Category: Ecology
‘They’re killing us’: world’s most endangered tribe cries for help
Original article Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil’s rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá, a tribe of just 355. Survival International, with backing from Colin…
Xolobeni an important victory in a long struggle
On the one side there are big mining companies and politicians who are interested in exploiting the resources of the land and on the other side there are communities and natural habitats which are threatened…
Lazard says ‘inflection point’ reached making new renewables cheaper than existing coal
9th November 2018 By: Terence Creamer Creamer Media Editor A new US study comparing the costs of energy from various generation technologies indicates that an “inflection point” has been reached where, in some cases, it…
A Very Grim Forecast by Bill McKibben
Original Article Though it was published at the beginning of October, Global Warming of 1.5°C, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a document with its origins in another era, one…
In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
(The Conversation) Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change isn’t…