Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable 'tipping point'

The Guardian

Data confirms fears that Jair Bolsonaro’s policy encourages illegal logging in Brazil. 
Story here.

The Amazon rainforest near Manaus, capital of the
Brazilian state of Amazonas (largely untouched by human hands,
so far).Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT.

‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water

The Narwhal

In Glade, BC, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek — even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean water. Story here.

The south end of Kootenay Lk.
Photo by Shawn from Airdrie, Canada.

Modern Climate Change Is the Only Worldwide Warming Event of the Past 2,000 Years

Smithsonian.com

New research finds that previous periods of warming and cooling driven by natural causes were regional shifts in temperature rather than global events. Story here.

A grey heron suffers during a heatwave - 2013.
Photo by Gail Hampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K

The smell, the noise, the dust: my neighbour, the factory farm

The Guardian

Industrial farms are spreading across Europe. Greenpeace campaigners went to talk to the people who live close by.Warning: readers may find some of the images upsetting. Story here.

Dead hogs in a dumpster at a Manitoba factory barn,
awaiting removal to an unknown location. A PinP photo.

Please also read -"In Hogs We Trust."  

A critique of Manitoba’s runaway hog industry.

Part 1 - Antibiotic Overuse.

Part 11 - The price we pay for corporate pig$.

Part 111 - From Malaysia to Manitoba - the global magnitude of livestock diseases.

Part 1V - The health and environmental costs of an expanded hog industry.

Part V - What’s behind Manitoba’s drive to expand? 

Climate change risks for northern Canada (CBC Video)

Arctic amplification, sea ice, jet stream, polar vortexes...(video)