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"With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears’  When Tuvalu vanishes beneath rising seas, its diaspora still want somewhere to call home – and that could be a virtual version of the tiny Pacific nation. Global heating is threatening to submerge Tuvalu by the end of the century, and its 12,000 inhabitants are considering the future. Dr Eselealofa Apinelu, Tuvalu’s former attorney general and current high commissioner to Fiji, told the State of the Pacific conference on Thursday that Tuvaluans needed “something they can hold on to”. “When that finally happens, that Tuvalu has disappeared and all they have is this virtual world … we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears,” she told the Australian National University’s department of Pacific affairs conference..." Read the article here Source: The Guardian The Archdiocese of Brisbane has given life to a project called ‘Laudato sì’ to tackle the disastrous consequences of climate change. It’s a seven-year plan to reduce investment in fossil fuels, adopt sustainable lifestyles, promote ecological education and strengthen relationships with Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders... First Nations experts have been tasked with bringing together Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander elders, as well as Indigenous Peoples of south-east Queensland. They have been asked to form listening and learning circles that aim to help Catholics better understand the culture and spirituality of indigenous peoples, their relationship with the land, the ecological, social and cultural impact caused by the loss of land to urbanisation or intensive cultivation, and all the actions recommended by the First Nations to heal the land and its inhabitants from so many wounds and abuses... Read more here Source: Vatican News  Mangrove landscape at sunrise,Nudgee, Queensland, Australia
"The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study. It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating caused by humanity to date. These include the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise, the collapse of a key current in the north Atlantic, disrupting rain upon which billions of people depend for food, and an abrupt melting of carbon-rich permafrost..." Read the complete article here Source: The Guardian  Huge glaciers are on the arctic ocean in Ilulissat icefjord at Greenland.
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