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US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t Win
A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
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Across the West, People Are Dying in Greater Numbers. Nobody Wants To Learn Why
There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover
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Another Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and Zelensky
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.
Read More How the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground.
Read More ‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
Read More Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
A class-action suit would serve society well. It would put teeth into the legal obligation for doctors to provide “informed consent,” and for a medical discipline to provide society with information that met this standard too.
Read More Twitter Allows Death Threats Against Russians in New Ukraine War Policy
Twitter updated its terms of service to allow users to call for the deaths of Russian politicians and soldiers, due to the war in Ukraine. This comes soon after US Senator Lindsey Graham called for assassinating President Vladimir Putin, and Facebook greenlighted support for Ukrainian Nazis.
Read More Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders for War
Right now, we need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC’s “chief international correspondents” think he wants. We need information sources ready to quickly challenge both western and Russian “fake news”. And most of all we need to stop with our racist view of the world, in which we are always the Good Guys and they are always the Bad Guys, and in which our suffering matters and the suffering of others doesn’t.
Read More Has U.S. Imperial Striving Destroyed Our Chances for a Peaceful Multipolar World?
The U.S. government and ‘western’ media claim that the World condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if you believe that ‘the world’ solely exists of the 5-eye spying cooperation (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), the European Union, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.
Read More US Gov’t Knew NATO Expansion to Ukraine Would Force Russia To Intervene
Former US Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns, who is now CIA director, admitted in a classified 2008 embassy cable that NATO expansion to Ukraine crosses Moscow’s security “redlines” and “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
Read More Have the Government & Ministry of Health Sought To Restrict Public Knowledge of Vaccine Risks?
The government has to face up to the lack of effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. It has to come clean with the public. Historically drugs are pulled off the market after 50 associated deaths. In little NZ we are in the hundreds and counting.
Read More A Plant-Based Diet May Lower Severity of COVID-19 Illness by 73 per Cent
Participants who followed plant-based diets had a 73% lower chance of moderate to severe COVID-19 illness, whereas those who followed low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were 48% more likely to have moderate to severe COVID-19 illness.
Read More Fauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence.
Read More US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
Read More Oceanic Sharks and Rays Have Declined by 71% Since 1970 – A Global Solution Is Needed
Marine biologists have been raising the alarm for several decades now, but their warnings were often ignored. Now, new research has brought together disparate threads of data into a single, global analysis of shark and ray populations in the open ocean.
Read More The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Read More Plant-Based Diets Crucial to Saving Global Wildlife, Says Report
The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting the damage, according to a report.
Read More 2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It
The last six years were the six hottest recorded on the planet, and 2020 closed the warmest decade on record.
Read More More Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019
At least 212 environmental campaigners and land defenders, 40 percent of them from indigenous communities, were killed last year as they sought to protect their territories from incursions by mining interests, agribusiness, timber companies, and oil and gas corporations.
Read More More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds
More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters.
Read More Former Dairy Farms Now Make and Deliver Vegan Oat Milk
Refarm’d is helping former dairy farmers transition away from animal agriculture and produce and deliver vegan oat milk.
Read More Methane Emissions Have Jumped a Staggering Nine Percent Since Last Decade
Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by humanity’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday.
Read More Cheyenne River Sioux Chair Offers to Rip Down Mount Rushmore—”Free of Charge… By Myself If I Must”
Describing the iconic South Dakota mountain carving that depicts the heads of famous U.S presidents as nothing but a monument to “our molesters,” the chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation this week said he would willingly tear down Mount Rushmore if given the chance—with or without help—and pay for its destruction personally.
Read More This Russia-Afghanistan Propaganda Story: Anything to Prevent Peace Breaking out?
Western propagandists are turning this completely empty story into the mainstream consensus, not with facts, not with evidence, and certainly not with journalism, but with sheer brute force of narrative control. And just in time to prevent the possibility of steps towards peace between the U.S. and Russia.
Read More Arctic Hits Hottest Temperature on Record at 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit
“100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That’s a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency.”
Read More Climate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming
The climate community and the general public are in for some “incredibly alarming” worst-case scenarios as modelling for the United Nations’ next major climate risk assessment takes shape.
