NEWS
Alaska’s Arctic Rivers Turn Rusty Orange
By Liz Kimbrough / Mongabay Dozens of once-pristine rivers and streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range are turning an alarming shade of orange. The discoloration, according to a new study published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, is likely caused by the...
Three Summits Aim to Repair a Growing Rift with Nature
Editor's note: Climate change can not be addressed without stopping the extinction and plastics crisis. Every day, an estimated 137 species of plants, animals and insects go extinct due to deforestation alone. Microplastics have been detected in more than 1,300 animal...
The Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot
Ecology & Environmental Sciences Abstract Previously, anthropogenic ecological overshoot has been identified as a fundamental cause of the myriad symptoms we see around the globe today from biodiversity loss and ocean acidification to the disturbing rise in novel...
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
Human Supremacy Where You Might Least Expect It
By Elizabeth Robson / RadFemBiophilia's Newsletter In general, the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference gets far less press than the UN climate change conferences, but I’ve seen more news items for this year’s Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP...
Eat, Pray, Pollute: On The Needed Death of Tourism
By Christopher Ketcham / COUNTERPUNCH A crowd of 3,000 anti-tourism protesters descended on posh downtown Barcelona last July, their demeanor one of delighted malice. They cordoned off hotels and eateries with hazard tape, as if demarcating a crime scene. They...
The Nine Lies of the Fake Green Fairytale
By Prof Jem Bendell / thoughts on collapse readiness and recovery Self-deception is rife within the environmental profession and movement. Some denial or disavowal is not surprising, due to how upsetting it is to focus on an unfolding tragedy. But our vulnerability to...
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