The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News

Everything about Mami exudes exhaustion. Her round brown eyes are pools of sadness, and her bulbous body throbs with pain.



"First, armed groups attacked nearby," she explains in a tired voice as we sit on plastic matting, five young children nestled close to their mother in Mali's fabled city in the sand Timbuktu.



"Then the rains came, and did the rest."



The worst rains in 50 years in northern Mali washed away their entire crop.



Those rains poured through the cracks in her mud home caused by an explosion an armed group set off.





Mali is lurching between drought and flood



The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News

Reverse Osmosis - Affordable Solution for Adrian's Water Issues

The current water situation should be another reason for restaurants, bars, coffee shops and other food related businesses and affluent residents to invest in an under the sink Revers Osmosis System. It also provides peace of mind about hexavalent chromium, lead, chlorine and chlorine organics products in chlorinated water, and many other pollutants that could occur.
RO systems can be purchased from many places at bargain rates of $100 to everyday rates of $250. Filters need to be replaced every year for about $60. Compare this to the price for 1 year of unregulated bottle water producing plastic waste polluting the environment.. No brainier and no excuses!

The link below supports RO as a solution during the Toledo water crisis:

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2016/08/29/Reverse-osmosis-seen-as-solution-for-toxin.html

A good source for an RO system is:

https://www.uswatersystems.com/

Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study | Environment | The Guardian

Scientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now



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 The study found there is a 66% chance of staying below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels if immediate action is taken. Photograph: Alamy



Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study | Environment | The Guardian

BBC News: Australia swelters through record-breaking heatwave

The country has just experienced five of its 10 warmest days on record, meteorologists say

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ | Environment | The Guardian

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

 El Yunque national forest in Sierra de Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Photograph: Stuart Westmorland/Corbis/Getty Images

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ | Environment | The Guardian

The Lancet: Diet and food production must radically change to improve health and avoid potentially catastrophic damage to the planet | EurekAlert! Science News

Feeding a growing population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy and sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production, and reducing food waste.

THESE ARE DIETARY TARGETS BASED ON A 2,500 KCAL/DAY DIET. view more 

CREDIT: THE LANCET

The Lancet: Diet and food production must radically change to improve health and avoid potentially catastrophic damage to the planet | EurekAlert! Science News

7th Environmental Documentary Series: What Lies Upstream - Water Pollution

The 7th Environmental Documentary Series starts this Wednesday, January 16, 7 pm, at Siena Heights University’s Adrian Campus, Science Building, Room 131. The timely feature given the water situation in Adrian is: What Lies Upstream, running time: 84 minutes, topics: water, pollution, toxic chemicals.

More details about the film can be found on the Documentary Series’ website:

http://sustainability.sienaheights.edu/environmental-documentaries.html