An 80-second video of the North American heatwave is a horrifying glimpse of our near future
Record-shattering heatwaves have hit the northern hemisphere over recent weeks. Now, a newly-released video has brought the impact of that ...
Tag: biodiversity crisis
MPs call for a ‘transformative change’ that will alarm Britain’s ruling capitalist class
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), which is made up of a cross-party group of MPs, released a damning report on ...
Tadpoles among the first in line to test the UK’s G7 biodiversity promise
Tadpoles have emerged as unlikely pioneers who are putting the UK government's G7 promise on biodiversity to the test. At ...
Ecologist gets greenlight to take Tory government to court amid its ongoing massacre of badgers
The Tory government announced that badger killing will go on for five more years in England on 27 May. The ...
Opposition mounts against vast new oil project in endangered elephants’ ‘last stronghold’
Canadian company ReconAfrica is currently digging for oil in Namibia, with further exploration in Botswana moving forward too. Ultimately, the ...
Namibia’s government is at risk of presiding over the extinction of rare desert lions
Namibia is often held up as a conservation success story. However, the country's government has also received criticism regarding its ...
Tory government’s ridiculous claim that it’s a ‘world leader’ on climate is proven wrong, again
The UK government loves to describe itself as a 'world leader' on tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. Its actions, ...
Why the global wildlife trading system is an absolute sham
The essential and gorgeously diverse array of life on Earth is disappearing fast. That’s a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions*, as ...
Caroline Lucas nails the biggest problem with Sunak’s ‘whatever it takes’ budget
Rishi Sunak promised to do "whatever it takes" to support people and businesses when delivering his 2021 budget. However, our ...
Tory government U-turns on bee-killing pesticide plan after threat of legal action
The Conservative government has announced that the planned re-introduction of dangerous bee-killing pesticides in England this year will no longer ...
Explosive study shows the wildlife trade plays a major role in the rapid loss of the world’s species
The biodiversity crisis, aka the rapid disappearance of essential diverse life on earth, is - alongside the climate crisis - ...
After mass casualties in 2020, Botswana is hit with a new bout of mysterious elephant deaths
Hundreds of elephants in Botswana dropped dead, quite literally, in 2020. Following a highly criticised investigation into the mass mortality ...
One of scientists’ worst nightmares about coronavirus contagion just came true
Conservationists have been raising the alarm about the potential transmission of coronavirus (Covid-19) from humans to other great apes since ...
The Tory government just made a mockery of a second Brexit-related promise
The UK has barely left the EU and already the Tory government has effectively backtracked on two promises it made ...
Global wildlife trading body under fire over highly questionable Asian elephant exports
2020 was a bumpy year for the wildlife trade and the UN body that is meant to oversee the buying ...
How saving, not slaying, the world’s giants could secure our children’s futures
If 2020 has taught people anything, it's that our relationship with the rest of the natural world needs to change. ...
There’s 238 urgent reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House
Donald Trump's first term as president is drawing to a close. To assist US voters currently deciding on whether to ...
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