Summer of Deadly Climate Breakdown Spurs Mass Protests Worldwide – 2 Articles
Climate activists are closing out the hottest summer on record with hundreds of demonstrations worldwide, all blaring a unified message: “End fossil fuels.”
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Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests. Destroying their habitats is killing us.
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Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil
A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.
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Disruptive Impact of ‘Unviable’ Ken-Betwa River Link Project for Bundelkhand Region
Villagers are protesting against the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, that is likely to lead to cutting down of 3 to 4 million trees and displacement of people of 21 villages. The project will be highly disastrous for the Bundelkhand region already suffering from several acute problems.
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Unprecedented Wildfires; Summer of 2023 Hottest Ever Recorded – 2 Articles
“Breaking heat records has become the norm in 2023,” said one scientist. “Global warming continues because we have not stopped burning fossil fuels. It is that simple.” Also: an article on this year’s utterly unprecedented wildfire season in Canada.
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Uttarakhand Towns Continue to Sink – 2 Articles
New cracks are appearing in the houses and roads of Joshimath town and also nearby areas, along with deep cavities in the fields. People who are affected, wait for rehabilitation, with only a few having received meagre compensation, that too for their houses alone.
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945. Environmental destruction is also leading in the same direction. And then there are dangers like pandemics …
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Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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In Uttarakhand, Crores in the River
In February this year, the Uttarakhand government was granted permission to continue mining the rivers flowing through the state’s hills and forests, sidestepping critical legal requirements to conserve forests and protect rivers.
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Drowning in Dividends: The Failed Privatisation of Britain’s Water Industry
On how the privatisation of the water industry under Margaret Thatcher has led to excessive profits and dividends for shareholders, chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, rampant sewage dumping, and a problematic revolving door between regulators and the companies they oversee.