Read More Warmest May on Record, Siberia 10C Hotter
Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its warmest May on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Friday.
Read More Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned this development, which is not yet incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement out of reach.
Read More Farmers in New Zealand Are Offended by Climate Change Curriculum
Advice to eat less meat and dairy is seen as “biting the hand that feeds.”
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More U.N. Chief Says There’s a Bigger Threat Than Coronavirus
In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies.
Read More Microplastics Found in Antarctic Sea Ice Samples for First Time, Scientists Say
For the first time, microscopic plastic pollution has been found in Antarctic sea ice samples collected more than a decade ago, suggesting that microplastic concentrations in Southern Sea ice may be higher than previously believed.
Read More Insect Populations on Land Are Down 50%, Study Shows
If you haven’t noticed as many bees, butterflies and fireflies as you used to, there’s a good reason for that.
Read More The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
The Great Barrier Reef is in the midst of its third mass-bleaching event in the last five years. This year’s heat-induced bleaching—which occurs during the region’s summer season—is more severe than the previous two, with 25 percent of the reefs experiencing widespread bleaching.
Read More Global Lockdowns Might Reduce CO2 Emissions but Won’t Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
There’s a difference between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CO2
Read More Ban Wildlife Markets to Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity Chief
Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases
Read More Empty Labs, Abandoned Research: Coronavirus Puts Science on Hold
In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Research trips are getting scrapped or postponed, experiments are being cut short, and scientists are worrying that the upheaval will cut their funding.
Read More Coronavirus Closures Reveal Vast Scale of China’s Secretive Wildlife Farm Industry
Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus
Read More Coronavirus: ‘Nature Is Sending Us a Message’, Says UN Environment Chief
Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts.
Read More This Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic seems likely to continue to threaten and disrupt lives across the world for at least several months to come. But it’s vital this does not mean the ongoing impacts of climate change are buried behind the headlines or ignored by governments.
Read More Rising CO2 in the Ocean Will Make Fish ‘Intoxicated,’ Scientists Predict
Rising levels of CO2 are wreaking havoc on our natural environment, causing increases in global temperatures, sea levels and seawater acidity. Now scientists are predicting that the increased CO2 in our oceans may have the effect of ”intoxicating” fish, impacting their ability to survive in the wild.
Read More Great Barrier Reef Suffers Third Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Five Years
Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in a ‘severe’ situation
Read More With Temperatures Rising, Can Animals Survive the Heat Stress?
A growing number of studies show that warming temperatures are increasing mortality in creatures ranging from birds in the Mojave Desert, to mammals in Australia, to bumblebees in North America. Researchers warn that heat stress could become a major factor in future extinctions.
Read More Governments Have ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition, IEA Says
Political and financial leaders have “a historic opportunity” to usher in a new era for global climate action with economic stimulus packages to confront the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
Read More Polar Ice Caps Melting Six Times Faster Than in 1990s
The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.
Read More Temperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
While the reading in Antarctica still needs to be confirmed, the Brazilian scientists who logged it called the new record “incredible and abnormal.”
Read More This Graph Will Show You the Carbon Footprint of Your Protein
Even the most sustainable meat is worse for the environment than plant-based protein.
Read More ‘The Saddest Thing Is That This Won’t Be Breaking News’: Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
“Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!”
Read More Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming
Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet.
Read More When It Comes to Climate Hypocrisy, Canada’s Leaders Have Reached a New Low
A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget.
Read More Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing. Now, policymakers, employers, and healthcare providers are increasingly considering the human need for nature in how they plan and operate.
Read More Arctic Permafrost Thaw Plays Greater Role in Climate Change Than Previously Estimated
Abrupt thawing of permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions from permafrost thaw in the Arctic, and is already rapidly changing the landscape and ecology of the circumpolar north, a new CU Boulder-led study finds.
Read More It Turns Out Planes Are Even Worse for the Climate Than We Thought
The contrails left by aeroplanes last only hours. But they are now so widespread that their warming effect is greater than that of all the carbon dioxide emitted by aeroplanes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Read More We Risk Living in an ‘Empty World’ If Assault on Nature Not Stopped, Warns UN Biodiversity Chief
“If our support systems are gone, there will be no humans.”
