We must help our farmers transition to a sustainable future
This is absolutely critical. This is what Earth and Leaf is all about. Extract below: We must help our farmers transition to a sustainable future. The Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS)…
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This is absolutely critical. This is what Earth and Leaf is all about. Extract below: We must help our farmers transition to a sustainable future. The Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS)…
We really must mess up again and deep ocean mining might be just that. Extract below: Scientists have discovered “dark oxygen” being produced in the deep ocean, apparently by lumps…
What John Price has done seems anecdotally to have reduced flooding in the village. In actual fact he has destroyed habitat and will have worsened flooding further downstream. He has…
Extract below: Farmers are facing a “cliff edge” as the Labour government refuses to commit to maintaining the agriculture budget for England, the president of the National Farmers’ Union has…
Heat pumps will need to be installed in the vast majority of Welsh homes to meet climate targets, the Welsh government has said. However, the government’s new heat strategy stops…
There’s some good stuff on The Conversation website. This is pure fantasy, but it demonstrates just how precious is our world. You know the one. The one we don’t look…
This is Pitcairn, one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world and part of a British overseas territory. I am here to find out how this isolated community is…
As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK’s waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be…
Although the term ‘rewilding’ is contentious, most agree that our countryside could be better managed for wildlife. Yet what should we actually be doing to improve it? ‘The idea that…
Only a portion of Elon Musk’s wealth could halt over half of global species extinction. The most vulnerable countries are Madagascar, Colombia, Philippines, Brazil and Indonesia.
Farmers and landowners or managers should be involved in policy decisions. Farmers role in our environment must be redefined and then they must be acknowledged and compensated appropriately.
For more than 30 years, José DeCoux woke each morning to a deafening noise. In his home in Ecuador’s Los Cedros forest, monkeys squeal, squirrels scuffle, and 400 species of…
We are maybe more familiar with this here in the British Isles as “The Gulf Stream”. The Gulf Stream is only a part of the AMOC, but it is important…
Lets take a look at the unusual Welsh nursery growing sea grass to save marine habitat. Bottom trawling must also be banned in these habitats. Sea grass meadows absorb huge…
Net zero or real zero? Assessing the carbon dioxide removal in net zero pledges.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin,…
Indigenous activists from the Indonesian province of West Papua have held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court in Jakarta calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected…
Sierra Leone’s fish stocks have been under severe strain in recent years due to intensive industrial fishing and a growing population of artisanal fishers, with fishers consistently reporting falling catches.…
“Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. “After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide,…
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic…