The #DeepOcean is home to fragile #ecosystems, unique #species, and critical #CarbonSinks that help regulate global #climate. #Mining the ocean floor will destroy these ecosystems and release toxic #pollutants, leading to irreparable damage to ocean #biodiversity.

We know this is a longer post, but understanding the full context is crucial. The fact that #companies can now exploit this #loophole in #InternationalWaters

🌊🌊🌊

#News: #Research in @thelancet
finds #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation needed #Boycott4Wildlife
@palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/09/08/protect-nature-to-avoid-future-pandemics/

Who are the most important world changers? Those who shout 'make XY great again' and walk over dead bodies in their greed? Or the more quiet ones who get together, let tiny seeds slip through their fingers, swap old varieties, and revitalise this important knowledge? https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f

#diversity #biodiversity #seeds #culturalHeritage #change

I got to see a Painted Bunting (a new bird for me!) in a small urban park here in Tucson, AZ. It was so colorful it HAD to be my Perpetual Journal art that week! 😍

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #outdoors #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #Lupine #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #bunting #PaintedBunting

Been busy all last week cutting down the borders. With the temperatures on the up, I reckoned that everybody is out now of their winter quarters in stems and seedheads.
The photograph is of the middle third of the #garden, viewed across. Behind the camera is the greenhouse, a little more space and a tall hedge.
Later in the year, this area is filled with tall, flowering #perennials, ornamental #grasses and #wildflowers - you cannot see from one side to the other. It is beautiful, undisciplined and overflowing with nature.
At this time of the year it is just flat. I am anxiously waiting to see what will come back.

#ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #spring #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WeedGardening #weeds #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability

The wombat outcry :
An (illegal) selfie with wildlife
vs systematic wildlife destruction and wilful neglect

"The irony of our country’s leaders condemning the actions of a young tourist’s treatment of a wombat while shamelessly sanctioning their slaughter is impossible to overlook...Kangaroos, native birds, possums, black swans and emus are just a few of the many native animals that landholders are granted licences to kill under the ATCW list."

"Our leaders have a lot to answer for and must confront the uncomfortable truth of their own involvement in wildlife destruction. They can no longer ignore the role they play in enabling the harm of native animals while lecturing others on respect for wildlife."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/attacking-a-young-tourist-over-her-treatment-of-a-wombat-is-hypocritical-and-misses-the-point
#biodiversity #WildlifeCrime #Australia #culture #EPBCAct #ecocide #governance #roadkill #deforestation #logging #harm

lately, i feel as though i'm being kicked in the brain (in a good way?) by things that i should have worked out aaaaaaages ago. today, it's that you can make (burmese) tofu from loads of different legumes - & that's both delicious & great for biodiversity/people who avoid soya.
#vegan #tofu #legumes #biodiversity #TIL
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4aqx69E9T4A

Marine heatwaves are the ocean's silent scream. As ecosystems collapse, will we finally listen? 🌊🔥 #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity

https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/114134168821003916 So many online & other media reports of all the damage & dislocation caused by #TCAlfred, even though the actual cyclonic aspect, wrt sheer wind speeds, had greatly diminished by the time of the eventual landfall.

Ergo, can we grasp the immensity of the damage & carnage that will result, next time the luck runs the other way, & direct hits on high-population centres arises with rating still at 2, 3... or higher?

Do we keep sticking our heads in the sand & denying / ignoring all this, so that we can continue being climate criminals??

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

The frog spawning season is on. #Nature #Biodiversity #FrogSpawn #Spring

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114123803376124701 I'm so utterly disinterested in this. I shan't even bother trying to watch His Maj Antony Green's wizardry on Aunty tonight. Whilst tis obvs that Lab will win again, i feel no positive passion at all about that. WA is totes state-captured by the abominable gas industry, & WA Lab have zero ethical superiority over their Liebs-Nats opponents. They're all climate-criminal arseholes.

#WAPol #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

The hedge laying is done for now. It needs tidying and I need to find some better stakes and more binders to finish the job, but the pleaching work is all done.

There’s now a recognisable pathway between the nature reserve and the plot.

Moments after taking this a fox poked its head around the corner before ambling off again. 🦊
#Hedge #Allotment #Gardening #Biodiversity

Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/more-frequent-intense-pm-puts-climate-front-and-centre-for-election-20250307-p5lhqx.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Gaaaah, we know all this, you dweeb. We've known it for decades. We also know that you keep funding fossilfools via undeserved obscene tax breaks & subsidies, & doing their work by approving new fossilfool projects & expansions, plus demonising protesters instead of the actual climate criminals. You simply have NO credibility in this space, dear PM.

