NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *Extreme Rainfall Events in India Related to Human-made Emissions *Journalist investigating illegal sand mining killed * India Produces 100 Billionth Unit of Renewable Energy in a Year *’Extreme’ fossil fuel investments have surged under Donald Trump *China Has Met Its 2020 Carbon Target Three Years Early *Saudi Arabia Planning World’s Biggest Solar Panel Installation…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #178
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *India seeks to change forest policy to promote industrial plantations *Modi govt to amend labour laws *India has world’s highest inhabitants without safe water *Centre clears ambitious Neutrino Lab *Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2017 *93% of Bottled Water Tainted With Microplastics *California aims for world’s most progressive farm animal welfare law…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #177
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *Water level in 91 reservoirs at 36% of total live capacity *Indian govt calls for studies on climate change goals *Arctic has warmest winter on record *UN to recognise human right to healthy environment *Coke, Nestle Near Ownership of World’s Second Largest Aquifer *Latin American countries sign legally binding pact to protect land defenders…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #176
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *World’s largest solar park launched in Karnataka *Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India *Two-thirds poultry farms in India use antibiotics to boost growth *Arctic changes point to onset of climate tipping points *South Africa votes to confiscate white-owned land without compensation *Peru moves to create huge new indigenous reserves in Amazon…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #175
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *Global warming to breach 1.5 degree limit: IPCC *170 million Americans drink radioactive water *Seychelles creates huge marine parks *India opens coal mining to private companies *India weighs doubling of protected areas *Jharkhand Tribals Create ‘Independent’ Area Near Ranchi *India’s Rs 6,000-crore plan to recharge groundwater *30 per cent of world’s organic producers Indian…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #174
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *All mining leases cancelled in Goa *Mumbai air quality worse than Delhi’s *SBI wrote off bad loans worth Rs 200 billion in FY17 *Scientists discover 1.6 million tonnes of Mercury found in Arctic *Ozone-layer not recovering over populated areas * German cities to trial free public transport *US to become world’s largest oil producer…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #173
Mural by 'Green Flower'
Culture/Cognition
Most courses on energy deal with it in an instrumentalist manner, as if it were another substance that humans can tap and use for their benefit. Platform for Sustainability and Equity and Ecologise are pleased to announce an online course that places energy at the centre of all transformations— abiotic, biotic and in human society….
Read More about Ecologise Foundation course in Energy and Energetics of Nature and Human Society
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *India’s budget ignores environment and climate change *India ranks 177 out of 180 in Environmental Performance Index *Study: India’s farmed chickens dosed with world’s strongest antibiotics *China’s Emissions: More than U.S. plus Europe, and still rising *Almost 4 environmentalists a week killed in 2017 *Air pollution linked to ‘extremely high mortality’ in mental ill…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #172
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *Over 300 manual scavengers died in 2017 *India ranked among lowest in green ranking, inclusive development *No clearance to power plants if they don’t follow norms: MoEF * Gurgaon lost 389 water bodies in 60 years *New global biodiversity registry *Cape Town to run out of water *Peru declares a huge new national park…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #171Uncategorised
https://monthlyreview.org/2018/09/01/making-war-on-the-planet/
Read More about Making War on the Planet: Geoengineering and Capitalism’s Creative Destruction of the Earth
NEWS ARCHIVE
HIGHLIGHTS: *New York will divest $5bn in fossil fuel-linked money, to sue oil majors over global warming *Air pollution caused 1.1 million deaths in India in 2015 *One-fifth of India consumes water with high arsenic content *It’s snowing in Sahara Desert! *World’s Richest Made Another $1 Trillion in 2017 *World’s biggest wildlife reserve planned for Antarctica…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #170
NEWS ARCHIVE
The Guardian reports: Ocean dead zones with zero oxygen have quadrupled in size since 1950, scientists have just warned, while the numbers of very low oxygen sites near coasts have multiplied tenfold. Most sea creatures cannot survive in these zones and current trends would lead to mass extinction in the long run, risking dire consequences….
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #169
NEWS ARCHIVE
In a gazette notification released by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, the Modi government has decided to completely disregard environmental clearances required for hydro-electric and mining projects, in addition to relaxing stricter laws implemented during the UPA-2. INDIA Modi govt dilutes environmental clearances for hydro-electric and mining projects National Herald In…
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #168
NEWS ARCHIVE
As of December 7, more than 300 coal power plants across the country are still violating emission standard norms that were given by the MoEFCC in 2015. But despite being given two years to implement these norms, the Ministry of Power and the power industry, are attempting to push the dates further by 5-7 years….
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #167
NEWS ARCHIVE
CEOs whose businesses commit environmental crimes can now be tried in the International Criminal Court. The ICC is looking to clamp down on land grabbing, where multinationals take over large areas of foreign land to exploit its natural resources without benefiting the local inhabitants. The move could reshape how business is done in developing countries….
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #166
India Today
Conflict/Dispossession
Whoever wins the Gujarat elections, its clear that as a political idea, the Gujarat development model is floundering, and may never be revived. It may have been a textbook case of what development should not be like, but given the powerful interests it serves, it’s still likely to haunt India’s policies for years to come….
Read More about The Gujarat Model – An obituary and a warning
NEWS ARCHIVE
Vox.com reports: The Danish green energy company Ørsted, partnering with Edelman Intelligence, has commissioned the largest-ever global survey of opinion on energy, surveying a whopping 26,000 people across 13 countries, ensuring that at least 2,000 demographically representative respondents were reached per country. Long story short: The whole world wants more green energy (and less coal)….
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #165
NEWS ARCHIVE
A small group of companies across the world is responsible for one-third of global annual emissions, revealed Thomson Reuters. Coal India tops the list of 100 businesses with the highest CO2 emission. Two other state-owned Indian companies feature in the list: NTPC and ONGC. The only privately-owned Indian company in the list is Reliance Industries….
Read More about NEWS UPDATE #164
