#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

Travelling through the hot outdoors

"Extreme heat poses an urgent threat to human health. It kills thousands of people each year, and research suggests this figure is rising due to the effects of human-induced climate change. In Australia alone, the number of deaths from heatwaves is expected to double in the next 40 years."

"Research shows people often recognise the risks of extreme heat, but don’t believe it will affect them personally. educating people about extreme heat led them to avoid heatwave-prone places." >>
https://theconversation.com/extreme-heat-is-altering-when-where-and-how-we-travel-new-research-289498
#ExtremeHeat #Heatstroke #heatwaves #outdoors #travel #mobility #TourismIndustry #StrandedAssets #FossilFuels #climate #habitability #environment #wildlife

"It is a clear relationship;
the more we heat the planet,
the more shit is going to hit the fan."

Australia 'not quite prepared'
A "global study found the biggest future risk was in tropical and subtropical regions, but Australia's hottest regions, such as the Top End and Kimberley, were also of concern."
"Limiting further warming through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions remains the most fundamental way to prevent these risks from continuing to grow." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2026-08-18/heat-stress-older-australians-new-global-research/107032860
#FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #habitability #Australia #PlanetaryHealth #HealthRisks #climate
Image: Hot asphalt 'pedestrian path' shaded by combustion machines, Coffs Harbour

Life goes on on Snowball Earth, but beyond that, the cryogenic regime might be more forgiving on the surface biosphere than our own world...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/08/14/ice-forgives-some-thoughts-on-the-extended-habitable-zone/

This post's featured image is a shot of some frost on the door, taken by me.

#climate #alienplanet #climatology #habitability #planetaryhabitability #astrobiology #habitablezone #science #iceplanet

Cooking up a cauldron of compound disasters

* "The more we keep burning coal, oil and gas, the more chaotic and dramatic our weather will become."

"Rapidly changing weather places immense strain on our communities, ecosystems and emergency services." >>
https://theconversation.com/climate-whiplash-is-not-simply-a-buzzword-but-a-symptom-of-a-warming-planet-288515

* Compound disasters: >>
https://climateextremes.org.au/wp-content/uploads/High_impact_compound_events_in_Australia_-_ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Climate_Extremes.pdf
#FossilFuels #ClimateExtremes #ClimateWhiplash #ClimateVolatility #CompoundDisasters #climate #habitability

A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
A habitable world is possible

"The Global Justice Report is part of a broader international agenda for planetary habitability, social justice, and reform of the global financial architecture."

"The Global Justice Project attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which the world could move toward this horizon and traces an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/

Summary: The Global Justice Report
A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
"It is possible to reconcile planetary habitability and high well-being for all, but only if the transformation rests on three pillars simultaneously. Fast decarbonization of energy systems is necessary. But we also need a major shift toward sufficiency – understood as a sharp reduction in labour hours and material footprint and large changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use, and forest cover. In addition, neither decarbonization nor sufficiency can be financed and politically sustained without a drastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power, both between countries and within them. The compression of global inequality is not only compatible with deep decarbonization; it is a necessary condition for shared prosperity on a finite planet." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/insight/summary/
#GlobalJusticeReport #inequality #SocialJustice #redistribution #WealthTax #ExorbitantPrivileges #SWF #Climate #PlanetaryBoundaries #ClimateCosts #disasters #PlanningCertainty #habitability #HabitableWorld #BigChange #IgnoredByMSM

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The 2026 episode questions the livability of territories.
"We do not rule out having temperatures around 48-50 degrees in a punctual and very regional manner in France."

"Climate change which is linked to our predatory and unsustainable lifestyles is emerging."

We need to quit management and embrace transformation.
"The priority no longer is to return to normal, no longer to do things as before, it is to change."

There are worldviews to transform.

Christophe Cassou researches climate. Listen to him in French: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-invite-e-des-matins-d-ete/christophe-cassou-face-a-l-ete-cataclysmique-vivre-ce-que-l-on-a-passe-sa-vie-a-annoncer-2357103

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#foresight #adaptation #habitability #livability #climateForcing #carbon #climateDrift #wildfires #climateChange #climate #ecologicalTransition #greenTransition #anticipation #forests #pines #France #risks #riskAssessment

Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵

#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits
First Dog on the Moon >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/05/war-what-is-it-good-for-absolutely-humongous-oil-company-profits-thanks-to-the-us-israel-war-on-iran
#FossilFuels #Climate #extractivism #war #habitability

Summer: the season of danger, heat, fire and misery

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone." Rebecca Solnit

"Once, across much of the the world’s temperate zones, we looked forward to summer as a time of delights, from summer’s bounty of fruits, long days, warmth, school holidays, activities like camping and swimming, travel and adventure. Now many of us dread it."

"Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys loss. An estimated 20,000 are said to have died in the extreme heat in Europe earlier this year, and heat is climate change’s quiet killer, compared to the dramatic violence of death by fire or flood. In eastern Washington, 600 homes have just burned down, and in both Europe and North America, firefighters have died in the effort to contain the climate-fueled firestorms."

