(2025-01-07). Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos. defenddemocracy.press 
By Jeffrey St. Clair Dec 20, 2024 2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It's the year the US set new oil and gas production records, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's a year that saw the US re-elect a climate denier who vows to double US …
(2025-01-07). Pader seeks agricultural lab to improve productivity. independent.co.ug 
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pader District is pushing to establish an Integrated Agricultural Laboratory as part of the Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project. The facility would provide essential diagnostic services for pests, diseases, and soil health, aimed at boosting agricultural productivity in the region. The district has identified three potential sites that …
(2025-01-07). The BBC is Wrong, Individuals' Sacrifices Will Not Save a Planet That Doesn't Need Saving Anyway. wattsupwiththat.com Looking at how many of the most prominent and elite climate scolds actually live their lives as opposed to what they preach for others, one suspects that they will keep eating their meat heavy four star meals, filling their room-sized walk-in closets with expensive haute couture clothes and shoes seasonally. They will continue to drive powerful fossil fuel cars while keeping an electric vehicle as a backup status symbol to trot out at green virtue signaling publicity events, and take their private jets to luxurious locations around the world, while paying pet sitters to feed their pure bred "animal companions" th…
(2025-01-07). The Maldives: The Future of Climate Change. fpif.org A prime example of the existential risks posed by climate change is the Maldives, a republic of 1,192 coral islands dispersed around the Indian Ocean. The Maldives, which have an average height of only 1.5 meters above sea level, are particularly susceptible to catastrophic weather events and increasing sea levels. | Rising sea levels, projected to increase by up to one meter by the end of the century, could submerge significant portions of the country. Approximately 80 percent of the islands are less than one meter above mean sea level, leaving them at risk of being entirely submerged or rendered uninhabitable d…
(2025-01-07). The Military to Prison Pipeline: Trading One Uniform for Another. counterpunch.org 
Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, 2024. Several months later, The Veteran, a newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ran a photo of the event they attended. It shows a multi-generational group of men—white, Black
(2025-01-07). Iraq approves Basra-Haditha pipeline amid regional tensions. newarab.com 
The The pipeline, estimated to cost 5.97 trillion Iraqi dinars…
(2025-01-07). Self immolation attempts by two youths as Pithampur protest gains momentum. ummid.com Following the transfer of abandoned Union Carbide pesticide factory's hazardous waste from Bhopal for incineration to Pithampur the whole city is on the boil.
(2025-01-07). 40 yrs after gas tragedy, 377 tonnes of UCC waste transferred out of Bhopal. ummid.com Despite repeated demands, it took 40 long years for the administration to remove the hazardous waste from the abandoned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) pesticide factory for disposal…
(2025-01-07). EcoWaste Coalition: It's High Time to Toughen Firecracker Laws to Prevent Senseless Injuries and Deaths; Curb Toxic Pollution. pressenza.com 
7 January 2025, Quezon City. The environmental and health watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition bewailed the rise in the number of people, especially young children, who were injured or killed in firecracker-related incidents, prompting it to call for stronger regulations to prevent these senseless injuries and deaths. | As the Department of Health (DOH) concluded its surveillance on incidents involving the ignition of firecrackers and fireworks, the EcoWaste Coalition lamented the 38 percent increase in related injuries from 610 in 2024 to 843 in 2025, plus three deaths due to firecrackers and one death due to a str…
(2025-01-07). Toxic Waste Disposal Case: MP HC Defers Hearing to Feb 18. ummid.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court has deferred the hearing on a petition challenging the state govt's decision to incinerate Union Carbide's hazardous waste in Pithampur.
(2025-01-06). Environmental and Climate Debt: Who is Responsible? counterpunch.org 
The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States — and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations — of the North to the populations of the Global South must be recognized. That recognition must take the form of cancellation of
(2025-01-06). The scientific pain of climate change: Shifting narratives of acceptance and avoidance in climatology. mronline.org 
Any time we use to debunk the irrational ideological arguments of privileged people in privileged societies is time lost for serious exploration for how to respond to reality.
