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Climate change is a pollution problem, and countries know how to deal with pollution threats – think DDT and acid rain

Climate change can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you look closely at its causes, you’ll realize that history is filled with similar health and environmental threats that humanity has overcome.

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‘The last wild places’: the Venice show about Earth’s spiralling salt marsh crisis

They are eco marvels but they are fast disappearing. Sophie Hunter explains why she is using film, music, a few tonnes of salt and a reimagined wife of Lot to sound the alarm

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Family courts can inflame gender violence, inquiry told

There are widespread fears family court proceedings can expose women and children experiencing domestic violence to further harm.

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In the ‘heat’ of the moment

Kerala heat-wave crisis due to tree destruction, highlighting urgent need for environmental literacy and sustainable development practices.

The Hindu

Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video…

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Juliet Fraser/Knussen Chamber Orchestra review – new works showcase soprano’s extraordinary repertoire

New music by Cassandra Miller, Newton Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders and Ryan Wigglesworth was brilliantly brought to life by Fraser and Roderick Williams

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Tracing the impact of sugar on health, culture and environment over the years

A list of books on why sugar is bad for your heath and how to reduce sugar

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Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted environmental crisis 70 years ago

In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war.

The Conversation

The Forest Cathedral review – an unnaturally intense ecological puzzle game

This brief, raw and unsettling reimagining of a celebrated environmentalist’s campaign against pesticides presents a sickly vision of nature contaminated by humans

The Guardian - UK

Dance Me to the End of Time: South African film on death is a powerful celebration of life

In her 2021 documentary Dance Me to the End of Time, South African film-maker and educator Melanie Chait has produced a truly great film. Not only for the breadth of themes it broaches – from cancer to green activism, from lesbian love to arts therapy – but also for the…

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‘A huge worry’: Christmas beetle decline spurs calls for citizen sightings

Researchers urge members of the public to look out for the beloved insect that was once a mainstay of Australia’s summer

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The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore

Editorial: A million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connected

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Cop15 essential reading: seven books that explain the biodiversity crisis

Ahead of December’s conference our writers select titles that explain the issues at stake, from animal extinction to marine degradation and loss of habitat

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The inconvenient truth of Herman Daly: There is no economy without environment

Herman Daly had a flair for stating the obvious. When an economy creates more costs than benefits, he called it “uneconomic growth.” But you won’t find that conclusion in economics textbooks. Even suggesting that economic growth could cost more than it’s worth can be seen as economic heresy.

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'Silent Spring' turns 60

Rachel Carson's “Silent Spring” is widely viewed as an inspiration for the modern environmental movement

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'Silent Spring' 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and the environment

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson did not call for banning DDT, the most widely used pesticide at that time, but she argued for using it and similar products…

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When conservation meant killing animals

Theodore Roosevelt was a great conservationist — and also a prolific hunter. In his mind, the two went hand-in-hand

Benzinga

Science Wednesday: 'Silent Spring' At 60; Preserved Baby Mammoth Found In Yukon; Filling Medical Imaging, Nursing Shortages

(This marks the first installment of Benzinga’s new weekly series Science Wednesday, which provides an overview of news and milestones within the sciences.)

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Beekeepers and communists: how environmentalists started a global conversation

The world’s longest serving environment correspondent explains the origins of a slow and continuing journey

Salon

The toxic legacy of DDT

In “How to Sell a Poison,” Elena Conis chronicles the history of the infamous pesticide and its lasting impact

The Conversation

Stories about economic degrowth help fight climate change — and yield a host of other benefits

There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC’s working groups — those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation — use the economic term to discuss policies that are key to reducing…

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The Fifties: An Underground History by James R Gaines review – a different view of the decade

Far from being ‘years of conformity and depression’, the 50s saw radicals in race, sexuality and activism break new ground

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