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Tag Archives: environment
Disastrous oil spills that wreck our marine life
Currently we have an oil spill in the UK. It was 200 barrels which leaked into a beautiful marina which is in Poole, Dorset. https://youtu.be/JHVi96DrJwY Then watch the nightmare which is unfolding in the Red Sea. https://youtu.be/pRp2M47LcuE We are irresponsible … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Death, environment, harm, irresponsible, marine protection, oil spills, protection of oceans, rivers, sea
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Environmental auditing is not what it seems
You and I might care about sustainable forestry and check that any product made from the trees of this world are carefully sourced to protect ancient and rare trees. Auditors who assist in green labelling are part of a multi … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, ecology, conflict, destruction, ancient forests, sustainable timber, forestry, smugglers, rare trees, criminals, international crime, auditors, regulation, enforcement, military junta, war chest, cardboard, furniture, wooden products, lax laws
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Fight the cause of the refugee crisis
Use satellite imagery and track the problems and build solutions: https://www.planet.com/
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Tagged asylum, authoritarian regime, child abuse, climate change, conflict, cruelty, discrimination, drought, drugs, environment, exploitation, famine, human rights, inhuman living conditions, low paid work, male domination, misogyny, no freshwater, persecution, poverty, rape, rebuilding, rehoming, replanting, rescue, satellite imagery, sustainable living, terror, torture, tracking, trafficking, unsanitary conditions, value every human, violence
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When we rebuild
Bertrand Piccard says we must develop wisdom and respect. He is collecting 1000 solutions which exist already, but then will promote them to attract greater investments. We can rebuild whilst not recreating the harmful environments of the past centuries. https://bertrandpiccard.com/articles/the-1000-solutions-call … Continue reading
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Tagged clean drinking water, devastation, disruption, ecology, environment, futures, infrastructure, respect, wisdom
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Fast Fashion Fuelling Extinction
A few years back I wrote about climate and how the lives of the Inuit had to change as a result. They have been major users of animal skins since they first arrived after generations of travel from Africa, as … Continue reading
Will we be Fishless?: VI
How Fish are Exposed to Pesticides Fish and aquatic animals are exposed to pesticides in three primary ways (1) dermally, direct absorption through the skin by swimming in pesticide-contaminated waters, (2) breathing, by direct uptake of pesticides through the gills … Continue reading
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Tagged benthos, environment, Farming, glyphosate, health, pesticides, rivers, soil
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The Jaguar of the Americas and implications for its origins: part two
Nature dominates and rules our lives. No matter how much material wealth we may have, we cannot buy Nature and all its myriad of miracles. We do try to emulate Nature and today we call this study Biomimetics. Wikipedia re: … Continue reading
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Tagged biomimetics, chavin, deity, environment, jaguar, mayan, olmec, protection, reverence, shamanism, South America, wildlife, worship
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Habitat, genetics and us
As the last Ice Age melts at a fast pace, the upside of that news is that researchers are finding more and more ancient bones, skeletons and artefacts which were previously locked under permafrost. The knowledge accumulating about the kind … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, archaic humans, caves, environment, fire uses, food diversity, ice age, mammoth, Siberia, skill development, survival
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Iapetus Ocean
Drilling to the deepest parts of the Earth as possible has led scientists to infer the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. A period of geological time known as the Archean ( 3.5-3.4 billion years ago) has been studied … Continue reading
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