Newsletter Credit: Ales Krivec/Unsplash+ Rise of the shrubs: What happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems.
Politics Credit: Edgar Bullon/BigStock Photo ID: 343343230 Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans
Politics ‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears.
www.theguardian.com Illegal logging threatens Cambodia’s indigenous people, says Amnesty Country’s ‘corrupt’ approach to conservation leaves protected forests facing ‘oblivion’, human rights watchdog warns
Impacts ‘The water used to be up to your armpits’: Birds starve as Turkey’s lakes dry up Over the past 50 years, 60% of Turkey's 300 natural lakes have dried up and the loss is devastating for birds and other wildlife.
Heatwaves, sewage, pesticides: why England’s rivers need a ‘new deal’ to avert crisis England's rivers are facing a crisis from climate change, agricultural pollution and lack of effective planning controls. That is the key warning of Water UK, the industry group that represents the nation's water suppliers.
Avocados and vanilla among dozens of wild crop relatives facing extinction Study finds agriculture and pesticide use threaten relatives of world's most important crops, considered crucial to food security.
