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02/08/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson arrives to take part in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Aug. 1, 2023

As Canada rolled out a host of climate policies aimed at the fossil fuel industry, Shell sat down with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson to discuss the fate of its massive LNG project on the West Coast, documents reveal.

02/08/23
Author: 
Ann Garrison
Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Jul 31, 2023

Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines - Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Following is an interview conducted by Ann Garrison with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.

02/08/23
Author: 
Joel Stronberg, originally published by Civil Notion
photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash
July 31, 2023

As if we needed more reminders of the impacts of Earth’s warming, it’s being reported:

that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets.”

23/07/23
Author: 
Phoebe Weston
A stag takes a drink at Dülmen wildlife reserve in Münsterland, Germany, on a sweltering day this summer. Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy

Jul 21, 2023

After hottest day ever, researchers say global heating may mean future of crop failures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans

Successive heatwaves threaten nature’s ability to provide us with food, say researchers, as they warn of an “unseen, silent dying” in our oceans amid record temperatures scorching the Earth.

23/07/23
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Firefighters try to control a wildfire in New Peramos, near Athens, Greece. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

 

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.

23/07/23
Author: 
Paul Hockenos
Left: Mockup of a the top third of a small module reactor made by NuScale, the only SMR developer with a design approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Visual: Courtesy of NuScale/Oregon State University/Flickr

"Even if the unlikely rollout of SMRs eventually happens, it will unfold too late to curb the climate crisis. . . . . .  Meanwhile, the siren song of nuclear energy is diverting critical resources from the urgent task of building out clean technologies."

Jul 20, 2023

23/07/23
Author: 
Telesur
President Nicolas Maduro (C), July 20, 2023. | Photo: Twitter/ @NicolasMaduro

Jul 21, 2023

Since 2011, the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela has been providing decent homes to low-income families at a low cost or free of charge.

On Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro delivered to Venezuelans house number 4,600,000 built through the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV), a social housing program that the Bolivarian revolution has promoted for 12 years.

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