A major new report warns that global wildlife populations have been cut in half in just four decades due to unsustainable human consumption and widespread habitat destruction. According to the Living Planet Report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), average monitored wildlife populations declined by 50% between 1970 and 2010. The Living Planet Index, which tracked more than 10,000 populations across roughly 3,000 vertebrate species, paints a sobering picture of humanity’s impact on biodiversity. Freshwater ecosystems were hit hardest, suffering a 75% decline due to pollution, water extraction, and dam construction. Terrestrial and marine populations both fell by around 40%, driven by habitat loss and overexploitation. The underlying driver is humanity’s expanding ecological footprint. Global consumption already requires the resources of 1.5 Earths to sustain. This burden is highly unequal: the average U.S. resident would need nearly four Earths, while the average UK resident would require 2.5 Earths. Wealthier nations often export their environmental impact through imported goods linked to deforestation and habitat destruction in developing countries. The report calls for urgent global action, including a shift to sustainable food systems, greater resource equity, and stronger habitat protection to reverse these trends. [WWF. (2014). Living Planet Report 2014: Species and spaces, people and places. World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

It’s a vicious cycle: factory farming intensifies climate pressure, chaos ensues, and farms face the consequences, putting animals & food security at risk. This #WorldEnvironmentDay, sign the Good Food For All ECI: goodfoodforall.eu/

We need the same… so polluters pay not the pollutees!! And.. more to the point, there’s an incentive NOT to do it!!

Really good news. Over the last 15 years the world gained more mangroves than it has lost, thanks to stronger legal protections following the 2004 tsunami which proved their importance in protecting coasts. Also vital for fish and in absorbing carbon. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4p…

BAM! Colombia has announced a historic ban on all new oil and large-scale mining projects in its part of the Amazon Rainforest, protecting an area roughly the size of Sweden. 🌿 Experts say the move could help protect one of the planet’s most important ecosystems—often called the “lungs of the Earth.” 🌎🌳 Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #nature

It’s #worldenvironmentday the day to remind ourselves that we need to care, protect, cherish it every day.. it is, after all, our life support system.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. airesistlist.org

Very ominous. Rice production - on which a billion people depend - is increasingly endangered as the world heats up at 5000 times the rate at which the staple crop can evolve. livescience.com/planet-earth…

Every 1C of warming sees the atmosphere hold 7% more moisture - meaning severe floods in some places & deadly droughts in others. Earth is on track to warm 4C above preindustrial temps in our children’s lifetimes. Our communities & food system were not built to withstand this.

The next time some tells you that the regulators, the EA and Ofwat don't have the power call them out on it, it's a lie. One example right here... 👇👇👇 don't accept the lie, don't accept the fraud, enforce the law.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

That little patch of moss on your fence or shady spot is doing work on a planetary scale. Moss stores 6 billion tons of carbon globally. It pulls carbon out of the air, holds moisture, and supports tiny ecosystems. So maybe stop spraying it with chemicals and power-washing it off. Your moss is on the job, let it stick around.

🌳 Did you know that a single mature tree produces enough oxygen for 2 to 4 people every single day? Forests aren't just scenery; they are the world’s lungs. Without them, our basic survival is at risk. #Sustainability #EcoFacts

"Cutting forests to solve today’s problems guarantees tomorrow’s disasters. The science is clear. The choice is ours."

This isn't in the trial phase. The entire China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan, recently, used only these materials for signage, food containers, and more. This is getting scaled for mass use.

Africa is building a wall... Made of trees. 8,000 km of green defiance stretching from Senegal to Djibouti: it’s called the Great Green Wall - a plan to stop the Sahara desert, restore dead land, and lift 100 million people. [🎞️ africabusinessheroes]

Red squirrels 'close to extinction' in England @BBCNews Hard to believe that our beloved red squirrel is close to extinction and could disappear in 25yrs! It isn't enough that they "cling on" to life across Cumbria, Northumberland and North Pennines We have a duty to our children to save and nurture fellow species #WakeUpWorld bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwp…

RT @BardCumberland: A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can sup…

So true