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Is high-flying Bozeman, Montana losing the nature of its place?

Piece by piece, in the face of impacts being rapidly manifested by human population growth, it's happening faster than our already overwhelmed sensory perception can process.

mountainjournal.org

Pandemic crowds bring ‘Rivergeddon’ to Montana’s rivers

As urbanites flock to forests and rivers to escape coronavirus threats, trailheads are cramped with parked cars and fishing on the Madison River is like a Disneyland ride.
www.nytimes.com

After coronavirus: Our relationship with meat and the next pandemic

All pandemics in recorded human history have come via the animal kingdom. With mutations abounding and our interaction with wildlife widening, when are we finally going to address the sick animal in the room?
www.dw.com

Ag must make big changes to reach climate goals, says report

To forestall climate change while feeding a growing population, a new report says, agriculture must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, which come from burning fossil fuels and spreading fertilizers, from raising livestock and producing rice.

thefern.org

The Overpopulation Podcast: Social justice and overpopulation

How can humanity move towards a common vision and process for achieving ecological sustainability and justice, before we suffer an irreversible catastrophic collapse of civilization?

www.worldpopulationbalance.org

Bringing clean water on tap to rural villages in Polynesian Island Nation Of Tuvalu

Climate change and population growth have increased pressures on the country's water resources.

www.ipsnews.net

Shrinking world leaves less room for wild creatures

Thanks to climate change and to the human colonization of the natural landscape, the world's wild creatures have vanishing space in which to roam.

climatenewsnetwork.net

People keep moving to US counties most at risk of wildfires

Among the counties with the highest fire risk, six ranked among the top 10% for population growth between 2013-2018.
qz.com

New research confirms what we eat is central to the climate crisis

A decade after writing a book about agriculture's connection to climate change, Anna Lappé interviews the author of a new study that confirms we can’t bring down emissions without addressing the food system.
civileats.com

U.S. cities urged to focus tree planting in areas most at risk

A new tool helps urban leaders see where more trees are needed to help vulnerable communities tackle pollution and rising heat.
news.trust.org

Hurricane Eta devastates indigenous communities in Central America

As often happens, the populations that least contribute to climate change are bearing the brunt of its impacts.

theintercept.com

Can healthcare adapt to a world of tightening ecological constraints? Challenges on the road to a post-growth future

Healthcare has been an integral part of the rapid growth in economic output, population, and use of resources seen in recent decades. Martin Hensher and Katharine Zywert examine some of the difficult changes that healthcare systems will need to make in the Anthropocene epoch.

www.bmj.com

Margaret Renkl: A lesson for humanity from 17 million doomed creatures

If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that we cannot escape the world we have shaped.

www.nytimes.com

Climate primer: Debunking myths about climate change

Author and scientist Paul Behrens picks apart some of the most egregious and long-standing myths around global warming.

news.trust.org

Utah urged to build more single-family homes

Top researchers at a Houston think tank arguing the state should put aside its "smart growth" strategies of higher-density homes around business centers in favor of what they call "smart sprawl."

www.sltrib.com

Food system causes one third of greenhouse gases

How we eat causes dangerous climate heating. It's time to change not only our diet, but the entire global food system.

climatenewsnetwork.net

Robin Wiebe: Will Canada’s pandemic-stricken urban centres survive?

COVID-19 has sparked dramatic outmigration from cities, upending the going narrative around housing – and the forces behind the trends may be here to stay.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Paris’s 15-minute city could be coming to an urban area near you

From Paris to Portland, cities are attempting to give residents everything they need within a few minutes of their front doors. Can it work—without leaving anyone out?
www.bloomberg.com

Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book The Population Bomb brought fears of overpopulation into the mainstream. Fifty years on, has it been defused, or just delayed?
www.newscientist.com

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

In identifying the sources of insect declines, researchers pointed to the same drivers as last year: climate change, habitat destruction, pesticides and human overpopulation.

news.mongabay.com

The population debate: Are there too many people on the planet?

The world population is 7.7 billion. What do our growing numbers mean for economic security, climate change, environmental destruction and the likelihood of pandemics?
www.newscientist.com

Report sounds an alarm on ongoing decline of US coral reefs

A first of its kind assessment of coral reefs in U.S. waters is again sounding the alarm over the continued decline of these sensitive underwater ecosystems, which scientists deem essential to the health of the world's oceans amid the environmental effects posed by human activity and climate change.

apnews.com

Climate change will make parts of the U.S. uninhabitable. Americans are still moving there

Instead of moving away from areas in climate crisis, Americans are flocking to them. As land in places like Phoenix, Houston and Miami becomes less habitable, the country’s migration patterns will be forced to change.
www.propublica.org

Habitat loss 18 percent since 1700s

Climate breakdown and changes of land use have caused mammals, birds and amphibians to lose on average 18 percent of their habitat worldwide since 1700, research indicates.

theecologist.org

A Texas conservation agenda for population growth, climate change

Suzanne Scott, state director of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, said as the population grows, Texas communities must work together, and people need to take personal responsibility to preserve natural areas essential to the state's well-being.

www.publicnewsservice.org

Florida experts brainstorm ways to meet population growth demands while protecting natural water supply

Florida's population grows every year. And the state is trying to come up with ways to meet people's needs without ruining natural water resources.
wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu

Gordon Buchanan: Growing human population will devastate the world's plants and animals unless we act

A serious conversation about biodiversity must include a wide-ranging introspective on population. There's no time to lose.

www.scotsman.com

How effective are China’s attempts to reduce the risk of wildlife spreading disease to humans?

Progress, loopholes and contradictions converge as the world's most populous country works to lower the odds of another global pandemic.

ensia.com

Cutting greenhouse gases from food production is urgent, scientists say

Rising greenhouse gas emissions from worldwide food production will make it extremely difficult to limit global warming to the targets set in the Paris climate agreement, even if emissions from fossil-fuel burning were halted immediately, scientists reported Thursday.

www.nytimes.com

Poverty affects brain development, cognitive performance in children, study finds

"Importantly, many of these characteristics of disadvantaged neighborhoods ... arise due to structural racism, environmental injustice, broken-windows policing, tax policy, educational policy and housing policy."

www.upi.com

How do you know when society is about to fall apart?

Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse.
www.nytimes.com