Desertification

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment when the world started to move decisively away from its reliance on fossil fuels. Those fuels — oil, natural gas, and coal — […]

Desertification

The War in Yemen is Political, Ecological: Forget Sunnis and Shiites

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By Solaiman M. Fazel | (Informed Comment) As the Saudi led coalition closes its second week of bombardment in Yemen, the dominant narrative in the mainstream media depicts this conflict as another episode of the Shi’a-Sunni sectarianism that has now spread into the southwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula. Representing the warfare in terms of […]

Climate Change

How Climate Change is already affecting Human Well-Being

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EPA | – “This video provides an introduction to the issue of climate change. The narration discusses the causes of modern-day climate change, signs that the climate is already changing, and how climate change affects the environment and human well-being. It concludes with information about how individuals and society at large can take steps to […]

Climate Change

Half of all new Energy world-wide last year was Green

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By Sean Buchanan | – ROME, Mar 31 2015 (IPS) – Driven by solar and wind, world investments in renewable energy reversed a two-year dip last year, brushing aside the challenge from sharply lower oil prices and registering a 17 percent leap over the previous year to stand at 270 billion dollars. These investments helped […]

Climate Change

Climate War on Planet Protested at U of Michigan 50 Yrs after 1st anti-Vietnam War Teach-in

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Science for the People | – “This event marks the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first teach-in on the war in Vietnam, held at the University of Michigan on March 24-25, 1965. Our new teach-in is focused on one of the most pressing issues of our time: the escalating war against the planet represented by […]

Climate Change

ISIL, Yemen, Syria: Drought, Climate Change and new Wars

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By David Reed | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military threats. The U.S. intelligence and security communities grapple on a daily basis with the pressing reality that natural resource scarcity and global climate change pose direct threats to U.S. prosperity […]

Climate Change

Iran’s Lakes becoming Deserts as Climate Change, Dams provoke Aridity

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AFP | – “Nazar Sarani’s village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country’s worsening water crisis. Climate change is blamed, but so too is human error and mismanagement. A voiced AFPTV report.” AFP: “As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran’s new problem”