Joshimath Residents Return to Their “Unsafe” Homes, Four Months After the Sinking Crisis
Due to the decreasing facilities in the relief camps, people deprived of their food and all household facilities are returning to their disaster-hit homes.
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New Forest Laws and ‘Development’ Push: A Prelude to a ‘Land Grab’ in India’s North-East?
The root of the violence in Manipur can be traced to measures that threaten the rights of tribal communities over land and resources.
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People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change
In 2017, the Cuban government approved the ‘State Plan to Confront Climate Change’, known in Cuba as ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, ‘Tarea Vida’ is the world’s only truly long-term state plan to address climate change.
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As Negotiation on Global Plastics Treaty Gets Underway, India Should Reconsider Contradictory Stance
The Indian government has kept its eye on billions in revenue from the polluting petrochemical industry while making half-hearted measures to curb plastic use.
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Planet Earth Is ‘Quite Sick’: 7 of 8 Boundaries for Safe and Just World Already Breached, Study Says
A new research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature warns that nearly every threshold for a “safe and just” planet has already been breached and pleads for swift action to protect “the global commons for all people now and into the future.”
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Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
Last year, the US announced a “breakthrough” in developing an alternative to fission. The announcement was soon debunked. Unfortunately, most of those who criticized fusion missed one of its most serious dangers – that discovering a source of limitless cheap energy would doom humanity’s future rather than enhance it.
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The Terrifying Math of the Incoming El Niño
One and a half degrees is dead. The world will blow past that milestone in the next year. At least, that’s what climate scientist James Hansen and his collaborators at Columbia University’s Earth Institute predicted in January.
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Why Pune’s Citizens Are Up in Arms About a Riverfront Development Project
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more ‘accessible’ to people will not really do so, say activists.
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India: Climate Change Causing Freak Weather and Heat Waves
The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) is predicting serious heat waves in the three-month period till end-May. They are expected to have wide-ranging impacts in India ranging from fatalities and hospitalisations to low productivity, loss of education and economic losses.
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Open Letter to Australian MPs Re Horrendous US Alliance Lying, War Crimes and Regime Changing
Careful accounting reveals 85 instances of the US attempting to overthrow foreign governments since WW2 and that the US was successful in 50 instances, with craven US lackey Australia being involved in 8 of these regime changes.
