(2023-09-16). Correspondence] Challenges and opportunities for India on the world stage. thelancet.com Although India faces numerous domestic challenges, such as health care, education, and the economy,1 India's Government is striving to address these challenges and is implementing policies that promote the wellbeing and prosperity of its citizens.2,3 India's G20 priorities reflect a commitment to inclusive and resilient growth and focusing on issues such as climate, finance, sustainable development, and global health resilience.4 India advocates for a gradual and systematic approach to sustainable development and reducing carbon emissions while supporting the most affected sections of society.
(2023-09-16). Capitalist Urbanization, Climate Change, And The Need For Sponge Cities. popularresistance.org In this fascinating article, first published in Liberation School, environmentalist and author Tina Landis explains the concept of sponge cities: what they are, why they are needed, and China's leading role in developing them. | Tina observes that "the majority of the world's cities today were built for profit and speculation in mind, with little to no consideration given to negative impacts on either ecology or humanity." | "Vast hardscapes—sidewalks, roads, parking lots, buildings—and gray infrastructure that channels water away as it falls, places these urban centers at odds with biodiversity and t…
(2023-09-15). Photos: Thousands march for climate justice. greenleft.org.au 
Photos by Alex Bainbridge from the thousands who marched for climate justice in Meanjin/Brisbane.
(2023-09-15). OPEC criticizes oil demand estimates. plenglish.com In a statement, the oil entity said that the data-driven forecasts do not support that fossil fuel demand will peak in 2030. | IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in an opinion article published in the Financial Times that the agency's new estimates show the approaching end of the seemingly relentless growth of demand. | Such a view has major implications for the global energy sector and the fight against climate change. | OPEC noted the danger of such projections, as they are often accompanied by calls to halt new investments in oil and gas. | They insisted that such claims only serve to cause the global en…
(2023-09-15). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Outside of Santa Cruz City Hall | 809 Center Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
(2023-09-15). Friday 9/15: Davis: Global Climate Strike – March, Rally & "Die-in" Protest. indybay.org Starting point: Veterans Memorial Center & Theatre | 203 E. 14th Street, Davis 95616 | Then march to rally: Central Park at 5th Street and B Street | (GPS: 401 4th St, Davis, CA 95616)…
(2023-09-15). Ten Myths, Counter-Narratives or Contradictions Around the Western Neo Colonialist War in Niger. libya360.wordpress.com Julia Wright People rally in support of Niger coup — "Down with France — Long live Putin" reads the sign. | Photo: nprillinois.org As is observed in all imperial onslaughts against the Global South, their wars are increasingly fought at the level of disinformation and manufactured narratives to create a climate of smoke and mirrors…
(2023-09-15). Climate Action Summit makes urgent environmental call. plenglish.com United Nations, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) The Climate Action Summit, which was convened by the UN during the General Assembly High-level Week, will urgently seek to carry out credible, serious and innovative actions to address climate change.
(2023-09-15). IPCC should include weather warfare as part of the global climate change debate. expose-news.com Two of the defence contractors dominating the directed energy weapons ("DEWs") market — Raytheon and BAE — are also involved with environmental modification techniques. One such environmental modification project was HAARP in …
(2023-09-15). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike at UC Berkeley. indybay.org Gather at Sather Gate | UC Berkeley | Sather Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720…
(2023-09-15). 400 Climate Scientists Endorse Call to Halt Fossil Fuels Ahead of Major NYC Climate March. democracynow.org 
Ahead of a March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on Sunday, some 400 scientists endorsed the demands of the march in an open letter to President Biden, blasting him for claiming he would "listen to the science" while his policies "fail to align with what the science tells us must happen to avert calamity." We speak with Rose Abramoff, an Earth scientist and one of the signatories, who was arrested last week blocking construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. "We feel like the science has come to such a complete consensus and we just want fossil fuels to stop," says Abramoff. "I wouldn't…
(2023-09-15). Headlines for September 15, 2023. democracynow.org UAW Launches Unprecedented Strike Against Big Three U.S. Auto Makers, Confirmed Death Toll from Libya Floods Tops 11,000 as U.N. Says Catastrophe Could Have Been Averted, Deaths From Phoenix Heat Wave Top 200, With Another 350+ Heat-Related Deaths Under Investigation, Exxon Leaders Secretly Undermined Science After Publicly Acknowledging Climate Crisis, Climate Activists Block Entry to NYC's Citibank Ahead of Global Actions to #EndFossilFuels, Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Thousands of Asylum Seekers Arrive in Italy's Lampedusa, Migrant Survivors Sue Greece Over Shipwreck That Killed H…
(2023-09-15). Meet Two NYU Sunrise Students Who Helped Push NYU To Divest From Fossil Fuels. democracynow.org 
New York University announced it plans to divest from fossil fuels in an August letter addressed to Sunrise NYU. We speak with co-founders of the campus climate group, Alicia Colomer and Dylan Wahbe, about the university finally divesting after decades of pressure from student advocates. "I would encourage every single student to get organized and join the movement," says Wahbe, who says a broad coalition of student groups and university unions ultimately forced the board of trustees to move on this issue. "Stop the fossil fuel money from coming and polluting our universities in the first place so that universiti…
(2023-09-15). Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023). mronline.org 
Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.
