Rich Nations Fuel Global Biodiversity Loss at ‘disproportionate’ Scale
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 of the Oil and Energy Department, and over 1,500 demonstrators attended in Oslo, including around 100 activists partaking in the occupations. Beginning as a […]
Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
Cambodian Environmental Journalist Ouk Mao Arrested
BANGKOK — Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao, whose reporting on illegal logging has seen him attacked both physically and legally, was arrested May 16. Ek Cheat, Mao’s wife, spotted an unmarked white Lexus pull up outside their home in Stung Treng province sometime around midday. Three plainclothes officers entered Mao’s home, handcuffed him and told him […]
Our Humanity Dictates Including Palestine
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 can be our way of understanding the increasing difficulties we experience, or the increasing damage to the natural world, […]
The Philippines Is Going All-in On Transition Minerals
“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 and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but beginning in 2026, the island will become the site […]
Deep Sea Mining Will Turn the Pacific Into a Graveyard
“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 Hōkūleʻa as a 15-foot swell rose and the vessel took off under the midday sun. He had been paddling since dawn along the south shore of Molokaʻi, and his arms […]
$250 Million Investment To Lithium Mine
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 here.” A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million investment to complete construction of […]
Lithium Mine Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
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 Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will extract […]
The Occupation of Palestine
The Occupation of Palestine Start again from the beginning Redazione Piemonte Orientale13.02.25 / Pressenza We are Biellesi per la Palestina libera (Citizens of Biella for a Free Palestine), and we write these words to remind you: something can be done.As Gramsci said—we will return to him later—we must take sides. We must be partisans. […]