Renewed forest fires in Siberia
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/waldbraende-am-polarkreis-di
5600 fires reported nationwide, 250 buildings burned
Sources:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/waldbraende-am-polarkreis-di
Floods in Odessa, Ukraine
https://pushkinska.net/news/navodnenie-na-balkovskoyi-tonusshie-mashin
After hours of rain, parts of Odessa are flooded. A 4-storey residential building with 30 apartments collapsed.
Sources:
https://pushkinska.net/news/navodnenie-na-balkovskoyi-tonusshie-mashin
https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2020/05/28/odessu-zatopilo-utrennim-livnem
Flashfloods in Dubai
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/447278-dubai-police-re
In the Hatta Valley, 20 people in a bus are trapped by the floods
Sources:
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/447278-dubai-police-re
https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-crown-prince-orders-house-
35 degrees in Siberia
These are record values
https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/regionales/wetter/bis-zu-35-grad-unge
Large parts of Russia are affected, from the Urals to the Republic of Tuva. Furthermore, the number of ticks in Krasnoyarsk south of the city has increased 200 times.
Sources:
https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/regionales/wetter/bis-zu-35-grad-unge
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/where-is-our-spring-locals
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Only a few materials are needed, most of which you already have at home to build the solar cooker, such as cardboard, an emergency blanket made of aluminium or aluminium foil, etc.
Sources:
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A very informative film contribution by ZDF on 27.1.2020 shows the connections in an impressive way. Among other things, it reports how diligently further pesticides will be approved, how the extension of pesticides will be extended in a very controversial way and what Mrs. Klöckner
Sources:
https://www.zdf.de/verbraucher/wiso/pestizide-im-wasser---wie-stehts-u
Further links:
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Pestizidgefahr-im-Grundwa
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pestizid
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/staedte-ohne-pestizide-neue-wege
More and more soil turns into wasteland every year
More than 30 % of the world's soils are affected, with an additional 10 million hectares being added each year.
One third of pasture land and a quarter of all arable land and forests worldwide are affected. Biodiversity and thus life in the soil is also threatened. As a result, the regeneration of the soil is also at risk.
Sources:
https://www.bund-rlp.de/service/meldungen/detail/news/studie-boeden-we
https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/themen/biologische-vielfalt-naturschut
https://www.zeit.de/2019/06/erdboden-erdkruste-oekosystem-bodenfruchtb
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruchtfolge
Further links:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/boden-landwirtschaft/bodenbelast
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Here is our new video, our Fridays For Future anthem, which we dedicated to Greta Thunberg and the Fridays For Future movement Germany. Have fun listening to it, and feel free to share it with others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN-ikgPafAY&t=154s
Sources:
Fridays For Future Hymne - Andreas Kleis
Further links:
Earthquake 6.5 on the Richter scale in Nevada
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/15/us/nevada-earthquake/index.html
This is the largest earthquake in the last 66 years. The epicenter was 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the California border.
Sources:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/15/us/nevada-earthquake/index.html
The drought causes devastating forest fires and the permafrost soil thaws. Both exacerbate the climate crisis.
Sources:
https://www.wetter.de/cms/sibirien-katastrophale-waldbraende-zerstoere
https://www.quarks.de/umwelt/klimawandel/darum-sollten-wir-ueber-metha
Further links:
https://weather.com/de-DE/wetter/ausland/news/2020-06-05-schwacher-jet
Quasi tutti gli alberi del Brocken sono morti
Siccità in Germania
https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Fast-alle-Baeume-auf-dem
Last change: Isolde Moussot 26.05.2020
Ora piove da 3 giorni in Germania, a volte di più, a volte di meno. Probabilmente è ancora troppo tardi per i boom sul Brocken. Il terzo anno di fila è troppo asciutto.
Sources:
https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Fast-alle-Baeume-auf-dem
Fridays for Future Song: Fight every crisis
Every crisis should be treated as a crisis