor, that is.

www.nzherald.co.nz

How the approval of the birth control pill 60 years ago helped change lives

Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.
www.npr.org

Women and girls are losing access to care amid coronavirus pandemic, health workers and U.N. agency warn

As coronavirus lockdowns continue to restrict movement around the world, female patients face an uncomfortable paradox: The measures intended to keep them safe from the pandemic could have dangerous long-term impacts on their health.
www.washingtonpost.com

Thirsty future for American West as "megadrought" grips some of the fastest-growing U.S. cities

In the midst of an historic drought, the twin concerns of rapid growth and dwindling water supply have grown increasingly urgent across the Western U.S.
www.fairwarning.org

George Monbiot: How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?

The filmmaker's latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods.

www.theguardian.com

Expansion of irrigation to cater for future population ‘greatly underestimated’

New research suggests that the amount of farmland that will need to be irrigated in order to feed the global population by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than scientists currently project.
eandt.theiet.org

Global boom, pandemic, crash: Is history just repeating itself?

If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires.
thetyee.ca

California population growth rate hit record low last year

In the aftermath of the late 2018 Camp Fire, Butte County lost more than 5 percent of its residents, by far the largest decrease in the state.
www.politico.com

Interview: "We really have to find a way to exist with the planet"

Author Alan Weisman answers questions on whether the COVID-19 lockdown proved his vision correct in 'The World Without Us.'

india.mongabay.com

50 years from now, many densely populated parts of the world could be too hot for humans

Unless steps are taken to check global warming, up to 3 billion people will find themselves in areas too warm for human comfort, a new study finds.
insideclimatenews.org

Models shift to predict dramatically more U.S. deaths as states relax social distancing

A key model favored by the White House nearly doubled its prediction to 134,000 fatalities by August.

www.politico.com

Tigers retreat before spreading road networks

Thanks to human population growth and climate change, the planet is poised for the extinction of wild creatures and plants on a massive scale.

climatenewsnetwork.net