Apr 15, 2021 | Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Social Media News
GJEP partners with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute on Wednesday and an Earth Watch interview on Thursday. Devlin Kuyek is a researcher at GRAIN, a small international non-profit organisation that supports small...
May 26, 2020 | COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News, Deforestation, Forests, Honduras, Rainforest, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs, Videos
TRUMP’S EPA WANTS TO WEAKEN SCIENCE-BASED RULES FOR TOXIC AIR POLLUTANTS (24 MAY 2020) Truthout: Ethylene oxide is a particularly dangerous chemical that’s both extremely flammable and potentially highly toxic to humans. Just a brief exposure to enough ethylene oxide...
Apr 14, 2020 | COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Featured, Social Media News
Photo: Church/GJEP Why We Shouldn’t Push for a Closure of China’s ‘Wet Markets’ Earth Island Journal 13 April 2020 Latoya Abulu The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and I’m off to a so-called “wet market” in Shanghai. Now that extensive measures during what the...
Mar 27, 2020 | COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Social Media News
Photo: The Keesing Lab Dr. Felicia Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, U.S.A., received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species,...
Mar 26, 2020 | all other, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, COVID19 & Indigenous Peoples, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Indigenous man. Espirito Santo, Brazil, November 2005. Tupinikim and Guaraní peoples cut down a plantation of eucalyptus trees owned by Aracruz Celulose to rebuild this village in its traditional location. The village had been forcibly removed to make room for the...