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@sustainablefarming.bsky.social

Sharing information about sustainable and ecological farming to help mitigate the effects of climate change and to work towards a sustainable food supply chain for earth.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · last wk.

It doesn't matter that Ireland only has miniscule fragments of native forests left, or that these are mostly in a dying state. When it comes to fixing that, everything takes forever and is piecemeal, if it even happens at all. It's always plenty of talk and written reports, but little or no action.

Pádraic Fogarty@whittledaway.bsky.social · last wk.

It is 7 years since Coillte committed to removing the plantation surrounding the Derryclare forest in Galway but still not a single conifer has been removed. We now have national restoration targets for 2030 but we'll need get a lot quicker if these are to be met www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · last wk.

The argument to give nature legal rights seems compelling, not because a declaration alone can solve climate and biodiversity crises, but because it can shift whose interests the law protects. The real test will be enforcement and turning recognition into action. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them

Existing legal frameworks have not halted planetary crises. Recognizing the rights of nature could offer a different path.

nature.com

Dr Tom Harris@drtomharris.bsky.social · last wk.

Permafrost warming in Alaska is reaching considerable depths as Arctic Amplification pushes surface air warming past 1.15ºC per decade. A 27-year study shows warming deeper than 1m across 100% of measurement sites. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli... #climatechange #permafrost #arctic #emissions

Frontiers | Significant soil warming across Alaska permafrost and non-permafrost regions from 1997 to 2023

IntroductionAir temperatures in Alaska are increasing at twice the rate of the contiguous United States. Soil temperatures have been shown to be increasing a...

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Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

theguardian.com

Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · last wk.

🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.

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Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 8mo ago

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

Mongabay@mongabay.com · last wk.

As food shortages worsen, communities in northern Uganda are relying on wild edible plants to survive. A study highlights the vital role of local flora during crises, raising questions about whether areas with lower botanical diversity will face greater vulnerability. By Fellow Kingsley Charles.

Uganda pastoralists turn to wild plants as food shortages bite, study finds

For decades, the global outlook for food and agriculture has brought heightened concerns  as climate patterns create a mix of droughts and floods across the world. Consequently, fears of diminishing…

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Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Germany wasted so much money on fossil fuels the last 5 years when they could have invested in cheap solar and batteries. Now Germany tells the rest of Europe that because Germany is so bad with its own finances and burnt it all on overpriced fossil fuels, now all of Europe needs to spend less.

Drastic budget cutbacks essential to fund Europe's defense, Germany and allies warn

Six European leaders have called for major cuts to a proposed 2 trillion euro budget.

cnbc.com

fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU@fife4europe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spain supplying a quarter of Europe’s fresh produce while running out of water exposes the reckless vulnerability of our food system. Draining aquifers to fuel intensive agriculture in a climate crisis is unsustainable. Why sacrifice ecosystems for cheap produce? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateCrisis

Spain grows fruit and vegetables for Europe — but it's running out of water

Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.

dw.com

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2w ago

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

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Richard Delevan@richard.wickedproblems.earth · 3w ago

U Chicago climate researchers project 450,000 heat deaths through Feb due to fossil-fuel-exacerbated El Niño. (That's not including 2nd or 3rd order effects like drought and famine. The *less powerful* 1877 El Niño killed 50m from hunger.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

theguardian.com

Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s time American farmers switched to electric farm equipment. It’s cheaper and better for the health of the farmers and the community as a whole. And it helps with future harvest protection. Diesel farm equipment destroys future harvests.

Senator Tammy Baldwin@baldwin.senate.gov · 2w ago

Farmers who have worked hard and played by the rules are now on the verge of financial collapse because the war in Iran is squeezing them on all sides. It doesn’t have to be like this — the president is choosing for it to be like this.

Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Climate aid driving up public debt of poorest countries by billions of pounds each year …most climate finance is loans, increasing debt, while rich countries recover their money, often with interest. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Climate aid driving up public debt of poorest nations by billions of pounds each year

New Independent analysis reveals how many of the poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are being priced out of the climate aid system, while countries able to access aid are seeing billions ad...

independent.co.uk

Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Impressionable boomers and California wine moms watch Paramount and CNN and Warner and HBO and Discovery. Donald Trump’s media and tech billionaire groupie, Larry Ellison, is about to own all of those networks. Watch this fact-filled short video from Charles McBryde on TikTok:

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

With Andy Burnham's speech, the left has unequivocally won the argument - on the rhetoric, at least. The substance is rather more complicated. But this government is more susceptible to popular pressure to go in a more progressive direction than Starmerism. Should embolden us!