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Greenland Energy – Drilling for Oil
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Greenland Energy In order to combat climate change we must stop using oil in the vast quantities we do now. In the very long term, drilling in Greenland might be a way forward for our world, but it must not be rushed and can only be driven by the people of Greenland, not by the USA. Pause this project now! At a meeting in Ittoqqortoormiit, a settlement of 300 people, Robert Price said he believed $1tn of crude lay beneath Jameson Land. Photograph: Adrian Wojcik/Getty/iStockphoto Greenland Energy Greenland Energy says billions of barrels of crude could lie beneath territory and claims it has permission…
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Kebabs – Less than 10% Sheep Meat
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Kebabs It is time for lab grown kebab meat. This scandal makes me wonder where the goat meat is coming from. I used to work in the goat industry. This is a scandal and it needs full investigation with health and safety officers visiting every kebab shop. The Argyle Street ash is the only tree on the street. Photograph: Douglas Crawford/Woodland Trust/PA [embedpress embedpress_pro_embeded_source=’selfhosted_audio’ embedpress_embeded_link=’https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nwkpzm’ embepress_player_email_capture_headline=’false’ embepress_player_email_capture_button_text=’false’ embepress_player_action_lock_headline=’false’ embepress_player_action_lock_message=’false’ embepress_player_action_lock_link_text=’false’ embepress_player_timed_cta_items=’false’ embepress_player_chapters_items=’false’ embepress_player_end_screen_message=’false’ embepress_player_end_screen_button_text=’false’ embepress_player_privacy_message=’false’ embepress_player_country_message=’false’ prefix_nftcreator=’false’ prefix_nftprice=’false’ prefix_nftlastsale=’false’ label_nftbutton=’false’ loadmorelabel=’false’ label_nftrank=’false’ label_nftdetails=’false’ instafeedFollowBtnLabel=’false’ instafeedPostsCountText=’false’ instafeedFollowersCountText=’false’ instafeedPopupFollowBtnLabel=’false’ instafeedLoadmoreLabel=’false’ cPopupButtonText=’false’ adWidth=’false’ adHeight=’false’ adStart=’false’ adSkipButtonAfter=’false’ embedpress_protection_message=’false’ embedpress_lock_content_error_message=’false’ embedpress_password_placeholder=’false’ embedpress_submit_button_text=’false’ embedpress_submit_Unlocking_text=’false’ embedpress_lock_content_heading=’false’ embedpress_lock_content_sub_heading=’false’ embedpress_lock_content_footer_message=’false’ emberpress_custom_player=’yes’ instafeedFeedType=’false’ instafeedAccountType=’false’…
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Oats – A Great Success Story from Caithness
Growing crops on the far north coast of mainland Scotland can be a challenge, with heavy rain and gusty winds often limiting establishment. But this didn’t stop Caithness farmer John Anderson from achieving more than 10t/ha for his crop of spring oats last harvest. And the best bit? He achieved this from just 50kg/ha of bagged nitrogen. The bumper yield saw him win gold for the highest-yielding oat crop in the 2026 YEN Awards, with the variety Merlin achieving 10.09t/ha. See also: Whisky slowdown hits Scottish malting barley The secret to success, says John, is mixed farming and a long rotation incorporating grass to boost soil fertility and organic matter…
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The Doomsday Glacier – the Largest in West Antarctica
Earth and Leaf Editorial – The Doomsday Glacier This is serious for lots of reasons. Antarctica’s fragile environment is being destroyed. Water and ice are the buffers that maintain a stable and equitable climate on our shared world. It takes a great deal of heat to melt this much ice. The latent heat of fusion uses huge amounts of energy to turn ice at 0 degrees C into water at 0 degrees C and vice versa. Thwaites Glacier is the largest glacier in West Antarctica, pictured here by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in 2019. (Image credit: Photo: ©ESA; Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA) The Doomsday…
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River will take decades to recover from ‘vandalism’
John Price has land and property worth £25 million. He felt entitled to destroy a river. He is not fit to own any land. I first reported on this two years ago, a local resident was quoted as saying the river is much better. She knew no better. Her house had been flooded before. It will again this time with John Prices help as his land will not flood which used to ease the pressure further downstream. There is an arrogance that persists in our farming community that farmers are guardians of the countryside. That is a misconception which we will help to put right.
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Inheritance Tax Charges for Farmers
When farmland has become financialised in the way it has been because of inheritance tax exemptions, farming can't work, so farmers need to realise that actually having an inheritance tax charge helps them to reclaim farming for farmers and for the benefit of the people of this country. They really should not be protesting today: Labour is, for once, on their side and even doing the right thing.
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Beavers at Work – Restoring Valuable Wetlands
Beavers, which were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th century, are making a comeback and in the process are helping to restore valuable wetland ecosystems. Known as nature's engineers they restore wetland habitats through dam-building and felling trees, slowing, storing and filtering water in their habitat, which attracts other wildlife and reduces flooding downstream. In the UK, 90% of wetland habitats have been lost over the last 100 hundred years. These waterlogged environments are rich in biodiversity and the loss has led to a drastic decline of wildlife. They are also important in countering the effects of extreme weather conditions, storing and absorbing the water flow during floods…
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Drax Should Have No Place in UK Climate Plan
Once again I have to talk about Drax. This company, Drax, burns old growth forest felled in Canada and imported to the UK. This is emphatically not green energy, nor is it renewable energy. They've just built a ship to facilitate this vile trade. Their ridiculous subsidies must stop. I need say no more.
