German region approves creation of fund to bypass US sanctions designed to stop Gazprom's vital Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
rt.com | 2021-01-08
The parliament of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has voted to establish a fund to circumvent American sanctions preventing the construction of the Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline that will connect Russia and Germany. | When completed, it will run from Russia's Leningrad Region, bypassing the Baltic States and Poland, and arrive on Germany's north-eastern Baltic Sea shore. The project has been constantly opposed by Washington, which somewhat preposterously claims that it is a threat to the e…
rt.com/russia/511960-germany-approve-fund-nordstream2/
The Climate Crisis Sets Another Grim Record
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-08
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY 2.0] By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams Highlighting global campaigners' demands for urgent and bold climate action, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Friday that despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, 2020 tied with 2016 for being the warmest year on record and closed out the warmest decade on the books. "It is notable that… | Source…
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The Climate Crisis Sets Another Grim Record
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-08
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY 2.0] By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams Highlighting global campaigners' demands for urgent and bold climate action, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Friday that despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, 2020 tied with 2016 for being the warmest year on record and closed out the warmest decade on the books. "It is notable that… | Source…
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Climate Emergency Persists as 2020 Ties for Earth's Hottest Year on Record
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-08
"It took over 200 years for [atmospheric CO2] levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/2020-ties-hottest-climate-emergency.jpg …
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Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts
Tiffany Duong | commondreams.org | 2021-01-08
The forest could lose its ability to store the world's excess carbon which helps to regulate the climate and planetary temperature. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2021-01-08_at_12.18.10_pm.png …
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Thursday 1/14: We Throw It All Away: Food Waste & Loss and Changing to Responsible Practices
EARTHDAY | indybay.org | 2021-01-08
Online event via Zoom or direct livestream…
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How Activists Shut Down Key Pipeline Projects In New York
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-07
If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across the Southern Tier of New York until west of Albany. There it would join two existing pipelines, one that extends into New England and the other to the Ontario border as part of a vast network that moves fracked gas throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. | For a while, everything unfolded as expected. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project in 2014, the U.S. was in the midst of a frack…
popularresistance.org/how-activists-shut-down-key-pipeline-projects-in-new-york/
We Are Living in an Emergency That Requires Urgent Action
Vijay Prashad | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-07
The first newsletter of the new year is written in collaboration with our friend, the great linguist and prophetic voice, Noam Chomsky. What follows is a statement by Noam and me. Xiang Wang (China), Extinction, 2020 Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021: A Note from Noam Chomsky and Vijay …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/we-are-living-in-an-emergency-that-requires-urgent-action/
Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-07
Global warming is the biggest challenge facing humanity today. Yet, climate change has yet to become our number one priority even though, as the World Meteorological Organization warned back in March 2020, " time is fast running out" on averting an acute environmental catastrophe. | In this context, a comprehensive Green New Deal is urgently needed…
truthout.org/articles/chomsky-and-pollin-a-global-green-new-deal-is-the-only-way-to-avert-disaster/
Why vaccines are being wasted in the United States
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2021-01-07
The US needs to vaccinate 9 million people a week to end the pandemic by July 1. We're very far from that goal…
salon.com/2021/01/07/why-vaccines-are-being-wasted-in-the-united-states/
Thursday 1/14: We Throw It All Away: Food Waste & Loss and Changing to Responsible Practices
EARTHDAY | indybay.org | 2021-01-07
Online event via Zoom or direct livestream…
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Thursday 1/7: We Throw It All Away: Food Waste & Loss and Changing to Responsible Practices
EARTHDAY | indybay.org | 2021-01-07
Online event via Zoom or direct livestream…
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White House Announces Puerto Rico Disaster Rebuilding Aid
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2021-01-07
Washington DC — The White House announced a $3.7 billion disaster grant for Puerto Rico to rebuild reservoirs, dams and wastewater facilities.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/06/18839231.php
Human Society And The Biosphere
John Scales Avery | zcomm.org | 2021-01-07
According to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/human-society-and-the-biosphere/
The Side Effects of Vaccines. 2017 Study in the International Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination
Antonietta Gatti | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
This article was first published in January 2017 by the International Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination | Abstract | Vaccines are being under investigation for the possible side effects they can cause. In order to supply new information, an electron-microscopy investigation method | …
globalresearch.ca/new-quality-control-investigations-vaccines-micro-nanocontamination/5733761
Environmental Capitalism and Climate Change Wars: Australia in 2000
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-06
The Australian was convinced. "Australia could have avoided two decades of climate change wars had the Howard government pushed ahead with its majority view of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), newly released documents reveal." Historian Chris Wallace is not as unequivocal in this assertion, but nonetheless observes in The Conversation that…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/06/environmental-capitalism-and-climate-change-wars-australia-in-2000/
You don't want to imagine an ocean without coral reefs–but you might have to
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2021-01-06
The reefs will die. That seems certain. The UNEP report will not circulate. That seems equally certain. The Marshall Islands and Rwanda will file their updates. That has already happened. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies will sit on the sidelines, expanding fracking with a "who cares" attitude.
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White House Announces Puerto Rico Disaster Rebuilding Aid
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2021-01-06
Washington DC — The White House announced a $3.7 billion disaster grant for Puerto Rico to rebuild reservoirs, dams and wastewater facilities.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/06/18839231.php