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Butterflies are vanishing—a 22% drop across the U.S. this century. These fragile pollinators are a warning sign we can’t ignore. Protecting nature isn’t optional; it’s survival. #Biodiversity #ClimateAction

Blog: Voices of #Decolonization

#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception

by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025

"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.

"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.

"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.

"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.

"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.

"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.

"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.

"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.

"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.

"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'

"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.

"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.

"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.

"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."

Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.

https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism

"In [Asia and Northern Africa], oases cover 1.5% of the dryland area and are populated by 150 million people ... Globally, oases contain more than 8,200 vertebrate species, of which 13% are classified as threatened. However, less than 0.5% of their total area is currently under protection, making oases one of the least conserved ecosystems worldwide"

https://peerj.com/articles/18884/

#openaccess 🔓
#ecology 🌴
#biodiversity 🌍

I recently acquired a plot of land on an allotment. It was a complete mess when I was assigned the garden (the previous tenant had not delivered it properly). But besides the fact that this gave me a workout that lasted several days (weeds, so many weeds!), it is also satisfying to see beautiful, black soil after all the hard work.

One of the most enjoyable phases has now begun: setting up the garden step by step. This morning I placed the first box, with a rack that courgettes and tomatoes can climb against.

I have zero experience as a vegetable gardener, so I am very curious about what this project will bring me. And what this project will bring to nature, because one of my most important goals is to contribute to biodiversity.

#nature #gardening #biodiversity #garden #vegetables #herbs #flowers

First the garden center near me didn’t think they even had pond liner, even though it said online they did. Then we managed to locate it, but then they didn’t know how to charge for it. Spent a total of 30min waiting, but the end result is that I now have a small lined pond! :)
#allotment #gardening #biodiversity

Happy to see this little ray of sunshine looking up at me today. A great plant for pollinators in early spring. #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Biodiversity #Pollinators

„Biodiversitätskonferenz COP16 – spätes, aber klares Signal an die Welt:
„Bei den Toprisiken für Unternehmen steht in den nächsten zehn Jahren an Platz zwei der Verlust der Biodiversität.““
#COP16 #biodiversity #Trump #schwarwel

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Add a touch of nature to every call and spark conversations about our #biodiversity. 🐪🐳🐙🪸🍄

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Habitat loss - we are ALL responsible

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/14/richest-nations-exporting-extinction-with-demand-for-beef-palm-oil-and-timber-aoe

#Environment #Consumption #HabitatLoss #Deforestation #Biodiversity

OMZ, Madeleine King, Minister for Arse-Kissing Gina & Co, now on #730. She's terrible, Muriel.

#AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

"Study of more than 600 animal and plant species finds genetic diversity has declined globally"

#Biodiversity #Animals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/30/study-of-more-than-600-animal-and-plant-species-finds-genetic-diversity-has-declined-globally

WIR FORDERN von unseren Abgeordneten:

- eine ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung mit den Thesen des SRU zur SUFFIZIENZ als "Strategie des Genug"
- und eine ehrliche Positionierung dazu.

Mit wenigen Klicks könnt Ihr mitmachen. Wie es funktioniert erfahrt Ihr hier:
https://klimagerecht-leben.de/deine-suffizienz-mail-an-die-politik

#Suffizienz #KlimaSchutz #KlimaKatastrophe #biodiversity #PlanetareGrenzen

"We believe that politicizing and reclaiming traditional fermentation practices has a key role to play in shifting towards a degrowth food system."

-fermentation is low tech sustainable food preservation

-by allowing us to directly observe microbes transforming our food and helping our bodies, it teaches us about biodiversity and the lack of separation between humans and nature

-fermentation encourages communal, distributed approaches to food security

#Degrowth #biodiversity #FoodSecurity #fermentation

https://deceleration.news/how-to-reclaim-traditional-foods-for-a-degrowth-food-future/

The European Court of Human Rights: “failure to adequately address environmental pollution violates the human right to life. This includes the obligation to inform individuals living in areas affected by pollution so that they be able to assess the risks to their lives and health.”

