Balsa wood is used in Europe, and also more intensively in China, as a component in the construction of the blades of wind turbines. Already-installed wind turbines, with blades that stretch to 80 metres, can cover an area of approximately 21,000 square metres, which is equivalent to about three football pitches. More recent wind turbine designs can… Read More A green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy
US conservative groups behind a Supreme Court legal battle that could shape the future of American abortion rights have spent at least $28m around the world between 2016 and 2019 on campaigns against women’s and LGBT rights, openDemocracy reveals today. They have also received almost $100m from 2016 to 2020 from anonymous donors, funnelled through two leading US charities… Read More US ‘dark money’ groups spend millions overseas in support of campaigns to limit or ban rights for women and LGBTQ people
Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide. Why is meaningful action to avert the climate crisis proving so difficult? It is, at least in part, because of ads. The fossil fuel industry has perpetrated a… Read More Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes: The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
With India’s largest coal mining project slated to come up in West Bengal, approximately 21,000 people will need to be relocated and rehabilitated. The government aims to make the Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harinsinga coal block a model project with sensitive land acquisition and appropriate compensation. The local people, however, are anxious and uncertain of the transition as their… Read More Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen: In anticipation of India’s largest coal mining project (Photos)
By Sabah Gurmat & Paras Nath Singh THE Bombay High Court, on Wednesday, allowed the default bail plea of lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the Elgar Parishad (Bhima Koregaon) case under Section 167(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code read with Section 43D(2) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967. While granting bail… Read More Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants default bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, but declines the same to eight other accused
The advent of cheap, versatile plastics has created “a global scale deluge of plastic waste seemingly everywhere we look”, the report states, with the US a leading contributor of disposable plastics that ends up entangling and choking marine life, harming ecosystems and bringing harmful pollution up through the food chain. Plastic waste has increased sharply… Read More US is world’s biggest plastic polluter // Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है?। UP POLITICS । UP ELECTIONS / क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है?। लगातार आ रहे सर्वे और विभिन्न अंचलों से मिल रही प्रतिक्रिया से लग रहा है कि यूपी की हवा बदल रही है .यह बदलाव बीते एक महीने में ज्यादा महसूस किया जा रहा… Read More क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है? – UP POLITICS / Why did the Modi government run away from debating the farm laws? / Kisan mahapanchayat in Mumbai calls for BJP's defeat in polls
In the mid-1970s, exiled from the Soviet Union for exposing its vast crimes against humanity, and having won the Nobel Prize in Literature for that endeavor, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) turned his back on the lionization that awaited him in New York and other cultural capitals of the West and instead settled with his family in… Read More Book review: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing
Forging stronger bonds in a post-pandemic world… will require acts of moral imagination that are not part of any political ideology or mission statement, but are functions of the human condition: tenderness, compassion, longing, generosity, allegiance and affection. These are the only answers to loneliness, alienation, dislocation and disintegration. But the fullest expression of these functions…… Read More Jill Lepore: Is society coming apart?
Despite the repeated warnings of health leaders, our failure to put vaccines into the arms of people in the developing world is now coming back to haunt us. We were forewarned – and yet here we are. In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating,… Read More Gordon Brown: A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines
