Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response.
… Indian climate migration after Covid-19 Jessica Faleiro | … Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response. Climate …
The construction of the Don Sahong Dam in Laos PDR must be halted until full information on the project's impacts - in particular the fate of millions of fish that migrate each year through the Hou Sahong channel now being dammed - has been published, writes the Save the Mekong Coalition in this open letter sent today to the project developers.
… location in an area critical to Mekong fish migration, the potential impacts of the … strategy for mitigating direct fisheries migration impacts will be guided by the MRC … ongoing monitoring of fish species and their migration patterns. Recent studies on the …
The more EU politicians try to look in control of the Mediterranean refugee emergency, the more it's obvious they aren't, writes Assaad W. Razzouk. A key driver of the crisis is climate change, which is causing drought across North Africa. Europe must now tackle the root causes of the crisis, and admit its own culpability in precipitating it.
… camps in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. This migration pressure from so many Middle Eastern … fire is on top of one of the key drivers of migration from Africa to Europe via … given that climate change is a key factor in migration and in amplifying and worsening …
The illegal trapping of birds on Cyprus is taking place on an industrial scale, writes Jamie Wyver, and the biggest hotspot is on a British army base where over 800,000 birds were killed last year. It's time for the British and Cyprus governments to confront the criminals, clear the acacia bushes in which the birds are trapped, and close the illegal restaurants serving them as 'delicacies'.
… here, and the importance of the area for migration, make this a significant …
Thanks to Andy Hall's investigations of abuses of migrant workers in Thailand's fish and pineapple industries, a criminal trial begins today in Bangkok - his own. He faces eight years in prison and a $10 million fine for exposing their crimes in a devastating report that has inspired international action against the companies involved.
… the food industry. I have even acted as a migration advisor for a number of major food … widespread and systematic in Thailand. Thai migration policy has always been a shambles , … of power are all encompassing features of the migration system here, every day experiences …
The world is facing the imminent threat of severe climate disruption from the warming Arctic, write Robert & Jack Hunziker, leading to a global crisis. But the response of the powerful is only to increase fossil fuel exploitation - and damn the consequences.
… "The nexus between climate change, human migration, and instability constitutes ... a … Werz and Max Hofman in 'Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict, The Arab Spring and … as well as urbanization and international migration contributed to the pressures that …
The illegal killing of songbirds on the UK's military base on Cyprus has reached record levels, a study by RSPB has shown, with an estimated 900,000 birds trapped, killed and eaten in autumn 2014.
… to resolve it before this autumn's migration. "Such extensive illegal activity …
Water scarcity and mis-management in India are creating a significant human and ecological crisis that will only be worsened by climate change
Coca-Cola just part of India’s water ‘free-for-all’ Tom Levitt | 4th December 2009 News Climate Change Politics And Economics India Water india2.jpg Coca-Cola uses enough water everyday to meet the …
A charge of 'criminal defamation' against Andy Hall, the Finnwatch migrant labour researcher who revealed the plight of migrant food sector workers in Thailand, was dismissed today. But with another three civil and criminal cases pending, he's back in court tomorrow.
… widespread and systematic in Thailand. Thai migration policy has always been a shambles , … of power are all encompassing features of the migration system here, every day experiences …
The real nature of war and its impacts on people and environment can only be understood through its ecology, surgeon Gus Abu-Sitta tells Andre Vltchek: the causes of conflict, the dynamics that sustain it, the corporate and strategic interests bent on its perpetuation, the deliberate destruction of health provision, and the repeating cycles of infection, injury, poverty and human misery which have become a permanent reality for uncounted millions.
… and dismantling of the state, and the migration of some 50% of Iraq's doctors. Where … is happening in Syria, with regards of the migration of their doctors. Syria will undergo … the disintegration of these states and the migration of people to the regional centers. …
Plans for a new international airport in the coastal city of Mumbai will destroy yet more of its mangrove ecosystems, and there are fears the deal has already been closed
Mangroves vs airport: Mumbai's development battle Ambika Hiranandani Tom Levitt | 1st June 2010 News Aviation Airport India Politics And Economics Climate Change mangrovesindia1.jpg Plans for a new …
To reduce the pressure on the world's productive land and to help assure long-term food security, writes Herbert Girardet, city people are well advised to revive urban or peri-urban agriculture. While large cities will always have to import some food, local food growing is a key component of sustainable urban living.
… around cities. In countries where rural-urban migration is prevalent, many people become …
The world's big cities are choking with pollution and endless traffic jams, writes Colin Todhunter - except one. Copenhagen, faced with these problems half a century ago, decided to act. Now it is showing the world that cycling is not just the basis of a sustainable transport strategy, but is key to making our cities clean, green, human and livable. May the global revolution unfold ...
… the crisis in farming and associated rural migration to energy concerns and an expanding …
As the Brexit negotiations begin, a coalition of grassroots food and farming organisations today launch ‘A People's Food Policy' calling for England to develop a more progressive food policy in advance of leaving the EU. Scotland is already in the process of adopting national food policies and is currently developing a ‘Good Food Nation Bill', while England has yet to make any progress
… reported on in the context of Brexit, while migration restrictions are set to have an …
Meeting global targets to end hunger by 2030 could be challenging given a recent increase in food insecurity exacerbated by conflict and environmental degradation. CATHERINE EARLY reports.
… inequality, political instability and forced migration were all damaging food security. …
We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way the food systems work, says Carolyn Steel
… for example. Today, the notion that mass migration from rural to urban areas is both … is itself often the consequence of urban migration. In many places, living in the …
A revival of the traditional Kachchhi handloom could be a shining example of how India could tackle its severe livelihood, ecological, and cultural crises.
Weaving transformations Ashish Kothari | 18th April 2019 News India Crafts Traditional Skills jaishree_habubhai_at_her_loom_adhoi_village_ashish_kothari_smaller_size.jpg A revival of the traditional …
Human existence relies on healthy soils, writes Jane Rickson. But all over the world they are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
… to sealing of soil surfaces, as well as migration of workers away from agricultural …
Dam builders have a new mantra, writes Tom Fawthrop: 'sustainable hydropower'. Repeated at every opportunity, it is based on the unproven idea that large dams can be made 'sustainable' by promising future 'mitigation'. And so it is at the Don Sahong dam in Laos which is about to devastate the mighty Mekong and the 60 million people who depend on it for food and livelihood.
… that will block the main artery of fish migration between the two countries. …
Talking with hunters in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.
'When the saplings are this tall' Sartaj Ghuman | 6th December 2018 News Arunachal Pradesh Hornbill Hunting India Thought Leaders img_20181109_165953.jpg Talking with hunters in the mountains of …
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
The future is agroecology Colin Tudge Graham Harvey | 6th January 2014 Comment Food Farming clover-and-fescue.png The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming …
Global heating is contributing to forest fires, and those fires are stoking further heating: a deadly cycle. What can we learn from India's forest survey?
… impact productivity, species population and migration, the occurrence of pests and …