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Palm Oil Detectives

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#News: #Forests in #Kalangala #Uganda were cleared for #palmoil. Now owing to lack of tree cover, 994 households are homeless after a #climate disaster. Palm oil destroys homes and livelihoods #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-bm3?utm_source=ma…

Palm Oil Is Ruining Kalangala Uganda — Locals Paying the Price

A catastrophic storm in #Uganda’s Kalangala district left nearly 1,000 households homeless. The real culprit? Rampant #deforestation for #palmoil. Once rich in native forests that buffered storms, …

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Alexandra

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Alexandra
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I don't divide a year into four seasons, instead I notice the change through blossoms. The blossoms don't follow a chronological order. They overlap, reverse, even repeat sometimes. Each mountainside has its own climate. The rocks can be burning hot on one side and covered with snow on the other. Here are the blossoms of a climate that's warming up:
1. Crocus time is cool and crispy. The blossoms can poke directly from the snow.
2. Primroses come after crocuses, although sometimes they meet each other on the same slope. Then crocuses dissolve while primroses stay. The air is warmer and it smells of soil and plants.
3. Anemone time means you can be confident it's warm on their field. You might need sunscreen, and even look for shadows to chill in.
4. Hyacinths arrive when you start keeping the solar zenith in mind, and making sure you've got your cap on. The bees are everywhere, and the air is so sweet that you want to eat it with a spoon.

#flowers #blossom #spring #weather #nature #outdoors #hiking #climate #mountains #plants #crocus #primrose #anemone #hyacinth

Purple crocuses bloom in a grassy meadow. A steep valley rises toward snow-covered mountain peaks under a blue sky with white clouds.

Purple crocuses and pale yellow primroses growing among brown fallen leaves in a sunlit forest.

Pale yellow primroses blooming on a forest floor covered in dried oak leaves with the sun shining through the trees in the background.

An ancient olive tree stands with purple anemones blooming in the foreground under the sun.

A purple anemone flower with a dark center and blue base, surrounded by green leaves in the sunlight.

Clusters of dark blue grape hyacinth flowers grow from a rocky ledge over a clear, shallow stream.

Small purple grape hyacinths and tiny white flowers grow at the base of a grey rocky cliff with a steep green mountain and blue sky in the background.

#Spring #nature #plants #hiking #Weather #Climate #outdoors #flowers #mountains #hyacinth #blossom #crocus #Anemone #primrose

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Palm Oil Detectives

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Palm Oil Detectives
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Hydroelectric Dams Take a Toll on Jaguars, Tigers and Lions

As reigning apex #predators of a variety of ecosystems, #bigcats like tigers, jaguars and lions are vital for ecosystem health. Yet forest loss for hydroelectric dam building is a real threat to these majestic big cats. Aside from depriving wildlife of a home, forest loss also contributes to #climatechange. It’s ironic then that hydroelectricity, which is being developed worldwide (especially in South American and

Hydroelectric Dams Take a Toll on Jaguars, Tigers and Lions

As reigning apex #predators of a variety of ecosystems, #bigcats like tigers, jaguars and lions are vital for ecosystem health. Yet forest loss for hydroelectric dam building is a real threat to these majestic big cats. Aside from depriving wildlife of a home, forest loss also contributes to #climatechange. It’s ironic then that hydroelectricity, which is being developed worldwide (especially in South American and Asian countries) as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, is a big cause of deforestation. Alternative energy is important however shouldn’t come at the cost of species under threat. Better protections are urgently needed. #Boycott4Wildlife

Often lauded as a saviour for the #environment and #climate, hydroelectric dams threaten #bigcats: #jaguars and #tigers 🐯🐅 Better protection of forests is needed to ensure endangered big #cats are protected #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-9cr

