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Farms Face Job Losses Without Net Zero Support
Climate change: Farms face job losses without net zero support
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90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Certifier are Worthless
{Earth and Leaf Editorial – 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless} {extract below}
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Farm Support in Wales
The Future of Farm Support in Wales
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Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather
Earth and Leaf Editorial – African Children African children are at the forefront of climate change disaster. They are also the very people who can do little about the crisis. The very young have little ability to thermoregulate. Surely we must do something. Young African children are at particular risk of heat stress impacts. Riccardo Mayer/Shutterstock Extract Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years. Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures. They have a limited…
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Glyphosate Weedkiller Damages Wild Bee Colonies, Study Reveals
Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals
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In Sierra Leone Local Fishers and Foreign Trawlers Battle for Their Catch
{Sierra Leone Local Fishers – Earth and Leaf editorial} {extract below} In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch Overfishing isn’t a new problem in West Africa, where industrial fishing boats from across the world harvest massive quantities of seafood for both local and foreign markets. Many use ecologically destructive practices like bottom trawling, where vessels drag huge nets across the ocean floor, indiscriminately scooping up anything too big to escape and churning up corals, rocks and sediment. In Ghana, for example, a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) last year found that fish populations are on the edge of collapse, with the total landing…
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Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges
{Earth and Leaf Editorial – Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges} {extract below} Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges NFU climate change advisor Dr Ceris Jones and Met Office climate scientist Dr Pete Falloon explain why agricultural adaptation is so important across the whole industry. There has been wide consideration of the important role agriculture has in mitigating climate change. By reducing emissions, maintaining and sequestering additional carbon and moving towards net zero, farmers will become ever more important in the quest to prevent dangerous levels of climate change. But what about the impacts of climate change we’re already committed to, both now and in the future? Adapting agriculture…