"We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/04/summer-heat-climate-war-zone
#loss #habitability #summer #energy #progress #SacrificeZones #climate

Astronomers Confirm Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone

📰 Original title: The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward

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#astronomy #exoplanets #habitability

Astronomers Confirm Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone

📰 Original title: The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward

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#astronomy #exoplanets #habitability

"A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces."

By Katie Surma for Inside Climate News: https://archive.is/KSGQ1

#repression #habitability #activists #ElNiño #Brazil #Colombia #Ecuador #France #Honduras #Guatemala #Mexico #India #Indonesia #Peru #Philippines #Turkey #Somalia #Palestine

Climate research shows: We must adapt our habitats to survive. 🌀#globalwarming #Europe #Germany #climateresearch #habitats #Earth #astrobiology #extremeweather #habitability #Underwater #ocean #exoplanets #Architecture #heatwave #climatechange

Europe is sweating. Time for underground structures and ocean habitats! 🌊🏢#globalwarming #Europe #Germany #climateresearch #habitats #Earth #astrobiology #extremeweather #habitability #Underwater #ocean #exoplanets #Architecture #heatwave #climatechange

Rethinking life on Earth. 🌍 Can planets and exoplanets teach us how to survive heatwaves? #globalwarming #Europe #Germany #climateresearch #habitats #Earth #astrobiology #extremeweather #habitability #Underwater #ocean #exoplanets #Architecture #heatwave #climatechange

So, conceptually, there are certain planetary bodies that may be more conducive to life than Earth ("Superhabitable Planets"). Some planets around mid-type K dwarfs might fit that concept, maybe, in the model.

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20240081

#Exoplanets #Habitability #Astronomy

Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture

* Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >>
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/

* "The ​heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase ​water demand and ⁠cut milk output. They're standing there with ​their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals." >>
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/record-heat-causes-mass-poultry-deaths-france-2026-06-24/
#FossilFuels #Climate #HotPlanet #FactoryFarming #livestock #Meat #poultry #cattle #pigs #DieOff #ExtremeHeat #water #cyanobacteria #eutrophication #Birds #wildlife #Biodiversity #MassMortalities #carcasses #agriculture #Pathogens #PoultryFlu #overstocking #habitability

* Fourth toddler dies in France as Europe’s brutal heatwave forecast to shift east
“Extreme heat will occur more frequently, for longer duration and with greater intensity as global warming continues...The extreme temperatures had been made possible by the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-shift-east-child-deaths-france-cities-heat-stress

* Johan Rockström on Planetary Boundaries (podcast)
“In the mid-1950s, we humans shift from being this small world on a big planet to now being a big world on a small planet. We've simply filled up the whole space. When you've reached that saturation point, the old economic paradigm doesn't work anymore. We've come to the end of the road of this idea that you can exploit for free and then waste without any consequences." >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-solve-the-climate-crisis-johan-rockstr%C3%B6m-on/id1823942833?i=1000774198725
#FossilFuels #ClimateExtremes #HotPlanet #heatwaves #boundaries #limits #habitability

One conclusion that I've made while living through record breaking hotter summers and poorer quality air is that I would much rather have breathable air and a habitable temperatures outdoors then a billion dollars. The quality of life afforded by having the ability of going outside and not feeling like I'm dying is worth way more that any about of money.

whats quite tragic is that I'm now realizing that this is something I've taken for granted.

#climatechange #habitability #qualityoflife

Planetary survival: An equal and habitable world is possible

"Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions. The report aims to rectify those limitations by incorporating inequality studies, climate science and proposals for creating a political coalition capable of reforming the world’s financial architecture. The World Inequality Lab is calling for hefty wealth taxes, reduced working hours, dietary changes and new investment priorities."

"The key, Piketty added, was to address inequality and planetary habitability together."

Liveability:
"Less mining, more education"
"Taxing extreme wealth"
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival
#FossilFuels #climate #inequality #habitability #education #meat #transition #energy #mining #extractivism #transition

Some politicians will swear up and down that Indians are better acclimated to air pollution and thus it's not a concern for them.
by Rishika Pardikar for Drilled: https://drilled.media/news/air-pollution-India

#India #politics #industry #environment #habitability

Philosopher Baptiste Morizot and jurist Laurent Neyret argue that the principle of #habitability should be established as a "guiding value" of law.

For real impact, three approaches are proposed:
* The constitutionalization of the "principle of habitability".
* The criminalization of serious breaches of habitability, which can be likened to international crimes.
* Internationalization through a binding treaty protecting living conditions on Earth.

(fr) https://archive.ph/gywOW

#environment

The White House announced a plan to cancel over 50 #space missions as part of a devastating 46% cut to #NASA #science.

The proposal would likely eliminate thousands of jobs at an agency that has just launched astronauts to the #Moon for the first time in decades, and dozens of other space missions would see their operations reduced or slowly wound down to a halt.

