This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Double Island Volunteer Fire Department in Yancey County, North Carolina, is the beating heart of this remote community in the shadow of Mount Mitchell, about 50 miles northeast of Asheville. Once home to a schoolhouse that doubled as a church, the red-roofed building […]

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Double Island Volunteer Fire Department in Yancey County, North Carolina, is the beating heart of this remote community in the shadow of Mount Mitchell, about 50 miles northeast of Asheville. Once home to a schoolhouse that doubled as a church, the red-roofed building […]

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"Lemon Socialism" just like American Healthcare!

Actually, most (all?) "extractive" industries are socialized in this way. They "lease" access to public lands or resources like water... do their extractive thing... produce toxins and/or environmental damage... then move on and the public (taxpayers) either have to pay for clean up or live with the degradation. 😠

#LemonSocialism #Capitalism #Externalities #Environment

A report from the UK government:

"The world is already experiencing the impacts of biodiversity loss, including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks."

"The rate of extinction is tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years. It suggests that a sixth mass extinction may be underway."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

#climatechange #environment #biodiversity #vote #news

A report from the UK government:

"The world is already experiencing the impacts of biodiversity loss, including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks."

"The rate of extinction is tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years. It suggests that a sixth mass extinction may be underway."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

#climatechange #environment #biodiversity #vote #news

Come to work with us at University of Helsinki! Still time to apply!

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Professor-or-Assistant-Professor-Associate-Professor-in-Arctic-Ecosystem-Ecology/1333268757/?feedId=350602

#arctic #job #academicLife #university #environment

Come to work with us at University of Helsinki! Still time to apply!

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Professor-or-Assistant-Professor-Associate-Professor-in-Arctic-Ecosystem-Ecology/1333268757/?feedId=350602

#arctic #job #academicLife #university #environment

Just before Christmas, the loggers were out in our local woods. Amongst many other trees, they took out quite a number of redwoods. You can clearly see, here, why they're called redwoods. Sadly, the woods now look a complete mess, but luckily, these redwoods behave like coppice and will regrow from their stumps.

#Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday #Woods #Trees #Environment

Just before Christmas, the loggers were out in our local woods. Amongst many other trees, they took out quite a number of redwoods. You can clearly see, here, why they're called redwoods. Sadly, the woods now look a complete mess, but luckily, these redwoods behave like coppice and will regrow from their stumps.

#Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday #Woods #Trees #Environment

Across the lane from us there used to be about 40 acres of dense woodland, now there's almost nothing but lumber...

[See how it looked just a few weeks ago in my reply to this post.]

#Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Woodland #Environment

"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.

#Environment #Nuclear #Climate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/after-a-career-as-an-environment-writer-heres-what-i-have-learned

More good news.

"Our whole organisation was basically premised on the idea that there were people who were willing to let a bunch of young idiots on to their land indiscriminately, to make fairly massive decisions that would affect land value. We didn’t have any evidence that those people existed at the start. We just kind of assumed, or prayed, that they did.”

#Rewilding #Youngwilders #Nature
#Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/it-fully-changed-my-life-how-young-rewilders-transformed-a-farm-and-began-a-movement

"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.

#Environment #Nuclear #Climate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/after-a-career-as-an-environment-writer-heres-what-i-have-learned

In defence of the status quo, we are made to belief that asking for richer public space, safety for our children or a higher quality of live is 'Radical Activism'. 🌳🚲

You are not a radical. They are! 🚩

#ActOnClimate

#ClimateChange #deforestation #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #news #earth #amazon

More good news.

"Our whole organisation was basically premised on the idea that there were people who were willing to let a bunch of young idiots on to their land indiscriminately, to make fairly massive decisions that would affect land value. We didn’t have any evidence that those people existed at the start. We just kind of assumed, or prayed, that they did.”

#Rewilding #Youngwilders #Nature
#Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/it-fully-changed-my-life-how-young-rewilders-transformed-a-farm-and-began-a-movement