🚨Factory farms in England have breached environmental regulations THOUSANDS of times in recent years

Violations include spilling animal waste into waterways, leaving dead animals in maggot-infested bins, and illegally incinerating pigs

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

Fields of Filth.

The same story here. How former Ministers drove Going for Growth, enabling the factory farming industrial complex to
- siphon profits to the US
- distort real farming
- break laws
- pollute #LoughNeagh
- rip out the Amazon to grow soy

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

Finally - front-cover news on the scandal of unregulated #ammonia pollution from intensive chicken farms harming public health & nature, thanks to Lucie Heath i newspaper with Christine Hugh-Jones CPRW, lichen expert Ray Woods & Mark Sutton

EXCLUSIVE sewage scandal update! You probably thought you knew the story by now. I’m sorry to say it’s worse than that. Four whistleblowers told me some shocking stuff…. Read on….

theguardian.com/environment/20…

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

Excited to see our recent work featured on Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies news. Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture, Nebraska Extension, Dr. Martha Mamo. This #Nitrogen #Source and #Inhibitor findings can help farmers pick the right nitrogen source to improve nitrogen use efficiency and #water #quality !

Julia Drewer presented what Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects and partners have been doing going to quantify the global H2 soil sink via lab and field measurements #EGU24

This is hard to comprehend.”From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies .. since the Paris Agreement was signed, 58 of the top 100 carbon-producing companies have actually increased their production.” tinyurl.com/4yu794he

📢 Good news! In case you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the recent #UNEA6 side-event on 'Making #nitrogen visible through the #SDGs ' here:
youtube.com/watch?v=vY87wf…

1 year has been added to life expectancy in #Europe thanks to #AirPollution reduction efforts under the UNECE #AirConvention . This treaty marks 45 years of cooperation in 2024.

Parties are working towards further #cleanair measures - for #health , #climateaction & #ecosystems

UN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new UN Biodiversity chief
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Lough Neagh is being poisoned. 'More than half (53%) of all water pollution incidents linked to agriculture'. 'Most of those incidents were in the River Blackwater area, with farm effluent mixture, silage and cattle waste most frequently detected. 🤬🤬🤬

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

'What happened on the Ballymacraven is the result of historic underinvestment in water treatment plants and an assumption that our rivers and lakes are fair game to absorb the pressure, whatever the damage.'
Ella McSweeney
irishtimes.com/environment/20…

First COBSEA Webinar of 2024 on Addressing Excess Nutrients, Sediments and Wastewater in the East Asian Seas, in lead up to IGM26! Innovation, Collaboration, Multi-stakeholders!!
#WWD2024 #IDZW UN Environment Programme UN Environment Programme_COBSEA NutrientChallenge Mark Sutton Towards INMS Global Environment Facility (GEF) Leticia Carvalho

New NatureEcoEvo paper summarises findings of a UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology & HR Wallingford study of environmental impacts of the 2023 Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine.

See the new paper:
nature.com/articles/s4155…

Read the full report:
zenodo.org/records/104628…

Tenth webinar: ' #Ammonia deposition to tropical and temperate #forest #canopy layers'
Presenter: Ajinkya Deshpande, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
More info: cleanforest.eu/news/tenth-web…
COST UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Ajinkya Deshpande

Could ammonia air pollution affect tree diseases like ash dieback?
It is possible:
Option A: ammonia damages normal mycorrhizal associations
Option B, ammonia makes leaves more alkaline, increasing vulnerability

Research on this is needed.
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#UNEA6 concluded with 15 resolutions, two decisions, and a Ministerial Declaration adopted, aimed at halting the progression of the triple planetary crisis.

A comprehensive list of all UNEA-6's outcomes is available here:unep.org/environmentass…

Progress: #UNEA6 approved key resolutions on air pollution and climate action, including the African Integrated Assessment.

Kevin Hicks, who helped coordinate the Assessment, applauds the decision and calls for unified action.

Details 👉 buff.ly/49Dijm8

#airpollution impacts from #ammonia on #nature and #PublicHealth are shocking, yet still largely unregulated - why? We need a joined-up approach to reducing #nitrogen pollution for people & planet Healthy Air Coalition Mark Sutton Nitrogen Collaboration UKCEH_AirQuality Gary Fuller