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(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55082645)The battle to save a biodiversity hotspot in India
Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.www.bbc.com
Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.www.bbc.com
Economic Globalization....
A fish served in a California restaurant was caught illegally on a Thai fishing vessel manned by slaves. A t-shirt bought in Germany was sewn in a Bangladeshi sweatshop, where workers labor in unsafe conditions for starvation wages. The rising consumption levels of India’s middle class are contributing to climate chaos thousands of miles away, while the hunger of Americans for consumer goods from China is exacerbating the Chinese air-pollution crisis...These are just a few of the many faces of the global economy.
Corporate-friendly think tanks and media outlets promote the idea that economic deregulation has made the world into one global village, defined by the free flow of ideas and technology, international collaboration, interdependence, and a worldwide sense of community.
But the reality falls far short of this ideal. Our global economic system is so large and complex – with producers and consumers, CEOs and workers, and cause and effect all far removed from each other – that ethical choices become almost impossible, and environmental and human rights disasters all but inevitable.
It can be challenging to make sense of the workings of a system that is so vast, out-of-control, and deeply ingrained into the fabric of our daily lives. But the global economy can be understood, by starting with its origins in European colonialism, moving through its key drivers and structural elements, and tracing its consequences for people and the planet.
#Economic #Globalization #media #deregulation #technology #CEO #environment #colonialism #corruption #conspiracy #fraud
World first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
#energy #environmentWorld first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process…newatlas.com
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process…newatlas.com
As many as half a million of these barrels could still be underwater right now, according to interviews and a Los Angeles Times review of historical records, manifests and undigitized research. From 1947 to 1982, the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT—a pesticide so powerful that it poisoned birds and fish—was based in Los Angeles#ddt #environment #LA
Not far from Santa Catalina Island, in an ocean shared by divers and fishermen, kelp forests and whales, David Valentine decoded unusual signals underwater that gave him chills.phys.org
#FridaysForFuture: Global #Protest on Sep. 25.
https://peertube.uno/videos/watch/6403e143-f030-469f-80af-1d87782490e3
#environment #nature #earth #pollution #climate #future #humanity #FFFPeerTube: Tic Toc... scendi in piazza! (Fridays For Future Italia)
, #USA! Now that I know I've got your fucking #strontium in my bones I despise your asshole government even more than I did before.
#pollution #environment #health #leukemia #cancer #America #atomicbomb
reshare from @Emmanuel Florac‘I’ve never seen or heard of attacks’: scientists baffled by orcas harassing boats | Whales | The Guardian
#environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/13/the-tale-of-the-killer-whales
Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what is causing such unusually aggressive behaviour?www.theguardian.com
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #camping, #environment, #freelancewriting, #hiking, #music, #politics, #psychrock, #socialissues #history #arts.
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #camping, #environment, #freelancewriting, #hiking, #music, #politics, #psychrock, #socialissues #history #arts.
Fibreglass fuelled a boating boom. But now dumped and ageing craft are breaking up, releasing toxins and microplastics across the worldwww.theguardian.com
Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study
Rising temperatures are set to cause particular devastation in poorer, hotter parts of the world that will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions that will kill increasing numbers of people, the research has found.
The economic loss from the climate crisis, as well as the cost of adaptation, will be felt around the world, including in wealthy countries.
#climate change #environment #world #rising temperatureRising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research findswww.theguardian.com
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research findswww.theguardian.com
Dogs may use Earth’s magnetic field to take shortcuts | Science | AAAS
Dogs are renowned for their world-class noses, but a new study suggests they may have an additional—albeit hidden—sensory talent: a magnetic compass. The sense appears to allow them to use Earth’s magnetic field to calculate shortcuts in unfamiliar terrain.#science #wildlife #animals #environment #natureDogs may use Earth’s magnetic field to take shortcuts
GPS-equipped hunting dogs take a curious north-south jog, which seems to help them get their bearingswww.sciencemag.org
Dogs are renowned for their world-class noses, but a new study suggests they may have an additional—albeit hidden—sensory talent: a magnetic compass. The sense appears to allow them to use Earth’s magnetic field to calculate shortcuts in unfamiliar terrain.#science #wildlife #animals #environment #nature
GPS-equipped hunting dogs take a curious north-south jog, which seems to help them get their bearingswww.sciencemag.org
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Couple Spends 20 Years Planting an Entire Forest and Animals Have Returned
https://mymodernmet.com/sebastiao-salgado-forest/
Make #love not #CO2
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#environment #climate #protest #politics #economy #future #fff#FridaysForFuture #earth
Sensors detect rise in #nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says
One of its stations scanning the air for radionuclides - telltale #radioactive particles that can be carried long distances by the wind - detected unusually high levels of three radionuclides earlier this week: caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103....... covering the tips of Denmark and Norway as well as southern Sweden, much of Finland, Baltic countries and part of western Russia including St Petersburg.Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-idUSKBN23X2TN
#RUSSIA would never try to cover up a nuclear incident, would it?
#fail #news #environment #politicsSensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says
Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.www.reuters.com
One of its stations scanning the air for radionuclides - telltale #radioactive particles that can be carried long distances by the wind - detected unusually high levels of three radionuclides earlier this week: caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103....
... covering the tips of Denmark and Norway as well as southern Sweden, much of Finland, Baltic countries and part of western Russia including St Petersburg.Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-idUSKBN23X2TN
Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.www.reuters.com
Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged With “Terrorizing” for Nonviolent Stunt Targeting Plastics Giant
#environment #justice #theintercept
posted by pod_feeder_v2Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged With “Terrorizing”
The two environmental activists face 15 years of prison in the latest instance of the criminalization of dissent.theintercept.com
The two environmental activists face 15 years of prison in the latest instance of the criminalization of dissent.theintercept.com
‘Collapse of Civilisation is the Most Likely Outcome’: Top Climate Scientists - Resilience
#politics #environment #climate #collapse
#pollution #covid19 #environment #education #waste #garbage #mask'More masks than jellyfish': coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabedwww.theguardian.com
A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabedwww.theguardian.com
Green is the Color of Money - YouTube
via Art For Culture ChangeGreen is the color of money. From 2010. We've known for a long time we are on the wrong path. And yet here we are, still on the wrong path.
#green #greenwashing #environment #pollution #logging
