(2023-08-14). Hundreds likely dead in Maui wildfire due to criminal negligence of the capitalist ruling class. wsws.org The reports on Sunday that the death toll from the wildfires in Maui could reach into the hundreds are a devastating exposure of the recklessness and negligence of the capitalist ruling establishment in the face of global climate change.
(2023-08-14). Aberdeen Community To Lose Last Green Space In Energy Transition Land-Grab. popularresistance.org On Wednesday 9 August, campaigners from Climate Camp Scotland, This is Rigged, and Scot.E3 demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ironside Farrar in Edinburgh. Campaigners held the peaceful demonstration in solidarity with residents of Torry, Aberdeen. Torry is to be the site of a large-scale industrial development that threatens a precious local park and wetland. | The project developer has commissioned Ironside Farrar to produce a master plan for the site. The coalition of climate groups and energy workers were protesting the advancing implementation of Scotland's so-called Energy Transition Zone (ETZ).
(2023-08-14). Humanity cannot survive a nuclear war. indybay.org In the face of the threat of nuclear war, I echo the appeals of the UN Secretary General, Pope Francis, and world leaders like President Lula: De-escalation, diplomatic intervention, and an end to this brutal war. The longer the fighting continues, the more lives are lost, the more our fragile climate is destroyed, and the greater the threat of total annihilation becomes for all of us.
(2023-08-14). Showdown Looming Over Extreme Logging Climate Crimes in Sierra Nevada. indybay.org The US Forest Service is proposing to spend $650 million (including $30 million of herbicides) to authorize extreme logging in the Plumas National Forest in the name of "wildfire community protection." The USFS proposes to remove protections for spotted owl and red-legged frogs among others. Help is urgently needed from forest defenders!
(2023-08-14). "It's Apocalyptic": Wildfires Engulf Maui, Killing At Least 36. indybay.org Wildfires have become more common in Hawai'i in the last century as humans have introduced nonnative grasses and shrubs that have then become "more flammable as climate change brings warmer, drier conditions."
(2023-08-14). "This Is the Climate Crisis": Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires & Why Disasters Are Becoming Deadlier. democracynow.org 
We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the devastating Maui wildfires and how the climate crisis makes such disasters more frequent and more intense. "This is the climate crisis. It's here and now," says Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, pressure is mounting for President Biden to declare an official climate emergency.
(2023-08-14). Energy dept. announces $1.2 billion to advance controversial climate technologyÔøº. nationofchange.org 'Direct air capture' of carbon pollution is still experimental, but a fossil fuel company is embracing it as a way to keep drilling.
(2023-08-14). Ecologically-sound Development: A Vital Need for Concerted Action. transcend.org 11 Aug 2023 – With the consequences of climate change in the background, ecologically-sound development must be the center of a concerted action.
(2023-08-13). Researchers say global climate change contributed to the Hawaii wildfire. america.cgtn.com 
Global climate change didn't cause the wildfire in Hawaii but did contribute to creating the conditions that helped the fire spread so quickly, with such deadly results. Find out more.
(2023-08-14). Protesters in S Korea rally against Fukushima release plan. ecns.cn Hundreds of South Koreans gathered in Seoul on Saturday to oppose an initiative by Japan to release treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima plant into the ocean.
(2023-08-14). Miles de surcoreanos rechazan liberación de agua de Fukushima. telesurtv.net Tras años de debate, Tokio pretende vaciar en el Pacífico el agua almacenada tras la catástrofe nuclear de 2011.
(2023-08-13). South Koreans Protest Against Fukushima Nuclear Water Release. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, thousands of South Koreans marched in Seoul to protest Japan's plans to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. | RELATED: | Protesters are concerned about the risks to food security and marine ecosystems that the release of nuclear wastewater could cause as early as late August. | Previously, on Friday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) found leaks in a hose u…
(2023-08-14). (Bure/France) Demonstration: Without nuclear power our earth will live. indybay.org For 2 September 2023, we are calling for a big peasant- and anti-nuclear demonstration that will start in the village of Bure in the Meuse department. | Against the revival of the nuclear disaster wanted by Macron and in defence of our soils, we want to join forces to protect the land threatened by the Cigéo nuclear waste repository project in Lorraine.
(2023-08-14). Hawaii: Catastrophic Wildfires Lay Waste to Historic Maui Town of Lahaina. transcend.org 11 Aug 2023 – Flyover footage of the once-vibrant tourist town of Lahaina shows street after street reduced to grey and black rubble.
(2023-08-14). Miles de surcoreanos rechazan liberación de agua de Fukushima. telesurtv.net Tras años de debate, Tokio pretende vaciar en el Pacífico el agua almacenada tras la catástrofe nuclear de 2011.
(2023-08-13). South Koreans Protest Against Fukushima Nuclear Water Release. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, thousands of South Koreans marched in Seoul to protest Japan's plans to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. | RELATED: | Protesters are concerned about the risks to food security and marine ecosystems that the release of nuclear wastewater could cause as early as late August. | Previously, on Friday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) found leaks in a hose u…
(2023-08-14). (Bure/France) Demonstration: Without nuclear power our earth will live. indybay.org For 2 September 2023, we are calling for a big peasant- and anti-nuclear demonstration that will start in the village of Bure in the Meuse department. | Against the revival of the nuclear disaster wanted by Macron and in defence of our soils, we want to join forces to protect the land threatened by the Cigéo nuclear waste repository project in Lorraine.
(2023-08-14). Hawaii: Catastrophic Wildfires Lay Waste to Historic Maui Town of Lahaina. transcend.org 11 Aug 2023 – Flyover footage of the once-vibrant tourist town of Lahaina shows street after street reduced to grey and black rubble.