"FLAP knows which buildings kill the most birds, but it’s difficult to incentivize building owners to treat their windows because doing so is expensive.

Replace one window can cost hundreds of dollars, he said.

“There's not really a return in it for people other than the goodness of their heart,” he said. “It's not like … that's somehow going to put money back in the owner's pocket.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hundreds-birds-crash-into-windows-one-day-9.6933968

#Birds #Biodiversity #EcologicalCollapse #SilentFuture

Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in #England, Environment Agency says

Esme Stallard, July 18, 2025

Excerpt: "Every year the Environment Agency records the number of times pollution such as untreated sewage is released from water company sites such as treatment works into the country's waterways.

Just three companies were responsible for the vast majority of the most serious incidents - #ThamesWater (33), #SouthernWater (15) and #YorkshireWater (13).

" 'These figures expose a brutal truth. Serious #pollution incidents are rising, #sewage discharges remain rampant, and our rivers are spiralling toward #EcologicalCollapse. This is not just regulatory failure; it is a national disgrace,' said #RiverAction CEO James Wallace."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5zl75dmm0o

#WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #SewagePollution #RiversInEngland

Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says

Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.

BBC News
‘Half the tree of life’: #ecologists’ horror as #nature reserves are emptied of #insects
A new point in history has been reached, #entomologists say, as #climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of #pesticides
The declines witnessed by Janzen and others around world – are part of what some ecologists call “new era” of #ecologicalcollapse, rapid #extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The Guardian
I have never even tried ChatGPT. The idea justs sounds revolting. I hope all this AI craze goes bust rather sooner than later - for the benefit of the planet and humanity.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work

#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence #ecologicalcollapse #climatechange
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

The Guardian

The deep ocean is Earth's final frontier and it hosts millions of undiscovered #species.

The #MiningIndustry claims to be "green" because these metals are used in #EVbatteries, but the real cost is s irreversible #EcologicalCollapse.

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WA Labor MP Chris Tallentire breaks ranks over environmental protection laws

Retiring WA Labor MP Chris Tallentire breaks ranks to raise concerns about "a concerted effort by interest groups" to influence state and federal environmental protection laws.

ABC News

Season Two Episode Ten: Ecofascism and Rewilding: A Conversation With Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha

There’s no question that the biosphere is in crisis right now thanks to human-driven global warming, our hostile takeover of most of Earth’s land area, and our pollution and overfishing of the seas. Slowing down—never mind outright stopping—the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystems and the mass extinction currently gaining pace calls for aggressively protecting the environment, or possibly even giving half of the Earth’s land surface back to nature in a process known as rewilding.

But how will we manage to share the Earth with the rest of the biosphere when history shows that we’re pretty terrible at sharing it with each other, with some states even going so far as to have used the preservation of wilderness as a tool of genocide and white supremacy? There are still those who would use environmental protection as an excuse to block immigrants, reject refugees, and expel “undesirable” people from the land. What will it take to value human and non-human life and the land all equally, without using one as an excuse to persecute the other?

Getting urgently-needed environmental protection and rewilding right requires facing the evils that have been historically committed in the name of conservation, so that we don’t repeat those grave mistakes, even with the best of intentions. As solarpunks, we need to learn from the past in order to shape futures that are intentionally better than our pasts and presents.

https://youtu.be/iWs1NGgdyvI?si=Ff-f2UwQVp91RJDu

#Episode #Season2 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #ecofascism #environmentalism #conservation #rewilding #biosphere #EcologicalCollapse #SixthExtinction

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