Rethinking a Just Energy Transition and Development
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 challenge is ensuring that the transition is just, sustainable, and beneficial to communities.” The Philippines contributes less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, it […]
Timor Green Pigeon Nears Extinction
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 green pigeons, alive, in a location where the species had never been documented before. Lopes is one of Timor-Leste’s few field ecologists. […]
Solar Project Threatens Mojave Wildlife Corridor
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 wildlife movement that has sustained desert species for thousands of years. Now, scientists and advocates say a solar project approved […]
The Aral Sea Isn’t Just an Ecological Nightmare
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 sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the past […]
George Washington, Jr. and The Full Circle
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 the USEmpire. “The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition; but at an epocha when the rights […]
US Official In PH Inspects Future AI Industrial Hub
“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 City in Capas, Tarlac. Helberg met with Philippine Trade Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo and Bases Conversion and Development Authority President and CEO Joshua Bingcang. The over 1,600-hectare(4,000-acre) […]
The Environmental and Social Impacts of Industrial Aquaculture
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 industry’s emphasis on buzzwords such as “climate,” “conservation,” and “sustainability.” While discussions about land-based farmed animals, such as cattle, pigs, and poultry, are dominated by their impact on […]
Debate Over Colonial Memory in the Netherlands
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 Netherlands, this awareness has become visible especially in urban spaces, where streets, monuments, and buildings continue to have the names of colonial […]
Israel Is Salting the Earth
‘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 practices”. “The very concept of ‘scorched’ or ‘dead’ land is rooted in a colonial tradition of warfare,” Younes said. “Israel has long […]
Invasive Plant Drives Ecological Change
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, of steep river canyons, cold subalpine ridges, dense forest, and weather so unforgiving it shapes everything that survives there. It remains one of the most […]