The wildlife charity WWF-UK shelved a report that warned how intensive chicken production is devastating the River Wye, the Observer can reveal. Since 2018, the charity has received more than £6m in donations from the supermarket chain Tesco, which has faced action from campaigners over the decline of the Wye because many of the intensive…
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Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows
A third of UK teenagers believe climate change is “exaggerated”, a report has found, as YouTube videos promoting a new kind of climate denial aimed at young people proliferate on the platform. Previously, most climate deniers pushed the belief that climate breakdown was not happening or, if it was, that humans were not causing it….
‘Shocking and sad’: photographer’s project reveals wildlife lost to pollution in Yorkshire’s River Wharfe | Pollution | The Guardian
Five years ago, when Mark Barrow started his project to film along the 65-mile River Wharfe in Yorkshire, he captured footage of majestic shoals of grayling, the fish known as “the Lady of the Stream”, some 200 or 300 strong. Recently, Barrow returned to the same spot, near the historic Harewood House on the outskirts…
Shell to face human rights claims in UK over chronic oil pollution in Niger delta
Thousands of Nigerian villagers can bring human rights claims against the fossil fuel company Shell over the chronic oil pollution of their water sources and destruction of their way of life, the high court in London has ruled. Mrs Justice May ruled this week that more than 13,000 farmers and fishers from the Ogale and…
‘A good cruise is one that doesn’t come’: Europe’s ports bear brunt of ship pollution | Cruises | The Guardian
Port cities around Europe are increasingly considering bans or restrictions on cruise ships as their health and environmental impacts become clearer. The 218 cruise ships operating in Europe last year emitted more than four times more sulphur oxides than all the continent’s cars combined, according to the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Sulphur dioxide causes…
Biden Regime Declares War on Ceiling Fans to Fight “Climate Change” – Settles on Costly New Scheme that Could Put Small Manufacturers Out of Business
Credit: Wikimedia Commons First the Biden regime came for your gas stove, then your dishwashers, then gas furnaces and then your water heaters. Now the Regime is targeting for your ceiling fans, jeopardizing small businesses in the process. Like the other previous schemes, the primary purpose is to advance the Regime’s radical “climate change” agenda….
Top scientist Patrick Brown says he deliberately OMITTED key fact in climate change piece he’s just had published in prestigious journal to ensure woke editors ran it – that 80% of wildfires are started by humans | Daily Mail Online
A climate change scientist has claimed the world’s leading academic journals reject papers which don’t ‘support certain narratives’ about the issue and instead favor ‘distorted’ research which hypes up dangers rather than solutions. Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, said editors at Nature and Science…
‘An utter disgrace’: 90% of England’s most precious river habitats blighted by raw sewage and farming pollution | Rivers | The Guardian
More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals. None of the approximately 40 rivers with protected habitats in England are in overall good health, according to an analysis of government inspection reports. These include the…
School Strike 4 Climate: School students get ready to strike again over climate change | Stuff.co.nz
Thousands of school students will pour out of classrooms and take to the streets across Aotearoa on Friday, demanding more action from the Government on climate change. Read this story in te reo Māori and English here. / Pānuitia tēnei i te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā ki konei. And they are calling on…
Wood burning air pollution in UK has doubled in a decade | Air pollution | The Guardian
Emissions of toxic air pollution from wood burning in UK homes has more than doubled in the past decade, according to official government statistics. The report also showed that solid fuel burning in homes, which includes a small proportion of coal, is the single biggest source of PM2.5 pollution, which refers to particulate matter that…
