What about linear agriculture that depends up chemical fertilizers bought in? Those chemicals then run off and enter the water table. Who pays to clean up the water at the sewage works and water treatment plants? Circular agriculture uses animal and plant waste from the farm to make organic fertiliser. Very little escapes the loop except for agricultural products. Circular …
How not to mix things up in a world full of casual brushes with the truth – uncaring as to what is real and what is not. In principle it has always been the same for at least some. Now, however, we have reached critical mass. Each uncaring and unthinking person has access to weapons of war. A tweet ricochets off …
An article in the 20 July 2024 edition of The Week describes pollution’s impact on reproduction Exposure to air pollution before the retrieval of eggs can cut women’s chances of having a live birth after IVF by approximately 40%, an Australian study has found. The research was based on some 1,836 women who had frozen embryo transfers. The team looked …
This is an ongoing list. Wild Justice As it says eloquently on the main page of the site, the UK-based charity Wild Justice uses the legal system to get a better deal for UK wildlife, challenges government decisions in the courts, campaigns for better laws and better policies, and gives its supporters opportunities to speak up for our wildlife. You …
I was looking back through a piece that I originally posted on another site on July 17, 2010, I have updated it at the end. It makes grim reading. In 1991 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Oganization adopted a plan of action for the worldwide reduction of incidental catches of seabirds in driftnets, longlines and gillnets used by fishing …
Restore Nature Now is a collective of NGOs, grassroots organisations and individuals including: the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF-UK, Friends of the Earth, WWT, Woodland Trust, National Trust, Wildlife and Countryside Link, The Climate Coalition, Extinction Rebellion and Chris Packham. Let’s go back in time a bit to the 1960s and the research by Rachel Carson, an American biologist. Her …
I live in Cambridge, with access to nature not more than a few hundred yards from the middle of the city. Yes, it’s flat around here, but when you walk from the middle of town onto Laundress Green and follow the footpath onto Sheep’s Green, you can feel how you are dropping down a level. The land floods at certain …