Van Isle Green Alliance

An island based group dedicated to educating and inspiring British Columbians to defend their environment.

[UNDRR @UNDRR]

🌲🌳🏙️🌳🌲Planting trees in urban areas can lower extreme heat by 5-6°C – improving quality of life and lowering energy consumption.

#BeatTheHeat

[UNDRR @UNDRR]

Methane emissions accelerate the climate clock & slow global recovery. ⏰

🔥 Methane traps 80x the heat as CO₂ short term, driving more intense heatwaves, droughts, wildfires & food-system stress.

🔧 But cost-effective solutions exist ➡️ https://t.co/ddI1eYdXJ7 #GAR2025

[Van Isle Green Alliance @IsleAlliance]

Study finds that industrial chicken farms are accelerating the spread of a major foodborne disease | Oxford University https://t.co/sHwoKK8I5k

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

How have humans reshaped the world’s land over the last 12,000 years?

Over thousands of years, humans have gradually transformed the Earth’s surface — clearing land for agriculture (crops and grazing animals) and building settlements.

For most of that history, agriculture used little land from a global perspective. Today, cropland and grazing land together cover around 4.8 billion hectares — almost half of the world’s habitable land. Built-up area is comparatively tiny, at 86 million hectares. You can see this in the chart.

This insight comes from the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE), the primary window we have into humanity’s land use and population over the very long run.

It’s built and maintained by researchers in the Netherlands, at the government’s Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and Utrecht University. The dataset covers 213 countries and regions and reaches back to 10,000 BCE.

Because it stretches so far into the past, its earliest figures are necessarily modeled reconstructions rather than direct measurements, so the uncertainty grows the further back in time you look.

Our colleague @lucasrodesg recently updated our charts with the latest release, HYDE 3.5, which extends the data to 2025.

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee @ayeshatandon #CBarchive

🎨 @KerryAnnCleaver Tom Pearson @tomoprater

Read here: https://t.co/E8iv7IqXl3

[United Nations @UN]

Extreme weather is devastating communities & taking lives.

Unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires & storms — all intensified by the climate crisis — are affecting people around the world.

We urgently need more ambitious #ClimateAction.

https://t.co/OL6G9vQDV6

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

A sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the devastating wildfires in France and Spain, scientists say.
https://t.co/r5PNoMfZP0

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

The #ClimateCrisis is a global challenge that no nation can tackle in isolation.

#ClimateAction is urgently needed.

It’s time for countries to step up their efforts to curb the looming climate emergency: https://t.co/cnIcKWdoi5

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles | @DrSimEvans #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/AX0T6whgc8

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

Humans are altering the planet on an unthinkable scale. Satellite images from NASA show the growing imprint on planet Earth.
https://t.co/rgxVv7eIWa

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

As China looks to export more clean energy, the U.S. is trying to force its trade partners to buy more oil and gas.

Of the two approaches, global trends favor China, writes Isabel Hilton.

Read more: https://t.co/h8WiNApYDm

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

"Over half of new car sales in China are electric," data scientist Hannah Ritchie says in a new interview. "In 2020, it was 6 percent."

Looking at the numbers, Ritchie sees a world making unheralded progress in the fight to stem warming.

Read more: https://t.co/J5iJnPLsJy

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

In her last interview before she died, Jane Goodall issued an urgent call to safeguard the Earth, warning that "humans are not exempt from extinction.”
https://t.co/1kPRMDV8eG

[Van Isle Green Alliance @IsleAlliance]

As forests disappear wild animal populations decline.

“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love of all living things.” – Jane Goodall

They were here before us. Let’s make room for them:
• Secure ropes and nets.

@CapitalDailyVic

[The Global Goals @TheGlobalGoals]

80 years of progress.
17 Global Goals.
1 planet.
This is the moment for solidarity. 🌍

[IPCC @IPCC_CH]

Ahead of Wednesday's #UNGA80 Climate Summit revisit the main findings from #IPCC’s Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report.

Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming.

https://t.co/sp4Sk0XJmT

[Tesla @Tesla]

When every car is electric, you won’t have to breathe in a bunch of carcinogens every time you park underground

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer_

Read here: https://t.co/YMoE2gWAk5

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Secretary-General @antonioguterres is calling for action to turbocharge the shift to renewable energy.

#ClimateAction is not only the best choice for the environment, but for a country’s security, economy, and health: https://t.co/xIdTyZh1Qx

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates: https://t.co/3clxDDZCym

Read that again.

Time for the people that are fueling this crisis to pay for the damage they're causing.

#ActOnClimate