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The hidden cost of eating fish, how things are getting worse
Earth and Leaf Editorial – The Hidden Cost of Eating Fish The hidden cost of eating fish is exposed in this article. For years, the advice has been simple: eat less red meat, eat more fish. It’s lighter, cleaner, better for your heart, better for the planet. We must change the way we implement economic theory exposing the hidden cost of eating fish. Read on … Getty/iStock Excerpt For years, the advice has been simple: eat less red meat, eat more fish. It’s lighter, cleaner, better for your heart, better for the planet. But once you factor in welfare, environmental damage and sheer scale, it starts to look like one…
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Carbon Brief
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods Carbon Brief tell us that global food systems are responsible for around one third of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions each year. Does that include deforestation, transport of soya? If not then its much higher still. Lets find out. The answer? It does not include deforestation. Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods Extract Global food systems are responsible for around one third of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions each year. Agriculture is also, by far, the biggest driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss. Producing less meat, using less synthetic fertiliser, stopping food waste and…
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The Best Climate Resolution This Year
Do nothing, that is the best climate resolution this year. Everything else we (you) do seems to make no difference. That must not stop us trying. I'd ask one small thing. Show your friends this website, it might just help.
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Forest Density in Great Nicobar far Higher than Estimated Flag Ecologists
Forest Density in Great Nicobar
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The Worlds Largest Wetland Is Burning
The World’s Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying
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You Think we Dont Have a Choice When it Comes to Saving the Planet
You think we dont have a choice
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What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)?
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Lego-Pushing Bumblebees Reveal Insect Collaboration Dynamics
Lego-pushing bumblebees reveal insect collaboration dynamics
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Low Intensity Grazing is Locally Better for Biodiversity but Challenging for Land Users Study Shows
Low-intensity grazing is locally better for biodiversity but challenging for land users, study shows
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Government Urged to End Subsidies as Drax Accused of Burning Old Forest Wood
{Drax Accused of Burning Old Forest – Drax is seen as a renewable power supplier and is classed as carbon neutral. This is patently untrue. Government subsidises Drax to do this.Earth and Leaf Editorial} {extract below} Government urged to end subsidies as Drax accused of burning old forest wood This is quite simply outrageous. Drax is seen as a renewable power supplier and is classed as carbon neutral. This is patently untrue. It is also appalling that our government subsidises Drax to do this. Campaign groups found that Drax, which owns the UK’s largest power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, sourced whole logs from primary and old growth forests…
