Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt The global attack on nature is threatening the UK’s national security, government intelligence chiefs have warned, as the increasingly likely collapse of vitally important natural systems would bring mass migration, food shortages and price rises, and global disorder. Food supplies are particularly at risk, as “without significant increases”, the UK would be unable to compete with other nations for scarce resources, a report to ministers warns. Continue reading...

Lib Dem MP hits out at Commons speaker for failing to grant him right to call for national emergency response Thousands of homes in the south-west of England were still without power or water on Monday in the aftermath of Storm Goretti. It has been four days since Goretti brought gusts of almost 100 mph and a rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds, but the continued disruption has led one Cornish MP to call for a “national emergency”. Continue reading...