Read More How Melting Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic
The frozen layer of soil that has underlain the Arctic tundra for millennia is now starting to thaw. This melting, which could release vast amounts of greenhouse gases, is already changing the Arctic landscape by causing landslides, draining lakes, and altering vegetation.
Read More The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read More 2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Read More Climate Change Won’t Result in a New Normal but in Constant, Horrifying New Disasters
At an intense level of combined heat and humidity—a “wet bulb” reading of 35 degrees Celsius, hotter and more humid than humans have ever experienced—the air will become so muggy that people can’t sweat and their organs begin to shut down, even when sitting in the shade.
Read More The Bushfire Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call We Can’t Afford to Ignore
A British MP described the Australian bushfire crisis as a “wake-up call for the world” on global warming, but the Australian government is still asleep at the wheel.
Read More ‘Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,’ 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
The immediate “no-regret” measures they propose include aggressively curbing planet-heating emissions and the use of synthetic pesticides.
Read More Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?
Agriculture’s global footprint is decreasing — more land globally is now being abandoned by farming than converted to it. This, some researchers contend, presents an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.
Read More Yes, Australia Has Always Had Bushfires: But 2019 Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Record drought in Australia attributed to accelerating climate change has contributed to a continent-scale emergency that has burned through more than 5m hectares and alarmed scientists, doctors and firefighters.
Read More All The Species Declared Extinct This Decade
Scientists estimate that species are going extinct 1,000 times faster than they should be, and “literally dozens” go extinct each day. Gizmodo compiled a list of the species that the IUCN has formally declared extinct in the past decade.
Read More Science: Bees Are the Most Important Species on Earth
Bees are the most important species, according to research that reveals how wild bee health impacts the environment more than colony collapse disorder.
Read More The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read More Scientists Warn World Will Reach “Peak Meat” by 2030
A demand letter signed by more than 50 leading environmental experts calls upon world governments to replace animal agriculture with plant-based food production to keep the Earth from warming to dangerous levels.
Read More The Five Corrupt Pillars of Climate Change Denial
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change – where none exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate policy.
Read More ‘The Science Is Screaming’: UN Report Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Global Climate Disaster
“Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution.”
Read More Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
Read More Fishes, Sentience, And The Law
Despite recent increases in the interest towards bird and mammal protection, less attention is paid to the suffering experienced by fishes in the fishing industry. But without a morally relevant difference between aquatic and land animals, the same moral obligations should apply to fishes and other aquatic animals, too.
Read More The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening. Yet the latest numbers don’t lie: Nations now plan to keep producing more coal, oil, and gas than the planet can endure.
Read More How Much Would Giving Up Meat Help the Environment?
It is no secret that steaks and chops are delicious. But guzzling them incurs high costs for both carnivorous humans and the planet.
Read More Last Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
Read More Climate Change: ‘Clear and Unequivocal’ Emergency, Say Scientists
A global group of around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.
Read More Walmart, Costco, Target, McDonalds and More! Companies Linked to Promoting Amazon Deforestation
Fires in the Amazon made global headlines for weeks. Alongside the criticism of the Brazilian government for encouraging anti-environmental stances, new information is now available on business and companies‘ impact on the fires in the Amazon.
Read More What Does the U.S. Public Think of Its Government Arming and Bombing the World?
We finally have some U.S. polling data that is helpful in the project of ending war. That it accurately uses the term “military” rather than “defense” and that it asks about moving the money to useful things is a cut above the usual corporate polling, rare as even that is, on whether so-called defense spending should go up or down.
Read More Prime Ministers Urged to Take 30 Day Challenge to Help Climate Crisis
Four member organisations of the Vegan World Alliance are challenging the leaders of their countries to try vegan for a month, starting on 1 November, World Vegan Day. They want their leaders to commit to a low carbon way of life and to educate their government and the public about the huge negative impact animal agriculture has on the environment.
Read More Assange in Court
The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society.
Read More The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised: Media uninterested in protest movements around the world
Which protest movements interest corporate media has little to do with their righteousness or popularity, and much more to do with whom they are protesting against. If you’re fighting against corporate power or corruption in a US-client state, don’t expect many TV cameras to show up; that revolution is rarely televised.
