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Jobs working directly on the river - fishing guides, boating, watersports, but also, cafés, pubs, hotels, tourist attractions - many small + medium size businesses depend on a clean river. Their interests need to be considered as well as those of the companies who run intensive farms.

Water crowfoot in the River Wye

And, yes, wildlife, we need to stop washing nitrate + phosphate into a river where salmon are perilously close to becoming locally extinct.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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We spoke to Nathan Jubb, a fly fishing guide who's fished the Wye for 45 years. He describes the change he's seen in the river + the impact on fish:

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Jubb describes the decline of the river really got going from 2016 onwards, when licenses for intensive chicken farms began to be granted in numbers not seen before - leading to a burden of phosphate + nitrate more than the river can process:

Jubb explains there's always been a balance between farming + river health, but the growing number of intensive chicken farms in the area has tipped that balance so that the river is losing out, fish are losing out, wildlife is losing out, businesses that rely on a thriving river are losing out:

The salmon population of the Wye is in collapse, and Atlantic salmon are now endangered in the UK. Those bringing the court case argue the needs of intensive farming cannot be permitted to outweigh the needs of fish, wildlife + river users.

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What can have changed in 2016?

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle. - EUROPE SAYS Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

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To put it bluntly - humans are killing the ocean and a dead ocean represents a dead planet
The ocean cannot continue to take this huge amount of heat
Already as air moves over ocean it is picking up this excess heat and moisture, leading to excess heat hurricanes floods on land

And they're trying to develop more ...

This is a very, very sick system and it's working against us all. I am somewhat decoupled from this by electrification, production (PV) and demand reduction (insulation etc), but this underlying mech is washing up the worst fossil puppets and profiteurs into governments at the moment.

I have canoed and swum in this formerly beautiful river. I wouldn't now.

First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

So that's it then. The biggest fish kill in the history of the State, and we're just going to move on, with no idea who or what caused it?

It would be better to label it a river kill.

Some major polluter is today breathing a sign of relief, while the river Blackwater remains half dead.

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North Cork Creameries has a long established terrible track record of polluting, over years. What I want to know is,what does it actually take for the EPA to revoke someone's licence?

They're immune to enforcement notices & legal prosecutions, why should we expect this leopard to change its spots?

But fear not, be reassured that this is a short lived event!

Let's all conveniently ignore the massive ecological impacts which will reverberate out through the ecosystem from this kill, and the years it will take for the fish population to recover.

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It's another black day for our waters, and this lack of accountability is sadly unsurprising.

What will it take for us to protect our collective waterways in a meaningful way? Clearly more than a river is worth.

After all, who really needs clean water?

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Water crowfoot in the River Wye

And, yes, wildlife, we need to stop washing nitrate + phosphate into a river where salmon are perilously close to becoming locally extinct.

Jobs working directly on the river - fishing guides, boating, watersports, but also, cafés, pubs, hotels, tourist attractions - many small + medium size businesses depend on a clean river. Their interests need to be considered as well as those of the companies who run intensive farms.

30,000 troops in Vietnam race to rescue families after record floods - VnExpress International Vietnam's military has mobilized over 30,000 troops, helicopters and rescue boats to rush aid as floodwaters surge across northern provinces in the wake of Typhoon Matmo.

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Whether building with wood is better or not depends entirely on whether there are idiots in the forest.

Political parties' positions on climate, conservation + pollution often seem to align more closely with their donors' wishes than voters'.

Remind me who Reform's big funders are...

How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.

'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:

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As positive as it is to build new cycle + footpaths, green space, SuDS, runoff filtration systems, rain gardens - it's all a waste of time, money + effort if you don't plan for maintenance

Solar panel efficiency record broken in big boost for renewable energy Scientists in Sydney have smashed the efficiency record for a new type of solar panel.

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Phayre’s Leaf Monkey Trachypithecus phayrei Phayre’s leaf monkey, also known as Phayre’s langur, are remarkable Old World monkeys distinguished by large, white-rimmed eyes that lend them a “spectacled” appearance. Known locally as ‘Cha…

With white-rimmed eyes and purple hair, Phayre's Leaf #Monkeys 🐒 barely survive in forests in #Assam, #India, #Myanmar and #Bangladesh. A major threat is #palmoil #deforestation. Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🔥⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-95q

Pretty interesting development. The Saudis are trying to flood the world with oil and doing a pretty good job. However, China is buying a lot of oil to store so the Saudis aren't lowering prices as much as expected.

"China accelerates oil reserve site build amid stockpiling drive"

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Screengrab of ITV News interview with Nadine Mitschunas from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Nadine is standing among our rice trials on rewetted peatland

📺 Our rice growing trials on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens were featured on ITV Anglia news.

Watch again here:
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#ClimateChange #FoodSecurity

Political parties' positions on climate, conservation + pollution often seem to align more closely with their donors' wishes than voters'.

Remind me who Reform's big funders are...