More than half of Australia’s shallow reef species in decline as oceans warm & more environmental news.

[View this email in your browser]( Monday, March 27, 2023 "We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment." — Margaret Mead How National Negotiators Influenced the Final Text of the Latest IPCC ‘Summary for Policymakers’ When the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]( (IPCC) released the “Summary for Policymakers” of the Synthesis of its Sixth Assessment Report lMonday, the text was not purely the work of scientists. Instead, delegates from 195 nations spent a week reviewing the document line-by-line and arguing over edits before finally approving it Sunday night. [Read More]( Related: [This Is the Make-or-Break Decade for Climate Action, IPCC Warns]( More Than Half of Australia’s Shallow Reef Species in Decline as Oceans Warm More than 50 percent of the species that live in Australia’s shallow [reefs]( declined in numbers as [ocean]( waters warmed over the past decade. That’s the “alarming” finding from the country’s largest survey yet of marine life, which found that the numbers of more than 500 species had fallen. [Read More]( Related: [Climate Crisis Puts Half of Reefs at Risk by 2035]( Spreading Infections of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Climate Change The number of Vibrio vulnificus infections is on the rise and spreading northward in the U.S., a new study has found. The researchers have linked the increasing and spreading infections to climate change and predicted that the pathogen will spread further in the coming decades without efforts to curb emissions. [Read More]( Related: [Scientist ‘Scared’ to See Evidence That Climate Change Worsens Infectious Diseases]( UK Think Tank Proposes Visas for Climate Migrants The [climate crisis]( could force more than [one billion]( people from their homes by 2050, but how will they find a new one in a world of [hardening borders]( Conservative UK think tank Onward is proposing one solution: two new visas for people in climate-vulnerable nations to relocate legally to the country. [Read More]( Related: [One Billion People May Become Climate Refugees By 2050]( Fossil Fuels 101: Everything You Need to Know Fossil fuels are fuels that literally come from [fossils](. Tens of millions of years ago, plants took energy from the sun and used it to turn carbon dioxide and water into carbon and hydrogen via photosynthesis. Animals ate those plants and stored the same elements in their bodies. Over time, the ancient lifeforms died and sank into the earth, where heat and pressure transformed them first into peat or [kerogen]( and then into fossil fuels. Most existing deposits of fossil fuels were first formed 540 to 65 million years ago. [Read More]( Related: [Carbon Offsets 101: Why We Can’t Offset Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2023 EcoWatch, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for EcoWatch Top News of The Day Our mailing address is: EcoWatch 1122 Oberlin RoadRaleigh, NC 27605 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](