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Written by Tara Pirie, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Wildlife Research Group, University of Reading. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Big cats are among the most widespread top predators on Earth. Lions stalk zebra in the African savanna, tigers ambush antelope in the forests of Asia and jaguars hunt deer in the jungles of South America. They play an important role in ecosystems by regulating the numbers of these herbivores, in turn, reducing the deterioration of vegetated habitats and maintaining species diversity.
Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
Tigers, lions and jaguars must cover large areas to find food, so they need a lot of energy. As with many large carnivores, big cats are under threat from habitat loss, which leaves them with less to eat. Their spread-out populations and slow reproductive rates make them particularly vulnerable. While the habitats in which big cats live range from boreal forests at high latitudes to tropical rainforests at the equator, the causes of habitat loss are largely the same: logging for wood and fuel, plantations, farming and urbanisation.

youtu.be/7VVv9oAtbVI

Aside from depriving wildlife of a home, forest loss also contributes to climate change. It’s ironic then that hydroelectricity, which is being developed worldwide (especially in South American and Asian countries) as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, is a big cause of deforestation.

Building hydroelectric dams has caused extinctions and spread diseases in rivers globally, but the threat to ecosystems on land has largely been overlooked. In a recent study, researchers from China and Portugal investigated how existing and planned hydroelectric dams might affect two carnivores: the near-threatened jaguar (with an estimated global population of 173,000) and the endangered tiger (thought to number between 3,200 and 3,500 worldwide).

Jaguar Panthera onca

Jaguars, currently deemed Near Threatened, face a substantial habitat reduction of up to 25% in just over two decades. This decline stems from rampant deforestation for palm oil, soy,…
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by Palm Oil DetectivesAugust 28, 2022August 7, 2025

Tiger Panthera tigris

Fewer than 400 tigers remain in Sumatra due to deforestation for palm oil. Help save this endangered species. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
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by Palm Oil DetectivesJanuary 20, 2021October 8, 2025

Leopard Panthera pardus

Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering…
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by Palm Oil DetectivesMarch 11, 2021April 19, 2025

The distribution of jaguars and tigers has shrunk 50% and 93% respectively, but the researchers found that hydroelectric plants pose a substantial risk of further declines. They found 164 dams that already intersect the jaguar range and 421 dams that do the same for tigers. This equates to one in five tigers that are likely to be affected by dams, compared with one in 200 jaguars. Since tiger numbers are already so low, this could have a considerable influence on the population’s capacity to recover and may even result in local extinctions.
A dam on the Narmada River in India, where the endangered Bengal tiger is native. Ankit K Sinha/Shutterstock

Damning developments for big cats

Large expanses of land are flooded to create reservoirs when building hydroelectric plants in low-lying, relatively flat areas. Although tigers and jaguars can and do swim, they mainly hunt species such as deer that live on land. Sites chosen for dams typically incorporate floodplains and areas along rivers that are important for both species, since they tend to contain lots of prey.

The flooded area will force both predators and prey into surrounding areas. If the vegetation here can support the influx of herbivores, tigers and jaguars will probably persist. But if it cannot, the predators may be forced further afield in search of food, potentially drawing them into conflict with people who may kill them.

Relatively pristine habitats are under threat. The number of hydroelectric dams is set to quadruple across the jaguar’s range with a further 429 planned, while 41 are expected where tigers roam. Aside from the direct loss of habitat, these new constructions can increase the presence of people in remote areas. Roads built to access new dam sites consequently open up areas that were previously impenetrable. Roads can be a barrier to some species and kill those that try to cross. Roads can also encourage new towns and villages, which divide the habitat further.
A road in Brazil which drives deep into jaguar habitat. Ricardo de O. Lemos/Shutterstock

Mitigating the damage

Where dams exist, the researchers suggest habitat loss could be limited by incorporating the surroundings into a protected area with suitable enforcement. Any new dams, though, especially in conservation areas or areas where top predators prowl, should be avoided. Sadly, most of the dams planned in Asia overlap with significant portions of the tiger’s range.

One way to mitigate the damage from building new hydroelectric plants may be to do it on slopes outside of areas that are crucial for conserving tigers and jaguars. The amount of flooded area needed to produce electricity from these plants when they’re on a slope is smaller compared to those built on lower ground, reducing the overall damage to the surrounding habitat. But impact assessments would need to confirm the plant wasn’t simply creating new issues elsewhere.

