Biosphere in Crisis
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The biosphere is in crisis due to factors that include global warming, biodiversity loss, overpopulation, overshoot, & plastic pollution. My aim is to increase awareness of urgency for action
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A tornado has hit Ermont near Paris, France, causing 3 cranes to collapse. At least 1 person is dead and 9 people injured.
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Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says news.mongabay.com/2025/10/heat... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Heatwave #Amazon #Rainforest #Brazil
Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says
Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.
news.mongabay.com
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If you pay attention, ecological collapse is happening everywhere, in real time.
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine
An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west
orionmagazine.org
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AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
As tech companies spend billions on data centres, citizens around the world are starting to push back
AI uses too much electricity and water and should have their own grids, dams
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
As tech companies spend billions on data centres, citizens around the world are starting to push back
AI uses too much electricity and water and should have their own grids, dams
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
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Some agricultural producers in the Brazilian Cerrado who indirectly supply soy to the European market still haven’t complied with the forthcoming European Union’s antideforestation regulation, or EUDR, an investigation has found.
Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming
Agricultural producers in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna continue to clear land for soy, which puts them in breach of the European Union’s upcoming antideforestation law, or EUDR, a new investigation…
news.mongabay.com