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Humans have wiped out two-thirds of world's wildlife since 1970

Wildlife populations around the world have dropped nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to the latest World Wildlife Fund index, which says the culprits are habitat degradation due to human development, along with farming, pollution, climate change and disease.

Radio France Internationale

UK ‘complicit’ in Amazon destruction, campaigners warn

WWF has called for legislation to take deforestation-linked products off UK shelves.

Evening Standard

‘Lights flashing red’ for wildlife amid 69% populations decline

WWF calls for urgent action as landmark report on wildlife populations shows ‘terrifying’ decline across the world.

Al Jazeera

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Global wildlife populations have sunk 69% since 1970 - WWF report

The world's wildlife populations have declined by more than two-thirds since 1970 as forests have been cleared and oceans polluted, according to an assessment released on Thursday.

Reuters

Life on Earth on brink of catastrophe with one million species 'at risk of extinction'

Since 1970, the population sizes of global wildlife have plummeted by nearly 70%, says WWF latest Living Planet Report, the most comprehensive in its 24-year history

Daily Mirror

John Lewis plans ‘buy back or take back’ schemes in all product categories by 2025

Group will also develop more rental and resale options as it aims to be more sustainable

The Guardian - UK

Stockport councillor thrown out of Tory party for Twitter posts 'deemed discriminatory towards those of the Islamic faith'

Councillor Alanna Vine has been permanently expelled by the party following an investigation into her online activity.

Manchester Evening News

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WWF ranks ACT top of threatened species conservation list, Eden-Monaro rates third worst

The Canberra Times

Fail grade for Australia on saving species

Efforts to halt the decline of Australia's threatened species are failing dismally, a new report card warns on National Threatened Species Day.

AAP

Love, wrath and mind games: Meet the man tasked with fixing UCLA's defense

LOS ANGELES — Bill McGovern's top defender looked slightly deranged, with his eye black smeared like a WWF wrestler.

Los Angeles Times

Time running out to protect world’s oceans, conservationists say as UN treaty talks stall

Unless an emergency meeting for a further round of negotiations is convened an agreement looks unlikely in 2022, Greenpeace warns

The Guardian - AU

Fish and chips to be taken off menus due to extinction threat to many species

Demand for fish has directly affected at least 253 at risk species such as whales, dolphins, seabirds and sharks. Conservationists are urging the government to step in

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership: Don’t ‘sideline’ climate emergency, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak told

Exclusive: World Wide Fund for Nature tells No 10 contenders to remember they were elected on party’s ’greenest manifesto ever’

The Independent UK

York's AgriSound secures £75k funding to pilot insect listening tech

The 'pollination management' company as developed ways to measure insect activity to benefit farmers

Birmingham Post

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The Independent UK

Charity ‘blocked’ government bid to appoint Stanley Johnson as Cop26 ambassador

Exclusive: The request was turned down after a revolt by senior WWF figures who argued it would be “totally inappropriate”

France 24

‘Earth Overshoot Day’ comes earlier every year

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date on which humanity has consumed all the resources that the Earth can sustainably produce in one year. For 2022, this day falls on Thursday, July 28. The date has been steadily coming earlier – barring the occasional exception – since 1970.

Radio France Internationale

Humanity uses up full year's global resources by July, now living on credit

Thursday 28 July is Earth Overshoot Day. By that date, humanity had consumed all the earth can sustainably produce for the entire year 2022, according to calculations made by the Global Footprint Network. Every year, the date of Overshoot Day advances inexorably.

France 24

‘Overshoot day’: humans surpass what Earth can produce in a year

Mankind marks a dubious milestone Thursday, the day by which humanity has consumed all Earth can sustainably produce for this year, with NGOS warning the rest of 2022 will be lived in resource deficit.

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Daily Mirror

Vince McMahon's most memorable and controversial WWE moments

Following the shock retirement of WWE chairman Vince McMahon, we take a look at some of the 76-year-old's most surprising moments throughout his career

Daily Mirror

Amazon's blood gold mines are fuelling UK heatwave - what you can do about it

Daily Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud travelled to Brazil to see the damage created by illegal mines in the Amazon rainforest. Aerial images taken by the Mirror show the extent of deforestation

The Guardian - UK

Green upgrades could cut UK energy bills by £1,800 a year, finds study

Homeowners can boost property value by average of £10,000, shows research by WWF and ScottishPower

The Guardian - UK

Green groups in last-ditch bid to block UK’s Australia trade deal

Activists file formal complaint alleging government has breached international law in signing deal

Salon

Vince McMahon and Trump's America

Pro wrestling mogul (and Trump pal) Vince McMahon built an empire on exploitation — and that's barely even news

Daily Mirror

Harrowing image shows dead sea turtle on beach covered with bits of plastic bags

Sea turtles cannot regurgitate plastic meaning their guts become blocked, causing them to die of starvation. Nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as endangered

Manchester Evening News

Councillor suspended by Tories after retweeting claims mosques are 'hiding secret arsenals'

Councillor Alanna Vine retweeted a number of posts, including a call for the UK to stop accepting refugees and someone claiming part of Manchester was 'like being in Somalia’

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