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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 ...

Health care is Job One for the Ontario government. Shouldn’t they be better at it?

What We Must Protect John Michael McGrath -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca ANALYSIS: The auditor general’s annual report is a stark reminder ...

The hospital crisis: No capacity, no plan, no end in sight

Health and Well-being Doug Allan -
Click here to view original web page at ochuleftwords.blogspot.com While Canada has achieved universal public healthcare coverage, that does not mean conservative forces have given...

Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of extinction, study says

What We Must Protect Joseph Howlett -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A new study estimates that nearly half of the world’s known flowering plants are threatened. Scientists built...

For Every Child, Every Right—Delivering Psychosocial Support for Crisis Impacted Children

What We Must Protect Joyce Chimbi -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net NAIROBI, Nov 20 2023 (IPS) - As the global community marks World Children’s Day, every child...

New AI model gives bird’s-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale

What We Must Protect Abhishyant Kidangoor -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com An artificial intelligence model is helping researchers use bird-sighting data to estimate their presence at a...

Climate change threatens the North Atlantic’s currents, ecosystems and stability (commentary)

What We Must Protect Pitamber Kaushik -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a vital component of the Earth’s global ocean circulation,...

The Global Energy Transition: Human Rights Risk

What We Must Protect Gary Horvitz -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This is the fifth in a series of articles addressing the global energy transition as an...

Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights

What We Must Protect Sarah Brown -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Brazil’s Supreme Court voted against the highly controversial time frame proposal, a legal challenge that would...

The people of Ecuador just made climate justice history. The world can follow

What We Must Protect Steven Donziger -
Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com Voters won a huge battle with the oil industry – proving that we can’t save the...

The evidence is clear: we can’t afford privatized health care

What We Must Protect Danyaal Raza and Hasan Sheikh -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca Instead of asking about more privitzation we should ask: why does Canada continue to fall behind...

Fifteen Lessons from ‘Bracing for Disasters’

What We Must Protect Francesca Fionda -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca The drive from Squamish southeast to Abbotsford, which can take around two hours, passes through a...

Wildfire evacuations: How our diverse experiences can strengthen disaster response

What We Must Protect Maureen G. Reed, Amber J. Fletcher and Heidi Walker -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Wildfire affects us all. Differently. This is the central message from research about the social dimensions...

We only have one planet left to save

What We Must Protect Guido Montani -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions ...

Rights of Nature, Self-Owning Land, and Other Hacks on Western Law

What We Must Protect David Bollier -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The idea that the Ganges River in India or the Amazon Basin in Brazil should have...

Copyright exceptions in Canadian education aren’t a loophole, they’re essential to learning

What We Must Protect Stephanie Savage and Jennifer Zerkee -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Recent op-eds about Canadian copyright law call on the Canadian government to stop allowing uncompensated copying...

Antarctic warming alters atmosphere, ice shelves, ocean & animals

What We Must Protect Juliette Portala -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com The world’s latest record-high temperatures are increasingly putting Antarctica’s role in regulating global climate and ocean...

Europe’s top science panel supports call for moratorium on deep-sea mining

What We Must Protect Elizabeth Claire Alberts -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com The European Academies’ Science Advisory Council has announced its support for a moratorium on deep-sea mining. In...

World’s Protected areas store a year’s worth of COâ‚‚ emissions, study reveals

What We Must Protect Sean Mowbray -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Researchers analyzed never-before-used satellite data to calculate how much carbon is stored in protected areas worldwide. The...

For-Profit Takeover of Medicare Is a Massive Scam: Lessons from U.S.

What We Must Protect Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Last year, the federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying private insurers for Medicare Advantage plans —...
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