Environmental Hazards
Environmental Hazards
A pair of leading scientists are calling on the global community to spend the next few decades working toward formal protections for at least half of the world’s oceans and lands, warning that as the human population nears it’s projected 10 billion by mid-century, several species will face a heightened threat of extinction. #extinctioncrisis
These fires are threatening the livelihoods of all Amazonian people – indigenous and non-indigenous, urban and rural; destroying the world’s greatest home for wild species of plants and animals, and reducing the forests which store and sequester carbon and help curtail our planet’s climate crisis. #amazonfires
Dr. Caldicott gave dire warnings about the Japan nuclear disaster
This year there have already been 72,843 fires in the Amazon
Declaration includes demand for an end to fossil fuel development and for nations most responsible for the crisis to “urgently change direction.” #climatecrisis
There are more than five months left in the year, but on Monday humankind had already burned through the planet’s ecological resource budget for 2019. It’s the earliest the date—known as Earth Overshoot Day—has ever come. #OvershootDay
In a letter to the editor published Tuesday by the journal Nature, two dozen scientists from around the world urged the United Nations’ International Law Commission to adopt a Fifth Geneva Convention that creates protections for the environment in armed conflicts. #environmentalhazards
“It is our responsibility to ban this poison from our environment.”
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) headed by the president Pavan Sukhdev has given a warning to Australian leaders about the danger in the extinction of koalas by 2050. #deforestation #koala #koalas #koalabears #extinction #wildlifeextinction
Climate crisis often overshadow positive actions taken by citizens around the world
There is no evidence that fracking can operate without threatening public health directly and without imperiling climate stability upon which public health depends,” according to a new analysis.
5G has horrific health and privacy impacts, Makia Freeman shares a bunch of reasons exposing the 5G danger, which could turn into unmitigated health and privacy catastrophe if enough people don’t rise up to stop it.
A new analysis reveals Wednesday that over 20 popular children’s cereals and snacks are contaminated with glyphosate—the main ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup.
Plants underpin all life on Earth, they provide the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat, as well as making up the backbone of the world’s ecosystems—so plant extinction is bad news for all species.
Louisiana has become the first U.S. state to call for a study on the environmental and health impacts of the ongoing 5G technology roll out.