Alternative sources of energy are important for a sustainable future, but their benefits should not come at a substantial cost to species already under threat.
Craig Jones Wildlife Photography – A Bengal tiger drinking at a river
Written by Tara Pirie, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Wildlife Research Group, University of Reading. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found in West Papua

Two stunning marsupials thought extinct for 6000 years rediscovered in West Papua. Calls for rainforest protection even more urgent!
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Do you love animals? Make every day #WorldWildlifeDay

This #WorldWildlifeDay take action for animals great and small! Reptiles insects, mammals and birds deserve better than palm oil ecocide and extinction. Make sure you Boycott palm oil
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Beautiful and Doomed: Saving Bangladesh’s Langurs From Extinction

Critically endangered Phayre’s langurs and endangered capped langurs of Bangladesh, are interbreeding raising concerns about their survival, take action!
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Parrot Deaths Highlight Urgent Need to Reform CITES

The legal trade is largely to blame for African grey parrots becoming endangered. Regulator CITES is broken allowing exploitation, massive reform needed now!
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Jaguars and Pumas Eat More Monkeys in Damaged Forests

In fragmented forests of Mexico, big cats find it hard to locate prey ungulates instead seeking tree-dwelling #monkeys – that’s bad news for primates!
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Mel Lumby: Dedicated Devotee to Borneo’s Living Beings

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The World’s Most Loved Cup: A Social, Ethical & Environmental History of Coffee by Aviary Doert

How do we stop the world’s ecosystems from going into a death spiral? A #SteadyState Economy

3. Supermarket sleuthing: Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands who use palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free.

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Tara Pirie — Profile on The Conversation

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Giuseppe Zolli

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Often lauded as a saviour for the #environment and #climate, hydroelectric dams threaten #bigcats: #jaguars and #tigers 📷📷 Better protection of forests is needed to ensure endangered big #cats are protected #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-9cr

Palm Oil Detectives

2026-03-14 14:42:00

Hydroelectric Dams Take a Toll on Jaguars, Tigers and Lions
As reigning apex #predators of a variety of ecosystems, #bigcats like tigers, jaguars and lions are vital for ecosystem health. Yet forest loss for hydroelectric dam building is a real threat to these majestic big cats. Aside from depriving wildlife of a home, forest loss also contributes to #climatechange. It’s ironic then that hydroelectricity, which is being developed worldwide (especially in South American and Asian countries) as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, is a big cause of deforestation. Alternative energy is important however shouldn’t come at the cost of species under threat. Better protections are urgently needed. #Boycott4Wildlife
Often lauded as a saviour for the #environment and #climate, hydroelectric dams threaten #bigcats: #jaguars and #tigers 🐯🐅 Better protection of forests is needed to ensure endangered big #cats are protected #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-9cr
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Written by Tara Pirie, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Wildlife Research Group, University of Reading. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Big cats are among the most widespread top predators on Earth. Lions stalk zebra in the African savanna, tigers ambush antelope in the forests of Asia and jaguars hunt deer in the jungles of South America. They play an important role in ecosystems by regulating the numbers of these herbivores, in turn, reducing the deterioration of vegetated habitats and maintaining species diversity.
Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
Tigers, lions and jaguars must cover large areas to find food, so they need a lot of energy. As with many large carnivores, big cats are under threat from habitat loss, which leaves them with less to eat. Their spread-out populations and slow reproductive rates make them particularly vulnerable. While the habitats in which big cats live range from boreal forests at high latitudes to tropical rainforests at the equator, the causes of habitat loss are largely the same: logging for wood and fuel, plantations, farming and urbanisation.
youtu.be/7VVv9oAtbVI
Aside from depriving wildlife of a home, forest loss also contributes to climate change. It’s ironic then that hydroelectricity, which is being developed worldwide (especially in South American and Asian countries) as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, is a big cause of deforestation.
Building hydroelectric dams has caused extinctions and spread diseases in rivers globally, but the threat to ecosystems on land has largely been overlooked. In a recent study, researchers from China and Portugal investigated how existing and planned hydroelectric dams might affect two carnivores: the near-threatened jaguar (with an estimated global population of 173,000) and the endangered tiger (thought to number between 3,200 and 3,500 worldwide).

