Plastic beaded fishing nets could prevent dolphin bycatch
Threading tiny plastic beads onto fishing nets has potential to prevent thousands of small whales, dolphins, and porpoises from drowning each year. It’s rare to hear that adding plastic to our oceans could actually solve environmental issues, but when 300,000 cetaceans die after getting stuck in fishing nets each year,...
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Five positive news stories to boost your mood
In the wake of another ‘unprecedented’ period of the global pandemic, the team at Thred is striving to bring you some positive news. Like most people, we’re a little exhausted from looking at articles about government slip ups, rising COVID infection rates, and other generally upsetting news events. This is supposed...
Why is Indonesia relocating its capital?
The country’s parliament has just passed a law to move the national capital from Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara by 2024. One of the world’s most populated urban regions, Jakarta, is home to more than 10 million people, with an estimated 30 million more in the greater metropolitan...
Rare deep-sea fish mysteriously washes ashore once again
Last week, a surfer spotted a strange black blob on rocks near the shorelines of San Diego. What he later discovered was fascinating, if not frightening. You’ll probably recognise this creature from one of Pixar’s most aesthetically captivating animated films, Finding Nemo. Or maybe you’ve reeled one out of the...
Climate change is calling for a world post-growth
Economic growth is playing a major role in climate change. So maybe it’s time we start to envision a world post-growth. At a United Nations climate change summit in September 2019, environmental activist Greta Thunberg took to the stage declaring, ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all...
New exhibition sees 25 life-sized lions invade London’s South Bank
A pride of lions have made their home in Waterloo to raise awareness for animal conservation. It looks like London has a thing for lions - whether they be roaming around Regent’s Park Zoo, standing guard beneath Nelson's column, or singing on stage in the West End. Evidently the city is...
California is trading food landfills for composted green energy
Next month, a new mandatory food waste recycling program will be implemented in California. All food scraps will be collected from homes by the state, then composted or turned into renewable energy. New years’ resolutions are typically personal goals we set to try to get a little closer to being the best version of ourselves. But the state of California is introducing a new law for its residents starting in...
Around one million species could go extinct within the next few decades
With more plants and animals than ever before on a global list of threatened species, WWF has warned of a looming mass extinction – the largest event of its kind since the end of the dinosaur age. 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, resulting in a worldwide environmental change that, as we know, wiped out the dinosaurs. Today, another mass extinction event is looming, the...
Climate change ‘overtakes’ pandemic as #1 global concern
A survey carried out by the World Economic Forum suggests climate change has now overtaken the pandemic as the biggest cause for concern globally, according to the experts. This is where we’ve come to. Both Covid-19 and climate change have wreaked such havoc in recent years that we’re now officially ranking them as threats. Here’s one top 10 that Ed Sheeran is nowhere near. If you’re living in the wealthy west...
Fear, powerlessness, hope at COP26 – hope: how do I find it?
At COP26, Force of Nature went to every corner - the Blue Zone, the Green Zone, the New York Times Climate Hub, the UK Youth Climate Cafe, the trailblazing campaigners in the streets, and everywhere in between - to gauge the emotional climate. A couple weeks ago, we peeled back the curtain on the emotional climate at COP26 by exploring the fear-fuelled question, "Is this our last chance?" Last week,...
