What we learned this week

Heatwaves over land get noticed because people live through them. Heatwaves at sea, not so much. The European Space Agency has been tracking the marine heatwave that affected the Mediterranean recently, and its consequences.

You saw that Yvon Chouinard has given away his company Patagonia? “As of now, Earth is our only shareholder,” he writes in a letter explaining how the Patagonia Purpose Trust will channel all profits to environmental action.

The EU has published new standards for repai...