2024-06-29: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2024-06-29). More contaminated water released from Fukushima. ecns.cn Japan began its latest discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Friday, despite opposition from home and abroad.

Eric Toussaint (2024-06-29). Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer's apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF. cadtm.org

Leon Kunstenaar (2024-06-29). Protest Against Legalized Insurance Blackmail. indybay.org How insurance companies profit by worsening the climate crisis.

Tina Landis (2024-06-29). California's community solar program undermined by for-profit interests of utility companies. liberationnews.org Under capitalism, community-solar microgrids are a threat to private utilities' profits. In the end, ensuring continued profits for the ruling elite outweighs implementing real climate solutions in any meaningful way.

EcoWaste Coalition (2024-06-29). Groups Champion Children's Environmental Rights amid the Triple Planetary Crisis. pressenza.com 28 June 2024, Quezon City, Philippines. As the effects of the triple planetary crisis of climate emergency, collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution are brought to light, civil society groups called on duty-bearers, governments and industries in particular, to take decisive measures that will protect and advance children's environmental rights with the meaningful participation of children and their supporters. | At a webinar held on June 27, 2024, child and adult leaders of child rights-focused and environmental rights-focused non-government organizations spoke as one in pushing for the human right of al…

Robert Hunziker (2024-06-29). Antarctic Ice Melt — New Sobering Studies. pressenza.com It was only two years ago that studies of the infamous Thwaites Glacier, aka: the Doomsday Glacier located in West Antarctica, found rapid melting. At the time, scientists said it was "hanging on by its fingernails." (Source: 'Doomsday Glacier' Which Could Raise Sea Level by Several Feet, is 'Hanging by its Fingernails,' Scientists Say, CNN, September 6, 2022) | Since that warning was issued, the planet has vastly exceeded global warming expectations. A new study raises the bet on sea level rise, maybe by a lot. The study warns that the Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a "new, worrying way" that scientific model…

tvbrics (2024-06-29). Tunisia prepares its first biennial transparency report by the end of 2024. tvbrics.com The country is adapting to the impacts of climate change…

Tamara Lucas (2024-06-29). Perspectives] Nicole Redvers: Indigenous health scholar. thelancet.com Nicole Redvers, Director of Indigenous Planetary Health and Western Research Chair at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, London, ON, Canada, brings important Indigenous perspectives to research on planetary health and climate change. "When I was a clinician back in my home region, one of the reasons I got into this work was because I'm from the sub-Arctic, and we're experiencing three to four times the global temperature rise rate compared to the rest of the planet…And the effects are unprecedented, amplified within the last 4 or 5 years, but we've seen the changes for over 20 ye…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-06-29). Can music help someone with Alzheimer's disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, which is a term used to describe a group of symptoms that affect memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily function. As many as 5.8 million people in the U.S. were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And this number is…

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