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☆ Your Guide to the Heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I still remember how hot the summer of 1993 felt. As one Globe headline put it — describing the entire city — “Pavement buckles, people lose cool and fans just blow hot air.”Since then, I have often thought of 1993 as the hottest summer of my life. It just felt that way because the intensity and frequency of heat was unusual at the time. Today, many of us have become accustomed to heat waves like the one now blanketing the eastern half of the country and much of the Southwest. Last month was the 12th straight to be the hottest month of its kind on record.

Persons: Manuela Andreoni Organizations: Boston Globe

☆ Anouk Aimée, Enigmatic Star of ‘A Man and a Woman,’ Is Dead at 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Anita Gates | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anouk Aimée, the French film actress who became an international sex symbol as the aloof, enigmatic and sensual star of Claude Lelouch’s 1966 romance “A Man and a Woman,” died on Tuesday at 92. Her death was announced on social media by her daughter, Manuela Papatakis, who said her mother died at home in Paris. But it was with “A Man and a Woman,” a 28-year-old director’s low-budget project that went on to win the Oscar for best foreign film, that she created the image that endured throughout her career. Ms. Aimée was nominated for a best actress Oscar for the role. It also brought her the BAFTA film award for best foreign actress and the Golden Globe for best motion picture actress.

Persons: Anouk Aimée, Claude Lelouch’s, ”, Manuela Papatakis, Aimée, Federico Fellini’s, Vita ”, Jean, Louis Trintignant, Francis Lai’s, Oscar Organizations: BAFTA, Golden Globe Locations: French, Paris, Italian

☆ For Women in Architecture, It’s a Time of ‘Catching Up’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Farah Nayeri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When it comes to gender equality, the architectural profession is a laggard, to say the least. It wasn’t until the 21st century that the Pritzker Architecture Prize — the profession’s highest accolade — was first awarded to a woman: Zaha Hadid, who won it in 2004. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of the Dublin firm Grafton Architects, are among only five women who have collected the award since. In awarding them the 2020 prize, the Pritzker jury described Farrell and McNamara as “pioneers in a field that has traditionally been and still is a male-dominated profession,” and cited their consistent regard for “the people who would inhabit and use their buildings and spaces.”Community-oriented, sustainable architecture was one of the themes of the Art for Tomorrow conference, an annual event convened by the Democracy & Culture Foundation with panels moderated by New York Times journalists that was held in Venice last week. In a panel titled “Architecture for Good,” Manuela Lucá-Dazio, executive director of the Pritzker Prize, said that while the Pritzker’s mission had remained the same since it was established in 1979, “our world has deeply changed in the past 45 years.”

Persons: —, Zaha Hadid, Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara, Farrell, McNamara, ”, ” Manuela Lucá Organizations: Pritzker, Grafton Architects, Art, Tomorrow, Democracy & Culture Foundation, New York Times Locations: Dublin, Venice

☆ The World Heads to the Polls
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the busiest election cycles in history is coming to an end on Sunday. Hundreds of millions of people have gone to the polls in South Africa, India and Mexico in recent days, and millions more will do the same in the European Union this weekend. Today, I want to lay out some the most pressing environmental challenges in these areas, and what the results announced in the past few days point to. Keep in mind that whatever happens in the United States election in November will affect many of these countries, too. But his party didn’t win an outright majority and now needs coalition partners to stay in power.

Persons: Somini Sengupta, Narendra Modi “, ”, Modi Organizations: European Union, Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: South Africa, India, Mexico, European, United States

☆ When Hydropower Runs Dry
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Global pollution from electricity generation was set to fall last year, thanks to the growth of renewable energy. Hydropower, the biggest source of renewable energy in the world, was crippled by lack of rain in several countries last year, driving up emissions as countries turned to fossil fuels to fill the gap. To cope with the electricity shortfall, China and India turned to coal plants, and Colombia to natural gas. In China, the worst-hit country, hydroelectricity generation saw the steepest fall in the past two decades, according to the I.E.A. This year, the dip in hydropower has continued in some countries, including Ecuador and Turkey, as temperatures continue to shatter records.