Jaguar Panthera onca

Jaguars, currently deemed Near Threatened, face a substantial habitat reduction of up to 25% in just over two decades. This decline stems from rampant deforestation for palm oil, soy,…
Keep reading
by Palm Oil DetectivesAugust 28, 2022August 7, 2025

Tiger Panthera tigris

Fewer than 400 tigers remain in Sumatra due to deforestation for palm oil. Help save this endangered species. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
Keep reading
by Palm Oil DetectivesJanuary 20, 2021October 8, 2025

Leopard Panthera pardus

Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering…
Keep reading
by Palm Oil DetectivesMarch 11, 2021April 19, 2025
The distribution of jaguars and tigers has shrunk 50% and 93% respectively, but the researchers found that hydroelectric plants pose a substantial risk of further declines. They found 164 dams that already intersect the jaguar range and 421 dams that do the same for tigers. This equates to one in five tigers that are likely to be affected by dams, compared with one in 200 jaguars. Since tiger numbers are already so low, this could have a considerable influence on the population’s capacity to recover and may even result in local extinctions.
A dam on the Narmada River in India, where the endangered Bengal tiger is native. Ankit K Sinha/Shutterstock
Damning developments for big cats

Large expanses of land are flooded to create reservoirs when building hydroelectric plants in low-lying, relatively flat areas. Although tigers and jaguars can and do swim, they mainly hunt species such as deer that live on land. Sites chosen for dams typically incorporate floodplains and areas along rivers that are important for both species, since they tend to contain lots of prey.
The flooded area will force both predators and prey into surrounding areas. If the vegetation here can support the influx of herbivores, tigers and jaguars will probably persist. But if it cannot, the predators may be forced further afield in search of food, potentially drawing them into conflict with people who may kill them.
Relatively pristine habitats are under threat. The number of hydroelectric dams is set to quadruple across the jaguar’s range with a further 429 planned, while 41 are expected where tigers roam. Aside from the direct loss of habitat, these new constructions can increase the presence of people in remote areas. Roads built to access new dam sites consequently open up areas that were previously impenetrable. Roads can be a barrier to some species and kill those that try to cross. Roads can also encourage new towns and villages, which divide the habitat further.
A road in Brazil which drives deep into jaguar habitat. Ricardo de O. Lemos/Shutterstock
Mitigating the damage

Where dams exist, the researchers suggest habitat loss could be limited by incorporating the surroundings into a protected area with suitable enforcement. Any new dams, though, especially in conservation areas or areas where top predators prowl, should be avoided. Sadly, most of the dams planned in Asia overlap with significant portions of the tiger’s range.
One way to mitigate the damage from building new hydroelectric plants may be to do it on slopes outside of areas that are crucial for conserving tigers and jaguars. The amount of flooded area needed to produce electricity from these plants when they’re on a slope is smaller compared to those built on lower ground, reducing the overall damage to the surrounding habitat. But impact assessments would need to confirm the plant wasn’t simply creating new issues elsewhere.
Alternative sources of energy are important for a sustainable future, but their benefits should not come at a substantial cost to species already under threat.
Craig Jones Wildlife Photography – A Bengal tiger drinking at a river
Written by Tara Pirie, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Wildlife Research Group, University of Reading. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found in West Papua

Two stunning marsupials thought extinct for 6000 years rediscovered in West Papua. Calls for rainforest protection even more urgent!
Read more

Do you love animals? Make every day #WorldWildlifeDay

This #WorldWildlifeDay take action for animals great and small! Reptiles insects, mammals and birds deserve better than palm oil ecocide and extinction. Make sure you Boycott palm oil
Read more

Beautiful and Doomed: Saving Bangladesh’s Langurs From Extinction

Critically endangered Phayre’s langurs and endangered capped langurs of Bangladesh, are interbreeding raising concerns about their survival, take action!
Read more

Parrot Deaths Highlight Urgent Need to Reform CITES

The legal trade is largely to blame for African grey parrots becoming endangered. Regulator CITES is broken allowing exploitation, massive reform needed now!
Read more

