NEWS
Plastic Pollution Pushing Earth Past All Planetary Boundaries
Editor's note: Major plastic polluters win as the UN Treaty talks conclude without an agreement. Modern lifestyles and practices are intimately entwined with the use of plastics. Our phones, computers, food packaging, clothes, and even renewable energy technologies,...
BASF, Eramet Drop $2.6b Indonesian Nickel Project
By Hans Nicholas Jong / Mongabay JAKARTA — German chemical giant BASF and French miner Eramet have pulled out of a multibillion-dollar “green energy” project in Indonesia because of its impact on one of the last Indigenous tribes on Earth living in voluntary...
Materials Used by Humans Weigh More than All Life on Earth
By Nick King and Aled Jones / THE CONVERSATION The extent of humanity’s influence on the planet has become increasingly clear in recent years. From the alarming accumulation of plastic waste in our oceans to the sprawling growth of urban areas, the size of our...
ACTION
The Underreported Killing of Colombia’s Indigenous Land Guard
Editor's note: This year’s biannual Biodiversity COP was in Cali, Colombia, a country with the dubious distinction of topping the list of the number of environmental activists killed by a country in both 2022 (60) and 2023 (79) and will probably have that dubious...
Release Jammu and Kashmir’s Environmental Defenders
by National Alliance of People’s Movements 13th Nov, 2024: More than 250 activists from different parts of India and diverse organizations signed on to a statement initiated by the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), strongly condemning the arbitrary...
Apache Stronghold Urges Supreme Court to Protect Oak Flat
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Apache Stronghold’s Case on Nov. 22, 2024 For Immediate Release: November 7, 2024 Media Contact: Ryan Colby | media@becketlaw.org | 202-349-7219 WASHINGTON – A coalition of Western Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies...
ANALYSIS
Acoustic Industrial Noise Pollution Is Nonstop
Editor's note: "Our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And with many of the ways we use that energy, we’re also producing another less widely discussed pollutant:...
Green Colonialism In Western Sahara
Editor's note: "Renewable" energy power plants continue the exploitation of the natural world and call their ecosystems "resources." Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) By Tommaso Marconi / FREEDOM While renewable energy is seen as part of the...
Methane Emissions Crisis Worse Than Ever Before
Editor's notes: Methane(CH4) is the main component of natural gas. The word comes from the Greek methy "wine" + hylē "wood." However, marketers came up with the term natural gas rather than methane gas to give it a clean, green image. Methane is produced by decaying...
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