The shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, believed to be the first environmental defender killed in the US, is the culmination of a dangerous escalation in the criminalization and repression of those who seek to protect natural resources in America, campaigners have warned. The death of the 26-year-old, who wasContinue Reading
In some ways, this year’s UN climate summit held in Egypt was all about food. In the context of crop failures and food insecurity, due to extreme weather and dwindling diversity, as well as rising food prices exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the tight grip of corporate monopoliesContinue Reading
Every second in America, over 1000 bottles of water are opened, and over 85% of those bottles are not recycled. This brings the problem of one of the most neglected issues not just in America, but in the world. But before these bottles are even opened, they contribute to theContinue Reading
The date for a key UN nature summit has finally been confirmed after more than two years of delays and amid fears momentum to halt biodiversity loss across the globe has been lost. Ahead of the latest round of negotiations in Nairobi this week, the UN convention on biological diversityContinue Reading
The Federal Court recently quashed a duty of care owed by the environment minister to Australian children, to protect them from the harms of climate change. The duty was attached to Australia’s federal environment law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. In reversing the decision that had establishedContinue Reading
Cyber attack on LED Display. getty Earlier this year I wrote a FORBES article called “Alarming Cybersecurity Stats: What You Need To Know For 2021.” Alarming Cybersecurity Stats: What You Need To Know For 2021 (forbes.com) It included an assortment of stats on the increase in threats to our digitalContinue Reading
The alarming numbers on plastic pollution in the world’s oceans are translated into gentle embroidery in this novel art project If you understood the facts, they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true. This line from the 2003 novel Blind LakeContinue Reading
