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Aquatic Deoxygenation
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.…
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Unbearable Heat – Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
Earth and Leaf Editorial – An Unbearable Heat Much of Africa will become uninhabitable, not just for humanity. The cooling and climate effects of trees are all too apparent. We must end large scale ruminant livestock farming and return to…
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Flawed Economic Models
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Toby Carvery restaurant facing eviction over felling of ancient oak tree
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Costa Rica’s Cloud Forests
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Cloud Forests and Climate Change We don’t know whether Costa Rica’s cloud forests can cope with climate change. We need to try very hard not to find out. They are incredibly important biodiverse entities. Lets…
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Amol Rajan talks to Chris Packham – Radical
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First Climate Tipping Point Reached
First Climate Tipping Point Reached – A Catastrophe for Coral Reefs Earth and Leaf Editorial This is the inevitable news that the first climate tipping point reached. It has come sooner than I perhaps hoped. We now have to change our…
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The Argyll Street Ash
A Dazzling Victory – Argyle Street Ash in Glasgow wins tree of the year competition Earth and Leaf Editorial This is the story of the Argyll Street Ash. It is interesting to note that noone is complaining about subsidence or damage…
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Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? Earth and Leaf Editorial This is the story of Japan’s first osmotic power plant. It is, it appears, a net supplier of electricity…
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The Appalling Effects of Bottom Trawling
The Appalling Effects of Bottom Trawling Bycatch Up to 75% of the total catch, known as by-catch is discarded, dumped back at sea, dead for the most part. This might even include sharks, certainly the smaller ones such as young Tope…
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Ban Driven Grouse Shooting
Ban Driven Grouse Shooting Ban Driven Grouse Shooting Ban Driven Grouse Shooting – End the Gaslighting Earth and Leaf Editorial This is the story of the Focus Keyword Links to Other Relevant Stories 1 2 3 Extract The Focus Key Word…
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Would you eat a Cockroach
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Scotland feeds people, England feeds birds
Farmer Focus 'Scotland feeds people, England feeds birds' is a provocative heading from the Farmers Weekly, but interesting all the same. Why? It is the view of a large proportion of farmers (not all) that the UK government is anti-farming. It…
