Environment

The Watchers | – – The Indian Medical Association declared a public health emergency on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, as toxic smog engulfed Indian capital Delhi. In some areas, Air Quality Index (AQI) reached a maximum of 999 and went beyond what instruments could measure. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the smoke-laden air […]

Environment

With 75% fall in flying Insects, Call for pesticide ban

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By Samuel White | EurActiv.com | – – Scientists have raised the alarm after a study 27 years in the making found the biomass of flying insects in nature protected areas has declined by more than 75% since 1990. The causes of the decline are not fully understood. The decline of Europe’s bee populations has […]

Climate Change

Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

Juan Cole

TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group reports, warning that urgent measures are needed to achieve the targets set by the Paris climate agreement and avoid cataclysmic changes in the earth’s climate conditions. “Concentrations of carbon dioxide […]

Acidification of Oceans

It’s up to You: Corporations won’t save us from Global Heating

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Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg | (The Conversation) | – – While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seen by many as crucial to tackling climate change. However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are systematically degraded by criticism from shareholders, media, governments, other corporations and […]

Climate Change

After CO2-fueled Disasters, Why won’t the U. of Michigan go Green?

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Jonathan Morris | ( The Michigan Daily) | – – This month, two remarkable events occurred that passed mostly under the radar here on campus. First, to start off the month, the University of Michigan celebrated its bicentennial with an entire week of climate change-themed activities, called MC2: Michigan & The Climate Crisis. This event […]

Climate Change

Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

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By Maria Beri | (Inequality.org) | – – Every dollar going to one of the hedge funds that have bought up much of the island’s debt is a dollar taken away from saving lives. I still cry when I talk to my family back in Puerto Rico. I am from a small town in Puerto […]

Environmentalism

Can we ever Clean Torrents of Plastic Dumped in the Oceans?

Juan Cole

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – With 30 countries from Kenya to Indonesia and from Canada to Brazil now involved in the world campaign to beat pollution by countering the torrents of plastic trash that are degrading oceans and endangering the life they sustain, the UN has strengthened […]

Environmentalism

Forget Terrorism: Industrial Pollution causes 1 in every 6 deaths worldwide

Juan Cole

By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com| – – A new study is the first to take into account all types of pollution. The results make difficult reading. Pollution causes 9 million deaths around the world every year, according to a landmark new study which found that one in six of all deaths are linked to polluted […]

Climate Change

Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves for 1st time in 7,000 years

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Sev Kender | (The Conversation) | – – The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer […]