Current Locust Infestation a Result of Climate Change
In an interview, the former ICRISAT scientist says the damage could have been contained if the government had acted promptly to warnings.
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The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Message for World Environment Day, June 5: Only as one earth community and one humanity, united in our diversities, can we escape the destructive, ecocidal, genocidal rule of the 1%.
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We Cannot Ignore the Links Between COVID-19 and the Warming Planet
The emergence of COVID-19 suggests that the dangers of global warming do not lie decades in the future, but are immediate.
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10C Above Baseline
Earth at 10°C above pre-industrial is a deadly horrifying thought, but it should not be dismissed out of hand.
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Pandemic: How Big Banks and Big AG Share Blame
Trump blaming the pandemic solely on China is not only misleading, but hypocritical – as US agri-business corporations are equally responsible.
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Halt Destruction of Nature or Suffer Even Worse Pandemics, Say World’s Top Scientists
Only one species is responsible for coronavirus – humans – say world’s leading wildlife experts.
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Avenger Planet: Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s Response to Human Transgression?
Michael T. Klare As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain its ferocity. One, widely circulated within right-wing conspiracy circles, is that it originated as a biological weapon developed at a secret Chinese military lab in the city of Wuhan that somehow…
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Kill GDP to Help Save the Planet
Robert Hunziker There’s a problem with America’s (and we’d like to add, India’s – editor) favourite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though…
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This Won’t Be Breaking News: CO2 Levels Hit Record High of 416 ppm
Jessica Corbett The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high Monday, a reading from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that elicited fresh calls from climate activists and scientists for the international community to end planet-heating emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation. According to NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory, an…
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On Fire This Time
John Bellamy Foster We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced.(1) Not only is the planet burning, but a revolutionary climate movement is rising up and is now on fire in response. Here is a brief chronology of the…
