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lions — Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible. By doing this we are now accelerating the sixth mass extinction event […]

Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating

26/07/2017 in Environment News tagged Extinction by akina

turtle and plastic waste — The discovery was made by a team of researchers led by Captain Charles Moore. A massive plastic patch larger than Greenland has been discovered in the South Pacific, and much of the waste is believed to have originated in New Zealand. “This area is enormous, it’s heavily polluted with plastic […]

2.5 Million Square-Kilometre Plastic Patch Floating in the South Pacific

23/07/2017 in Environment News by akina

skull — Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the […]

The Uninhabitable Earth

09/07/2017 in Environment News tagged Extinction by akina

selwyn river — Freshwater pollution and increasing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are among the biggest challenges New Zealand’s environment faces, says a new review. The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has made 50 recommendations in its third environmental performance review. It said New Zealand’s economic growth model was approaching its […]

New Zealand’s Economic Growth Model pushing Environmental Limits

21/03/2017 in Environment News tagged New Zealand by akina

young_seal — The Earth Has Lost More Than Half Its Animals Since 1970. The global wildlife population declined by nearly 60 percent over the past four decades according to an alarming new report from the World Wildlife Foundation and the Zoological Society of London. This rate of decline is set to continue […]

Two Thirds of all Wildlife Extinct by 2020

27/10/2016 in Environment News tagged Extinction by akina