Jaguars and Pumas Eat More Monkeys in Damaged Forests

In fragmented forests of Mexico, big cats find it hard to locate prey ungulates instead seeking tree-dwelling #monkeys – that’s bad news for primates!
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The World’s Most Loved Cup: A Social, Ethical & Environmental History of Coffee by Aviary Doert
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How do we stop the world’s ecosystems from going into a death spiral? A #SteadyState Economy
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3. Supermarket sleuthing: Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands who use palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free.
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4. Take to the streets: Get in touch with Palm Oil Detectives to find out more.
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Palm Oil Detectives

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Hydroelectric Dams Take a Toll on Jaguars, Tigers and Lions

Forest loss for hydroelectric dams is a real threat to big cats contributing to climate change in South America and Asia. Help them survive and take action!

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#cats #environment #Climate #Boycott4Wildlife #tigers #Jaguars #bigcats

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Kevin Russell

1 week ago

Kevin Russell
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Shyte.

AI, given our water, land, gigawatts of power to make brain scrambling, child slaughtering, castles of ignorance, is this decade's Asbestos.

#ai #datacenters #crypto #counterfeit #coup #oligarchy #iran #climate #war #dems

Al is Asbestos.

We'll be digging it out of
everything, for generations.

Cory Doctorow.

Enshittification

#AI #War #Climate #crypto #Iran #coup #datacenters #oligarchy #Counterfeit #dems

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Palm Oil Detectives

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#Study finds top 10% of wealthiest people in #USA and #China cause two thirds of #GHG emissions. Robust #climate policies urgently and a #wealthtax needed to counteract pure #greed 💰🧐🤑 🤮#ClimateActionNow 🏭🛢️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2026/01/…

#usa #China #Climate #study #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #greed #climateactionnow #ghg #wealthtax

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Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"

3 weeks ago

Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"
3 weeks ago

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk
#climate
#ecology

#solarpunk #ecology #Climate

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Palm Oil Detectives

1 month ago

Palm Oil Detectives
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#News: #Shell paid Queensland Museum $10m to brainwash kids about #climate! 🧐🤮 Materials downloaded 400K times promote #carbon capture, hide #fossilfuel's role in the #climatecrisis. Ban fossil fuel sponsorships NOW! 🌴☠️🚫 #Greenwashing @palmoildetect.bsky.social desmog.com/2025/12/07/exclusiv…

Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education - DeSmog

The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.

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#News #Climate #ClimateCrisis #carbon #greenwashing #fossilfuel #shell

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Kevin Russell

1 month ago

Kevin Russell
1 month ago

If you need to seek refuge from smoke, then your municipal water supply is PROBABLY cancerous.

Because physics. Your city water supply has been contaminated, and systemic cleaning is necessary.

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#climate #forestFire #fire #smoke #cancer #benzene

#fire #Climate #smoke #cancer #forestfire #benzene

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Palm Oil Detectives

2 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
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#News: #BigAg’s #PR and #Greenwashing war during #COP30: #JBS and Minerva hire celebrity influencers in Brazil to push #meat and ignore #climate #mining and #deforestation. A filthy and grubby DISGRACE! 🧐🚫 be #Vegan and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social desmog.com/2025/11/16/in-brazi…

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds - DeSmog

Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

^{Clare Carlile (DeSmog)}

#News #vegan #Climate #Meat #greenwashing #deforestation #Boycott4Wildlife #mining #pr #JBS #cop30 #BigAg

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Palm Oil Detectives

2 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
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#News: #Europe’s Green Deal is being eroded: #deforestation laws for #meat and #palmoil delayed, #climate targets weakened, #supplychain due diligence relaxed. NOW IS NOT THE TIME! 🧐🚫 #EUDR #CSDDD ##BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social dw.com/en/the-european-green-d…

Is Europe turning away from climate protection?

European industrial and agricultural concerns are facing diluted environmental regulations, while the bloc as a whole has reduced its climate targets. What's at stake and how do far-right parties feature in the mix?

