(2021-10-10). Pacific Island Leaders Demand Urgent COP 26 Climate Action. zcomm.org Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama stressed that world leaders should not be allowed to "sneak in and out of Glasgow without making a single serious commitment."
(2021-10-10). Harry Potter and the Secret of COP26. warisacrime.org 
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 10, 2021 "Blimey, Harry!" exclaimed Ronald Weasley, his face pressed to the window, peering out at the swiftly passing countryside as the glistening red Hogwarts Express belched coal smoke into the sky on its way north to Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference. "If the secret that you …
(2021-10-09). China plays key role in tackling global biodiversity crisis, says expert. ecns.cn China, with a long history of nature conservation, got a key role to play in helping tackle the global biodiversity crisis, which is equally on center stage with climate change, a U.S. expert has said.
(2021-10-09). 4 Senate Dems Say They Won't Back Budget Deal If Manchin Axes Climate Provisions. truthout.org 
Democrats in Congress are engaged in an increasingly bitter debate over what to cut from their budget reconciliation package in order to appease party conservatives who refused the original $3.5 trillion price tag. Progressives fear that key climate provisions may be on the chopping block even as President Joe Biden prepares for international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. | Four Senate Democrats now say they will only support the reconciliation package and the bipartisan infrastructu…
(2021-10-09). Extracting Profits — imperialism, climate change and resistance in Africa. mronline.org 
2018 seems like a lifetime ago. When 'Extracting Profit' came out that year, the COVID-19 pandemic was two years away. Since then, the world has been plunged into a devastating crisis, with 4.5 million lives lost globally, including close to 200,000 reported deaths on the African continent.
(2021-10-09). Haiti has the World's Second Largest Iridium Deposits. orinocotribune.com By Graham G. Henry — Oct 6, 2021 | As difficult to work with as it is rare, iridium is found in large quantities in Haiti's southeast, which has the second largest reserves in the world. This metal is today worth more than gold and Bitcoin. Its resistance to high temperatures and corrosion makes it almost indispensable in the manufacture of aircraft engines and deep water pipelines. Its exploitation could be a lever for the revival of the Haitian economy and the creation of millions of jobs, argues the economics professor, Dr. Henry Vixamar. | Haiti has one of the largest iridium reserves in the world. The c…
(2021-10-09). Three Decades Later, German Mushrooms Still Contaminated by Chernobyl Radiation. sputniknews.com According to a German food safety regulator, those who may be tempted to rummage around Munich's countryside have been warned to avoid picking blueberries, cranberries, and certain fungi to reduce their exposure to elevated concentrations of the caesium-137 and caesium-134 isotopes bearing the characteristic signature of the Chernobyl blast.
(2021-10-09). The Karankawa Were Said To Be Extinct. popularresistance.org Corpus Christi — On the sandy shore of the Gulf, a small group formed a circle and began to sing through the August heat. Some played ceremonial drums, and two others held a large painted canvas that read, "SAVE CORPUS CHRISTI BAY." | Of the dozen people who prayed, sang and spoke in the circle that day, three women were representing a people that most Texas history books claim are extinct. | They're part of a small but growing group of Indigenous people who call themselves Karankawa Kadla — "kadla" means culturally mixed, and Karankawa is the name of a people who, for several centuries, controlled a…
(2021-10-09). The Karankawa were said to be extinct. Now they're reviving their culture. popularresistance.org Historians long thought the Karankawa people had disappeared. But now a group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area — where thousands of Karankawa artifacts were found — from an encroaching oil export facility.
(2021-10-09). 23 Species Gone, Countless More To Save. popularresistance.org Many journalists have difficult beats — the specialized topics they cover exclusively or repeatedly. Some write about homicides, some cover local politics, others specialize in investigating sexual assault. | For the past 15-plus years, I've been on the extinction beat. I catalog the dead and the dying. | It's important to me, but it's not an easy assignment. It's hard work, it's emotional, it's seemingly endless, and it doesn't make me much fun at parties (well, the parties I still attended before the pandemic). My wife worries about me. | September 29 was a particularly difficult day. | That was the day t…
(2021-10-09). Attorney General Keith Ellison Speech Disrupted By Water Protectors. popularresistance.org St. Paul, MN — During a swearing-in ceremony of the new Dean and President Anthony Niedwiecki at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law on September 23, 2021, water protectors disrupted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's keynote speech to gauge his support of Line 3. | As Ellison was getting into his keynote speech, a water protector interrupted by challenging Ellison's stance on whether he really stands with "[his] First Nations brothers and sisters" as he stated at the 2015 Tar Sands Resistance March in St. Paul. The water protectors requested a statement by Ellison, after chanting "stop line 3" and d…
(2021-10-09). Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Speech Disrupted by Water Protectors. popularresistance.org During a swearing-in ceremony of the new Dean and President Anthony Niedwiecki at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law on September 23, 2021, water protectors disrupted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's keynote speech to gauge his support of Line 3.