Monthly Archives: January 2025

2025-01-06: News Headlines

Maxime Perriot — Éric Toussaint (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

Editor (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.

Saqib Rahim (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…

Guest Blogger (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."

Alexandra Jacobo (2025-01-06). Vermont faces legal challenge from big oil over law requiring climate damage payments. nationofchange.org

The Canary (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

Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon, Popular Resistance. (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.

UMMID (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.

UMMID (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…

Pressenza New York (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…

The Onion Staff (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 …

Chris Walker (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… |

Peter Koenig (2025-01-05). The Monster Behind Weather Engineering? globalresearch.ca "Climate instability" is a soft term, for climate geoengineering, weather modification, extended into weather weaponizing. In other words, a crime on humanity. | Professor Michel Chossudovsky provides the historic and technical details concerning

Robert Hunziker (2025-01-05). Amazon's Global Warming Counterweight Threatened. pressenza.com Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ecosystems have deteriorated much faster than ever before. This is happening at geological breakneck speed. Nothing is normal any longer. What's going on? | The Amazon rainforest experienced a horrific drought event in 2024. Paradoxically, global warming is attacking its own most significant counterweight. A major study found over one third of the Amazon is struggling to recover from four supposedly "one-in-a-century" dry spe…

UMMID (2025-01-05). 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.

UMMID (2025-01-05). 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…

John McCracken, Monica Cordero, In These Times. (2025-01-05). Meatpacking Plants Pollute Poor, Non-White Communities Disproportionately. popularresistance.org Postville, Iowa‚Äâ—‚ÄâIn March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the water supply. | Agri Star Meat and Poultry had discharged more than 250,000 gallons of untreated food processing waste‚Äâ—‚Äâblood, chemicals and other solid materials‚Äâ—‚Äâinto the city's wastewater system. Chris Hackman, the city's wastewater operator for the past 25 years, said it was one of th…

EcoWaste Coalition (2025-01-05). EcoWaste Coalition Uncovers Toxic Lead in More Painted Tumblers. pressenza.com 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…

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2025-01-04: News Headlines

The Independent (2025-01-04). Microsoft, UN, address climate change-induced displacements. independent.co.ug Migration agency to leverage tech giant's AI expertise ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Microsoft, a U.S-based tech conglomerate has entered into partnership with the International Organisation for Migration of the UN (IOM) to address climate-induced displacement by harnessing artificial intelligence and data insights. The partnership which the two entities entered into in September last year will see …

WSWS (2025-01-04). Bushfires in Victoria highlight government inaction on infrastructure and climate change. wsws.org In the same week that the bushfire in the Grampians began, the Albanese Labor government announced four coal mine expansions.

Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main (2025-01-04). As states line up to battle Trump over climate, Pennsylvania could be on the sidelines. grist.org As President-elect Donald Trump takes direct aim at federal climate policy, states and

The Independent (2025-01-04). Uganda says construction of regional crude oil pipeline on course. independent.co.ug KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | The construction of a 1,443-km crude oil pipeline between Uganda and neighboring Tanzania is on schedule, Ugandan Minister of Energy and Mineral Development Ruth Nankabirwa said on Thursday. The civil works of the 3.55-billion-U.S.-dollar East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) between the oil wells in Albertine Graben in western Uganda …

UMMID (2025-01-04). 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.

UMMID (2025-01-04). 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…

APR editor (2025-01-03). Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year. asiapacificreport.nz Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor's analysis. COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain Vanuatu's devastating earthquake and dramatic political developments in Tonga and New Caledonia at the end of 2024 set the tone for the coming year in…

aljazeera (2025-01-03). Climate Change: Youth Voices. aljazeera.com On The Stream: We hear from young activists on their journey to educate and help tackle climate change.

Charles Rotter (2025-01-03). 'I get a kick out of Nigel Farage': Jordan Peterson on Reform and why net zero is unconservative. wattsupwiththat.com Jordan Peterson speaks to Spectator editor Michael Gove about the 'idiot blandishments of net zero'. He describes how setting a target at 'zero' dooms you to the futile pursuit of perfection, why Nigel Farage could be the answer to the preoccupation with 'the climate apocalypse', and whether Kemi Badenoch might put right some of the Tories' less 'conservative' policies.

Natalie Donback (2025-01-03). Traditional weather forecasting is slow and expensive. AI could help. grist.org

Josh Frank (2025-01-03). Amazon's Global Warming Counterweight Threatened. counterpunch.org Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ecosystems have deteriorated much faster than ever before. This is happening at geological breakneck speed. Nothing is normal any longer. What's going on? The Amazon rainforest

Andrew Korybko (2025-01-03). The Political Consequences Of Ukraine's Decision To Cut Off Russian Gas To Europe. pressenza.com Russia and the EU will manage the latest phase of their US-instigated divorce without much difficulty, but the US might offer to bring them back together by authorizing its vassals' import of Russian pipeline gas in exchange for some concessions from the Kremlin in the energy sector and Ukraine. | Pundits are discussing Ukraine's decision to cut off Russian gas to Europe after Kiev

UMMID (2025-01-03). 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…

Maryanne Demasi (2025-01-03). FDA Lab Uncovers Excess DNA Contamination in COVID-19 Vaccines. globalresearch.ca An explosive new study conducted within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) own laboratory has revealed excessively high levels of DNA contamination in Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. | Tests conducted at the FDA's White Oak Campus in Maryland found that …

Paul Street (2025-01-03). Manufacturing Consent 101: The New York Times and "What [NOT] to Know" About the Genocide in Gaza. counterpunch.org Listen for the silences in the imperialist press. Last Saturday's New York Times included a story it billed online as "What to Know About Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis." The Times relayed some of the horrific suffering being inflicted on the people of Gaza. It reported that Israel's bombs have "turned [Gazan] cities into rubble-filled wastelands" and

EcoWaste Coalition (2025-01-03). EcoWaste Coalition Urges Black Nazarene Devotees to Manifest their Faith in a Litter-Free Manner. pressenza.com 3 January 2025, Quezon City. As devotees flock to the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno for the First Friday Mass of 2025, an environmental watchdog group appealed to the faithful to join in making the upcoming Traslacion on January 9 litter-free. | The Traslacion, which commemorates the transfer of the revered image of the Black Nazarene from Intramuros to Quiapo way back in 1787, is expected to draw massive crowds in a powerful manifestation of the Catholic faith. | Here are some images of the Traslacion: | "We appeal to all the devotees to manifest their gratitude, affection, and trust t…

Tik Root (2025-01-03). How Elon Musk could end fossil fuel subsidies. grist.org President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to upend the federal government, and he has enlisted firebrands Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him do it. The two men are set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency and aim to trim $2 trillion from the U.S. budget. | That's about one-third of all federal spending, and the pair also believe they can cut the government workforce by 75 percent. In announcing the office, known as DOGE, Trump said that "these wonderful Americans" will "dismantle" bureaucracy, "slash" regulations, cut "wasteful" expenditures, and "restructure" agencies. Ramaswamy <...

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