Read More Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years
Read More News from Extinction Rebellion – Nonviolently Hitting Our Stride
As we approached the first weekend of the October Rebellion, Extinction Rebels showed no sign of slowing down.
Read More Overfishing Ban Could Save the Oceans From Climate Change
A ban on overfishing could protect the oceans and help fight climate change, a new report says. Overfishing is impacting the oceans’ health and resilience.
Read More Sixty Scientists Sign Open Letter Calling for Less Meat and Dairy in Schools and Hospitals
‘Mayors are in charge of millions of meals every day – they should do everything in their power to create a healthy future for the planet,’ these scientists say.
Read More Trump Moves to Open 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Refuge for Oil Drilling By End of the Year
The Trump administration has initialized the final steps to open up nearly 1.6 million acres of the protected Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to allow oil and gas drilling.
Read More Changing How We Eat Is Complicated
A successful transition to a more plant-based diet requires not only motivation but capability and opportunity. This review summarizes existing research on what helps (and hinders) that process.
Read More An Oxford Elementary School Just Banned Meat
The Swan School in Oxford in the UK serves vegetarian lunches to its students. More schools are introducing a meat ban for the sake of the planet.
Read More Global Warming Causing Profound Changes to the World’s Oceans, Scientists Warn
Climate change is profoundly altering the world’s oceans and frozen regions, threatening ecosystems and putting millions of people and their livelihoods at risk, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Read More Greta Thunberg and Indigenous Amazon Defender Among Visionary Campaigners Honored With Right Livelihood Awards
The Right Livelihood Foundation celebrated four “practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a livable future for all on planet Earth.”
Read More Jacinda Ardern Says Economic Growth Is Pointless If People Aren’t Thriving
New Zealand’s new well-being budget focuses on mental health and poverty reduction.
Read More More Bad News for Glyphosate
The Glyphosate controversy continues making news around the world and in Australia. The latest news being that the German Government has recently announced that it will phase out all uses for Glyphosate by 2023.
Read More ‘Biggest Day of Climate Action in Planetary History’
In what was the largest mass climate demonstration in history, millions of young people and their adult allies flooded the streets around the world Friday to take part in the Global Climate Strike and pressure world leaders to confront the ecological crisis with bold and urgent action.
Read More World ‘Losing Battle Against Deforestation’
A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation has failed, according to a report.
Read More New Review Shows Plant-Based Diet May Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
A plant-based diet may benefit individuals who experience rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a review of clinical trials and observational studies published in Frontiers in Nutrition in September 2019.
Read More Why Protecting the Amazon Is Critical to Solving the Climate Crisis.
The world has spent weeks watching fires ravage the Amazon Rainforest, and along with it, our chances of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. What’s more, scientists predict that this critical ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point: a decline from lush rainforest to dry savanna.
Read More Extreme Weather Displaced 7 Million People in First Half of 2019
Natural disasters forced a record 7 million people to be displaced in the first half of this year, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all the internal displacements worldwide, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).
Read More Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused A Huge Surge in the Toxicity of Agriculture
The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.
Read More Global Climate Strike – Sep. 20–27
By now, you’ve probably received plenty of emails about the Climate Strike on September 20th. You probably already know that masses of people of all ages will join youth in the streets in over 500 US cities. But you might still be wondering, why are all these people striking? Why should I get involved?
Read More ‘This Is Eco-Apartheid’: Post-Dorian Refugees Fleeing Bahamas Ordered Off Ferry Bound for US
Hundreds of Bahamian refugees were ordered off a ferry headed for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida from Freeport in the Bahamas days after Hurricane Dorian pummeled the islands, leaving at least 44 people dead and tens of thousands without homes.
Read More Room to Roam: How Animals Benefit From Wildlife Corridors
Development, resource extraction and roadbuilding have fragmented landscapes and reduced wild spaces making it harder for animals to find food, search for a mate and adapt to a changing climate. Ecologists and conservationists have been working for decades to create wildlife corridors — areas of natural habitat that can reconnect fragmented habitats.
Read More People’s Mobilization Unites For People And Planet
The People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet is two weeks away. The “People’s Mobe” will be held from September 20 to 23 in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly.
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