NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The… Read More The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today
Nick Visser Concerns are mounting about an ocean phenomenon known as a Kelvin wave that could raise sea levels along the California coastline by up to a foot, as scientists say El Niño is supercharging the threat of storm surges and flooding in the coming months. As an incredibly strong El Niño continues to develop… Read More Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms Oliver Milman he planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the… Read More ‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
Fiona Harvey Environment editor It was, according to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the “summer of truth”. Climate chaos ripped through Europe and the northern hemisphere, sending heat records tumbling, scorching crops in the fields, burning forests, emptying rivers and reservoirs, warping train tracks, melting roads and killing about 35,000 people in… Read More Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August Damien Gayle Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet last month, the first scientific study of the disaster has found. Researchers identified unusually warm conditions before the glacier’s… Read More Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” By Tamara Pearson This article was originally published by Truthout Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense… Read More Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
Abby Martin INFILTRATED the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think THE VIDEO US MILITARY WANT TO BAN Watch Abby Martin’s New Film “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” now: http://www.earthsgreatestenemy.com ++++++++ The CIA: An Imperial History The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons From the Start of a Cold War. By Fredrik Logevall ‘Truth is one of our rights’: victims of Indonesia’s… Read More Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think (AV)
George Monbiot: Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: the life the radical right wants you to have Nepal’s flash floods expose something more fundamental: the problem is not the absence of a warning system – it is a climate crisis that is producing hazards that behave differently from those the systems… Read More Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis
To defend the ecology of the irreplaceable Western Ghats entails renewing our ties to the natural world. No trite nostrum along the lines of ‘sustainable development’ will suffice. Sustainability is about what we can go on taking from nature without finding the courage to face our organised, well-disguised greed By Aseem Shrivastava The canopy closes… Read More The dark forest of Katlekan: Why we must stop the plunder of the Western Ghats
US Geological Survey says massive glacial collapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal and Tibet By Mark Saunokonoko, Nick Evershed, Mike Hohnen, Paul Scruton, Harvey Symons, Glenn Swann and Lucy Swan At 8.37am on Wednesday, an enormous section of a glacier in the Himalayas sheared free and crashed on to the valley floor in Nepal’s Langtang national park,… Read More How the deadly Nepal and Tibet flash flood unfolded – a visual guide
