Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

This is how it's done!

"a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods"

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Ella McSweeney: Cornafulla Bog is a gold mine. Let’s not squander it Siting wind infrastructure on the Shannon bogs is too high a price to pay for renewable energy

Ireland has a rare chance to restore nature at scale on public bogs. Instead, Bord na Móna is pushing wind farm development on sites that should be restored, while refusing to publish their mandate.

Public lands must be managed in the public interest
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i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

This is a really important story. If Europe makes Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) with products of beef farming linked with tropical deforestation, then we're only decarbonising on paper and getting nowhere.

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions.
My column.
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‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs.
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David Roberts -

the U.S. is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. And will go down with the fossil fuel ship; and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate. It is rapidly electrifying its economy, dominating the technology, supply chains, world markets, everything

I'm all for moving away from oil but the waste disposal of solar panels is an issue we must not overlook and find solutions for.

Maggie Doyle (driver): "Unfortunately, I lost (the competition)."

There's NOTHING unfortunate about the person driving a car being the slowest getting into the city.

The car brain persists in RTE.

Red squirrels rise again as Aberdeen begins to eliminate American greys Twenty years ago a red squirrel was a rare sighting in Aberdeen.

Red squirrels rise again as Aberdeen begins to eliminate American greys
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“We all know it’s fracking, so treat it as such. It’s banned; therefore, it should not be approved" says Councillor Steve Mason.

Fossil fuel firms claim a 'proppant squeeze' is different from fracking & therefore not banned in the UK.

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A dead Puffin lies on wet sand, its black and white feathers darkened and slick against the beach. The bird rests on its side, wings folded, with its distinctive orange bill clearly visible against the pale sand.

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield.

It is devastating to see.

These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure.

Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around."

Outstanding article in The Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Greenways are a great resource helping people get out, but the very term misleads. The construction often does damage to the local environment. Anyone who takes environment seriously knows that.

Even with climate change, we have enough water if we manage resources right. We need a well funded, well staffed regulator empowered to enforce rules, an overhaul of business use of water, repairs to leaking pipes, + to act to drinking water sources from forever chemical contamination.

Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions

Big Oil gave Trump and the GOP millions campaign contributions in 2024

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'The longer we delay the deeper the deficit grows' doesn't cause much urgency with the climate emergency. What about water?

'Water bankruptcy' — U.N. scientists say much of the world is irreversibly depleting water With many rivers and aquifers tapped beyond their limits, UN scientists say the world is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy.'

U.N. experts say the world has entered an era of global "water bankruptcy"

"For too long, we have been living beyond our hydrological means." @kavehmadani.bsky.social @unuinweh.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

"The global attack on nature is threatening the UK’s national security, government intelligence chiefs have warned, as the increasingly likely collapse of vitally important natural systems would bring mass migration, food shortages and price rises, and global disorder."

Shame.. More venison on dishes needed then.

A few top predators perhaps? 🐺🐺.

'Nature is warning us' about climate change, but 'nobody's listening' In wet season, Jonathan and his family have to drive, boat and drive again if they want to reach town. The remote NT traditional owner says nature has long been warning us about climate change, "but n...

In Northern Australia's Kakadu National Park, rising floodwaters and saltwater intrusion is an indicator of future sea level rise, showing that nature is providing us warnings that are being ignored.

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The government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan released today, seemingly has no consideration of the 100+ AI data centres that Big Tech wants up and running during the plan’s implementation.

#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange

I Took In A Homeless Man On Christmas Day... I Didn’t Expect This To Happen! YouTube video by Begin Again with Davina McCall

A longer interview to watch youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k?...

My letter to the editor in the Irish Times on Thursday the 18th of December.

When we build our entire society around cars and treat them as kings, nobody wins.

Grow food on farmland, rather than feed and fuel Ontario could use 41 per cent less arable land by not growing grain dedicated for livestock. Instead, that arable land could directly grow human food crops.

Grow food on farmland, rather than feed and fuel www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/18/o...

In our podcast, 'The truth about plastic', @bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social gave us a rundown of the health implications of some of the chemicals added to plastics:
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Europe’s Alps on track to lose 97 percent of glaciers by century’s end, study finds Stricter climate policies would save hundreds of glaciers in Europe’s Alps and tens of thousands worldwide, study finds.

Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found. 

90% of Ireland's habitats deemed in poor condition A new report has found that 90% of Ireland's EU-protected habitats are in 'unfavourable' conservation status, with 51% showing deteriorating trends across their national ranges.

Ireland's Article 17 report on the State of Nature in Ireland is shocking. 90% of EU-protected habitats in unfavourable status, up 5% in 6yrs, over half still declining.

Nature is in crisis - we need an ambitious Nature Restoration Plan backed by dedicated funding! www.rte.ie/news/environ...