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Breakdown of the Marine Food Web

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:18:25 +0000

For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Climate Change is Killing Trees

Robert Hunziker — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:29:33 +0000

Just once in our planet's long history, nearly all of the trees died - during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago, and event known as "the Great Dying." It appears that such an event may be re-appearing. Throughout the world, trees are dying en masse.

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The Great Barrier Reef on Life Support

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:48:54 +0000

Recent news of another (the 6th) bleaching event at the Great Barrier Reef is but one more example in a long list of recent climate-related events that depict a scenario that can only be described as triple-alarm climate emergencies, as ecosystems breakdown across the world.

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Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems

Robert Hunziker — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:18:29 +0000

Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it’s legal.

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Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 17 May 2021 06:32:16 +0000

The Web of Life is under attack but almost nobody is aware because it’s happening mostly below the surface. Scientists have identified a rampant worldwide Bugpocalypse that’s methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system, and it’s intentional!

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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey

Robert Hunziker — Sun, 16 May 2021 20:38:02 +0000

Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24th 2021.

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Help Taika Waititi ‘Save Ralph’

The CNCL Team — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:32:49 +0000

Taika Waititi has lent his voice to the ‘spokes-bunny’ of a new campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics.

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Oceanic Sharks and Rays Have Declined by 71% Since 1970 – A Global Solution Is Needed

The CNCL Team — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 04:06:45 +0000

Marine biologists have been raising the alarm for several decades now, but their warnings were often ignored. Now, new research has brought together disparate threads of data into a single, global analysis of shark and ray populations in the open ocean.

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Plant-Based Diets Crucial to Saving Global Wildlife, Says Report

The CNCL Team — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:33:17 +0000

The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting the damage, according to a report.

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Complex Life Threatened

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:04:47 +0000

The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its life forms—including humanity—is so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well informed experts.

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Boundless Dying Trees

Robert Hunziker — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:29:37 +0000

Global warming is ravaging forests throughout the world.

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More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds

The CNCL Team — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:13:21 +0000

More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters.

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