2023-04-22: News Headlines

channelnewsasia (2023-04-23). Activists gather for Earth Day, urge action to avoid 'dystopian' future. channelnewsasia.com

trtworld (2023-04-22). Parched or under water, glimpses of the Blue Planet overwhelmed by humans. trtworld.com The latest UN climate change report says that human activity is responsible for all global heating over the past 200 years, which has led to more frequent dangerous weather events. | Parched or under water, glimpses of the Blue Planet overwhelmed by humans…

trtworld (2023-04-22). Climate change, farmers draining ancient Balkan's Lake Prespa. trtworld.com Drop in precipitation has led to the steady retreat of the lake's water, which in some places has receded by up to three kilometers putting the species that depend on it and another nearby body of water at risk. | Climate change, farmers draining ancient Balkan's Lake Prespa…

Liberation Staff (2023-04-22). PSL Editorial — How the Biden administration is helping to kill the planet. liberationnews.org Just over the course of the last year the administration has taken several major steps that brought us even deeper into the climate crisis.

Juan Cole (2023-04-22). Glaciers in Swiss Alps lost 6% of Mass last Year, as Climate Emergency brings brutal Heat Waves. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The UN's World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report. As you will have guessed, things don't look good. There were 117 heat waves in 2022 and 58 droughts globally. But there were also 61 wet spells and 63 floods. We are rushing toward weather extremes. Global heating has driven …

Clean Energy Wire (2023-04-22). Germany Welcomes G7 Goals: 150 GW in New offshore Wind, 1,000 GW of Solar by 2030, and no more Coal. juancole.com Sören Amelang ( Clean Energy Wire ) — The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the rich nation's inclusion of carbon capture and storage (CCS) could lead to a "huge greenwashing show". Following a meeting of climate, energy …

channelnewsasia (2023-04-22). Commentary: Why tropical Singapore sent an expedition to icy Antarctica. channelnewsasia.com Melting Antarctic ice could have catastrophic consequences for coastal cities. Seeing the massive ice shelves with his own eyes helped him grasp the scale of the problem, says NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore's Professor Benjamin P Horton.

Brittani Banks (2023-04-21). How Union Workers Are Fighting to Save Veterans. independentmediainstitute.org Gregory Washington joined the Marines at 18 and fought in the Gulf War, only to return—traumatized, unemployed, adrift—to an America that seemed as unfamiliar and daunting to him as the places he encountered overseas. It took Washington years to find a family-sustaining job, secure his disability benefits, and reacclimate to civilian life. Now, he's a …

Steve O'Brien (2023-04-21). David Bradbury: Anthony Albanese is taking Australia on a road to war. greenleft.org.au Steve O'Brien caught up with David Bradbury, independent filmmaker and twice Academy Award-nominated director and producer, at the 2023 Climate Camp in Newcastle. Bradbury's latest film, The Road To War, is currently being screened around Australia.

Michael Fox (2023-04-21). Wind energy in Mexico is not as clean as you think. therealnews.com In March 2023, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Oaxaca, Mexico, to discuss U.S.-Mexico collaboration over renewable energy. It was announced that the United States would commit to invest in at least 10 new wind and solar parks in the region — already one of Latin America's top wind power hot spots. | But there's a problem. These wind farms there have been largely constructed and run by foreign transnational corporations. Residents say that while on the surface these wind turbines are generating clean energy, they have been disrespecting communal land righ…

Chris Hedges (2023-04-21). 'The system is not moving fast enough'. therealnews.com Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a "final warning" to drastically cut global emissions in order to prevent the heating of the planet past 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the exponentially accelerating effects of the climate crisis have become more apparent in recent years, so too has activism to demand urgent action from governments. In the UK, a movement known as

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-04-21). What would it take to defeat big oil? A progressive economist weighs in. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in At a time when the world is close to irreversible climate breakdown, fossil fuel energy is growing, with oil being the biggest contributor to primary energy supply. Globally, approximately 33 percent of our energy comes from oil, followed by coal, gas and hydroelectric power. Indeed, oil companies are bringing in staggering profits, and oil production ma…

Seth Borenstein, Wanjohi Kabukuru, Fabiano Maisonnave, Sibi Arasu (2023-04-21). Earth's warriors, young and old, keep battling and hoping. peoplesworld.org They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well known, there are many people from around the globe who make it their mission to try and save the planet, especially from the ravages of climate change. They find themselves often pitted against powerful forces. One group is the generations that will live …

teleSUR (2023-04-21). UN Chief Calls for Accelerated Climate Action. telesurenglish.net The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, issued a call on Thursday to expedite progress towards mitigating the effects of climate change through collaborative efforts on a global scale. | Related: | "We need global acceleration through cooperation. And that means rising above disagreements, differences and tensions. Geopolitical divisions must not torpedo the world's climate fight for 1.5 degrees," he to…

Amy Westervelt (2023-04-21). Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding. nationofchange.org ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research.

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-21). Peak Oil And The Flawed Logic Of Infinite Economic Growth. popularresistance.org Join activist Keith Akers in a fascinating deep-dive interview on climate change and ecological sustainability. In his upcoming book, Embracing Limits, Akers asks tough questions about the impact of anthropogenic climate change and proposes a truly sustainable future with economic degrowth at its core. | In this conversation, Akers discusses his personal journey in learning about climate change, including the concept of peak oil and the flawed logic of infinite economic growth. He explains how fossil fuel extraction technologies have pushed back the point of peak oil, but emphasizes that we need to revolutionize…

Editor (2023-04-21). While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa. mronline.org The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis's severity and breadth.

Jason Hickel (2023-04-21). Universal public services: The power of decommodifying survival. mronline.org One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2023-04-22). Is the U.S. Biden Administration Behind the Blowing Up of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Pipelines Between Russia and Western Europe? globalresearch.ca Soon after the explosion of September 26, 2022, some American media surprisingly called the sabotaging of pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 a wartime "mystery". Even alleged that Russia could have blown up its own pipelines for some foggy reasons.

channelnewsasia (2023-04-22). Bayern Munich suffer shock 3-1 loss at Mainz to leave title race open. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-04-21). Ash From Sangay Volcano Falls on 3 Ecuadorean Provinces. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Friday, the Sangay volcano released a large cloud of ash that reached 8 kilometers above the crater and fell in nearby provinces, according to Ecuador's Geophysical Institute (IG). | RELATED: Ecuador's Former President Moreno Faces Prison Order | So far, the most affected provinces are Chimborazo, Bolivar, Los Rios, and Guayas, which are located to the west of the volcano, since the wind carried the ash particles towards the Pacific Ocean. | While the greatest impacts of the ash fall were registered in the municipality of Guamote in Chimborazo, the intensity of contamination by ash is mod…

Editor (2023-04-22). Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars. mronline.org Here are three examples of criminal misuse of enormous sums of money that could meet human needs, but instead are spent underwriting terrible violence and bolstering corporate profits.

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