Climate Change

Nations Must Triple Efforts to Reach 2°C Target, Concludes Annual Review of Global Emissions, Climate Action

Human Wrongs Watch – UN Environment It is still possible to keep global warming below 2°C, but the technical feasibility of bridging the 1.5°C gap is dwindling. Global CO2 emissions increased in 2017, after a three-year period of stabilization. If the emissions gap is not closed…

30 November 2018 · 4 min read

English

Travel Boycotts Will not Fix Myanmar

By Jessica Loudis — The Nation

By Jessica Loudis* – The Nation The country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is vexing tourists, but not enough to stop the violence In 2014, the New York Times travel section published a feature on Myanmar. Declaring it was the Southeast Asian country’s “moment,” the writer…

29 Nov 2018 · 7 min read

English

Marine Waste is Turning the Earth into a Plastic Planet

By Busani Bafana

By Busani Bafana* NAIROBI, Nov 2018 (IPS) – Africa risks being the worst plastic-polluted place on earth within three decades overtaking Asia, says a continental network calling for African contributions to solving the growing threat of marine waste. “Plastic pollution is real…

29 Nov 2018 · 5 min read

Climate Change

Trump administration will try to ‘ignore’ its own climate change report, say environmental experts

Coral Davenport – The Independent US US president regularly questions science of human-caused global warming and is working to encourage burning of coal The Trump administration is widely expected to discount or ignore the findings from its own climate change report as it…

28 Nov 2018 · 5 min read

Armed conflicts

Gunboat-diplomacy risks a new conflagration between Russia and Ukraine

Analysis by Roland Oliphant* – The Telegraph If you were to looking for a time to re-ignite the slumbering conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Sunday would have been a good choice. With European leaders preoccupied with Brexit and the president of the United States silent…

28 Nov 2018 · 3 min read

Democracy

Has the United States Been Fighting the Wrong War in the Middle East?

By Andrew J. Bacevich — TomDispatch

Bacevich* -TomDispatch.com/ The Nation What does President Trump’s recent nomination of retired Army general John Abizaid to become the next US ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothing—and arguably quite a lot.

27 Nov 2018 · 10 min read

Environment

Indigenous Leaders are Calling for New Global Agreement to Protect Amazon

By Rabiya Jaffery

By Rabiya Jaffery SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 27 2018 (IPS) – Leaders of Amazon’s indigenous groups are calling for a new global agreement to protect and restore at least half of the world’s natural habitats. The Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin…

27 Nov 2018 · 4 min read

Democracy

If Trump is cornered, the judges he disdains may finally bring him down

Walter Shapiro* – The Guardian The president thinks justice only matters as it affects him. As his defenders fall away, he may find this all too painfully true A rational president, who had just bludgeoned Brett Kavanaugh onto the supreme court, would not jeopardize the…

26 Nov 2018 · 4 min read

Climate Change

Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America

By Daniel Gutman

By Daniel Gutman “In the south, Argentina had the worst drought in 50 years this year, after crops had been lost to flooding the previous year. And in the Caribbean, Dominica’s entire agricultural crop disappeared from the map in 2017 because of devastating hurricanes.” — Julio…

26 Nov 2018 · 5 min read

Human Rights

No Excuse for Myanmar’s Treatment of the Rohingya

By The Editorial Board

By The Editorial Board (*) – The New York Times A plan to send the stateless Muslims back to Myanmar has been halted for now. But the cruelty and injustice endure.

23 Nov 2018 · 3 min read