(2025-01-06). The business case for saving coral reefs. grist.org 
Days after hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, Ernesto Diaz formed a team to survey what the Category 5 storms had done to his home. Touring coastal areas, Diaz, then an assistant secretary with the commonwealth's Department of Natural & Environmental Resources, saw rooftops poking out from floodwaters, forests stripped bare, and windows and doors floating by. As a marine scientist who knew the shoreline ecosystems intimately, he also noticed something that intrigued him: Communities near coral reefs sustained less damage. | That became the genesis of a first-of-its kind project when, i…
(2025-01-06). Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625. wattsupwiththat.com Quote of the Week: "… as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
(2025-01-06). Vermont faces legal challenge from big oil over law requiring climate damage payments. nationofchange.org
(2025-01-06). Notorious Donald Trump-backing Tufton Street just got its internet cables CUT by activists. thecanary.co Activists from Shut The System sabotaged telecommunications cables leading to far-right lobbyists' headquarters at 55 Tufton Street on Saturday 4 January. They aimed to cut off telephone and internet services in order to cause financial losses and disrupt the lobbyists' malignant work undermining democracy. The non-violent underground climate group cut through fibre optic cables that […] | By
(2025-01-06). The Military To Prison Pipeline. popularresistance.org Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, 2024. Several months later, The Veteran, a newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ran a photo of the event they attended. It shows a multi-generational group of men ⚪ white, Black and Latino—lined up proudly between two flags. | In his dispatch to the newspaper, African-American Navy veteran Robert Maury explained why everyone in the Stateville Veterans Group was wearing government issued clothing of a non-military sort.
(2025-01-06). Self immolation attempts by two youths as Pithampur protest gains momentum. ummid.com Following the transfer of abandoned Union Carbide pesticide factory's hazardous waste from Bhopal for incineration to Pithampur the whole city is on the boil.
(2025-01-06). 40 yrs after gas tragedy, 377 tonnes of UCC waste transferred out of Bhopal. ummid.com Despite repeated demands, it took 40 long years for the administration to remove the hazardous waste from the abandoned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) pesticide factory for disposal…
(2025-01-06). 2024 in Review: Was It the Year of Democracy? pressenza.com The world bid farewell to 2024 which forged a phase marked by its democratic struggles, political reforms, and major shifts in power. From the streets of Dhaka to the battlefields of Myanmar, from election rallies of Washington to war-torn Syria and Ukraine, and to the polls of India and Russia, 2024 left behind a legacy that may reshape the global politics with tremendous effects and transformational reforms across the globe. | By Md. Abu Saim | As the last hospital of Gaza has been shut down, and Palestinians are on the verge of eternal extinction, hope remains the only beacon since the world has abandoned them…
(2025-01-06). SATIRE: Ecologists Call For Bee Extinction After Watching 'My Girl'. theonion.com STANFORD, CA—In response to seeing what the pollinators were capable of in the 1991 coming-of-age drama, ecologists at Stanford University issued a statement Monday calling for the extinction of bees after they watched My Girl. "Upon observing the heartbreaking scene in which Macaulay Culkin's character Thomas J. is attacked and ultimately killed by a swarm of …
(2025-01-06). COVID Rates Are Up in What Experts Are Calling a "Silent Surge" Across the US. truthout.org Rates of coronavirus across the U.S. are increasing at higher levels than usual, an unexpected surge that is leading some health experts to state that the COVID-19 pandemic is "still ongoing." By all measures of the virus, COVID rates are rising rapidly, with notable increases in test positivity, emergency room visits and hospitalizations in general, as well as deaths and wastewater… |
5 January 2025, Quezon City. With the onset of 2025, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition wasted no time in warning the public against potential lead exposure hazards in some stainless steel water tumblers being marketed for children's use. | Last December 2024, the group procured four brightly painted tumblers from retail stores located in Mandaue and Manila Cities of which three are decorated with cartoon characters. These stainless steel reusable water containers are decorated with paints containing lead way above the 90 parts per million (ppm) limit. | As per X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) screening conduc…