Hope isn’t something we wait for: it's something we create. This week's Talking Climate news illustrates why it matters so much, and how innovation and courage can help!

💧 Good news: A solar-powered system can pull drinking water directly from the air—up to 1,000 liters of clean water a day, even in dry areas where billions of people already face water scarcity.

🧠 Not-so-good news: Climate change is increasingly affecting people's mental health, from Madagascar to Appalachia. In the U.S. alone, rising heat could lead to hundreds of millions additional days of anxiety and depression each year by end of century.

🚶 Inspiration: Three members of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light recently completed a 320-mile pilgrimage from the oil-producing Permian Basin to the state capitol in Santa Fe to call for climate action.

Read more in this week’s edition, and don't forget to share! talkingclimate.ca/p/pulling-cl…

More info about the Dornoch Firth saltmarsh restoration planting sessions coming up on the 24 and 25 March.

We're looking for more volunteers to join us.

It would be great to have a big group of volunteers out planting, learning a bit more about saltmarsh and helping their local area.

Contact info is on the poster and in the Alt Text.

#Scotland #DornochFirth #Volunteering #Saltmarsh #MarshMadness

Another muddy planting day today.
Today’s group were planting sea club rush in the Eden Estuary.
A successful planting day - all the plants we brought were planted.
We are still looking for more volunteers in Dornoch on the 24 & 25 March
Sign up at greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to join in the planting.

@HI_Greens please spread the word!
#Dornoch #SaltmarshRestoration #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund

A very successful first week's planting at Tayport common saltmarsh, all the plants were planted and the polytunnel has a bit more space in it.
Many thanks to all the fabulous volunteers who came out to help on the sunny saltmarsh.

There is still time to sign up for the next sessions, on the Eden estuary, on the 10th, 11th, 17th-19th March.
contact greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up
More info at greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteers #Saltmarsh

The U.S. is stepping back from global climate policies at the very moment the global clean energy transition is accelerating.

Christiana Figueres, former UN climate leader and architect of the Paris Agreement, explains why this attempt to double down on fossil fuels is economically and technologically out of step with the rest of the world — and why it won’t stop the broader shift already underway. Instead, it leaves the U.S. trailing behind; and catching up in a global clean energy race is far harder than leading it.

Subscribe to my Patreon or Substack to watch the full interview about policy, outrage, optimism, and the spiritual grounding we need to navigate moments like this.

Patreon: patreon.com/posts/152164025
Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-18940…

Looking for Volunteers to get muddy doing conservation planting

Saltmarsh Restoration Planting Dates March 2026

Sessions will run 9:30am-1pm

March Tues 3 & Wed 4 at Tayport Common
March Tues 10, Wed 11 at Eden North Shore
March Tues 17, Wed 18, Thursday 19 at Eden South Shore
March Tues 24 & Wed 25 at Dornoch

contact greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up
More info at greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…

#SolarPunkSunday #Scotland #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteering

The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

It asks questions such as, "who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs?," and, "Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?

If you have any thoughts about this that you'd like to share, you can send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

Here is the letter: nsf.gov/funding/information/dc…

@HI_Greens hello! thanks for the follow
We'll be doing some saltmarsh restoration planting up in the Dornoch Firth at the end of March, would it be ok if we tag you to share the information?

It would be great to reach more people than usual for the Dornoch site

We're into saltmarsh restoration planting season again!

If you are in Fife or nearby we have planting sessions in Tayport, and on the Eden Estuary, north and south shores, over the next few weeks. Details online greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…

First up is Tayport on March 3rd and 4th

We have some wellies and waterproofs we can lend out for the session, let us know if you need a loan when you email to sign up.

please share

#Saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteering #TayRiver

Lichen on a large stone sitting on saltmarsh on the Eden Estuary
A hare and the sound of shorebirds also accompanied our sampling work today.

#LichenSubscribe #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund

One of the most common objections I hear to climate action is: “But what about China?”

The person making this argument usually goes on to claim that China is doing nothing, while everyone else is making sacrifices. But that’s not what the data show.

Here’s the reality:

* As the U.S. doubles down on fossil fuels and blocks new wind and solar projects, its emissions are ticking up.

* In contrast, China’s emissions appear to have peaked — and may now be starting to decline.

* Last year, China installed a full half of all the world's new wind and solar energy.

* Over the past two years, China installed more new solar power each year than the U.S. has installed in total across its entire history.

* China's clean exports alone are cutting CO2 outside its borders by 1% year on year.

Of course no country can fix climate change on its own. But just as it's a global problem, progress in one place helps everyone.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-china…

For a long time, Twitter was the best place to share and find the latest science. Until the algorithm changed, that is.

Overnight, my posts went from thousands to dozens of views, while the trolling I received skyrocketed. Instead of tens of hateful replies, I started getting thousands of them.

Where were scientists supposed to go? I tried Mastodon, LinkedIn, and other platforms: but nothing really clicked. Then along came Bluesky.

It takes a while to regrow a community: but a new survey of 830 scientists by @whysharksmatter and Julia Wester now finds that "for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

If you're interested, you can find me (and my 20+ climate starter packs) here: bsky.app/profile/katharinehayh…

Read more about their study here: academic.oup.com/icb/article-a…