Environment news

• Record-breaking wildfires in Brazil threaten endangered species – video

  12-09-2020 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Record-breaking wildfires are threatening thousands of acres one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet, Brazil’s Pantanal region.‘Sometimes we are a bit frustrated, but we try to have hope and to rescue the few animals we can,’ said 26 year-old vet Karen Ribeiro at one of the shelters, where rescue units and volunteers are bringing animals including jaguars for evacuation Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• As time becomes kaleidoscopic, I find it unbearable to think too far into my children's future | Delia Falconer

  12-09-2020 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Stop the world’ the musical hero said whenever things went wrong. I’ve been feeling this way for a few years nowThis is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020The sense of time-slip begins during the summer megafires. Walking my children home from school in Sydney under a red sun I have the nagging feeling, beneath my anxiety, that I’ve seen this close orange light before. Then I remember. My father made our family nativity s
  
  Read more

• UK move to classify Extinction Rebellion 'organised crime group' comes under fire

  12-09-2020 16:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Celebrities hit back at move to brand protesters as part of ‘organised crime group’ Stephen Fry, Mark Rylance and a former Archbishop of Canterbury are among 150 public figures to hit back at government moves to classify the climate protesters of Extinction Rebellion as an “organised crime group”. In a letter to be published in the Observer on Sunday, XR is described as “a group of people who are holding the powerful to account” – who should not become t
  
  Read more

• California governor: 'We are in the midst of a climate emergency' – video

  12-09-2020 14:35 via theguardian.com
  
  California governor Gavin Newsom said 'this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing' as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. 'If you do not believe in science, I hope you believe in observed evidence,' he added. More than 68,000 people are under evacuation orders in California where the largest fire in state history has burned over 740,000 acres in the Mendocino National forest in northern CaliforniaDozens missing in Oregon as historic fires devastate western U
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Wildfires are striking closer and closer to cities. We know how this will end | Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

  12-09-2020 12:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect
  We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more.In recent days, at least five whole towns have been destroyed by fire in Oregon. So has much of Malden, Washington, and swathes of Big Creek and Berry Creek, both in California. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• From tearaways to tractor kids: putting down roots on a care farm

  12-09-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Young people with a range of troubles are among many groups thriving on the rural lifestyle offered by Future Roots in DorsetPhotographs by Alex TurnerJordan Ellis was not suited to school. “I couldn’t just sit there and concentrate. I had to mess about. I hate just sitting in the classroom working, listening to the teachers talk. I don’t like getting told what I have to do,” he says.Ellis, 18, still has to follow instructions on his apprenticeship at Future Roots, a care
  
  Read more

• Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction

  12-09-2020 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Environment on Twitter!