Many people living on the banks of rivers in the Amazon rainforest live in stilt houses over the water. Water into which garbage and other waste is dumped – the same water that is used for human consumption, with important consequences on their health, whose magnitude was underlined by the Covid pandemic. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS
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8 October 2021
Pandemic Highlights Urgent Need to Improve Sanitation in Brazil
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6 October 2021
Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
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Credit: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) By Norman SolomonSAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 6 2021 (IPS) It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a “defense” budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets
6 October 2021
Australia must increase 2030 emissions target to help avoid ‘catastrophic’ heating, Samoan PM says
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Fiame Naomi Mata’afa says Australia needs to come ‘come back to climate financing table’ at Cop26 Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Australia needs to increase the ambition of its 2030 emissions reduction target and “come back to the climate financing table” at the looming Cop26 talks in Glasgow, according to
6 October 2021
Planning reform is tearing the Tories apart. But the system is fixable
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It is a truism that Britain needs more houses. As the population has grown, average household sizes have fallen—from four before the Second World War to 2.4 today, the result of greater longevity, more single parents and more independent lifestyles. Much of our housing stock is in the “wrong” place—too many people want to live
6 October 2021
New Education Cannot Wait Annual Results Report Highlights Multiplying Education Challenges for Children & Adolescents Living in Emergencies & Protracted Crises amid Covid-19
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By External SourceGENEVA / NEW YORK, Oct 5 2021 (IPS-Partners) On this World Teachers’ Day, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced it has reached more than 4.6 million children and adolescents (48% of whom are girls) with quality education in more than 30 of
5 October 2021
NSW government faces crucial court challenge to Murray-Darling water plan
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The Nature Conservation Council will argue decision-makers failed to properly consider climate change Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing A groundbreaking case has been filed against the New South Wales government seeking to invalidate an important water sharing plan in the Murray-Darling basin, on the grounds that decision-makers have failed to
5 October 2021
IUCN World Conservation Congress Warns Humanity at ‘Tipping Point’
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President Macron and Harrison Ford among speakers at the Congress Opening Ceremony. Credit: IUCN Ecodeo By Guy DinmoreSt Davids, Wales, Oct 4 2021 (IPS) The world’s most influential conservation congress, meeting for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, has issued its starkest warning to date over the planet’s escalating climate and
4 October 2021
Running homes and cars on electricity alone would save households $5,443 a year, report finds
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A new Australian thinktank says ditching domestic gas and petrol use would slash national greenhouse emissions by a third Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing What would you do with an extra $5,443 a year? Converting all home appliances and cars to run on electricity could eliminate a third of Australia’s
3 October 2021
Making differences legible: Incommensurability as a vehicle for sustainable landscape management
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Publication date: January 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 191 Author(s): Sandrine Allain, Nicolas Salliou
2 October 2021
Queen calls on Scottish parliament to tackle climate change
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Monarch urges MSPs to build ‘fairer and greener future’ as she opens parliament ahead of Cop26 The Queen has urged Scotland’s MSPs to tackle climate change and “help create a better, healthier future” in a speech ahead of the Cop26 climate conference. The Queen also reflected on the “deep and abiding affection” and happy memories