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Your friendly reminder that so many plastics aren't recyclable - so glad California is finally pushing back on greenwashing

1) Deliver strong and equitable National Biodiversity Plans [at COP16]

This guy’s channel is excellent content about national parks and public lands. He’s typically very reserved and thoughtful about including any politics in his content, but you can tell in this video that he’s just so overwhelmed by the proposals in Project 2025 that he just can’t contain it. It’s a great watch and maybe a way to sway more outdoor-focused conservatives away from supporting an administration that is planning on selling our lands for the benefit of the few.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25165245

https://primonatura.co.uk/wild-natural-deodorant-a-2024-review/

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: Click here to see the summaryThis is the best summary I could come up with: Instead, Mr. Ndefi has taken his family’s supply of anti-malaria nets and sewn them together into a gigantic sieve that he uses to drag the bottom of the swamp ponds, sweeping up all sorts of life: baby catfish, banded tilapia, tiny mouthbrooders, orange fish eggs, water bugs and the occasional green frog. Across Africa, from the mud flats of Nigeria to the coral reefs off Mozambique, mosquito-net fishing is a growing problem, an unintended consequence of one of the biggest and most celebrated public health campaigns in recent years. “No one is going to come forward in a survey and say, ‘That thing you’re giving me, we’re not using it properly,’ ” said Seth Faison, a spokesman for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has financed the purchase of 450 million nets. One of the few detailed studies on the issue showed that in several villages along Lake Tanganyika, an essential body of water shared by four East African nations, 87.2 percent of households used mosquito nets to fish. Every morning at sunrise in Antongil Bay, along Madagascar’s ruggedly beautiful northern coast, fishing crews drag seines made from mosquito nets through the putty-colored sea. They work from shore, tugging the nets through shallow waters, precisely where many species spawn, creating another potential problem: the slow, steady destruction of sensitive aquatic breeding grounds. The original article contains 2,680 words, the summary contains 225 words. Saved 92%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

And before anyone comments otherwise, it takes a lot of blue water too

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: Click here to see the summaryThis is the best summary I could come up with: Nine of 91 fillets were found to be either scalloped hammerhead, greeneye spurdog or school shark – all considered threatened in Australia – after scientists at Macquarie University used DNA analysis to check what they were sold. Teagan Parker Kielniacz, who led the research while at Macquarie University, said: “I asked [the retailer] if they knew what species of shark it was or if it was locally caught. “The study suggests greeneye spurdog is being caught in NSW and shipped to Victoria or, even worse, illegal fishing is happening in Australia.” AMCS and Humane Society International have released a report listing a range of changes to fishing rules they say would better protect Australia’s native sharks. A spokesperson for the fisheries minister, Murray Watt, said it was “always concerning when Australian consumers think they’re buying flake but instead are unwittingly eating an endangered species.” The government is also close to finalising work “on the election commitment to consider a framework to prevent imports of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishery products”. The original article contains 798 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 79%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

The nationalist, populist Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, won 23% of the vote in the November 2023 House elections, putting Wilders—once a fringe figure who proposed a “head rag tax” on women wearing headscarves—close to the center of power. Since then, Wilders has been in contentious and often chaotic negotiations to form a government with three other parties, including the center-right party led by outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, which saw its electoral share shrink to 15%. The governing plan endorsed by the four parties, which marks a crucial step in forming a new government, includes a series of harsh anti-immigration measures. Centrist and left-wing parties fiercely criticized the plan during this week’s debate.

Stop Climate Change....By Causing it!

tldr: Green transition, like switching to electric vehicles and use renewable energy sources, requires a huge amount of minerals. One of the main sources of these minerals is African continent. Researchers found big overlapp of that mining with areas of big apes. Almost 200.000 of apes are in a risk area, based on the estimation:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/18313612