The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede… Read More Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion
First posted December 15, 2019 Barclays, HSBC and Santander among names behind companies implicated in rainforest destruction Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley also among key financiers. The burning of the Brazilian Amazon this summer illustrated in the most graphic way possible humanity’s war on the planet. But such scenes play out… Read More MONEY TO BURN: Over 300 banks and investors back 6 of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
Unconscious, frothing in the mouth, holding ice packs: Migrant workers are the biggest casualty of India’s worst heatwave Anumeha Yadav New Delhi: On Thursday afternoon, the busy campus of Safdarjung hospital had patients and attendants trying to protect themselves from the searing heat in the shade of the building and under trees. A tall security… Read More In a Delhi heat ward, two workers fight a lonely battle for life
Death Valley in California is the hottest place in the world and the highest temperature recorded there is 54.4 degrees Celsius, exactly 1.5 degrees hotter than Mungeshpur’s Wednesday reading. The difference is that about three hundred people live the year round in Death Valley while Delhi’s National Capital Region is home to thirty million people.… Read More Death Valley Beckons
The rapid warming is not limited to the surface – the heat content of the Indian Ocean down to 2,000 meters is currently increasing at a rate of 4.5 zettajoules per decade. Ashutosh Mishra The Indian Ocean, a vital body of water bordered by 40 countries and home to a third of the global population,… Read More Indian Ocean racing towards unprecedented heatwave crisis
Thanks to soil bioengineering in a village in north India, a submerged road was accessible in less than one week, according to officials by Charu Bahri On 14 August 2023, heavy rainfall in north India triggered flash floods and landslides, devastating the region. Kishori Lal, the sarpanch (head) of the Kothi Gehri village in the Himalayan… Read More ‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’: how plant roots can help stop landslides
First posted October 02, 2019 It may not come as a surprise that the largest industrial military in the history of the world is also the single biggest polluter on the planet. Murtaza Hussain Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed.… Read More Industrialized Militaries & Climate Emergency / Why Arms Races Never End
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the east Antarctic plateau documented a remarkable event. They recorded the largest jump in temperature ever measured at a meteorological centre on Earth.… Read More ‘Simply mind-boggling’: record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
Analysis shows how jets and tanks are being kept fuelled despite interim ICJ ruling warning Israel to prevent genocidal acts Nina Lakhani Israeli jets and tanks bombarding Palestinians are being fuelled by some of the world’s most profitable fossil fuel companies – and US tax-payers, according to research. Israel relies on crude oil and refined… Read More How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza
Paul Taylor Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to angry farmers last week faster than you could shake a pitchfork or dump a tractor-load of manure outside the European parliament. The European Commission president, expected to announce her candidacy for a second term heading the EU executive next week, told lawmakers that the commission was withdrawing a bill to halve… Read More Farmers are in revolt. Europe’s climate policies are crumbling. Welcome to the age of ‘greenlash’
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