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 …
Record global temperatures in 2015 and 2016 are causing a humanitarian crisis that is more than double that of conflict as a cause of displacement and migration, the WMO stated today. Heatwaves, flood, drought and fires are all contributing to the declining food and water security affecting over 60 million people worldwide.
… November 2016 News Climate Change Science Un Migration COP22 fort-mcmurray-fire-cut.jpg … of conflict as a cause of displacement and migration, the WMO stated today. Heatwaves, … According to International Organisation for Migration, population migration is expected to …
The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned. Jo Adetunji reports.
… food are more of a health concern than any migration of chemicals from the packaging." …
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 …
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. …
As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in giant, fast-rotation flocks and and adapt to poultry that tens of thousands of human handlers care for and process every day, the emergence of a deadly human-specific flu becomes ever more likely, writes Robert G. Wallace. The industry can no longer blame wild birds for the problems it is creating - and must urgently reform its own practices.
Deadly bird flu strains created by industrial poultry farms Robert G. Wallace | 30th January 2017 News Health Farming Birds Science poultry-farm-cut.jpg As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in …
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 …
Temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa could reach unbearably high levels by mid-century, writes Tim Radford - and then keep on rising. The intolerable heat would render large areas uninhabitable and give rise to a wave of 'climate refugees' seeking escape to more temperate regions.
Searing heat may spark Middle East, North Africa climate exodus Tim Radford | 17th May 2016 News Climate Change Middle East Africa Science desert-cut.jpg Temperatures in the Middle East and North …
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 …
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 …
The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences.
Air pollution making honey bees sick Barbara Smith Mark Brown | 11th August 2020 News Bees Science Systems Insects Pollution Pesticides Bee The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on …
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 …
Science is to corporate science as Hyperion to a satyr, writes Ralph Nader. And there is no better example of this than Monsanto's realm of GMOs, biocides, super-aggressive lawyers and tame regulators - brilliantly exposed in this new book of essays, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber.
… up refusal to disclose. Research on the migration of genetically-modified pollen from …
The conflict between lions and Africa's cattle herders goes back centuries, write Grant Hopcraft and Sara Blackburn - and lions have been the big losers in recent years. But where local people benefit from ecotourism, that ancient enmity can quickly be set aside. 'Community conservancies' around formal protected areas are helping both lions and indigenous communities to survive and thrive.
… who share them with the great annual migration of over a million wildebeest and …
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 …
New research warns that rising temperatures will reduce the mountain snow in 97 major river basins worldwide, writes Tim Radford - cutting summer water supply to 2 billion people in lowland areas who depend on the meltwaters.
… consideration future population growth or migration. "Total human population - and …
A new study explains for the first time how nanoparticles like those in diesel exhaust fumes cause heart disease by lodging in inflamed blood vessels, writes Oliver Tickell. The study, published as the UK government is ordered before the High Court to justify its refusal to publish plans to tackle illegal air pollution which afflicts 38 million people, also raises wider fears about 'engineered nanoparticles' in the environment.
As government delays pollution plan, study shows how killer nanoparticles cause heart disease Oliver Tickell | 26th April 2017 News Science Pollution Health UK Law Technology …
The link between nuclear power and cancer is real, writes Chris Busby, and revealed in the UK's cancer statistics - if only you look for it. Previous approaches have focused on rare cancers over large, poorly selected populations. But look at common cancers among those most exposed to nuclear radiation, and the statistical evidence is overwhelming.
Breast cancer and nuclear power - statistics reveal the link 'they' wanted to hide Chris Busby | 18th May 2015 News Health Nuclear Energy UK Science …
The BBC has been excelling itself in its deliberate understatement of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, writes Chris Busby. While calling in pseudo experts to say radiation is all but harmless, it's ignoring the science that shows that the real health impacts of nuclear fallout are around 1,000 times worse than claimed.
No matter what BBC says: Fukushima disaster is killing people Chris Busby | 14th March 2016 Comment Japan Nuclear Radiation Health Science fuku-water-sampling-cut.jpg The BBC has been excelling …
The corporate war on traditional farming is nowhere fiercer than in India, writes Colin Todhunter. After decades of the 'Green Revolution' that have impoverished the nation's soils, water, biodiversity and cultivators alike, agribusiness is poised for its final strike. But now the small scale farmers who produce most of the country's food are rediscovering ancient agroecological alternatives.
… depletion, increasing disparities, rural migration to urban areas resulting in …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
Neoliberal Ebola: palm oil, logging, land grabs, ecological havoc and disease Rob Wallace | 27th July 2015 News Food Farming Ecology Health Forests Science conakry-guinea-cut.jpg The outbreak of …
The lives of all the thousands of badgers slaughtered in the name of TB eradication have been lost in vain, writes Martin Hancox. The cryptic reservoir of bovine TB is the cattle themselves, and no amount of badger killing will make the slightest difference to the problem. Once we have grasped this reality the solution is astonishingly simple: improved TB testing that picks up all infected cattle.
Alas poor Brock! The insanity of the badger cull Martin Hancox | 27th May 2016 Comment Badgers Science Natural World Farming UK Health badger-cut.jpg The lives of all the thousands of badgers …