I. INTRODUCTION The Philippines faces a climate crisis despite contributing very little to global emissions. While the global narrative is that renewable energy is important for climate action, the...
By Timothy Mihocik / Mongabay On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor...
By Hyeyoon Cho / Mongabay The Mojave Desert may look like a flat, brown stretch of nothing between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. But threading through its rocky mountain ranges is an intricate network of...
Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there’s still time to reverse course. The Aral Sea...
By Mankh / Musings from Between the Lines (“George Washington, Surveyor” – Henry Hintermeister. Wikimedia) It only took almost 250 years for the full circle beginning of the disintegration of...
“MANILA — United States Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg personally inspected the future site of an artificial intelligence or AI-native industrial hub at the New Clark...
By Laura Lee Cascada / COUNTERPUNCH Fish farming, a form of aquaculture, is now the fastest-growing form of factory farming worldwide. This rapid expansion can be attributed to the...
By Isa de Fluiter / diggit magazine In recent years, heritage practices across Europe are being looked at more critically as people try to come to terms with their colonial history. In the...
‘What Israel effectively has been doing is creating a dead zone’ Much as the U.S. sprayed agent orange on Vietnam, warfare repeats itself. Such tactics are in line with a “legacy of colonial...
By Lyle Lewis / Mongabay The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness was part of the original class of lands designated under the United States’ 1964 Wilderness Act: 1.3 million acres, or about 526,000 hectares...
The Global Shockwaves of the Iran–Israel–US Conflict When bombs fall in the Middle East, the world feels it — not just through news reports, but in skyrocketing energy bills, rising food prices...
“To be an Enemy of America is Dangerous but to be a Friend is Fatal.” This is another reason why the United States should sign UNCLOS and not act unilaterally to permit deep sea mining in areas beyond...
By Bob Berwyn / Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News (hyperlink to the original story), a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy...
CFC replacements cause vast ‘forever chemical’ pollution – new research Lucy Hart, Lancaster University and Ryan Hossaini, Lancaster University When the phaseout of ozone-destroying...
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has...
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life...
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021). https://www.brightgreenlies.com By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic Axis of Logic exclusive Monday...
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate...
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in...
Editor’s note: Wealth inequality is higher in the Empire than in almost any other “developed” country and has risen for much of the past 60 years. The Black-white wealth...
Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism” On March 3, the largest civil disobedience action in recent Norwegian history came to an end. 16 Sami activists occupied the lobby...
Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our time. By Prof Jem Bendell / living with metacrisis and collapse Many of us are lucky that societal collapse is still only a concept. It...
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes...
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Solomon Kahoʻohalahala steadied himself on the double-hulled voyaging canoe called...
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these tribes. “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter...
By Human Rights Watch and ACLU / Cultural Survival (Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United Statesgovernment’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated...
The “Thacker Pass Six,” sued in 2023 following protests, include a disabled Paiute spiritual elder, a Shoshone mother of four, and a Tribal attorney. WINNEMUCCA, NV — Six people who were...
Dean Barlese, elder and spiritual leader from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, prays at Thacker Pass (known as “Peehee Mu’huh” in the Paiute language) on April 25th, 2023 during a non-violent action...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thacker Pass Protectors File First-Ever “Biodiversity Necessity Defense” in Nevada Court Also pursuing “Climate Necessity Defense” and making allegations that mining company has...