(2022-03-31). Climate activists who blocked coal train stand trial in New Hampshire. liberationnews.org 
Merrimack Station — the coal plant at the center of this crisis — is located in Bow, New Hampshire, and is the last remaining coal plant in New England. It has faced repeated calls for closure for its contributions to environmental damage and climate change.
(2022-03-30). Heat waves melt ice at both poles of Earth. workers.org 
Inuit celebration July 4, 2016, in Utqiaƒ°vik, the northernmost community in Alaska, before the ice had broken up. The climate crisis is real. Millions of people throughout the world are suffering and dying from floods and rising sea levels, droughts, stronger hurricanes and more intense tornadoes — several out of . . . |
(2022-03-30). The Urgent Need For Climate Action. popularresistance.org Although the worst effects of catastrophic climate change lie in the distant future, there are recent warnings that tell us that a climate disaster may be nearer than we thought. The Arctic and Antarctic regions are warming more than twice as fast as the remainder of the world. In the Antarctic region, the vast Thwaites glacier, sometimes called "the Doomsday Glacier", has recently exhibited so many cracks that scientists fear that it may shatter into small pieces like a windscreen. If this happens, the event may trigger the collapse of other nearby glaciers through a mechanism called "Marine Ice Cliff Instabilit…
(2022-03-30). At the UN, Amongi reitarates Uganda's commitment to address gender equality. plusnews.ug 
The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Betty Amongi Ongom, reiterated Government of Uganda's commitment to the implementation of International, regional and national frameworks to address Gender Equality and Climate Change. She remarked at the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) held from 14th to 25th March 2022 at …
(2022-03-30). With All Eyes on Ukraine, the Fight Against Climate Change Is Falling Behind. truthout.org What do a six-year-old in the United States and an 85-year-old in Russia have in common besides being on opposite sides of a war? | They're both feeling the strain of a warming planet. | "Is the earth going to get so hot that we can't survive?" my young son asked me last summer as we plodded through the woods behind our Maryland home. I wasn't certain, I replied hesitantly. (Not exactly the most reassuring answer from a mother to a question I ask myself every day.) We had just left my younger child at home, because she started wheezing when she stepped into that already more than 100-degree July morning. | A few…
(2022-03-30). It's Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Disinformation Campaign. independentmediainstitute.org Click here for photos that you may use to accompany the article (captions and credits can be found in each image's description field). The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry's decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and …
(2022-03-30). Latest U.S. 'war for oil' fuels global warming. workers.org 
'Bomb train' transporting liquified natural gas rolls through Hudson Valley, New York, community as school bus passes nearby. Is the U.S./NATO-instigated war with Russia, taking place on the battlefield of Ukraine, yet another "war for oil" — or a war over control of global sales of natural gas? At an . . . |
(2022-03-30). Colombia Approves First Fracking Pilot Plant amid Strong Criticism. orinocotribune.com 
The National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) of Colombia approved, amid criticism from sectors of the political opposition and the social movements, the first fracking pilot project in Puerto Wilches, department of Santander, reported environmental organizations on Monday, March 28. | The project will be developed by the Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol, in an area of up to 4.67 hectares, where fracking will be carried out at a depth of 1.2 kilometers. | The Fracking Free Colombia Alliance denounced the licensing process which was completed "in less than five months, despite numerous objections, ser…
(2022-03-30). Fossil of daytime active owl 6 million years ago found in NW China. ecns.cn A Chinese research team has discovered an amazingly well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl that lived more than six million years ago in northwest China's Gansu Province.
(2022-03-30). Can Urban Mining Help To Save The Planet? popularresistance.org We live in an era of mass overproduction. Offices, apartments, cars, ships, aeroplanes, mobile phones, laptops, batteries, televisions, furniture, air fryers, hot tubs, elevators and escalators. A countless multitude of objects that belong to the anthroposphere — a term for everything that people have made and how it all interacts with the planet. | Many of these products end up as waste, buried in landfill, incinerated or dumped — with catastrophic environmental consequences. At the same time, mining companies continue to pollute the planet, exploit local communities and produce huge CO2 emissions in…