Persons: Ivan Penn Organizations: International Energy Agency Locations: China, India, Colombia, Ecuador, Turkey, Canada, United States

☆ Deadly Floods in Brazil Were Worsened by Climate Change, Study Finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Raymond Zhong | Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Human-caused warming has doubled the chances that southern Brazil will experience extreme, multiday downpours like the ones that recently caused disastrous flooding there, a team of scientists said on Monday. The deluges have killed at least 172 people and displaced more than half a million residents from their homes. Three months’ rain fell in a two-week span of April and May in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. In the cooler climate of the 19th century, before large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases, such colossal downpours were far rarer, the researchers said. That pushes more warm, moist air toward the south, where it can fall as rain.

Locations: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, South America

☆ Dead Monkeys Are Falling From Trees Amid Brutal Heat in Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gilberto Pozo, a biologist, was monitoring a small forest in the town of Cunduacán, in southern Mexico, in early May when two mantled howler monkeys fell from a tree in front of him with a thud. But, as temperatures soared over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, dozens of reports of dead monkeys started popping up. Residents were finding groups of 10 or more dead at a time, many also showing signs of dehydration. As of Wednesday, 147 monkeys have died in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in southern Mexico. The deaths of dozens of mantled howler monkeys in Mexico may be the latest sign of the danger extreme temperatures pose to wildlife around the world.

Persons: Gilberto Pozo, “, ”, Pozo Locations: Cunduacán, Mexico, Tabasco, Chiapas

☆ How India Is Coping With Extreme Heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Since April, heat waves, most likely fueled by climate change, have reached dangerous levels across India and other Asian countries. This week, many Indian cities, including New Delhi, the capital, recorded temperatures above 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Local governments sent out heat alerts warning people to avoid staying outside and schools in several states were ordered to close. The grueling heat crisis, one of several in India over the last few years, made me wonder if the nation’s leaders had made climate change more central in their campaigns. Not really, my colleague Suhasini Raj, who covers India, told me.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Suhasini Raj, “ Organizations: Local, Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: India, New Delhi

☆ With or Without Tesla, More E.V. Chargers Are Coming
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week, Tesla laid off most of its electric car charging team, raising doubts about the feasibility of the Biden administration’s ambitious E.V. Though Tesla accounts for more than half of the fast E.V. chargers currently installed in the United States, and though it has continued to build them faster and cheaper than anyone else, the E.V. charging market may no longer need Tesla to lead it. The administration’s goal is to build a network of a half million fast and slow chargers in the country by 2030, more than double what the U.S. has today.

Persons: Tesla, Tesla’s, Biden Organizations: Biden Locations: United States

☆ Murders, imprisonment and violence: Threats to press freedom grow in Latin America
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Esteban Campanela | Sol Amaya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

These are just the tip of the iceberg of the challenges faced by many media workers in Latin America, where experts say the status of press freedom is increasingly worrisome. The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed in a press conference that they believed the crime was linked to his journalistic work. Last week, the Mexican president criticized the US State Department’s report on human rights in the world, which refers to concerns over press freedom in Mexico, saying that US authorities should “be respectful”. In a publication in social network X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said US officials are not concerned about the human rights of Cubans and that the United States has its own human rights violations. Nicaragua: Ortega-Murillo regime targets journalismHarassment of the press in Nicaragua has been widely reported on numerous occasions.

