Antarctica on Alert; Global Floods Beckon Noah; Ocean Overheating – 3 Articles
‘Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming’; ‘Global Floods Beckon Noah’; and: ‘Antarctica on Alert!’.
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Plastics No Longer an Invisible Killer; U.S. and Oil Producers Block a Treaty to Clean the World of Plastic Pollution – 3 Articles
‘Plastics in the World’s Oceans and Food: No Longer an Invisible Killer’; ‘Plastics Crisis Endangers Humanity and All Aspects of the Environment, Concludes Lancet Study’; ‘U.S. and Oil Producers Block a Treaty to Clean the World of Plastic Pollution’.
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Environmental Devastation Behind Disasters in Himalayan States – 2 Articles
‘The People of Uttarakhand and Himachal Want Roads, Not Landslides’: An interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra. Also: ‘Flash Flood in the Himalayas Reignites Debate on Development’.
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The Ploys of the Climate Deniers
From the day the idea of reducing carbon emissions was raised, a counter-campaign has been launched by coal, oil and gas industries claiming that climate science was immature, carbon emissions did not cause warming, the increase in carbon dioxide was actually beneficial for the planet and that temperature rise was due to natural causes.
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Atmospheric Colonisation and Ecological Imperialism in the World System
One of the most damaging myths about the global ecological crisis is that humans as such are responsible for it. In reality, the crisis is being driven by our particular economic system, capitalism, and is caused almost entirely by the States and corporations of the Global North (the imperial core), primarily to the benefit of their elites.
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What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals About Its Fragile Future
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
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The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees – stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
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How Sustained Resistance is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests from Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
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Can Carbon Dioxide Removal Save the Climate?
Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?
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India’s Groundwater Running Dry – 2 Articles
‘As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, Calls for Reform Grow’: The worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India. Also: ‘Scientists Raise Alarm as Rural Water Supply Goes from Depths to Debt’.