The following missions are to be cancelled:

1. The Habitable Worlds Observatory being built to search for #life on dozens of Earth-like planets beyond our Solar System while addressing fundamental questions about our #Universe.

2. OSIRIS-APEX capitalizes on the exceptionally rare 2029 Earth flyby of the potentially hazardous #asteroid #Apophis to advance planetary defense strategies and reveal how Earth’s #gravity alters an asteroid’s surface and interior.

3. The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will deliberately search for signs of life on #Mars by analyzing the composition of samples collected from as deep as 2 meters below the surface.

4. The DAVINCI mission is an atmospheric probe that will be deployed to our sister planet, #Venus, and provide the first detailed measurements of the composition and chemistry of its #atmosphere.

5. Initially focusing on #Jupiter’s interior, atmosphere, and aurora, #Juno is already orbiting Jupiter and has expanded during its extended mission to be a full system explorer capable of investigating the Galilean satellites, rings, inner moons, radiation belts, and boundaries of Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

6. VERITAS will create unprecedented, global, high-resolution datasets of Venus designed to answer a fundamental question for rocky #planets: how did Earth and her twin Venus evolve into two entirely different examples of planetary #habitability?

https://www.planetary.org/articles/meet-the-people-behind-nasas-endangered-missions

Immersion in a hot toxic soup

From humans, wildlife and invertebrates: Simultaneous exposure of toxins and climate harms likely to cause reduced fertility

An " ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures."

"The chemicals are ubiquitous in consumer goods, so humans are often regularly exposed."

“There is enough evidence in both areas to act to reduce our impact on the planet...The solution to the systemic problems would involve reining in climate change and reducing the use of toxic chemicals." >>

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study
#biodiversity #immersion #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #toxins #plastic #ForeverChemicals #pollution #WesternCountries #harm #ToxicChemicals #Pfas #organochlorines #pyrethroids #Phthalates #ConsumerGoods #ClimateHarms #habitability #HealthHazards

Study finds water is essential for stable carbon cycles on exoplanets

📰 Original title: Exoplanets struggle to sustain carbon cycles without water

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#astronomy #exoplanets #carboncycle #habitability

Desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host #life.

This is because an Earth-sized #planet needs at least 20 to 50% of the #water in #Earth's #oceans to maintain a critical natural cycle that keeps water on the surface.

Planetary #habitability hinges on the geologic #carbon cycle—a water-driven process that exchanges carbon between the #atmosphere and interior over millions of years, stabilizing surface temperatures.

Carbon dioxide, which comes from #volcanoes in a natural system, accumulates in the atmosphere before falling back to Earth dissolved in rainwater.

Rain erodes and chemically reacts with rocks on Earth's surface and runoff transports carbon to the ocean, where it sinks to the seafloor.

Plate tectonics drives carbon-rich oceanic plates below continental land and millions of years later, carbon resurfaces as mountains form.

However, if water levels drop too low for rainfall, carbon removal—from weathering—can't keep up with emissions from volcanic eruptions and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere spike, trapping water.

Rising temperatures evaporate the remaining surface water, initiating runaway warming that makes the planet too hot to support life.

That unfortunately makes arid planets, with little water and rainfall, within habitable zones unlikely to be good candidates for life.

#astronomy #astrobiology #exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-planets-life-scientists-previously-thought.html

Paper by White-Gianella et al. (2026):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa

Freedom of movement and freedom to stay
Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy

* " As the habitable areas of the Earth shrink under climate change and as many governments around the world adopt measures to deport migrants and refugees, it is time to re-examine our traditional notion of freedom. In the Western tradition, freedom is generally understood in relation to space: it is the freedom of movement, and the freedom not to be obstructed in one's movement by the state or anyone else. In The Freedom to Stay, von Redecker puts forward the radical argument that we should think of freedom in temporal rather than spatial terms."
The Freedom to Stay. Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-freedom-to-stay--9781509574292

* "The core of fascism is an unleashed logic of property. Its counterparts are not people, but things; its enemies are not opponents, but thieves."

The New Fascism. Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy, Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240
#property #liberalism #NewFascism #EcologicalFreedom #ClimateCrisis #habitability #RightToStay #entitlement #destruction #TemporalLiteracy #mobility #freedom #theory #books

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

"Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again "

"The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon
#destruction #domicide #habitability #civilians #war #violence #MassDestruction

Earth’s habitability linked to precise oxygen levels during core formation

📰 Original title: Scientists discover the “Goldilocks” secret behind life on Earth

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#science #earth #planetaryscience #habitability

[Martian #habitability ] To celebrate its five years on #Mars, the #Perseverance rover—or rather, the instruments it carries—has delivered data suggesting a warm and humid climate during the Noachian period (4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago).

This conclusion stems from the analysis of aluminum-rich clay pebbles—called kaolinites—discovered in channels carved into the walls of Jezero Crater by water flow: https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-reveals-ancient-mars-may-have-been-warm-wet-and-possibly-alive/