(2021-07-25). Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Iran's southwestern Khuzestan region, the center of its petroleum industry, has been wracked with protests for a week, in part over water shortages. Rallies have erupted in the towns of Mahshahr, Izeh, Ahvaz, Kut-e Abdollah, Susangerd, Aligoudarz and Shoushtar, according to Amnesty International The Iranian government has sometimes replied to …
(2021-07-25). Climate activists demand faster energy transition after flood disaster hits Germany. juancole.com By Charlotte Nijhuis | — ( Clean Energy Wire) — Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after catastrophic floods hit several parts of Germany last week. On 23 July, environmental group Robin Wood kicks off a three-week raft tour from Berlin to Hamburg in order to push for a faster energy transition. "We …
(2021-07-24). How food prices are affected by oil, trade agreements and climate change. juancole.com 
By Wyn Morgan | — ( The Conversation) — Concerns about inflation rates have risen as the UK economy begins its much-needed recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The Consumer Prices Index, the measure most commonly used to measure inflation, rose by 2.5% in June 2021, the highest level for three years. That headline …
(2021-07-24). Climate: We Are Not Doing Enough. zcomm.org Despite the reduced emissions resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, the Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily, and the carbon dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere continues to rise steadily…
(2021-07-24). A New Global Group of 21 Lawmakers Will Pressure Countries on Climate Change. zcomm.org The Global Alliance for a Green New Deal wants sharper emissions cuts, better climate finance from rich countries, ecological justice, and more…
(2021-07-24). How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action. nationofchange.org "I think it's fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible."
(2021-07-24). As US broils and Europe floods, media dismiss EU climate plan as 'ambitious'. nationofchange.org When humans seek to take aggressive action against this aggressive reality, reporters frame those goals as lofty and unlikely to succeed.
(2021-07-24). [Perspectives] Portrait or snapshot? thelancet.com Brigid Edwards is a leading botanical artist. She creates exquisite paintings on vellum, using watercolours and tiny brushes to create portraits of plants and insects. Her work also includes a series of postage stamps of creatures in danger of extinction. As well as the beauty of these images, her paintings are precise scientific records. One of her biggest challenges is to capture the nuances of colour, the precise green of a leaf, or the speckles on a beetle's back. Edwards combines a naturalist's observation with an artist's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision.
(2021-07-24). Coral disease spreading in Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships. nationofchange.org Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.
(2021-07-24). Stop Waste of Tax Dollars on 2d Prosecution of H Weinstein. indybay.org Harvey Weinstein, the 69 year old, very sick, film producer, sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York at age 67 for rape, a life sentence given his age,has now been extradited to Los Angeles where California taxpayers will have to pay millions of dollars for yet another rape trial of a sick old man. This does not solve the rape problem at all; it is theft of our tax dollars.