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7 hours ago

Rice’s whales existed before humans. Now Trump could make them extinct The US has invoked national security to remove protections for the endangered cetacean, of which only about 50 are left

'Rice’s whales predate modern humans. Now Trump could make them extinct'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'The US has invoked national security to remove protections for the endangered cetacean, of which only about 50 are left'

#NatureEmergency #Trump #GOP #necropolitics

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4 days ago

‘Harrowing’: Cyclone Narelle leaves graveyard of turtles, dolphins and seabirds in Western Australia Exmouth local says devastating impact on wildlife along the coastline is ‘hard to put into words’

Historic storm: 'Cyclone Narelle leaves graveyard of turtles, dolphins and seabirds in Western Australia'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Climate experts said global heating had likely helped the storm to intensify before it made its first landfall.'

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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4 days ago

Australia’s superb fairywren could be extinct within decades due to climate crisis, researchers say Scientists tracked bird population in Canberra’s botanic gardens and found climate impacts starting to affect them

'Australia’s superb fairywren [A common and well-loved bird of bush and garden] could be extinct within decades due to climate crisis, researchers say'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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5 days ago

‘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’

'"A national scandal": trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'"Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink," say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are "protected only on paper"'

#NatureEmergency #CapitalismKills

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1 week ago

The chief terrorist regarding humanity, nature, and climate naturally cannot help but portray their defenders as a great danger.
bsky.app/profile/doct...

#Trump #NatureEmergency #ClimateEmergency #necropolitics

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1 week ago

Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem

'Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #krill #KrillTrawlers #IndustrialFishing #whales #CapitalismKills

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1 week ago

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point As species vanish and the unique ecosystem radically changes, Ukrainian scientists can only wait until it is safe to properly assess the damage

'"A toxic punch": fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point ... species vanish and the unique ecosystem radically changes'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#Russia #Putin #Ukraine #warcrimes #ecocide #BlackSea #NatureEmergency

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1 week ago

Environment Agency too weak to tackle illegal waste dumping, MPs say Regulator for England lacks powers to deal with what the public accounts committee calls an ‘out-of-control plague’

'The Environment Agency is too weak to tackle an “out-of-control plague” of waste dumping, a powerful group of MPs has said.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#UK #neoliberalism #deregulation #austerity #pollution #NatureEmergency #PublicHealth

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1 week ago

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

'A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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1 week ago

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

'Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%'

#NatureEmergency

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1 week ago

‘She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo’: inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park Survivors describe how rangers and staff were targeted by an armed group during a raid on DRC’s national park earlier this month

'"She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo": inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #Congo #rangers #heroes

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2 weeks ago

Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming? As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

'Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing?'
www.science.org/content/arti...

#NatureEmergency #rainforest

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2 weeks ago

Achieving climate targets is possible while limiting “critical minerals” rush. But responsible political leadership is crucial, says new report - Greenpeace International "[It] is incumbent upon our governments who regulate the extractive industry to power an ambitious energy transition without mining critical ecosystems on land or at sea."

'Achieving climate targets is possible while limiting "critical minerals" rush. But responsible political leadership is crucial, says new report'
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

#CriticalMinerals #RareEarths #mining #pollution #IndigenousRights #NatureEmergency

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2 weeks ago

Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

'Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#mining #pollution #IndigenousRights #NatureEmergency

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3 weeks ago

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first ever bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

'More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first ever bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency

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3 weeks ago

Biodiversity Loss Effects: How Ecosystem Collapse Threatens Our World Biodiversity loss effects threaten ecosystem collapse worldwide, from coral bleaching to food chain breakdowns. This guide details drivers, human costs, and proven recovery strategies.

'Biodiversity Loss Effects: How Ecosystem Collapse Threatens Our World'
www.natureworldnews.com/articles/727...