Persons: CNNE, Francisco Cobos, ”, Cobos, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, López Obrador, Enrique Peña Nieto, Felipe Calderón, Lourdes Maldonado López, Maldonado López, Séptimo Día, Roberto Figueroa, Xochitl Zamora, Lourdes Maldonado, Maldonado ´, Marco Ugarte, AP López Obrador, Andres Oppenheimer, Javier Milei, Lopez Obrador, Abraham Jimenez, Jimenez, civically, “, Miguel Diaz, Yamil Lage, Jiménez, Bruno Rodríguez, Ortega, Murillo, Juan Lorenzo Hollman Chamorro, Hollman Chamorro, Chamorro, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Rosario Murillo, … provocateurs, Chávez, Vos, Chavez, ” Edgar López, López, Juan Pablo Lares, Maximiliano Bruzual, Ariana Cubillos, Nicolas, Maduro’s, Yván Gil, ” Jeannine Cruz, Gustavo Petro, Nayib Bukele, Gonzalo Zegarra, Rey Rodríguez, Manuela Castro, Ana María Cañizares, Ivonne, José Álvarez, Elvin Sandoval, Iván, Sarmenti, Español Organizations: CNN, Amnesty International, Protect Journalists, Univision, Televisa, Prosecutor’s, AP, CIA, Canel, Getty, Cuban Foreign, La Prensa, National Police, ”, El, Regional, Democracy, Nicaraguan, State Department, National College of Journalists, Venezuelan, TC Television, Communication, “ Locations: Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Latin America, Mexican, American, Tamaulipas, McAllen , Texas, Tijuana, Morelos, Tijuana , Mexico, Spain, Cuban, Havana, AFP, United States, Costa Rica, El Confidencial, Managua, NIcaragua, Sur, Washington, Venezuelan, “, Caracas, ”, Ecuador, Guayaquil, America, Argentina, Colombian

Six months after the first round of planting, the team was ready to measure the 44 trees in one sample plot. Luiz Carlos Batista Lobato, a botanist who specializes in tree censuses, walked across the plot to document three trees that had died, many that were taller than him and one that was more than two inches thick. In a few years, Mr. Batista Lobato said, monkeys and armadillos would come to eat the fruits of different trees and birds would feast on the açaí berries, dispersing their seeds as they move around the forest. Watching the trees start to grow helped to dispel some of the skepticism that farmers across the region still have. “We end up feeling like following the same path,” he added, as he watched the sun set on a vast pasture.

Persons: Luiz Carlos Batista Lobato, Batista Lobato, ”, Djalma Soares, Mr, Soares Locations: Maracaçumé

☆ Making Flying Cleaner
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Flying is just about the most polluting thing many of us do. This week the Biden administration announced new moves to make aviation cleaner, proposing guidelines for how fuel producers can qualify for tax credits as part of a program to increase production of more sustainable jet fuel, my colleagues Max Bearak and Dionne Searcey wrote. The guidelines are not yet final, but what caught my attention is that they allow corn-based ethanol to be part of the answer. Among experts, ethanol can be divisive and its environmental benefits are fiercely debated, even two decades after the U.S. started mixing it with gasoline. Today, I want to lay out why the aviation industry generates so much pollution and explain the debate over ethanol.

Persons: Hiroko Tabuchi, Max Bearak, Dionne Searcey Organizations: Google, Biden Locations: New York, San Francisco, Cameroon, U.S

☆ Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Somini Sengupta | Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls “acute hunger” as one of the worst droughts in more than four decades shrivels crops, decimates livestock and, after years of rising food prices brought on by pandemic and war, spikes the price of corn, the region’s staple crop. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all declared national emergencies. Its effects are all the more punishing because in the past few years the region had been hit by cyclones, unusually heavy rains and a widening outbreak of cholera. ‘Urgent help’ is neededThe rains this year began late and were lower than average. In February, when crops need it most, parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Botswana received a fifth of the typical rainfall.

Organizations: United Nations Locations: Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Botswana

☆ The Missing $1 Trillion
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( David Gelles | Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Discussions about how to reform lumbering multilateral bureaucracies can get tedious quickly. How to make more money available for developing nations that are being battered by extreme weather? And how to make sure poor countries don’t spend too much money servicing their debt? Experts estimate that at least $1 trillion a year is needed to help developing countries adapt to hotter temperatures and rising seas, build out clean energy projects and cope with climate disasters. “For many countries, they will only be able to implement strong new climate plans if we see a quantum leap in climate finance this year,” Simon Stiell, the United Nations climate chief, said in a speech last week.

