Latest Ecology

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  Monbiot: Our Once and Future World

  Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create national parks worthy of the name
• Todhunter: Pesticides in the Dock

  Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
• Tumber: Land Without Bread

  A Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central—foundational—to its goals and funding priorities
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  Owliaei: Activists Follow the Money Fueling Amazon Fires

  Protesters around the world are singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation
• Phillips: Protesters besiege Brazilian embassies worldwide over Amazon fires

  Activists condemn president Jair Bolsonaro’s failure to defend the forest as his supporters condemn ‘global left’
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  Cohn: Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act

  The Amazon is burning. Nearly 75,000 fires have started in the iconic...
• Miranda: Fires Are Devouring the Amazon

  The ongoing destruction of the Amazon is taking place because of policy choices made by those who now rule Brazil
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  Wainwright: Labour can help the Harland and Wolff workers make renewables

  In the 1970s, Lucas Aerospace workers had a plan to make socially useful products and went to minister for industry Tony Benn for help. Do the workers occupying their shipyard in Belfast have a similar ally in John McDonnell?
• Fang: GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon

  One-fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in the past 50 years; further industrialization of the rainforest risks destroying another fifth, a loss that would be catastrophic for the global ecosystem
• Miller: How Bolsonaro Emboldened Brazilian Agribusiness

  The United Nations is calling for the protection of the Amazon amid fears that thousands of fires raging across Brazil and some parts of Bolivia are rapidly destroying the world’s largest rainforest and paving the way for a climate catastrophe
• Timmons: How to have an all-renewable electric grid

  Research from me and others shows that fully renewable electric grids are feasible with current technology at current prices; barriers to using renewable electricity are more political and cultural than technological or economic
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  Monbiot: Ash to Ashes

  Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues
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  Cole: Offshore Wind a “New Industrial Revolution”

  The costs of wind, both onshore and offshore, are falling rapidly
• Vallianatos: Farm Rot is Eating America Alive

  In this futile struggle against nature, farmers keep adding more of old sprays, and often replace old chemicals with newer more acutely deleterious materials
• Howden: To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture

  Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases
• Burrowes: Our Vanishing World: Rainforests

  In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
• Carrington: Just 10% of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Cash ‘Could Pay for Green Transition’

  Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report
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  Hallinan: Rivers of Dust

  Water & the Middle East
• Khaikin: Resistance to Hydroelectric Dams in Mongolia

  This encroachment of heavy industry threatens the fragile balance of the Baikal and the river-systems that are connected to it
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  Prashad: As the Ocean Waters Rise, So Do the Islands of Garbage

  On 12 July 2019, a twelve-year-old girl from Gresik (Indonesia),...
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  Cole: Even Red States are going Solar

  Republican decision-makers increasingly see solar as just a good business investment that produces electricity more cost-effectively than coal
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  Monbiot: Carmageddon: it’s killing urban life

  Land Rover’s proposals that we use its SUVs for urban safaris shows how cars have been licensed to damage our lives
• Marlens: The Farms of the Future

  Farms of the future should be regenerative, diverse, accessible, community-oriented, places of celebration
• Beattie: Putting Values Into Action

  So, are we to assume these constituents would rather suffer respiratory conditions, heart disease, neurotoxicity, early death than endure view, sound, and the flicker of windmills?
• Dyke: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself’

  The most effective guard against climate breakdown may not be technological solutions, but a more fundamental reimagining of what constitutes a good life on this particular planet