(2023-09-14). Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-14). 'You Can't Mine Your Way Out Of A Climate Crisis'. popularresistance.org In Nevada's remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action. The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capita…
(2023-09-14). A Mass Climate Mobilization Is Taking Place Sunday. Here's Why It's Urgent. truthout.org A UN climate report ahead of the upcoming COP28 summit says that governments are failing to cut emissions fast enough for the planet to avoid an unmitigated disaster and calls in turn for the phasing out of fossil fuels. In the wake of the hottest summer on record, climate advocates have organized a "March to End Fossil Fuels" in New York City as part of the wave of global mobilizations with the… |
(2023-09-14). US Sets Record For Billion-Dollar Disasters In A Single Year. popularresistance.org With nearly four months still to go in 2023, the U.S. has already set a record for the most natural disasters that have cost $1 billion or more in a single year. | Since 1980, there have been 371 climate— and weather-related disaster events in the U.S. with costs and damages reaching or exceeding $1 billion, a press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) said. The estimated costs include a consumer price index adjustment. Altogether these disasters cost more than $2.6 trillion. | This year, there have been 23 confirmed climate…
(2023-09-14). Friday 9/15: Davis: Global Climate Strike – March, Rally & "Die-in" Protest. indybay.org Starting point: Veterans Memorial Center & Theatre | 203 E. 14th Street, Davis 95616 | Then march to rally: Central Park at 5th Street and B Street | (GPS: 401 4th St, Davis, CA 95616)…
(2023-09-14). Humans Have Crossed 6 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries, Study Warns. truthout.org Scientists behind a new study on the crossing of the Earth's "planetary boundaries" on Wednesday likened the planet to a sick patient, warning that six out of nine barriers that ensure the Earth is a "safe operating space for humanity" have now been breached. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and other international institutions… |
(2023-09-14). Climate Collapse: The Grim Silence Of Our Leaders. dissidentvoice.org 
None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme weather events of the kind that has been devastating lives across the globe this summer. Canadian wildfires the size of Austria, a Hawaiian town incinerated by a hurricane-fuelled firestorm, a Greek island devastated by three years of rainfall in a single day, a Libyan town …
(2023-09-14). Oil and Gas and "The Climate-Change Fakery": The Constitutional Underpinnings of the Natural Resource Wars Between the Canada and Alberta Governments. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-14). Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org 
Tsherin Sherpa (Nepal), Lost Spirits, 2014. Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' …
(2023-09-15). Global Warming Did The Unthinkable. dissidentvoice.org Jungfraujoch's foreboding temperatures this September at the top of the world in Switzerland at 2.25 miles altitude alarmed glaciologists. If anybody has lingering doubts about global warming's strength of power to directly impact Earth's ecosystems, think again. Antarctica, at the bottom of the world, experienced record high temperatures during its winter, as record high temperatures …
(2023-09-15). 200,000 American Lives at Risk as Global Warming May Triple Temperature-Related Deaths – Study. sputnikglobe.com The research underscores the urgent need for cities to adapt to rising temperatures, with potentially one-third of these deaths rivaling cancer fatalities unless proactive measures are taken.
(2023-09-15). Protest calls on NSW gov't, Santos to stop fracking the Pilliga. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-15). Turkey to construct physical hub within gas center project — energy minister. tass.com "What we are trying to do in Thrace is a physical hub that we are trying to connect with all respective pipelines, including gas storage in Silivri and LNG facilities, building a connection point in the Thrace region to create a real, physical hub," Alparslan Bayraktar said…
(2023-09-14). Turkey appeals against arbitration ruling on Iraq and Kurdistan oil exports. middleeasteye.net 
Turkey appeals against arbitration ruling on Iraq and Kurdistan oil exports | Turkish energy minister says Ankara has to protect its interests as Iraq isn't seeking an amicable solution to the arbitration dispute over Kurdistan oil exports | Thu, 09/14/2023 – 15: 04 | A pipeline in the newly opened section of the Zubair oil refinery, southwest of Basra in southern Iraq, on 3 March 2016 (AFP) |
(2023-09-14). Moon's Morning Shivers: Mysterious Lunar Tremors Traced Back to Apollo 17 Lander. sputnikglobe.com The moon, once a hotbed of geological activity billions of years ago, now preserves its turbulent past through features such as extinct volcanoes and lava tubes. Despite its geological quietness, the moon experiences regular moonquakes caused by tidal flexing and temperature variations, providing a unique opportunity for scientific exploration.
(2023-09-14). Surcorea extiende veto de importar productos del mar de Japón. telesurtv.net "La prohibición de importar productos del mar originarios de ocho prefecturas cercanas a Fukushima se mantendrá en vigor, sin excepciones"
(2023-09-14). US Taxpayers Know White House Wastes Their Money on Ukraine. sputnikglobe.com Having funneled billions of dollars worth of supplies to Ukraine, probably one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, the United States government suddenly had an idea to look into exactly how this money is being spent by Kiev.
(2023-09-14). US Taxpayers Know White House Wastes Their Money on Ukraine. sputnikglobe.com Having funneled billions of dollars worth of supplies to Ukraine, probably one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, the United States government suddenly had an idea to look into exactly how this money is being spent by Kiev.