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#News #Europe #Climate #Meat #palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #supplychain #eudr #CSDDD

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Palm Oil Detectives

2 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
2 months ago

#News: #Coral #reefs have shaped Earth’s #climate for 250 million years, driving recovery from carbon shocks, evolution of marine #animals. Their decline today brings huge loss, unless we intervene now 🧐🌊 #ClimateChange #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social theconversation.com/coral-reef…

Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years

Coral reefs have shaped Earth in much deeper ways than we usually appreciate.

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#News #animals #climatechange #Climate #Boycott4Wildlife #coral #reefs

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Palm Oil Detectives

2 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
2 months ago

What happens if we cut down the whole #Amazon rainforest? Mass death for #climate #animals #plants and people. Doing so is akin to severing our own arteries. Take action! Go #vegan 🥦🥕 and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚫 #BoycottGold 🥇🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/06/…

Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?

What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequenc…

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#vegan #animals #plants #Amazon #Climate #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #boycottgold

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Brian Vastag

2 months ago

Brian Vastag
2 months ago

Hawaii's 'green fee' set to begin Jan. 1. It adds 11% tax on cruise ship passengers among other visitors fees. Of course the #Trump regime tried to stop it. I hope the funds are used wisely to adapt and mitigate.

#travel #climate #Hawaii

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#Climate #Trump #travel #hawaii

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Palm Oil Detectives

3 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
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#News: Just 3% of #climate aid supports frontline #workers #indigenous communities. A new ActionAid report exposes shocking #corruption. Global South must be at the centre of climate justice! 🧐🚫 #HumanRights #WorkersRights #ClimateChange @palmoildetect.bsky.social theguardian.com/environment/20…

Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities, says NGO report

New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected

^{Dharna Noor (The Guardian)}

#News #HumanRights #climatechange #Climate #indigenous #corruption #workersrights #workers

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Palm Oil Detectives

3 months ago

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3 months ago

#News: The meat industry lobby generated massive online #greenwashing in response to the EAT-Lancet #diet report, using paid trolls to spread meat disinformation to derail #climate/ #health action. 🧐🚫 Go #Vegan @palmoildetect
changingmarkets.org/report/mea…

Meat vs EAT-Lancet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash • Changing Markets

The EAT-Lancet Commission publish EAT-Lancet 2.0: an update to the planetary health diet 2019. One of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – orchestrated by the meat industry.

^{Changing Markets}

#News #vegan #Health #Climate #greenwashing #diet

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Dragofix

3 months ago

Dragofix
3 months ago

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)}

#politics #environment #EU #climatechange #Climate #forest #ClimateCrisis #deforestation #eupol

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

3 months ago

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
3 months ago

To Meet Pledges to Save #Forests Spending Must Triple, #UN Report Says
4yr after global pledge to end #deforestation, amount of money going toward conserving and restoring forests is not enough
By providing habitat to over 80% of all animals, plants and insects on land, healthy forests are key to sustaining life on #Earth. They also help regulate #weather patterns and global #climate. Trees and other plants absorb atmosphere-warming #carbondioxide.
nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate…
archive.ph/dEEG9

#Weather #Climate #earth #deforestation #forests #un #carbondioxide

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Jen Sorensen

3 months ago

Jen Sorensen
3 months ago

Latest comic: Climate Silence

#climate #climatechange #cop30 #media #journalism #uspol #oligarchy #climatecrisis

AS THE COP3O CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN BRAZIL, WE SEEM TO BE TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE LESS AND LESS IN THE US. WHY?

SCREAMING CROX NEWS ANCHOR: HOAX! SCAM! AGENDA! PLOY!

PUNDIT: FOR SOME REASON, VOTERS DON'T CARE ABOUT IT, SO CANDIDATES SHOULDN'T BRING IT UP.

METEOROLOGIST: I GET DEATH THREATS WHEN I MENTION IT, SO NOW I JUST TALK ABOUT CLOUDS.

BIG MEDIA CO. EXECUTIVE: DOESN'T GET CLICKS! GOTTA GET CLICKS AND EYEBALLS!

WOMAN AT KITCHEN SINK: I JUST PREFER NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT.
HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WATER?

BILLIONAIRE: I HAVE MY LUXURY DOOMSDAY BUNKERS, SO HUMANITY WILL SURVIVE.

