(2024-08-15). The Farmers Who Can't Afford Farms. popularresistance.org Running a small farm is complicated enough. For Tessa Parks‚Äâ—‚Äâwho raises cattle and hay with her spouse, Wyatt, on the gentle, farmed-over hills outside Northfield, Minn.‚Äâ—‚Äâthe challenges include bottle-feeding calves, braving bad weather to check on the herd at pasture and dealing with customers at the farmers market. Climate change doesn't make it easier, as it lends intensity to droughts and storms and increases livestock disease risks. | But for Parks, a 28-year-old beginning farmer, the complexities don't end there. Farmi…
(2024-08-15). Fire Reveals How Oil Industry Environmental 'Solution' Spurs Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org The trouble began at Piñon Midstream's Dark Horse Treating Plant in Jal, New Mexico, on November 25, 2023, with an unexpected loud "pop" in the early afternoon, the company would later tell state regulators. A poisonous mix of flammable gasses hissed out from a pipeline feeding into the plant. | Within a minute, a worker radioed in to the plant's control room that a dense cloud of vapor had enveloped part of the plant. Within two minutes, Dark Horse was ablaze in what the company would later call an "intense and sustained fire." Within 15 minutes, more pipes ripped open, and a towering fireball tore through the p…
(2024-08-15). Climate activists protest at four German airports, halting traffic. aljazeera.com Interior minister says action was 'dangerous and stupid', warns of tougher penalties for airport intruders.
(2024-08-15). Europe's left: the time for tactics is over. indybay.org Across Europe, we are experiencing a crisis of democracy; a systemic crisis that cannot be solved with the old structures and offers, in terms of personnel and programmatic. This is an opportunity for the left to put forward candidates like Li Andersson in Finland or Dadgostar in Sweden: both formulate a clear new policy that prioritizes social justice combined with climate justice.
(2024-08-15). Coral bleaching threatens 73 percent of world's reefs. wsws.org Coral bleaching is another further warning of the climate crisis, with the working class and poor across the world bearing the primary brunt of its consequences as global temperatures rise, including in the oceans.
(2024-08-15). Most Americans don't know the country's biggest climate law helps the climate. grist.org 
(2024-08-15). Atomic Fallacy: Why Nuclear Power Won't Solve the Climate Crisis. lithub.com M.V. Ramana Debunks Some Common Arguments About Energy In an Era of Ecological Emergency.
(2024-08-15). Globe-Trotting Climate Activist Fined 100,000 Euros After Blocking Frankfurt Airport. wattsupwiththat.com If NGOs or collection campaigns don't help out, the climate-blocking criminal could end up in prison as a substitute. How many years would that amount to?>
(2024-08-15). COP29: Call to stop hosting Conference of Parties (COP) annual climate summits in authoritarian countries. fidh.org
(2024-08-15). Climate change fueled last year's extreme wildfires — some more than others. grist.org 
(2024-08-15). Japan offers funding 3 projects related to climate change. gnnhd.tv 
Japanese Minister of State assured to help Pakistan in getting funding from the World Bank…
(2024-08-15). Germany says Ukrainians sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines. ecns.cn This handout photo taken on September 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea.
(2024-08-15). In Japan's ageing countryside, some villages face extinction. aljazeera.com Japan has an estimated 9 million abandoned homes as rural areas grapple with rapid population decline.
(2024-08-15). Anatomy of America's wasteful prison-industrial complex. workers.org 
Bryant Arroyo (WW Photo: Joe Piette) Bryant Arroyo is a jailhouse lawyer, environmental activist and outspoken advocate for aging and elderly prisoners. He was a rank-and-file union worker before his unjust incarceration in 1994 and he repeatedly exposes the corporate interests which profit off the prison-industrial complex. Arroyo successfully organized . . . |
(2024-08-15). Toxics Watchdog Group Pushes for FDA-Led Summit to Tackle Mercury Cosmetics. pressenza.com 
15 August 2024, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to convene a multi-stakeholder summit to tackle the persistent trade of mercury cosmetics across the country. The EcoWaste Coalition calls for a multi-stakeholder summit to tackle mercury cosmetics and agree on solutions to end the illegal trade. | The group put forward the proposal through a letter submitted today to FDA Director General Dr. Samuel Zacate and FDA CCHUHSRR Director Engr. Ana Rivera by Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, an environmental health g…
The initiative covers more than 32 million hectares, of which 28 million hectares are located in highland regions…
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth's ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the…
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | The Ugandan police said Tuesday there are still more people trapped under the waste mass, following the landslide of the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, Saturday morning. Patrick Onyango, spokesperson for the Kampala Metropolitan Police, told Xinhua by telephone that police are not yet sure how many …