Pollution

TeleSur | – – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said the leak demonstrated that approval should not be given for another section of the 2,600-mile pipeline planned for Nebraska. At least 210,000 gallons of oil have leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota in the United States, just days before a crucial decision due on […]

Denialism

Under Trump, Arctic Refuge to be Ravaged by Oil Drills

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By Subhankar Banerjee | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – What happens in the Arctic doesn’t just stay up north. It affects the world, as that region is the integrator of our planet’s climate systems, atmospheric and oceanic. At the moment, the northernmost places on Earth are warming at more than twice the global average, a […]

Coal

Oil & Coal & Crop Burning turn Delhi into ‘Gas Chamber’ of Air Pollution

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Donald Trump

As Trump disses Puerto Rico Again, 83% in dark, 36% Drinking Dirty Water

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The Watchers | – – According to latest figures, the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by the passage of Category 4 Hurricane "Maria" on September 20, 2017, has risen to 45. There are still 113 people unaccounted for. Most of the island is still without basic services such as power and running water, nearly three weeks […]

Coal

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

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By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, Japan, causing health and environmental problems still felt today. As the first global treaty on mercury finally comes into force, what have we really learned from this disaster? Joshua Sokol […]