ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

In Mexico cows starve as drought rages on

Sonora, Mexico, relies heavily on its cattle farming. However, droughts caused by climate change have engulphed the region wreaking havoc on the animals. In the parched hills of southern Sonora, Marco Antonio Gutierrez paced around a clearing, counting the dead. There...

UN report shines light on climate catastrophe amid apocalyptic wild fires

ClimateChange, GoodNews

United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report shows we have limited time to make the changes necessary to save the earth. Despite the dire warnings of a new United Nations report and the expected increase in greenhouse gas emissions...

Emperor penguins will be extinct by 2100, say scientists

ClimateChange, GoodNews

That most iconic of the penguin species, the Emperor Penguins found in the Antarctic, are threatened by climate change as the planet heats up. Nearly all of the world’s emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction by 2100, a study has found, as...

Climate change: It’s only gotten worse in the last three years

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

In 2019 scientists warned the world of the dangers of animal agriculture for the future of the planet, what are they saying now? Back in 2019, more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency. They established a comprehensive set of vital signs that...

‘Heat dome’ kills billions of sea life in the Pacific north-west

ClimateChange, GoodNews

A heat dome over the Pacific north-west caused by climate-change has led to billions of sea creatures being washed up on shore. As a marine biologist who has studied the effects of extreme weather events for decades, I expected it would be bad. The “heat dome” brought...

The science is indisputable – climate change is making us sick

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Coronavirus

An ever-warming earth, caused largely by unsustainable agricultural practices, is giving rise to a decline in social health. This could be attributed to factors such as unsustainable agricultural practices, deforestation, intensive animal farming, our...