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Earth Overshoot Day falls on earliest date since 1970

August 1st, 2018 Earth Overshoot Day falls today to mark the fact that humanity consumed nature’s entire annual ecological budget in just seven months. Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that Read more…

By Charline Fernandez, 6 yearsAugust 1, 2018 ago

Biodiversity

Earth’s ecological footprint increasing at destructive rate, finds report

July 26th, 2018 Humans are using up the earth’s resources at an increasingly destructive rate, consuming a years’ worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in less than seven months. This is the finding of a new study from the Global Footprint Network (GFN) that determined the Read more…

By Manus Boyle, 6 years ago