#NatureEmergency #ClimateEmergency #disruption

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3 weeks ago

‘Kast is more like Trump’: Chile’s environmentalists prepare to do battle for the country’s future Fears are growing that the new far-right president will slash environmental protections in favour of foreign investment

'"Kast is more like Trump": Chile’s environmentalists prepare to do battle for the country’s future'
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency #NeoFascism #necropolitics

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3 weeks ago

A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way | Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood Unsettling predictions are now our catastrophic reality, but a brighter future is still within reach if our political leaders change course

'Continue as we are, and laws of physics, chemistry and ecological realities will seal our fate: an ever more inhospitable and perilous existence.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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3 weeks ago

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

'Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#mining #NatureEmergency #PublicSafety #pollution #GrowthAddiction #greed #CapitalismKills #degrowth

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3 weeks ago

‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness In the race to meet the demands of the energy transition, biodiversity hotspots such as Palawan in the Philippines are being increasingly mined for critical elements

'In the race to meet the demands of the energy transition, biodiversity hotspots such as Palawan in the Philippines are being increasingly mined for critical elements'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #GrowthAddiction #mining #CapitalismKills

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3 weeks ago

This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining Analysis has found more than 3,000 mining operations within the most naturally precious areas of the planet – a much bigger footprint than previously thought

'This is the story of Weda Bay [Indonesia] - and how nature is being sacrificed for mining'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #GrowthAddiction #CapitalismKills #necropolitics

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3 weeks ago

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories A Guardian investigation with DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau

'How the "Galápagos of west Africa" is plundered by floating fish factories'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #FishFactories #fishmeal #CapitalismKills

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4 weeks ago

Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce Developers argue that eco-tourism helps ‘underfunded’ parks but former Greens leader Bob Brown says the idea of wilderness lodges is an ‘oxymoron’

'Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#neoliberalism #exploitation #greed #NatureEmergency

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4 weeks ago

"Farmers in the Netherlands are turning it into one giant "grassphalt plain" . In seven years, they filled in 31,520 ditches. Partly illegally."
bsky.app/profile/laur... (Dutch, paywall?)

#IndustrialFarming #GreenDesert #NatureEmergency

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1 month ago

Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit Up to half of the insects in the Amazon region could be exposed to life-threatening heat levels due to progressive, anthropogenic global warming. This is shown by a recent study by the universities of...

'"Since insects fulfill central functions in ecosystems as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, there is a threat of far-reaching consequences for entire ecosystems."'
phys.org/news/2026-03...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency #insects

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1 month ago

Weatherwatch: how a warmer world and more rain could transform Antarctica Shrinking and faster-moving glaciers, weakened ice shelves and more icebergs would bring fundamental changes to landscape and wildlife

'... fewer algae and krill, fewer breeding platforms for penguins and seals and an open invite for invasive crabs and mussels.'
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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1 month ago

Tiny, lost and constipated: what a baby turtle told Australian scientists about warming seas The arrival of loggerheads in New South Wales shows these ‘sentinels of climate change’ are being forced into unknown territory

'Often called sentinels of climate change, turtles are highly sensitive to environmental shifts.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

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1 month ago

‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

'"The danger with climate change is that these conditions get more frequent, and if that happens it could be something these birds can’t cope with."'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency #storms #birds

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1 month ago

World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over ‘blue tick’ sustainability label Aker Qrill is facing criticism of its fishery management amid calls by environmentalists for curbs on Antarctic fishing of the keystone species

'World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over "blue tick" sustainability label'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NatureEmergency #GrowthAddiction #CapitalismKills

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1 month ago

Specieswatch: is the world’s wildlife entering its ‘samey’ era? Scientists are calling loss of biodiversity the ‘homogenocene’, where niche species are pushed out by generalists like pigeons and rats

'Scientists are calling loss of biodiversity the "homogenocene", where niche species are pushed out by generalists like pigeons and rats'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Plants and animals are disappearing at an alarming rate across the planet ...'

#NatureEmergency