IF BY "HUMANITY" YOU MEAN ME.

#Media #climatechange #Climate #ClimateCrisis #journalism #uspol #oligarchy #cop30

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Palm Oil Detectives

4 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
4 months ago

#News: During #COP30 #Brazil plans to hand #Amazon land to illegal ranchers—putting #indigenous families, forests and global #climate at risk. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 🧐🔥 #Deforestation #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social
hrw.org/news/2025/11/04/in-the…

In the Shadow of COP30, Brazil is Stripping Rainforest of Protections

While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning to hand over a large area of the Amazon rainforest to illegal cattle ranches.

^{Human Rights Watch}

#News #HumanRights #Amazon #Climate #brazil #indigenous #deforestation #cop30

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Dilman Dila

4 months ago

Dilman Dila
4 months ago

I'm #crowdfunding for a film via my website as I'm excluded from major platforms (I'm based on the wrong continent) I've developed it since 2018 and will shoot next year, but I have to figure out the vfx needed to envision this futuristic world with no capitalism, where direct democracy thrives. I need your support! Details dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-s…
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#solarpunk #climate #mutualaid #kickstarter #backerkit #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #sff #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #crowdfund #film

Wind: A Solarpunk Short Film

I'm making a new short film, which I'll release on my PeerTube channel. It is a final target practice for a feature film (titled Big Tree) that I intend to shoot next year, themed on direct democracy in a near-future solarpunk world.

^{Dilman Dila}

#solarpunk #CreativeToots #Film #Writing #scifi #Crowdfunding #Climate #mutualaid #writingcommunity #buyintoart #sff #crowdfund #kickstarter #backerkit

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Dilman Dila

4 months ago

Dilman Dila
4 months ago

The generous donations today leave me breathless with thanks! I'm closer to reaching my first goal to make this film that imagines a future with no government so we have direct democracy; no police so we use traditional justice systems; no capitalism so no poverty. It's a dream worth having! Your support will help me envision this future.
Details: dilmandila.com/embracing-solar…
1390/2000

#crowdfund #crowdfunding #mutualaid #sff #scifi #film #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #climate #kickstarter #writing

On embracing solarpunk in my stories

I discuss the various genres that I work in, including Africanfuturism, afrofuturism, and solarpunk, and why I'm embracing the later as my preferred genre.

^{Dilman Dila}

#CreativeToots #Film #Writing #scifi #Crowdfunding #Climate #mutualaid #buyintoart #sff #crowdfund #kickstarter

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Dilman Dila

4 months ago

Dilman Dila
4 months ago

I dream about the future as escapism. Things are bleak; bad governance in much of Africa, the #climate crisis unfolding, fascism in the #us but in my head it turns out OK. This is perhaps how I began creating #solarpunk stuff like this film set in a post-capitalist world where direct democracy ensures everyone has a say in running the government. Help me make it! Details dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-s…
#mutualaid #sff #scifi #crowdfunding #BuyIntoArt #creativetoots #crowdfund #kickstarter #backerkit

Wind: A Solarpunk Short Film

I'm making a new short film, which I'll release on my PeerTube channel. It is a final target practice for a feature film (titled Big Tree) that I intend to shoot next year, themed on direct democracy in a near-future solarpunk world.

^{Dilman Dila}

#solarpunk #CreativeToots #scifi #Crowdfunding #Climate #mutualaid #us #buyintoart #sff #crowdfund #kickstarter #backerkit

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Frank Aylward

4 months ago

Frank Aylward
4 months ago

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#solar #renewables #climate

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

^{Stephen Burgen (The Guardian)}

#Climate #solar #renewables

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Frank Aylward

5 months ago

Frank Aylward
5 months ago

Nice video on the long term impacts of natural disasters

youtu.be/LsToZlTBeGc?si=4vPt4l…

#hurricanes #climate #fires

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

^youtu.be

#Climate #fires #hurricanes

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Henrik Sundström

5 months ago

Henrik Sundström
5 months ago

#biodiversity #environment #GusSpeth #climate #climatechange

A picutre of Gus Speth, an older white man wearing glasses. He is smiling.

