'#Health alarm as tide of rotting #seaweed chokes #UK holiday #beaches'
'Potentially lethal to fish and dangerous for humans, the summer’s #toxic invader is caused by #WarmingSeas and strong winds'
''The Kent area also suffers from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters due to #sewage discharge as well as #AgriculturalRunOff.'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/health-alarm-as-tide-of-rotting-seaweed-chokes-uk-holiday-beaches #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #IntensiveFarming #Farming
#farming #IntensiveFarming #globalheating #climatecrisis #agriculturalrunoff #sewage #warmingseas #toxic #beaches #uk #seaweed #health
"While true diversity lies somewhere within this range, our effort is the first realistic estimate of global diversity in soil, and we need it to advocate for soil life in the face of the biodiversity and climate crises.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/07/more-than-half-of-earths-species-live-in-the-soil-study-finds-aoe?fbclid=IwAR3SRf3h0yYgWJ3jnOfDfYh4FuFpIWjwBRBkuwflkO1ZRUiuCfNNgYteGyM
#DoDigGardening #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #IntensiveFarming #WildlifeGardening #InsectsandInvertebrates #Soil
#soil #insectsandinvertebrates #WildlifeGardening #IntensiveFarming #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #dodiggardening
According to Defra, in 2019, just 14% of rivers in England met 'good ecological status'.
https://www.soilassociation.org/causes-campaigns/better-rivers-an-end-to-pollution/
#ClimateChange #pollution #UKRivers #Wildlife #IntensiveFarming
#IntensiveFarming #WildLife #ukrivers #Pollution #ClimateChange
"If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu"...
Excellent from George Monbiot on the real danger we face from the deadly #H5N1 variant infecting intensively farmed mink, an ideal 'mixer' species for onward human transmission.
#MinkFarms #BirdFlu #IntensiveFarming #Pandemic #Farming
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/08/next-pandemic-bird-flu-mink-farms-transmission
#farming #Pandemic #IntensiveFarming #birdflu #minkfarms #h5n1
Just listening to this podcast about #Animal #Sentience, that looks into research showing just how similar we animals really are.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise tho, eh? 😉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dvbn84
@vegan #BBC #Podcasts #Podcast #AnimalSentience #Farming #IntensiveFarming #Pigs #Bees #Vegan #Veganism
#veganism #vegan #bees #pigs #IntensiveFarming #farming #animalsentience #podcast #podcasts #bbc #sentience #animal
Industrial-sized #pig and #chicken #farming continuing to rise in #UK | #Environment | The Guardian
This form of #agriculture is inhumane.
#pig #chicken #farming #uk #environment #agriculture #industrialfarming #IntensiveFarming #meat