Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilization effect in Earth system models by Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Carla R. Reis Ely, Steven S. Perakis, and Nina Wurzburger.

In brief, the Earth system models, including climate models used in the IPCC report, have overestimated by about 11% the degree by which wild plants growth improves under higher CO2 aka CO2 fertilization. Although 11% does not sound huge, this shall significantly decrease the effects of land carbon sinks.

There is a video discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywxdWD6NqE8 which brings up some related work, including one paper that suggests methods for improving nitrogen bio-availability in natural eco-systems, but this paper says known methods appears highly ecosystem dependent.

This is the UK government’s assessment of the effect of ecosystem collapse.

It makes for very interesting reading.

One of the greatest traps of modern capitalism is to make you complicit in the destruction of the biosphere. To trap you in guilt, self loathing, and contempt for others.

Fuck that...

Compassion, for ourselves and others, plus practical, science backed information, provide an escape.

This essay explores that.

A science driven guide to avoiding modern pollutants.

Ever wonder what would have happened had someone like Josef Mengele had access to microplastics, POPs, or heavy metals?

Ever wonder how much you are exposed to these terrifying toxins every day?

Ever wonder how you might avoid them?

Wonder no more!

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-norway-europe-case-bird-flu.html

Remember, this is due to the climate crisis.

Warmer temperatures let pathogens spread farther & survive for longer.

Rising temps & sea levels, ecosystem loss, & food shortages change bird migrations. They are forced into new territories.

[Original image, "Man Proposes, God Disposes", by Edwin Landseer, 1864]

A failing ocean engine could freeze Europe and unmake the world it built

The North Atlantic, particularly around Europe, has been reliably temperate for aeons; a meteorological Goldilocks zone. It was just right for developing powerful empires.

Collapse of the AMOC would certainly collapse the Gulf Stream and deep freeze Western Europe. That would fundamentally change fishing, farming, transportation, energy demands, water infrastructure, and almost every aspect of life for people in Ireland, France, Britain, Holland, Belgium and many other areas. Enormous knock-on effects would result not just throughout Europe but, globally.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hrnews1/p/how-microplastics-and-a-destabilizing?r=1t17zr&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The projected 2026 intensification (ECM+BOM) is currently outpacing the evolution of the 1997 and 2015 Super El Niño events. This signals a high-impact transition for the global atmosphere, also known as a “code red” atmospheric scenario.

"Forever chemicals," Persistent Organic Pollutants, POPs, call them what you like. They are one of the most pernicious and ubiqitous pollutants in the world today.

We are terribly good at emitting them and woefullly bad at cleaning them up.

After the climate crisis these pollutants, alongside heavy metals and microplastics, are the greatest danger we face. And few people even know of their existence.

You are constantly eating, breathing, and drinking heavy metals. Whether you want to or not.

Their effects on humans and the environment are nothing short of catastrophic.

They are one of the trio of novel pollutants that are the greatest threat life on earth after the climate crisis, and born of the same cause.

Read at your own risk.

NOTE: There is a musical easter egg in this one, so all the musicophiles don't feel too betrayed

Microplastics, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). All insidious and exceptionally damaging. All borne of industry. Against our will, we touch them, eat them, drink them, breathe them, even bathe in them. They are ineradicable. Our bodies cannot process them. They cause us to be born diseased, disfigured, disabled, and render us infertile. Yet, most people are unaware of their existence.