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Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to the state for livelihood opportunities created by the mining industry.
The fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats is threatened by deforestation, quarrying, and largely unplanned development. The escalating pressures of climate change expose this unique natural heritage to even more degradation and destruction. With political will faltering, scientists are urging local communities to take the lead on conservation and climate action.
The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between environmental conservation and development.
Sheinbaum, a 62–year-old intellectual with a doctorate in environmental sciences, proved her mettle as mayor of Mexico City before she won the presidency in last year’s elections. And she has proved it all over again by way of her first encounters with the just-elected Trump.
In Northeast India, a controversial hydropower dam moves toward completion – causing great uncertainty for downstream dwellers whose livelihoods depend on the river.
The outlook for sea level rise has never been more pertinent and never so threatening. Global warming is running so far ahead of schedule, the dreaded +1.5°C pre-industrial already knocking on the door, as science consistently plays catchup, and sea level rise is one threat that may be on deck much sooner than anybody thought possible.
This will effectively silo U.S. public health agencies from their international counterparts and sever the American public, health providers, and research hubs from information about infectious diseases, budding epidemics, and even outbreaks of foodborne and waterborne illnesses.
“The Ocean Surface Is Warming Four Times Faster Than in the 1980s”; “We Have Entered the Era of Global Boiling: Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated”; and: “Killing The Great Barrier Reef”.
Ian Angus talks about the ideas set out in his book ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ and explains the origin of his thought.
The failures in California, where Los Angeles has had no significant rainfall in eight months, are not only failures of preparedness but a failure globally to halt the extraction of fossil fuel. Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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