NEWS
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...
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...
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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...
ANALYSIS
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...
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...
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