Scoop up a shovelful of healthy soil, and you’ll likely be holding more living organisms than there are people on Earth. But beneath fields covered in tight rows of corn, soy, wheat and other monoculture crops, a toxic soup of pesticides is _...Read More_

"A run-up in prices and shortage of man-made nutrients are forcing the agriculture industry to adapt, and the impact could be severe."

>"A recent study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal has found that mushrooms can communicate with each other. Scientists even believe they are able to use up to 50 “words.” “[We] found that the ‘fungal language’ exceeds _...Read More_

"When it comes to measuring global warming , humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds. Researchers say temperature by itself isn’t the best way to measure climate change's weird weather _...Read More_

>"The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world."

"Polyester and nylon seem to be common sources | Science & technology"

New in Biological Reviews- Irreversible mass extinction already underway "The biodiversity that makes our world so fascinating, beautiful and functional is vanishing unnoticed at an unprecedented rate”

The Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and other legacy environmentalist organizations are now engaging in NIMBY efforts to prevent the construction of solar and wind plants, thus endangering the fight against climate change.

"The fate of every species has ultimately been extinction. The dream of overturning this biological imperative and restoring a lost world is rich with possibility and irony. "

This excellent piece by *JessLReid explains the "humanewashing" of meat and dairy products and how consumer efforts to buy better are not enough. The article deals the US but applies in Canada as well.

"In Britain, a crowdfunding campaign called the Vegan Land Movement is buying out grazing land from farmers to rewild it. The transition is proving more complicated than they expected."

Interesting article with diverse perspectives on how to achieve healthy and sustainable diets, including views on the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet and plans for a reanalysis. My small contribution in the article is to make sure it’s _...Read More_

>"An ancient ground sloth that lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago chowed down on meat as well as plants, making it an omnivore. The latest finding contradicts previous scientific understanding of the giant extinct _...Read More_

"One of the world’s largest bird counts is ‘hours of terror separated by minutes of boredom’"