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Murder, Rape, and Torture: Fortress Conservation on Trial

4Nov

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Environment, World

Murder, Rape, and Torture: Fortress Conservation on Trial

BY SUBHANKAR BANERJEE Charlie Swaney scanning for animals from his hunting camp, East Fork of the Chandalar River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. (Photo: Subhankar Banerjee, August 2002). On November 1, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres opened his remarks at the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, with these words: “The six years, since the Paris Climate Agreement, have been the six hottest years on record. Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it, or it stops us. And it’s time to say, enough. Enough of brutalizing biodiversity…!” It was not the first time that Secretary General Guterres had acknowledged the biodiversity crisis gripping our planet in such a prominent manne...

9Oct

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Environment, Russia

Siberia’s Hot Streak

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: Анастасия Игоревна Петухова – CC BY-SA 4.0 Global warming in Siberia is on a hot streak! It was +6°C last year. In like manner, if the entire planet hit +6°C above pre-industrial, it would be lights out, life snuffed out, sayonara. Meanwhile, the Siberian hot streak theoretically threatens the entire planet with methane-induced runaway global warming, the dreaded monster of the North that takes no prisoners. As it’s happening now, in real time today, Siberia is demonstrating the impact of deadly serious climate reactions to too much heat, too soon. This fiasco cannot be dismissed or ignored. It should be at the top of the agenda for COP26 in Glasgow this coming November. Moreover, it should also be at the top of the agenda for eve...

BRITISH ARMY IGNORED FIVE FIRES BEFORE SPARKING KENYA INFERNO

29Sep

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Africa, Environment, United Kingdom

BRITISH ARMY IGNORED FIVE FIRES BEFORE SPARKING KENYA INFERNO

The British army did not investigate five bush fires its soldiers sparked in Kenya weeks before they ignited an even larger inferno that destroyed thousands of acres of East African wildlife reserve and left one man dead, Declassified has found. PHIL MILLER British troops sparked a major fire in Kenya on 23 March 2021 (Photo: MOD) The revelation comes days before the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is due in court to defend itself against a compensation claim being brought by 1,400 Kenyans. They blame British troops for accidentally burning down 12,000 acres (nearly 50 square kilometres) of land in central Kenya earlier this year. Declassified understands that UK government lawyers are urgently trying to stop a Kenyan judge from hearing a class action suit on Monday a...

AIRCRAFT CARRIER BASE THREATENS ENDANGERED WHALES

26Sep

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Environment, United Kingdom

AIRCRAFT CARRIER BASE THREATENS ENDANGERED WHALES

British officials did not consider the environmental impact of a new naval base in the Indian Ocean, despite evidence it will have ‘large adverse’ consequences for a species of whale ‘at high risk of extinction’, Declassified has found. PHIL MILLER An Arabian humpback whale swims near Oman (Photo: Screengrab / Environment Society of Oman) 100 surviving Arabian humpback whales threatened by new British base in OmanRoyal Navy is tripling the size of its facility at Duqm port to house its aircraft carriers A new port for British warships in the Gulf state of Oman is being built on a key migration path for a rare breed of whale. The revelation comes as the Royal Navy’s flagship, the giant 280m HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, is steaming towards the port on her way to Chin...

12Sep

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Environment

The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

BY PRITI GULATI COX – STAN COX Industrial solar field, Lost Hills, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line and begin phasing out fossil fuels at the accelerated pace that the climate emergency demands. And if they can manage to do that, they clearly will need to quickly build up wind and solar electric capacity to partially compensate for the shrinkage of oil, gas, and coal supplies while addressing the prospect of energy shortages by securing production of essential goods and services for everyone. Unfortunately, mainstream climate visions have strayed far from confronting the existential necessity to banish fossil fuel...

Workers refuse to shoulder the burden for the bosses’ climate crisis

31Aug

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Environment, USA

Workers refuse to shoulder the burden for the bosses’ climate crisis

Brandon Stout Download PDF flyer Workers are organizing to fight for their health and wellbeing amid deteriorating environmental conditions caused by climate change. The United Nations issued a “code red for humanity” warning earlier this month with over 3,000 pages of scientific documentation saying that the climate crisis has reached a point where we can expect extreme weather including heat waves, flooding and droughts to happen with more frequency and intensity. The working class and poor are facing the brunt of this. On August 20, Burger King workers organizing with Fight for 15 in San Jose, California walked out to protest the extreme temperatures inside the restaurant. Rosa Vargas, who helped organize the walk out, says the restaurant’s air conditioning and venti...

Keepers of the Flame: Climate Chaos and Creeping Authoritarianism

29Aug

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Environment

Keepers of the Flame: Climate Chaos and Creeping Authoritarianism

BY NICK BASCOM Photo by the National Park Service. Our son was born just after midnight on New Year’s Day, in the middle of a blizzard and at the apex of a plague. We jokingly call him Kyber Chaosborn, partly in homage to Daenerys Stormborn and partly to deflect from a harrowing labor we’re not yet ready to fully process. Kyber was born in Ohio, where my wife and I grew up. While my wife was pregnant, we took an anxiety-ridden journey from California back to Ohio because we hoped to improve our odds of avoiding COVID-19 by staying with family. Given all that effort and concern, you can see why I was so insulted and dismayed when an Ohio senate candidate retweeted the following sentiments in support of his mission to ensure a “healthy ruling class”: “The Democrat party is a...

24Aug

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Environment

The Great Fear

BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 I like to believe that a few powerful persons in the United States, including President Joe Biden, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will break through their gentle suggestions for reform and start shouting on behalf of saving themselves and America from the climate giant in the room. We are running out of time Time is not with us. I see it daily. I see it in the enormous number of cars and trucks in the street adding a ceaseless stream of greenhouse gases reaching the heavens every day; I see it in the airplanes flying in the dark of night; I see it in the spraying of petrochemical poisons over the nation’s food; I see it over the continuing slaughter of...

Greed and Consumption: Why the World Is Burning

15Aug

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Environment

Greed and Consumption: Why the World Is Burning

A man cools off in a fountain at Piazza della Rotonda in Rome on August 12, 2021. A blistering heatwave is sweeping across Italy this week, fuelling fires in the south of the country, notably Sicily and Calabria, where a UNESCO-designated natural park is threatened. (Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) If we continue to talk about global warming without confronting the capitalist menace that generated much of the crisis in the first place, the conversation will continue to amount to nil. RAMZY BAROUD Rome is scorching hot. This beautiful city is becoming unbearable for other reasons, too. Though every corner of the beaming metropolis is a monument to historical grandeur, from the Colosseum in Rione Monti to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in San Giovanni, it ...

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure

8Aug

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Environment

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure

By Ellen Brown Global Research, All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions. On July 14, the European Union unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would, according to Gulf News, mean “the end of the internal combustion engine”: The commission’s draft would reduce permitted emissions from new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles to zero from 2035 – effectively obl...