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Earth at 2° hotter will be horrific. Now here’s what 4° will look like. | David Wallace-Wells
This is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change. – The best-case scenario of climate change is that world gets just 2°C hotter, which scientists call the “threshold of catastrophe”. – Why is … Continue reading
How Imagination Will Save Our Cities
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2017 science-fiction novel New York 2140, the city of the future has become a vertical super-Venice, after being flooded by rising seas caused by global warming melting the Arctic ice caps.1 While the lower stories of many … Continue reading
Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia – ScienceBlog.com
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. Resettlement of indigenous communities resulted in the spread of invasive species, the absence of human-set fires, and a general cascade in the interconnected food web that led to the largest … Continue reading
WOLAKOTA
“They had forgotten that the earth was their mother” – Black Elk wolakota (pron: woh – lah – koh – dah) means the Lakota people’s sacred way of life. It stands for peace, harmony, good relationship and respect between human … Continue reading
Schoolchildren go on strike over climate
Thousands of people gather in London, as students around the UK miss school to call for action. Students around the country walked out of school to call on the government to declare a climate emergency and take active steps to … Continue reading
The disarming case to act right now on climate
Stockholm native Greta Thunberg first heard about climate change when she was 8 years old. She absorbed the solutions adults threw at her — recycle paper, study the data, train to be a climate scientist. None of it felt like … Continue reading
Flavours of Scotland with Paul Lister on Rewilding at Alladale Wilderness Reserve
A clip from Flavours of Scotland. It includes filming at Alladale Wilderness Reserve and an interview with Paul Lister on conservation projects at Alladale. For more information go to:www.theeuropeannaturetrust.com/en/Scotland/
Reforesting Scotland / Planting Trees / Rewilding Britain / Trees for life
LOVE IT TV – Nature, Learning and Life Published on 23 Mar 2017 This short film sees the results of an inspired groups vision to rewild a deserted Scottish Island. LOVE IT TV visits Isle Martin in north West Scotland … Continue reading
Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest Alan Watson Featherstone TEDxFindhorn
Nearly 30 years ago, Trees for Life Founder, Alan Watson-Featherstone stood in the Universal Hall and in front of 300 people made a life-long commitment to restore the ancient Caledonian Forest. He started with no resources, no knowledge, no access … Continue reading
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‘Extreme Conservation’ in the Most Hostile Places on Earth – National Geographic
Joel Berger dresses up in a bear suit to see how muskoxen in the Arctic will react, just one of the ways he’s an “extreme conservationist.” Conserving wildlife at the extreme edges of the natural world, whether in the Arctic, … Continue reading
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