Dave DeCamp (2022-10-25). Russia Says Its Forces are Preparing to Work Under Radioactive Contamination. news.antiwar.com A Russian military official on Monday said that Russia is preparing its forces to work under "radioactive contamination" as Moscow is accusing Ukraine of planning to use a munition mixed with nuclear material, known as a dirty bomb. Ukraine and its Western backers have strongly denied the Russian accusation, but the Russians continue to warn …

____ (2022-10-25). TanSat satellite detects, reports human-caused carbon dioxide. ecns.cn China's carbon dioxide monitoring satellite TanSat has produced its first batch of human-caused carbon dioxide emission (CO2) signatures, offering a scientific basis for the country's efforts to combat global warming.

Editor (2022-10-25). Disruptive action on the climate deserves our support. mronline.org We can learn from past movements and we can and should study the results of the many tactics activists are employing.

____ (2022-10-25). Waning biodiversity may have role in dinosaur extinction. ecns.cn The extinction of the dinosaurs could be attributed in part to a reduction in biological diversity, instead of being caused purely by major natural disasters, according to recent research.

Sonja Klinsky (2022-10-25). Using the ocean to fight climate change raises serious environmental justice and technical questions. zcomm.org How much debt is fair for future generations to carry, and how should the costs be distributed globally to fix a global problem?>

_____ (2022-10-24). New Greenpeace Report: Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street. popularresistance.org Washington, DC – Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. | The report also finds that no type of plastic packaging in the U.S. meets the definition of recyclable used by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastic Economy (EMF NPE) Initiative. Plastic recycling was estimated to have declined to about 5—6% in 2021, down from a high of 9.5% in 2014…

_____ (2022-10-24). Portland 4 The Planet Sow Seeds Of Local Change. popularresistance.org Portland, United Kingdom – As one of the recipients of Transition Bounce Forward's Seed Funding in 2020, Portland 4 the Planet is a beautiful example of what dynamic community action, when combined with little pots of funding, can unlock. Laura started the initiative in March 2019 as "my response to finding out about the climate and ecological emergency and thinking 'what can we do to help our community try and resolve the situation?'". Having realised the scale of the challenge, read everything she could, changed her diet, cut out plastic, transitioned to a vegan diet, her focus turned to what her community coul…

_____ (2022-10-24). Egypt Hires 'Greenwash' PR Firm To Help Organise COP27. popularresistance.org The US public relations firm helping Egypt organise COP27 also works for major oil companies and has been accused of greenwashing on their behalf, openDemocracy can reveal. | Hill+Knowlton Strategies, which has worked for ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and Saudi Aramco, is managing communications for Egypt's presidency of the UN climate conference, which will take place next month in Sharm El Sheikh. | Hill+Knowlton's clients have also included Coca-Cola, which last month was controversially named as a sponsor of the conference despite having been declared the world's worst corporate plastic polluter for four years i…

TeleSUR (2022-10-24). Oil Prices Fall Modestly After Upbeat Week. telesurenglish.net Oil prices declined on Monday, giving up some of the gains scored in the prior week. | Picture taken on Oct. 8, 2012 shows Nord Stream pipeline equipments before the opening ceremony of the North Stream second gas link in Portovaya bay, some 60 km from the town of Vyborg in northwestern Russia.

Edward Curtin (2022-10-24). The Last Temptation of Things. dissidentvoice.org Zero Waste Solution, Wareham, MA (Photo: David Ratcliffe) I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe …

En.mehrnews (2022-10-24). Iran forward Azmoun doubtful for WC with calf injury: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (MNA) — Iran forward Sardar Azmoun is a doubt for the World Cup after picking up an injury while warming up for Bayer Leverkusen.

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-10-24). Thursday 10/27: Saving Life on Earth: Stopping Fossil Fuels, the Climate Emergency & Extinction Crisis. indybay.org Online event…

Patrick Lawrence (2022-10-24). Europe's self destruction. mronline.org Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.