“Dramatically carved into the landscape of a Sumatran oil palm plantation that borders one of the world’s most unique rainforests are three ominous letters: SOS. “The message stretches half a…
Environment
-
-
What will we say when hundreds of millions of climate refugees show up at the border during a global food crisis, demanding to be let in?
by admin“They found that, under all the same assumptions, 12.5 percent of the global population would be forced to migrate at least 1,000 kilometers, and up to a third of the…
-
Waste from electronics, particularly cell phones and computers, comes from many places—from Europe and the United States to South America, Asia, and Africa—and ends up in developing countries. Is this…
-
-
London’s first plastic-free, zero-waste shop opened this month. Take a look inside the store and read the motivations of the owner: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/bulk-makert-recycling-zero-waste-first-plastic-free-market-london-hackney-a7924781.html [Photo credit: Sylvie Tittel, Unsplash.com.]
-
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]
-
Satellite data confirms ‘calving’ of trillion-tonne, 5,800 sq km iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf, dramatically altering the landscape! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/02/what-happened-next-to-the-giant-larsen-c-iceberg [Photo credit: Anders Jildén, Unsplash.com.]
-
Our friends at Grassroots International are organizing a Palestine Climate Justice project that recently brought together French, German, and Palestinian farmers to share information and focus on cross-cultural solidarity. In…
-