200 years ago, the Erie Canal changed trade and the environment forever Today, the Erie Canal remains vulnerable to invasive plants and animals.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. #eriecanal #NY #upstateNY #ushistory #commerce #nativeamericandisplacement #environmentaldegradation #clearcuts #forestdestruction #invasivespeces #fisheries #nativespeciesextinction #fish #zebramussels #alewives #lamprey

Douglas Gerrard | The World’s Largest Deforestation Project In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land in...

#WestPapua & the planet’s biggest rainforest destruction operation

One-World elites? Blind, deaf, and silent—complicit in this crime. This is genocide against nature and people. And no one bats an eye !

#deforestation #ecocide #ForestDestruction #palmoil

'It's like trying to grow a tree in an oven': Gold mining is sucking the Amazon rainforest dry Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

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"Researchers found that suction mining not only degrades the soil, it also drains moisture and traps heat, creating extreme conditions where even seedlings cannot survive."

When university academics make it clear that advocacy in the public interest is discouraged in their faculty, the environment is handed over to extractivists. Tasmania is a case in point. Murdoch media and silence @UTAS #ForestDestruction #Extinction #AntiProtestLaws