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In Australia, the population of New South Wales is tormented by extreme weather phenomena year after year: after a bad drought and record bushfires, the region experiences heavy rains and violent floods.

In Australia, it has rained so much on the southeast coast this year that it is already starting to affect the mental health of the locals, says the British broadcasting company BBC.

Especially in the densely populated region of the state of New South Wales, the extreme weather conditions are painful: a few years ago we suffered from a very bad drought, in 2019–2020 we experienced record bushfires and wildfires, and now in the last couple of years the rains and floods have tested the residents and nature badly.

Although Australia has always been a country of extreme weather phenomena, according to experts, climate change is causing these extreme phenomena to intensify and become more frequent. The region is now experiencing the fourth major flood disaster this year alone. More than 30 people have already been killed in the floods and thousands of homes have been destroyed to the point of being uninhabitable.

Continuous, sometimes heavy rains have again led to extensive flooding outside the largest cities in New South Wales between October and November, Reuters news agency reports.

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In Australia, the constant rains are already affecting mental health, and thousands of homes have been destroyed by floodsRead More »

Milja Vanhala from Kotka says she has been a vegetarian for the past seven years. He is also ready to, among other things, reduce electricity consumption and buying things.

The difficulty of achieving the climate goals worries students from Kotka.

– It is really sad that the situation has come to this, says Vanhala.

Yle asked young adults from Kotka about their views on climate change at the time of the UN’s international climate negotiations. Climate negotiations are currently underway in Egypt.

The most important goal of the climate meeting is to keep the 1.5 degree target recorded in the Paris climate agreement achievable. If the Earth’s average temperature rises higher than this, it means greater risks for people, ecosystems and ecosystems.

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In the future, the carbon footprint of all Unicafe lunches will be smaller than the average Finnish lunch.

Helsinki’s Unicafe student restaurants started marking the carbon footprint of meals on all portions on Monday.

The purpose of the reform is to communicate the climate effects of food and to guide customers to make more climate-friendly decisions. For labeling purposes, the company calculated the carbon footprint of more than 200 products on the menu.

For example, the climate-warming effect of the aforementioned Mexican sausage is 1.21 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per serving.

Meals with the lowest carbon footprint are marked separately with the Climate Choice symbol. It is given to portions with a carbon footprint of no more than 0.5 kg CO2e. According to Unicafe, these doses are in line with the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Well owners may now be hoping for a long snow-free period.

The wells are now threatening to dry up in many places in South Savo. Groundwater is below average in almost the entire province and also from South Savo down to Southeast and South Finland. It has rained too little during the summer to fill up the dry ground water reserves.

Well water may need to be regulated now, because if the ground freezes before proper rains, groundwater will not accumulate until next spring.

– Very little moisture left on the ground can settle there. We have to hope that the ground will be thawed for as long as possible, says groundwater expert Panu Ranta from the ely center in Etelä-Savo.

The longer the ground is thawed, the longer groundwater accumulates.

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The wells are in danger of running out of water before winter comes – when the ground freezes, there is no water in the well anymoreRead More »

The most diligent take food to the birds not only in their yard but also in the forest, which may save, for example, woodpeckers from winter to spring. If you become a bird helper, you have to bear the responsibility for the whole winter.

A gray and rainy day is not the most beautiful weather for nature photography, but there is plenty of buzz at the forest feeding place for birds in Risö, Vaasa, at the mouth of Laihianjoki. There are a dozen or so automatic bird feeders.

At the same time, the hawk flies to a spruce branch.

Feeding the birds in the forest during the winter is important for the little six tit as well as the humpback and ruffed tit.

– Finland’s forests are mainly commercial forests, and there is not enough food for these woodchucks in the winter, Lumme estimates.

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