Persons: ” Simon Stiell Organizations: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations Locations: United

☆ ‘Narco-deforestation’ and the future of the Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a struggle for law and order in many of the world’s tropical forests, and nature is losing. Last week, I wrote about the major progress Colombia made in 2023, slashing deforestation rates by 49 percent in a single year. But this week, we learned the trend reversed significantly in the first quarter of this year. Mostly because a single armed group controls much of Colombia’s rainforests. had largely banned deforestation and in recent months it seems to have allowed it again.

Persons: There’s, Susana Muhamad, ” Organizations: Colombia’s, Environment, Estado Mayor Central, United Locations: Colombia, United Nations

☆ Global Forest Loss Remains High, Despite Recent Progress
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Despite major progress in protecting vast tracts of rainforest, the world failed again last year to significantly slow the pace of global forest destruction, according to a report issued on Thursday. Record wildfires in Canada and expanding agriculture elsewhere offset big gains in forest protection in Brazil and Colombia, the report found. The annual survey by the World Resources Institute, a research organization, found that the world lost 9.1 million acres of primary tropical forest in 2023, equivalent to an area almost the size of Switzerland, about 9 percent less than the year before. But the improvement failed to put the world on course to halt all forest loss by 2030, a commitment made by 145 nations at a global climate talks in Glasgow in 2021 and reaffirmed by all countries last year.

Organizations: World Resources Institute Locations: Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Switzerland, Glasgow

☆ A First Step Toward a Global Price on Carbon
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | Max Bearak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It didn’t make many headlines, but last week, at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization, something potentially world-changing happened. The United Nations agency, which regulates the shipping industry, essentially committed to creating the world’s first global carbon price. “I’m very confident that there is going to be an economic pricing mechanism by this time next year,” Arsenio Dominguez, the Secretary General of the maritime organization, said. “What form it is going to have and what the name is going to be, I don’t know.”The proposal would require shipping companies to pay a fee for every ton of carbon they emit by burning fuel. In other words, it’s a tax.

Persons: ” Arsenio Dominguez Organizations: International Maritime Organization, United Nations

☆ Why Palm Oil Is Still a Big Problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Palm oil — the ubiquitous ingredient for all things spreadable, from toothpaste to ice cream — is now the commodity consumed by Americans that contributes most to the loss of tropical forests. Researchers looked at import data and deforestation rates and found that palm oil bought by Americans may have caused 103,000 acres of deforestation, mostly in Indonesia. I want to focus on palm oil today because we’ve known about this problem for a long time. Palm oil is environmentally destructive, grown on vast plantations after rainforests have been flattened and burned. And after years of hard-won progress, the deforestation associated with palm oil production in Indonesia is ticking up again.

Organizations: Global Witness Locations: Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, That’s, New York City

☆ Chelsea vs Arsenal: Top flight women’s soccer game delayed due to sock snafu
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A Women’s Super League (WSL) clash between Chelsea and Arsenal on Friday was delayed by half an hour after the Gunners were forced to change their socks because they were the same color as those worn by Chelsea. Arsenal, as the away team, was eventually forced to source black socks from Chelsea’s merchandise store and cover the branding with tape. Once the game began, Chelsea consolidated its spot as the league leader with a 3-1 victory over third-placed Arsenal in front of the Blues’ biggest ever crowd at Stamford Bridge for a women’s soccer game. Chelsea eventually won 3-1 to edge ahead in the Women's Super League title race. Chelsea manager Emma Hayes praised her team’s dominant performance afterwards but told broadcaster Sky Sports that she was “gutted” for Arsenal’s kit man.

