04/09/2025 Nature has a remarkable way of recovering from human catastrophe Tess McClure If I ask you to conjure up a vision of “nature”, what comes to you? For most of us, I think our minds go to the pristine. Untouched rainforests, vast savanna grasslands, deep thickets, inaccessible mountains. Somewhere remote, somewhere uncontaminated, somewhere freeContinue reading “Recovering from human catastrophe”
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Last year broke heat records across the world – is 2025 destined to be more of the same?
Gabrielle Canon It will perhaps come as no surprise that 2024 will be crowned the hottest year on record. Marked by a cascade of devastating weather events, missed climate goals and the ravenous consumption of fossil fuels that broke records in its own right, the world continued its grim march up the thermometer, toppling theContinue reading “Last year broke heat records across the world – is 2025 destined to be more of the same?”
Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024
Why 2024 could be the year the Amazon gets the help it needs For decades, the world’s rainforests have been cleared at a relentless pace, mostly destroyed by humans for agriculture. It is a familiar tale accompanied by images of orangutans confronting loggers and cattle ranchers expanding further into the Earth’s most biodiverse places. ButContinue reading “Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024”
The Amazon rainforest needs you
Brazil‘s law makers just passed a bill that will open up Indigenous lands to predatory mining and logging companies. This horrifying plan, cooked up two years ago by ex-President, Jair Bolsonaro, will banish Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands and destroy massive areas of fragile rainforest. Any day now Brazil‘s Senate will vote on thisContinue reading “The Amazon rainforest needs you”
Composted Reads at the beginning of June 2023
Story of the week ‘Farming good, factory bad’, we think. When it comes to the global food crisis, it isn’t so simple | George Monbiot The good news More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot Heat pumps: more than 80% of households in Great Britain ‘satisfied with system’ York groundsel bloomsContinue reading “Composted Reads at the beginning of June 2023”
A year after their murder, we remember the heroic Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Tom Phillips Last year our friend and colleague Dom Phillips was murdered in the Amazon. After his death, the British journalist’s sister flew to his burial in Brazil with a potent message of defiance. “He was killed because he tried to tell the world what was happening to the rainforest and its inhabitants,” Sian PhillipsContinue reading “A year after their murder, we remember the heroic Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira”
Composted Reads for 17 November
Draft Cop27 agreement fails to call for ‘phase-down’ of all fossil fuels
What was at stake in Sharm El-Sheikh
Whilst the cost of inaction is far, far greater than the cost of inaction for many countries, it was difficult to come to an agreement to contribute to a fund helping those countries most affected by pollution from the industrial and most polluting countries.
The New York Times from July 11 – July 17
July 11 Ukrainain soldiers salvaging parts from a Russian armoured vehicle. The British military recently estimated the number of dead Russians at 25,000.Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Russia seeks recruits for its war in Ukraine Russian forces desperately need new soldiers. Already, the government is using what some analysts call a “stealth mobilization”Continue reading “The New York Times from July 11 – July 17”
Some View on the World 