NEWS
The World Is Farming More Seafood Than It Catches
Editor's note: The author asks if that is a good thing. The short answer is no. For the same reason, agriculture is bad for the land, aquaculture is bad for the ocean. It is because humans have overcaught wild fish and depleted their numbers that people have more and...
Sick Chimps Seek out Medicinal Plants to Heal Themselves
by Basten Gokkon on Mongabay 14 May 2024 A new study concludes that chimpanzees displaying a range of ailments seek out plants with known medicinal properties to treat those ailments. The finding is important because it’s a rare instance where a species is shown to...
Forest Bird Trade Flies Quietly Under Social Media Radar
by Riza Salman on Mongabay 11 June 2024 During the COVID-19 pandemic, a young documentary filmmaker began quietly joining a growing number of Facebook community groups run by traders of rare Indonesian birds. Over the following two years, a reporting team from several...
ACTION
France: Thousands Protest ‘Mega-basin’ Reservoir Expansion
By Gabriel Fonten / Freedom July 23 Struggle against hoarding of reservoir water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle The French environmentalist movement Soulevements de la Terre...
Possible Futures: Interview With Indigenous Author Ailton Krenak
Editor's note: We can no longer continue to deny the evidence. We are living through the end stage of the Pyrocene. We have hit rock bottom and are seeking solutions from anywhere else but to slow down. Unfortunately, the necessary change will not come from us, rather...
Geoengineering Foes Say “No” To Poisoning Cap Cod
By Julia Conley Jun 26, 2024, for Common Dreams. "The geoengineering approach puts Earth's systems at risk in a faulty and false bid toward solving the climate crisis. It is what we call a false solution," said one campaigner. Biodiversity advocates on Wednesday...
ANALYSIS
Shark Awareness Day: Protecting Our Ocean’s Guardians
Editor's note: Sharks are beautiful, intelligent creatures, but they have been overexploited for decades. Because of their "high market value" industrial fisheries hunt sharks for their fins and other body parts. But it's difficult to control the protection of the sea...
Burning Wood Is not ‘Renewable Energy’
by Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald on Mongabay 11 June 2024 Burning wood to generate electricity — “biomass energy” — is increasingly being pursued as a renewable replacement for burning coal in nations like the U.K., Japan, and South Korea — even though its...
The Next Pandemic Is Already Here for Earth’s Wildlife
Editor's note: A pandemic in our backyards - The squirrel walked a bit wobbly, it wasn't as agile and funny as these small creatures often move. It had its eyes rather closed which gave it a tired look. I was concerned and called a squirrel rescue station, luckily...
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