Persons: Justin Setterfield, Jonas Eidevall, Lauren James, Manuela Zinsberger, parry, Sjoeke Nüsken, Nüsken, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd’s, Alex Burstow, Emma Hayes, “, ”, Hayes Organizations: CNN, League, Chelsea, Arsenal, Gunners, Blues ’, Stamford, Sky Sports, ”, Arsenal FC, Getty Locations: ”

☆ What About Nature Risk?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Reporting the corporate risks of climate change is increasingly becoming a required part of doing business. This month, the Securities and Exchange Commission made such disclosures mandatory for public companies in the United States, following the lead from the European Union and California. But climate is not the only aspect of the natural world that is being transformed by human activity. Though corporate leaders often don’t talk about these other parts of nature, they could deeply impact the corporate world in ways that we are only beginning to measure. Will policies to stop ocean pollution impact how companies produce plastic?

Organizations: Securities and Exchange Commission, European Union and Locations: United States, European Union and California

☆ Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Ana Ionova | Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at bay, creating dry conditions for fires that have engulfed hundreds of square miles of the rainforest that do not usually burn. The fires have turned the end of the dry season in the northern part of the giant rainforest into a crisis. Firefighters have struggled to contain enormous blazes that have sent choking smoke into cities across South America. A record number of fires so far this year in the Amazon has also raised questions about what may be in store for the world’s biggest tropical rainforest when the dry season starts in June in the far larger southern part of the jungle.

Organizations: Firefighters Locations: South America

☆ Biden Makes the Case on Climate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

President Biden and former President Trump are worlds apart on climate policy. But do voters know it? Polls show that most Americans don’t know that Biden signed into law the biggest climate law in U.S. history. Tonight, Biden will have the chance to highlight those contrasts when he addresses Congress in the annual State of the Union speech. I asked my colleague Lisa Friedman, who covers climate policy and politics, for a preview.

Persons: Biden, Trump, Lisa Friedman Organizations: State of Locations: Paris, State

☆ 10 things a high-end interior designer with 25 years of experience would never have in her own space
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Cheyenne Lentz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementBusiness Insider asked Manuela Hamilford, founder and principal designer of Hamilford Design , to share the items she wouldn’t have in her home. Here’s what the high-end designer, who specializes in luxury interiors and has been in the industry for over 25 years, avoids in her own space. Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock“White walls are tricky to keep pristine and don’t age well,” Hamilford told BI. “Although your inner 14-year-old may be drawing you towards all things shiny, back away from the crystal-trimmed cushions,” the designer told BI. AdvertisementThe designer avoids flush-mount ceiling lights in her homeFlush-mount ceiling lights are a no-no, especially in a dining room.

Persons: Manuela Hamilford, they’re, Konstantin, Shutterstock, ” Hamilford, you've, Hamilford, ”, they're, Mike Higginson, She's, “

☆ A Collapse of the Amazon Could Be Coming ‘Faster Than We Thought’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ecosystems in the coming decades, a new study found, as climate change, deforestation and severe droughts like the one the region is currently experiencing damage huge areas beyond their ability to recover. Those stresses in the most vulnerable parts of the rainforest could eventually drive the entire forest ecosystem, home to a tenth of the planet’s land species, into acute water stress and past a tipping point that would trigger a forest-wide collapse, researchers said. While earlier studies have assessed the individual effects of climate change and deforestation on the rainforest, this peer-reviewed study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the first major research to focus on the cumulative effects of a range of threats. “This study adds it all up to show how this tipping point is closer than other studies estimated,” said Carlos Nobre, an author of the study. Dr. Nobre is a Brazilian Earth systems scientist who studies how deforestation and climate change might permanently change the forest.

Persons: ”, Carlos Nobre, Nobre Locations: Brazilian

☆ Coastal Cities Brace for Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over the past few weeks, flooding from storms has battered cities in the South and the East Coast, from Louisiana to New Jersey. Overlapping atmospheric rivers over the West Coast have brought heavy rains that are likely to come back in the next few days. “The problem comes when there’s too much at one time,” he said. Climate change makes that a lot more likely. Warmer air holds more moisture, which means storms in many parts of the world are getting wetter and more intense, as my colleague Ray Zhong explained during deluges last year.

Persons: Jill Cowan, Judson Jones, there’s, ”, Ray Zhong, deluges Locations: East Coast, Louisiana, New Jersey, West, Ventura County, San Diego

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