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Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to know

What We Must Protect Maxwell Radwin -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Key Ideas: Global Witness’s latest annual report shows that at least 196 people were killed last year...

On the Linkage Between Indigenous Rights and Democracy

What We Must Protect Christian Riffel -
Click here to view original web page at news.google.com We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are (anonymous) Introduction I wish...

Climate refugees are the invisible victims of the climate crisis

What We Must Protect Theodota Nantsou and Konstantinos Vlachopoulos -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu It is time to open a discussion on Europe’s role in ...

The $91 billion wasted on nuclear weapons last year could transform ecosystem restoration (commentary)

What We Must Protect Melissa Parke -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Nuclear weapons have caused much damage to the environment and are the only devices ever created...

Calgary’s water emergency is just the start

What We Must Protect Meg Sears -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com Three recent events drew attention to something people rarely think about until it’s too late —...

What’s the difference between Indigenous nations co-managing or co-stewarding their land? A lot.

What We Must Protect Taylar Dawn Stagner -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” For a decade,...

Explainer: What You Must Know About Climate Change and Blue Carbon

What We Must Protect Aishwarya Bajpai -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The coastal ecosystem protects us, feeds us, and could be ...

Why Protection & Participation of Children Must be Elevated at the UN Summit of the Future

What We Must Protect Kul Gautam and Dr. Mustafa Y. Ali -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net KATHMANDU / NAIROBI, May 31 2024 (IPS) - The United Nations will hold the Summit ...

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

What We Must Protect Elizabeth Devitt -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com The Arctic and Antarctic are changing rapidly in response to global warming, with scientists striving to...

‘For them, it’s money. For us, it’s life’: Grassy Narrows’ 60-year legacy of poison

What We Must Protect Brandi Morin -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media The land guardian knows the intricate layout of his territory inside out. Mike Forbister, like his...

Report ranks 60+ ideas, including geoengineering, to save the Arctic

What We Must Protect Jeremy Hance -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Given that the serious impacts of climate change are rapidly escalating, some scientists, backed up increasingly...

Taking Big Oil to court for climate homicide isn’t that far-fetched

What We Must Protect Kate Yoder -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk...

Detaining migrants in prisons violates human rights and risks abuses

What We Must Protect Jessica Evans and Linda Mussell -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The Canadian government recently proposed earmarking $325 million in the 2024 federal budget to upgrade federal...

Protecting public health care from private equity investors

What We Must Protect Dr. Danyaal Raza -
Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com Private equity ownership of the places where we seek care risks undermining cost, quality, access, efficiency,...

New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms

What We Must Protect Sonam Lama Hyolmo -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com In the face of growing demand for critical minerals, Indigenous organizations developed a guide to help...

Global Governance: Time for Reform

What We Must Protect Andrew Firmin -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net At last the UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in...

International Women’s Day, 2024 Why Legal Equality Is Key to Women’s Economic Rights and Well-Being

What We Must Protect Antonia Kirkland and Bryna K. Subherwal -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The following opinion piece is part of series ...

Microscopic plastics could raise risk of stroke and heart attack, study says

What We Must Protect Ian Sample -
Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com Scientists link tiny particles in blood vessels with                         substantially higher risk of death Doctors have warned of...

UN Environmental Assembly Call for Action to Address Planetary Triple Threat: Climate, Nature Loss, Pollution

What We Must Protect Maina Waruru -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) ended with delegates calling for firm actions to address...

Hydro Power’s Conundrum: Rising Demand in a Drier Climate

What We Must Protect Andrew Nikiforuk -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Central to low-carbon economic plans is an electricity source threatened by drought. As the climate crisis increases...

Communities must own their health data

What We Must Protect Jemal Demeke -
Click here to view original web page at www.wellesleyinstitute.com Institutional and legislative measures exist to offer protection for our personal information. But traditional data governance...

We must not allow our country to become a news desert

What We Must Protect Marie-Ève Martel -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org (Version française disponible ici) Despite some relief measures, the agony of Canada's news outlets continues. ...

Atlantic Ocean headed for a tipping point − as melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, expect extreme climate change within decades

What We Must Protect Rene van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra and Michael Kliphuis -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. That’s how the blockbuster Hollywood...

The war in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s education and knowledge systems

What We Must Protect Chandni Desai -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip began. Last...

Indigenous Zenù turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

What We Must Protect Monica Pelliccia -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com In response to last year’s record-breaking heat due to El Niño and impacts from climate change,...

The Quebec Government’s Plan to Kill English Universities

What We Must Protect Toula Drimonis -
Click here to view original web page at thewalrus.ca McGill University has been an integral part of Montreal’s landscape since its founding in 1821, but...

Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’

What We Must Protect Adam Morton and Graham Readfearn -
Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com Study after study showed the breakdown of climate systems taking place much earlier than foreseen,...

From Ontario to Panama, Indigenous communities are rising up to resist Canada’s mining industry

What We Must Protect Owen Schalk -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media Around the world, Indigenous-led resistance to mining and extraction projects have been intensifying, and it is...

Canadian scientists are still being muzzled, and that risks undermining climate policy

What We Must Protect Alana Westwood, Manjulika E. Robertson and Samantha M. Chu -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Environmental scientists in Canada continue to be stifled in their ability to conduct and communicate their...

Earth on ‘devastating trajectory’ to global tipping points. But there’s hope.

What We Must Protect Elizabeth Claire Alberts -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A new report on global tipping points warns of imminent serious disruptions in major ...
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