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200 species at risk of extinction, UK study finds
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Title The Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’ This is the very bleak picture the UK faces. Agriculture must change. This starts at the top in two distinct ways; With our moorlands and uplands and our politicians. The way our uplands are managed is one of the last remaining examples of feudal heritage. Large estates with tenant farmers scraping a living, whilst the land is managed for sport privilege for a few wealthy individuals. Grouse shooting must end and our politicians must drive this. Researchers warn of 20-year window for decisions on climate and land use,…
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Deforestation Accounts for Major Amazon Rainfall Decline
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline Amazon rainfall decline can be stopped. We must support the Amazonian countries so they can end mining, soya production for livestock feed and end beef ranching. Logging activity in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, with trees already tagged and waiting for transportation. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora. Excerpt Amazon Rainfall Decline A study looking at land and atmosphere interactions in the Amazon Basin across four decades found that 52-72% of the rainfall decline in the southern Amazon is due to large-scale deforestation. Between 1980 and 2019, annual precipitation in the southern Amazon declined by 8-11%,…
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Earth Being Pushed Beyond it’s Limits
Is Earth being pushed beyond it's limits? WE need a thorough understanding of climate science to understand what is going on.
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Aquatic Deoxygenation – Earth’s 10th Tipping Point
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Earth’s Disastrous 10th Tipping Point Has Been Identified Aquatic Deoxygenation William Grammenos//Getty Images Extract Crossing Planetary Boundaries (PB)—a concept that defines nine potential ecological “tipping points”—could spell doom for ecosystems and humanity’s future on the planet. Of these PBs, humans have already crossed six of the nine thresholds. Now, scientists are arguing that there’s potentially a tenth boundary that’s gone unrecognized, which concerns worldwide aquatic deoxygenation in lakes, reservoirs, oceans, and other bodies of water. “Climate change” is a scary, catch-all term that summarizes all the anthropogenic degradation humans are inflicting on the planet. In reality, climate change is only one of the many…
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Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash About time someone else realised that we use flawed economic models. Our current Economic teaching includes externalities. These are costs for someone else to bear. The theory only needs a tweak, the consequences of that tweak are unimaginably serious. Economists have always recognised these climate costs, but until now they haven’t been able to include them in their thinking. So they were called Externalities. They are now measurable costs. So the polluter must pay. Climate models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the Earth into uncharted territory.…
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Biodiversity loss ‘threat to security’
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Biodiversity Loss This Biodiversity Loss article from the Ecologist is terrifying. Such is the impact of this article we are making it pillar content. The government didnt want you, the public, or us, to see this report. The government must act. We must work with the European Union very closely on this. In fact we need to rejoin the EU as a matter or urgency and national security. Read on. The science and fact behind this is absolutely solid. © Creative Commons Extract The British government’s own security experts join the dots between nature loss, security and the wellbeing of society. Global ecosystem degradation and…
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The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Risks from Biodiversity Collapse Inadequate food supplies and biodiversity collapse in rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues. This bears repeating from the full text. One of our biggest hurdles is getting past politicians that dismiss the disasters we are trying to address as “green issues” or “Con Jobs”. Biodiversity collapse is a far bigger global problem than the war in Ukraine or any perceived threat from Iran. Read on, absorb the stark conclusions and join Earth and Leaf if you want to help. ‘Global progress on nature restoration is nowhere near where it needs to be,…
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Eating Less Beef
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Eating Less Beef At Earth and Leaf we are absolutely passionate about the world population eating less beef. For example McDonalds uses 35000 cattle a day worldwide. We are fighting to educate everyone on this issue, so this article is a joy to read: Enjoy ! A rare treat … followers want to counteract the overconsumption of meat without giving it up. Photograph: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy Extract “I love beef,” says Vlad Luca, 25. But unlike most other self-proclaimed steak lovers, Vlad eats it only four times a year, on designated “beef days”. The “beef days” phenomenon has been popularised by the brothers John…
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The Cost of Community Conservation in the Amazon
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Community Conservation Community Conservation in the Amazon. Mongabay is such a great source of information. This is a great project which in time we would love to help support financially. The world needs to look at just transition for these fishermen. Read on…. Community Conservation in action on the Jurua Extract In Brazil’s western Amazon, community-led efforts to protect the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, bring conservation benefits that extend into upland ecosystems. A study in Nature Sustainability found that by patrolling oxbow lakes along the Juruá River, communities effectively protect a mean area 86 times larger than the lakes…
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Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions In Subsidies? Drax Faces A Reckoning
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions in Subsidies? Drax – the subsidy for Canadian wood pellets is a disgusting waste of money and an international carbon fraud. This doesn’t count towards the UK Carbon Budget because its Canadian. It doesn’t count in Canada either. This is green washing on a monumental scale. This is not renewable energy – those old growth forests cannot be replaced. Drax is one of the great carbon scandals of our era. SELBY, ENGLAND – JANUARY 30: The winter sun sets behind the Drax Bio mass Power Station operated by Drax Group PLC on January 30, 2025 in Selby, England. Once one…
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Earth – with Chris Packham
Here is a quotation that really sets the scene for our mission: (from) Earth (a BBC production) “Now Ive seen so much of the natural world that I cherish destroyed, that it’s difficult not to be pessimistic, but ironically, when I go searching for home, I don’t turn to those planetary forces, I turn to the power of humanity. Because for all of our flaws, all of our foolishness, we are a truly remarkable species; adaptable, resourceful, inventive, intelligent, creative. And you might argue that our most significant turning points were perhaps standing up on two legs and beginning to walk or drawing those animals on the cave walls,…
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Toby Carvery restaurant facing eviction over felling of ancient oak tree


