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Trees are a crucial part of urban wellbeing. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/20/our-community-deserves-beauty-grimsby-residents-unite-to-bring-tree-cover-back-aoe

People living in areas with fewer have a higher risk of problems from poor air quality according to our research.

On average, richer neighbourhoods have more than double the cover per person than poorer ones.

Neighbourhoods with the most trees have 330% less air pollution & are 4C cooler during a heatwave than neighbourhoods where tree canopy is the lowest.

Article header: ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert' Image is a treeless street, blue skies, with two children playing running scooting, one following up walking behind. Gable end of a white paint peeling garage and its doors. Photo caption: East Marsh in Grimsby is one of the UK’s ‘tree deserts’ with less than 3% tree coverage. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows

Creative Conversations: Greg Thomas
24 Feb, University of Glasgow – free

Greg Thomas is a poet, artist & writer with a particular interest in concrete & visual poetries. His work often touches on themes of environmental crisis and the politics of climate change, as well as ways of communicating with & being in the natural world.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-greg-thomas-tickets-1137706132669

Along with competition and social injustice, consumerism is one of the cornerstones of market fundamentalism. Excess is celebrated, selfishness and greed promoted. Not only has this crude materialistic way of life vandalised the natural world, it has encouraged narrow unhealthy behaviour and a set of social norms that have created unhealthy societies populated by frightened, confused people

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/14/and-still-growth-is-all-they-talk-about/

Where are winter rains? India sees fifth-driest January since 1901, over half of districts see no rain

Western disturbances fail to deliver relief; Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh worst impacted in Rabi-producing states

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/where-are-winter-rains-india-sees-fifth-driest-january-since-1901-over-half-of-districts-see-no-rain

Denver paid people to bike in ‘a fascinating psychological experiment.’ Here’s what 6 riders learned

"The program was funded through the Climate Protection Fund sales tax voters approved in 2020...Of the three groups, those paid $1 per mile ended up biking the most number of miles. Those who received both training and $1 per mile experienced the most long-term changes in commuting behavior. "

https://denverite.com/2025/02/05/denver-paid-to-bike-experiment/

This piece explaining the many ways climate change will impact various parts of the US is pretty grim, but this conclusion makes sense to me: "We should start accepting that some disasters will happen, and rebuild around that fact."

For example, New York has aging infrastructure, built for different times, much of which can't just be ripped out and replaced.

"That means accepting that floods will happen and telling communities how to deal with it — for instance, reaching out to diabetic people to educate them on how to refrigerate insulin when you don’t have power. And where infrastructure can be altered ... then it should be."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/usa-cities-unlivable-climate-change-b2687239.html


h/t @CelloMomOnCars

Hotel boss and security 'assault' climate activists at demo in London

Several peaceful protesters allege they were “assaulted” by the CEO and security of the Landmark Hotel, London on Tuesday 4 February. That’s the claim of members of a climate crisis activist group. It was during a demonstration against a private jets conference held at the venue.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/02/04/landmark-hotel-protest/

Most species of hard corals that form the reef’s complex structure and help safeguard coastal communities from storm surge are not having babies in the wild anymore

Florida’s reef ecosystem has been facing a near-constant barrage of disturbances, from marine heatwaves and hurricanes to disease and pollution

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/395569/florida-coral-reef-climate-change-baby-problem