Alongside is the quotation:

"We scientists don't know how to do that"
"I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change.
I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems.
But I was wrong.
The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...
...and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation
- and we scientists don't know how to do that."
Gus Speth

#environment #climatechange #Climate #biodiversity #gusspeth

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Palm Oil Detectives

5 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
5 months ago

#News: Some #tropical #trees have the ingenious ability to cool their lives to survive heatwaves—but many can’t 🌴🔥. Loss of these species could trigger animal and plant #extinction and risks #climate resilience. #ClimateChange #Boycott4Wildlife theconversation.com/some-tropi…

Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope

In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.

^{The Conversation}

#News #climatechange #Climate #Trees #extinction #Boycott4Wildlife #tropical

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Palm Oil Detectives

5 months ago

Palm Oil Detectives
5 months ago

#News: The #Amazon is on the brink: 18% lost, tipping point is at 20-25%, devastating #biodiversity and #climate.🌴🔥 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife and be #Vegan @palmoildetect theguardian.com/environment/ng…

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future

Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

#News #vegan #Amazon #Climate #biodiversity #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

6 months ago

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖
6 months ago

#Google once promised to run “carbon free 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year” by 2030. But five years later the company has quietly deleted its net zero pledge from its sustainability website rebranding the section and moving the goal into an appendix.

The shift comes as #AI data centres drive surging energy use. Google’s power consumption jumped 26% in 2024 nearly matching #Ireland ’s and the #Trump administration pressures #corporations to roll back #climate goals.

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#AI #Google #Climate #Trump #ireland #corporations

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Sheril Kirshenbaum

7 months ago

Sheril Kirshenbaum
7 months ago

Then again, the U.S. sure needs a #climate reminder… /2

NPR: Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations. Jeff Brady • July 24, 2025 05:00 AM EDT

#Climate

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Joris Meys

8 months ago

Joris Meys
8 months ago

Brace for impact. The #ECMWF #weather #model promises scorching temperatures over #Europe the coming week. Anomalies of up to 15-20 C higher than normal are expected.

This weather is brought to you by climate change (for those who claim it's been hot before: weather is what happens, climate is the probability it happens. And this has become significantly more probable because greenhouse gases and physics.)

#wx #Climate

#Europe #Weather #Climate #MODEL #ecmwf #wx

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Joseph Teller

8 months ago

Joseph Teller
8 months ago

Boston (and here in Cambridge) is at The Highest Temperature It's Ever Been Today

The highest temperature recorded was 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) on July 4, 1911.

2:15 PM and we have matched that Record. And It Could Potentially Break that Record.

#Boston #Cambridge #HighestRecordedTemperature #HistoryBreaking #Climate #Weather

#Weather #Climate #Boston #Cambridge #HighestRecordedTemperature #HistoryBreaking

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Frank Aylward

9 months ago

Frank Aylward
9 months ago

Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’

"I am hopeful, and I think the best solution is to move toward a different economic model. The world is realizing that we can’t maintain capitalism as it is."

english.elpais.com/science-tec…

#climate #PublicHealth #health #economy

Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’

The British scientist examines the techniques that companies use to influence public opinion and how these tactics impact our health

^{Jessica Mouzo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

#Health #Climate #economy #publichealth

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Frank Aylward

9 months ago

Frank Aylward
9 months ago

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

Cotopaxi, by Frederic Edwin Church, part of a series of paintings he made in honor of Humboldt's travels. The painting shows a volcano erupting with the sun setting nearby, and tropical plants in the foreground.

#nature #science #environment #Climate

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Dragofix

9 months ago

Dragofix
9 months ago

(2022) Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century journals.plos.org/climate/arti…

#AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #greenhousegas #CO2 #emissions #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateAction #GoVegan

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

Animal agriculture contributes significantly to global warming through ongoing emissions of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, and displacement of biomass carbon on the land used to support livestock.

^{journals.plos.org}

#climatechange #Climate #ClimateCrisis #greenhousegas #climateaction #globalwarming #animalrights #co2 #emissions #govegan #animalagriculture

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