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Enviroment and climate change

As climate displacement increases, migration myths fuel fears

10th Feb 2021 Equal Times 0

Wave by wave, Saint-Louis is slowly but steadily sinking beneath the rising ocean; the waters that once provided the northern Senegalese city with sustenance now threatening its […]

Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”

25th Jan 2021 Equal Times 0

We may all be in the same boat, but not all of us have access to the lifeboats. This expression, borrowed from the Cameroonian economist […]

Argentina at an energy crossroads: the role of trade unions in building a just transition

14th Dec 2020 Equal Times 0

Argentina is at a crossroads. The repercussions of the pandemic look set to worsen the socio-economic crisis already looming over the country and are having […]

In desperate search of disposal sites for its nuclear waste, Japan offers poisonous grants to two small villages

12th Nov 2020 Equal Times 0

One morning in September, 87-year-old retiree Masao Takimoto was reading the newspaper in his house in Kamoenai when a news story captured his attention, ruined […]

Trade unions and civil society are pushing for ambitious climate action in Scotland

5th Nov 2020 Equal Times 0

As Glasgow prepares to host COP26, the UN climate summit in November 2021, Scotland will take centre stage in the global power struggle surrounding if […]

How the little-known Energy Charter Treaty is holding environmental policy hostage

7th Sep 2020 Equal Times 0

Is it possible to take urgently needed action on climate change while simultaneously protecting the fossil fuel industry, the very cause of climate imbalance? Today, […]

Is the EU locking into natural gas despite its promise to lead the global phase-out of fossil fuels?

10th Mar 2020 Equal Times 0

At the north-western tip of Krk, Croatia’s largest island and a top tourist destination, a jetty is being built and pipes are being laid down […]

Can the European Union lead the world’s ecological transition?

29th Jan 2020 Equal Times 0

The European Union is in a green state of mind. Last December, the new president of the European Commission placed the fight against climate change […]

As well as climate action, young people across the world are calling for climate education

27th Jan 2020 Equal Times 0

Despite the staggering inability of world leaders to come up with any meaningful response to the global climate emergency at the COP25 in Madrid (relocated […]

Feminist agroecology is taking on the agribusiness model in Argentina

17th Jan 2020 Equal Times 0

Argentina, where around 60 per cent of the arable land is planted with genetically-modified soya, has become one of the countries where the agribusiness model […]

Can humanity rise to the challenge of finding just solutions to the threat of coastal erosion?

5th Dec 2019 Equal Times 0

How long will the fight last? Water is eroding land all over the world, threatening people’s lives and livelihoods, especially those living along the coastline. […]

African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst

2nd Jul 2019 Corey J.A Bradshaw Enrico Di Minin 0

Social and economic changes in Africa are being driven by increasing prosperity and heavy foreign investment. Money has been poured into activities such as road building, forestry […]

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