How Extinction Rebellion can make climate action successful without antagonising the public: Extinction Rebellion are known for their disruptive protests. Matt Hrkac/Flickr, CC BY-ND The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) recently released its 2022 strategy for fighting the climate crisis, and it looks like the organisation is planning to cut back on antagonising the …
Climate and extinction crises move too slowly for us to pay attention – here’s the answer: Derren / shutterstock It seems we are having a hard time paying sufficient attention to the climate and extinction crises. This is because the causes for the most part move slowly, without the flashy drama that can focus our minds …
One-third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction – here are five of them: _Shorea smithiana_, a rainforest tree vulnerable to habitat loss. Sepilok, Sabah, Malaysia. David Bartholomew, Author provided One in three of the world’s tree species are at risk of becoming extinct, according to a recent report by the Global Tree …
South Africa in the news: Black Mambas: Meet the women risking their lives to save rhinos from extinction: IS IT a more terrifying prospect to be chased by an angry lioness guarding her cubs, or by armed poachers intent on murder?: “South Africa” – BingNews Pause in the Distribution of bamlanivimab/etesevimab: Today, we are informing …
Disappearing glaciers are threatening rare alpine plants with extinction: Creeping avens – a plant native to mountains in Central Asia and Europe. Losapio/Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution High up on a mountain where winds are too fierce, temperatures too extreme and soils too poor for trees, some of the most unusual plants on Earth grow. …
Solve suffering by blowing up the universe? The dubious philosophy of human extinction: Mikhail Doroshenko/Shutterstock.com At a time when humans are threatening the extinction of so many other species, it might not seem so surprising that some people think that the extinction of our own species would be a good thing. Take, for example, the …
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To stop mass extinction, reform the outdated Victorian harm principle: In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill published the first of his two major works, On Liberty, which helped him become, as many agree, the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. In that essay, Mill defined what came to be known as …
Newly discovered mass extinction event triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento, Author provided Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming. …
‘Extinction: The Facts’: Attenborough’s new documentary is surprisingly radical: We have learned so much about nature from David Attenborough’s documentaries over the past seven decades. In a new BBC film he lays bare just how perilous the state of that nature really is, why this matters for everyone who shares this planet, and what needs …
Primates are facing an impending extinction crisis – but we know very little about what will actually protect them: Nicholas Santasier/Pexels From lemurs to orangutans, tarsiers to gorillas, primates are captivating and sometimes unnervingly similar to us. So it’s not surprising that this group of more than 500 species receives a great deal of research …
Extinction Rebellion: why disavowing politics is a dead end for climate action: Since emerging in 2018, the same year that the IPCC warned humanity had 12 years to avoid climate catastrophe, Extinction Rebellion’s disruptive campaigns have helped push the UK government to declare a “climate emergency”. Governments and local councils in over 30 countries have …
Prehistoric climate change damaged the ozone layer and led to a mass extinction: muartat/Shutterstock Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to take their place. My colleagues and I have published new research …
Ocean ecosystems take two million years to recover after mass extinction – new research: A phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe's most northern point. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA Around 66m years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, ammonites, and many …
Climate breakdown is pushing Brazil’s iconic Araucaria tree to extinction – new research: An Araucaria juts out of Brazil's misty Atlantic Forest Douglas Scortegagna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA For hundreds of thousands of years, the distinctive candelabra shapes of Araucaria trees (Araucaria angustifolia) have defined landscapes at the southern edge of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Humans have …
Coral reefs: breakdown in iconic spawning puts species at risk of extinction – new research: Corals release millions of sperm and eggs in synchrony to reproduce. Rich Carey/Shutterstock It’s rather tricky to reproduce if you’re stuck to the floor – unless you’re a coral. Their spectacular spawning events are a beautiful sight to behold. Once …
Extinction Rebellion: disruption and arrests can bring social change: Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests across the UK and around the world, in protest against government inaction on climate change. Radical disruptions have been at the heart of Extinction Rebellion’s activism since it was founded in 2018 – from January’s …
Fossil teeth reveal new facts about a mass extinction 260 million years ago: A fossil tooth contains isotopes that offer clues of aridification. Supplied Around 260 million years, the earth was dominated by mammal like reptiles called therapsids. The largest of these therapsids were the dinocephalians, a genus composed of several herbivorous and carnivorous species. …