EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say news.mongabay.com/2025/11/eu-t…

#EU #environment #forest #deforestation #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #politics #EUPol

EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say

BELÉM, Brazil — At a Nov. 19 press conference at the U.N. climate summit currently underway in Brazil, European Union officials spoke for half an hour without a single mention of forests or efforts to halt deforestation — even though COP30 is taking …

^{Hans Nicholas Jong (Conservation news)}

Secure land rights linked to lower deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, study shows phys.org/news/2025-11-rights-l…

#Brazil #Amazon #environment #land #forest #deforestation

Secure land rights linked to lower deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, study shows

Who owns the rainforest—and who has the right to use it—might seem like a simple question.

^{Max Esterhuizen (Phys.org)}

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world. Without rapid action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, other systems on Earth will also soon reach planetary tipping points, thresholds for profound changes that cannot be rolled back. nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

The question is not how we can stop climate change. The question is how can we save what we can. #Environment

Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say

^{Tollefson, Jeff}

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot…

#Mekong #environment #forest #deforestation

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon.

^{Morgan Erickson-Davis (Conservation news)}

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours theguardian.com/environment/20…

#environment #forest #deforestation #wildlife #butterflies

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

^{Phoebe Weston (The Guardian)}

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk phys.org/news/2025-10-deforest…

#environment #forest #deforestation #flood #floods #flooding

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas.

^{Neil Martin (Phys.org)}

"The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Deforestation #Trees #Environment

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The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of

UK banks, energy giants and arms exporters are at the heart of one of the world's least-known human rights and environmental crises, our research has revealed.

^{Samira Homerang Saunders (Phys.org)}

In more "recycling is just shipping your plastic overseas where it actually doesn't get recycled"

LA Times: Malaysia will stop accepting U.S. plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California

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#plastic #environment #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

Malaysia will stop taking U.S. plastic waste. What will California do?

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned U.S. waste imports in 2018.

^{Susanne Rust (Los Angeles Times)}

Just read "The Invention of Nature" by Andrea Wulf, an amazing biography of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

Humboldt himself is not that well known anymore but he essentially laid the groundwork for our current conception of nature and environmentalism.

Humboldt traveled in the Americas and detailed the environmental catastrophe of colonialism in the early 19th century - his observations were strangely prescient and still relevant today.

#climate #nature #science #environment

This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

#health #science #climate #environment

Do you know any citizen/community scientists or journalists covering environmental / public health issues along the Colorado River?

Next month, I'm going to ride my bike from Denver up into the Rockies, out to Glenwood Springs, and along the Colorado River to Moab, before turning north to Salt Lake City.

Along the way, I'm hoping to meet journalists & community scientists working to support community flourishing with data & evidence. I would love to say hi!

#bicycle #environment #science

Four judges and two lawyers in Indonesia have been charged with transacting bribes to issue a favorable ruling for palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas in a high-profile corruption case.

Prosecutors allege that the companies funneled up to 60 billion rupiah ($3.57 million) to the judges through intermediaries, avoiding potential fines totaling more than $1 billion.

By Hans Nicholas Jong
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/judg…

#News #Conservation #Environment #PalmOil

Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruption

JAKARTA — Prosecutors in Indonesia have charged four judges and two lawyers accused of bribery in a recently concluded trial involving palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas.

^{Hans Nicholas Jong (Conservation news)}

Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruption news.mongabay.com/2025/04/judg…

#Indonesia #environment #corruption #PalmOil #PermataHijau #Wilmar #MusimMas

Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruption

JAKARTA — Prosecutors in Indonesia have charged four judges and two lawyers accused of bribery in a recently concluded trial involving palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas.

^{Hans Nicholas Jong (Conservation news)}

Did you know red meat contributes up to 30% of agricultural emissions? It's one reason the ag sector is the 2nd-largest greenhouse gas emitter after energy. But not all meats have the same impact - on the planet or our personal health.

The new episode of Serving Up Science considers the best options for both our bodies & the environment! 🥩 (And don't worry, we're not out to take anyone's steak away). youtube.com/watch?v=pa6SWm99_r… #science #food #environment #climatechange

I love seeing cacti decorated with holiday lights this time of year, here in Tucson, AZ! Here’s my art of a festively decorated Enlightened Saguaro. You can read about my process creating this art on my latest blog post paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/…

#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #cactus #Saguaro #festive #holiday #lights #ChristmasLights

"The bottom line is that, globally, deforestation has gotten worse, not better, since the beginning of the decade.
We’re only six years away from a critical global deadline to end deforestation, and forests continue to be chopped down, degraded, and set ablaze at alarming rates,”
Ivan Palmegiani, consultant at the research group Climate Focus

#Forests #Deforestation #Trees #Environment #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #Beef #Soy #PalmOil

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction

Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

Turns out ecologists and entomologists around the world have been warning about declining insect numbers for years. The culprits are climate change, habitat loss, light pollution, intensive farming, pesticide and fertiliser use. But it’s a struggle to get people to act.

It’s not just about bees and butterflies, the poster children of the pollinator world. Other, less photogenic pollinators such as hoverflies, moths, wasps, soldier beetles and earwigs are also showing declines. Several of these species don’t just pollinate. They also eat the pest insects that ruin crops.

Already, in the apple and pear orchards of south-west China, depleted populations of pollinators have forced farmers to hand-pollinate their trees, carrying pots of pollen and paintbrushes with which to individually pollinate every flower. If it sounds labour-intensive and time-consuming, that’s because it is.

#green #ukpolitics #uspol #ukpol #climate #environment #insects #agriculture #farming

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We know so little of the hidden world beneath the seas. This is a perfect example of why it is so risky to just power ahead and start mining our oceans.

#environment #ocean

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Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'

The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.

^{Victoria Gill (BBC News)}

Latest comic: The Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine was largely overlooked in the wake of the debate, but possibly even more apocalyptic. In short, the Republican majority gutted the precedent that gave deference to scientists and other experts at setting regulations for air and water pollution and food safety.

#supremecourt #environment #uspol #cartoon #pollution #science #law

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indo…

In Brazil, 76% of deforestation in three Amazonian states occurred in a planned agricultural development zone phys.org/news/2024-05-brazil-d…

#Indonesia #Brazil #environment #forest #deforestation #PalmOil #AnimalRights #agriculture #AnimalAgriculture #meat #beef

In Brazil, 76% of deforestation in three Amazonian states occurred in a planned agricultural development zone

The Brazilian government is discussing the creation of an "agricultural development zone" at the confluence of three states in the Amazon region—Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia (hence the proposed acronym AMACRO).

^{Luciana Constantino (Phys.org)}

Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil | Malaysia | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/article/…

Uhm, bizarre move

#Malaysia #PalmOil #Nature #Environment

Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister

^{Rebecca Ratcliffe (The Guardian)}

Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic #foreverchemicals made by #3m

Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?

Without a blood test, you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins?

Well, 3M & #dupont kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They gaslit their own scientists.

& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/

propublica.org/article/3m-fore…

#environment #pollution