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Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS in...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study
Pub shrub: landlords asked to plant up their patios to help wildlife
Royal Horticultural Society hopes punters will be inspired by Salford winner of pub garden competition Pub gardens often feature barren patios, characterless lawns and – worst of all – fake...
UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts
Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics A flagship UN report on livestock emissions is facing calls for retraction from...
‘Stitching the threads’: UK book offers radical vision of a grassroots ecology
On the banks of the River Roding, authors explain how they are putting the concept of ‘wild service’ into practice It is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new envi...
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil
More than 50% of the planet’s species live in the earth below our feet, but only a fraction have been identified – so far Read more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: ho...
Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name | George Monbiot
Marcus Decker dared to protest on climate and was punished. Now he could be deported. Is that a humane democracy? When the traditional ruling class was obliged to concede to demands for democra...
Clean-up of Indian coal-fired power plants ‘could have saved 720,000 lives’
Researchers say early deaths may have been avoided over 10-year period if technology installed Research has estimated the health impacts from the coal-fired power plants that operate across In...
‘Reprehensible retreat’: fury as Scottish ministers scrap carbon emissions pledge
Climate campaigners complain of short-termism as country abandons target to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 Climate campaigners have accused Scottish ministers of being “inept” and “s...
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk Living on...
We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know
Consumer Reports recently conducted its most comprehensive review of pesticides in 59 US fruits and vegetables. Here the organization shares what it found What’s safe to eat? Here is the pestic...
Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds
As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus Read more: No birdsong, no water i...
Goodbye cod, hello herring: why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet
In the first of a new series, we look at why people reject so much of the bountiful catches from our seas in favour of the same few species, mostly imported – and how to change that Perched o...
Funding Australia’s renewable transition isn’t ‘picking winners’ – it’s securing our future | Greg Jericho
Government support for green manufacturing is actually the easy part. To truly reduce emissions, we must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels Follow our Australia news live blog for latest up...
Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president
Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers Many Europeans value the lives ...
Elephant seal makes ‘epic’ trek back after Canadian officials relocate him
Notorious for drawing large crowds, Emerson was removed by officials who were surprised to find him back in Victoria in a week Last week, gun-wielding conservation officers stuffed a 500lb elep...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/17/canada-elephant-seal-relocation-attempt-failed
‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening’: the songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods
The dramatic decline of marsh tits in an ancient Cambridgeshire woodland is a story repeated across the UK as human activity drives species towards extinction Read more: World faces ‘deathly ...
Tanya says the urgent environmental reforms the ALP promised have been put on hold! | First Dog on the Moon
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Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks
The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030 Greece has become the first country in Europe to announce a ban on b...
Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start | Adam Morton
The challenge for a resource-rich, medium-sized economy such as Australia is to identify the right green industries to focus on, while minimising the risks to taxpayers Get our morning and aftern...
No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent
As the soundscape of the natural world began to disappear over 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all Read more: World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears...
Aerial video shows mass coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef amid global heat stress event – video
Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...
Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban
Paris claims ban breaches UK-EU trade deal but environmentalists say dispute is ‘hypocrisy’, given Macron’s rhetoric on saving oceans France has been accused of hypocrisy by conservationi...
Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen found on undersea peaks off South America
Underwater mountains are biodiversity hotspots and researchers exploring the Salas y Gómez ridge off Chile have found 50 species probably new to science. How much more has yet to be discovered? ...
Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures
A new collection of wildlife photography aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Huw Lewis-Jones explores the...
'Only the beginning': Greta Thunberg reacts to court ruling on Swiss climate inaction – video
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled. In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such ruli...
Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?
While the ecosystem is thriving off the coast of Argentina, the proliferation of salmon farms in Chile’s waters is threatening marine life, say critics A rocky path, strewn with thick tree ro...
Drone footage captures flooded bridges and roads in rural parts of south-west Queensland – video
Footage captures flooding near the rural township of Charleville following a weekend of heavy rain in parts of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Communities across the region have...
Week in wildlife – in pictures: nosy polar bears, a waving seal and blue-footed boobies
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Female photographers celebrate Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday
Ninety wildlife and landscape photographers from around the world are marking the primatologist Jane Goodall turning 90 with a print sale of environmental pictures. The Jane Goodall Institute and...
‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change
Exclusive: ex-officials at the Food and Agriculture Organization say its leadership censored and undermined them when they highlighted how livestock methane is a major greenhouse gas Ex-officials...
Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored
Exclusive: Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources ‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food bo...
Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land
Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says Cargill and ADM, two of the world’s leading livestock feed companies, helped to scup...
Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever
Outbreaks in the Lombardy ‘pork belt’ were extinguished, say experts, but wild boar could act as a reservoir Huge pig culls took place last week in Italy in an attempt to contain the countr...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/italy-african-swine-fever-asf-outbreak-lombardy-culls