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NationCymru@nation.cymru · 7d ago

Animal agriculture’s destructive impact on the planet is clear. Research shows that 90% of water now taken from natural systems for irrigation is used to feed the world’s over 80 billion land animals killed for food each year ✍️Dr Carys Bennett

Wales Is on Fire. Meat is Fanning the Flames

Dr Carys Bennett A mountain is burning on my doorstep. Since 19 July, wildfires have ripped through Mynydd Garnclochdy near Blaenavon. When the smell of acrid smoke drifted across the valleys, it felt...

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Stork@eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wage theft is the biggest form of theft, accounting for more losses than all other forms of theft *combined*. So, in one sense it happens all the time. Business owners tend to be closer to power than employees, the cases don't get publicized, and employees aren't really told the rules.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d ago

Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

theguardian.com

Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 4d ago

Global warming may have accelerated since 2015. After accounting for El Niño, volcanoes, and solar variability, researchers estimate the warming rate increased from ~0.2°C/decade to ~0.35°C/decade. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C p...

sciencedaily.com

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.

“A citizen-science program is training pet dogs to find the eggs before they hatch so they can be destroyed. It's revealing the surprising power of pet dogs' noses, with even unconventional sniffer-dog breeds like the humble pug able to play their part.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The spotted lanternfly is ravaging the eastern US. Pet dogs are coming to the rescue

Spotted lanternflies are an invasive pest and a multimillion-dollar disaster for the US's wine industry. Meet the good boys and girls of the resistance.

bbc.com

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigade (BRIF) Puerto el Pico: "Video from yesterday: Here our pilots risk their lives flying blind over Casavieja and dropping water on the houses we were protecting below with fire trucks. A very sad day… but we must keep going" #Spain #wildfires

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The major wildfires ravaging the province of Ávila and the Community of Madrid have already forced the evacuation or confinement of 100,000 people and are affecting 45,000 hectares. The two fires remain active and are advancing uncontrollably (El País)

Los incendios de Madrid y Ávila obligan a evacuar o confinar ya a 100.000 personas

La UME trata los dos fuegos como uno y da por contenidos todos los frentes, aunque mantiene activas “varias cabezas”. El Gobierno declarará este martes las zonas afectadas como gravemente dañadas por ...

elpais.com

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2w ago

Your 'doom quote' for today: "the cull during this century is going to be huge, up to 90 per cent. The number of people remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less." www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/01/27/l...

Lovelock: One billion better than nine billion - Science Media Centre

It is a wonderfully philosophical and pragmatic 90 year-old James Lovelock who is interviewed in New Scientist this week. The […]

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