Incredible news for human and environmental wellbeing!

https://www.clientearth.org/latest/press-office/press-releases/lack-of-action-on-pollution-violates-right-to-life-europe-s-top-human-rights-court-rules/
#nature #biodiversity #sustainability

Veined sun orchids (Thelymitra cyanea) starting to open in swampy heathland near Monga, NSW. This widespread summer-flowering sun orchid is generally found in the mountains above 1000m in NSW but can be found at lower altitudes closer to the coast in East Gippsland, VIC.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Last purple donkey orchids (Diuris punctata) for the year in Croajingolong NP, VIC (mid-Nov). Good to see increased numbers of these beautiful orchids at this location in a season where spring rainfall was fairly low and many other orchids were harder to find than usual.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland

Best patch of hyacinth orchids I've seen out so far this year at Corunna, NSW - Dipodium punctatum (purple hyacinth orchids). Starting to see a few more plants up and out around the local district - hopefully today's first real rain since winter will help them along!

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling

Cymbidium sauve (Grass-leaf Cymbidium / snake orchid) at Corunna, NSW. Flowering was a little reduced this year with very little spring rainfall at Corunna but the few plants still out enjoyed some rare moisture from an afternoon storm passing through today.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Cymbidium #CymbidiumOrchids

Several really nice variations in both colour & floral structures in this year's Corunna backdoor sun orchids (Thelymitra sp. - maybe T.peniculata and/or T. pauciflora). Almost all plants set seed (probably self-pollinated as many flowers didn't open at all and those that did were generally only open for an hour or two) so there should be another good showing next spring!

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Madagascan locals pull together to save thousands of endangered tortoises http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THYvTb #Madagascar #EndangeredSpecies #TortoiseConservation #Biodiversity #CycloneDikeledi

Oi, you. Yeah, you.

Feeling undesirably placid today?

Wanna get some justifiable climate rage into you instead?

Here ya go.

https://omny.fm/shows/7am/burnt-mansions-why-the-next-election-is-a-fork-in

Burnt mansions: Why the next election is a fork in the road

7am Saturday Paper
Fri Jan 24 2025

As wildfires tore through some of LA’s most affluent neighbourhoods, burning down mansions owned by celebrities, some wondered if it might be a turning point in how seriously we take the climate crisis.

But climate scientist Joëlle Gergis wasn’t sharing that hope.

Instead, Gergis was angered by our heartache for wealthy communities while the impact of climate change disproportionately affects the poor.

And to make matters even worse, a climate denier has entered the White House.

Now, Gergis is turning her attention to the upcoming election here in Australia, where she says we have a choice to make about how comfortable we are being complicit on climate.

Today, climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis, on why the next election is a fork in the road for our climate.

Guest: Climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis

#podcast #AusPol #WhyIsLabor #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

RT by @EU_ENV: Even in the most remote locations, wildlife like penguins are impacted by plastic pollution. 🐧

On #PenguinAwarenessDay, learn about the impact of marine litter on migratory species. ⬇️

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/green-turtles-remote-azores-feeding-grounds-are-ingesting-plastic-reveals-new-study-2022-12-07_en

#SfEP #Biodiversity
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/SfEP/status/1881257922824692040#m

Here is a globular springtail (around 2 or 3mm in size) floating on water and cleaning themselves with a water droplet. They use the water droplet to clean but also to moisten their skin as a way to retain water. As they are so small, losing too much water from their body is a danger. They are often found in damp and moist environments. This one was filmed in my garden a couple of days ago on a barrel which had filmed with rainwater.

#springtail #globularspringtail #nature #wildlife #ecology #water #surfacetension #floating #cleaning #selfcare #biodiversity #animal #arthropod #scotland #soilanimal #cuteanimals

NGO Greenpeace wins nitrogen deposition case! Court rules that Dutch govt must immediately act to ensure that 50% of the vulnerable Natura2000 areas are not overloaded with nitrogen anymore by 2030. It is not allowed to wait for the outcome of a potential appeals case.
https://nos.nl/collectie/13901/artikel/2552791-greenpeace-wint-zaak-tegen-staat-rechter-dwingt-kabinet-meer-haast-te-maken-met-stikstofaanpak
#biodiversity #nitrogen #pollution

UK: Deforestation-Free Products!
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #deforestation
https://action.eko.org/a/uk-deforestation-free-products-law

https://marionsmumblings.online/listening-to-the-quiet/

Listening to the Quiet

#blog #biodiversity #biology #ecology #harrisonford #conservation #halfearthproject

Tasmania's environment department pushed to not upgrade status of endangered Maugean skate, documents show
#nature #biodiversity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-26/maugean-skate-critically-endangered-status-not-pursued/104761668