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US Bans Toxic Pesticide on Food Crops

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, in response to a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, banned use of the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops, 14 years after public interest groups first filed a petition calling on the agency to do

The IPCC Report & the Pivot from Covid to Climate

The latest IPCC report on climate change was released last week, and has signalled a sea-change in the ongoing “big issue”.

Cambodia: China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Dam is a Rights Disaster

(Bangkok) – A large-scale, Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia, completed in 2018, has undermined the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Indigenous and ethnic minority people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Lower Sesan 2 dam, one of Asia’s widest dams, flooded large areas upstream

Supply Chain Laws to Fight Deforestation Must Back Indigenous Rights

Efforts to save the world’s forests could soon get a boost from proposed laws in the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States to restrict the import of agricultural commodities linked to deforestation. These three markets’ consumption of such products is a driver of a quarter of

Will the Year of the Cow End with a Mu?

If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time.

UK Leaves Out Pregnant People from Heat Health Warnings

As the UK bakes in record-setting temperatures, its meteorological service issued its first-ever extreme heat warning this week.

The Personal Responsibility Vortex

Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary theorist and member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College.

German Flood Deaths Highlight Climate Change Risks for People with Disabilities

On July 15, twelve people with disabilities living in a group home drowned in floods in Sinzig, Germany, because they did not manage to evacuate in time.

The Organic Human: An Endangered Species

Licnese via Adobe Stock Ever since I offered my 2-year-old daughter a banana in a playgroup & she yelled at the top of her voice for some unfortunate reason, “IS IT ORGANIC?!” I’ve had an aversion to the word organic. I groaned inwardly as everyone else’s eyebrows nearly left

Brazil’s Amazon Governors: Deliver Results to Secure Support

(São Paulo) – The governors of Brazilian Amazon states should take immediate measures to deliver on their pledges to curb illegal deforestation, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Germany: Inaction on Heat Plans Threatens Health

Germany has delayed putting into action its plans to address increasing heat waves linked to climate change, threatening public health, Human Rights Watch said today.

Climate Action Must Take into Account Women’s Right to Land

On a rainy day in April 2018, I rode a small speedboat along the Kapuas River in West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, headed for three tidal swamp villages, whose residents had protested against the expansion of oil palm plantations on their farmland and settlements. The government had permitted a palm oil

Cambodia: Free Environmental Activists

(Bangkok) – The Cambodian government should immediately drop baseless conspiracy and “insulting the king” charges against four environmental activists affiliated with the Mother Nature Cambodia environmental group and release the three in pretrial detention, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 16, 2021, the police arrested Sun Ratha, 26, Ly Chandaravuth,