By Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions. The Trump administration and Elon Musk have spent the past several weeks upending the federal government. After essentially shutting down …
Elephant in the womb? Thailand brings in birth control for pachyderms
By Rebecca Ratcliffe, The Guardian Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humans. An elephant in a village in Thailand. The country will for the first time administer birth control to wild elephants in an effort to curb human-elephant conflict. Photograph: DasMaddin/Getty Images/iStockphoto Thailand will begin …
The far right is going … green?
By Benji Jones, Vox Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement. Ben Hickey for Vox “In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.” “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that pollute our air, our water, our soils end up in our own bodies. They ruin …
Produce in home gardens near PFAS plant in US contain dangerous levels of chemicals
By Tom Perkins The Guardian Research provides more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to toxic ‘forever chemicals’ Produce grown in home gardens around a North Carolina PFAS plant contain dangerous levels of the chemicals, new research has found, providing more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure …
‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world
By Jack Cooper, The Guardian Orcas attack a great white shark in Mossel Bay, about 190 miles east of Gansbaai on the Western Cape, South Africa. Photograph: Drone fanatics SA A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing …
Brazil fires consumed wilderness area larger than Italy in 2024 – report
By Tiago Rogero, The Guardian New report says more than 30m hectares burned, 79% more than in 2023, after country saw worst drought on record. A car driving along a highway in an area engulfed by a forest fire near the city of Porto Velho, in Brazil’s Rondonia state, on …
High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds
By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects. Using high levels of common fertilisers on grassland halves pollinator numbers and drastically reduces the number of flowers, research from the world’s longest-running ecological experiment has found. Increasing the amount of …
A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights
By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News In a landmark ruling, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court concluded that the government must set limits on human activity, like industrial fishing, to protect marine ecosystems’ natural cycles. Fish and sharks swim around North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands on March 8, 2024. Credit: Ernesto …
Invasive pike use marine corridors to colonize new Alaska territory
By Jeff Richardson, Phys.Org Invasive northern pike are displayed after being caught in Vogel Lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Credit: Rob Massengill, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Northern pike are moving through salt water to invade freshwater habitats in Southcentral Alaska, according to a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE. …
Qualitative Growth – NOW AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN!
A conceptual framework for finding solutions to our current crisis that are economically sound, ecologically sustainable, and socially just. By Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson Click on image for full monograph. Link to Italian version — Crescita Qualitativa