Animal rights protesters have set up blockades at four McDonald’s distribution centres across Britain, which they say will affect about 1,300 restaurants. Activists from Animal Rebellion used trucks and bamboo structures to blockade distribution sites at Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood from about 4.30am on Saturday, the group said. The group wants McDonald’s to
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22 May 2021
Animal rights activists blockade McDonald’s distribution centres across UK – video
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22 May 2021
Q&A: Reflecting on Five Years of Educating Children in the Throes of Crises, Emergencies and Displacement
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Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Executive Director Yasmine Sherif pictured here during a visit to a refugee site in the village of Modale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Sherif says that with mental health and psychosocial support, along with several other components, children in crisis situations can be empowered to make it through the difficult
20 May 2021
The relationship between climate conditions and consumption of bottled water: A potential link between climate change and plastic pollution
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Publication date: September 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 187 Author(s): Oscar Zapata
19 May 2021
China’s Firms Gain a Foothold in South America as Energy Providers
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Chinese companies have been gaining increasing access to the electricity grids of South American countries. Credit: Bigstock. By Cecilia Joy-PérezWASHINGTON, May 19 2021 (IPS) Over the past decade, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from China have carved out a niche as owners and operators of electric utilities in South American countries through acquisitions of energy grids. As
19 May 2021
Ecosystems services research in action: reflexively valuing environments in the South Pacific
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Ecosystem services (ES) are heralded as an approach that communicates across disciplines and between researchers and resource managers, encouraging more environmentally sustainable human behavior. However, most studies presuppose that “values” are ontologically distinct from “ecosystem services” without examining what this framing enables and occludes about human and other-than-human relations. Through a reflexive research approach, we
19 May 2021
Climate crisis to put millions of British homes at risk of subsiding
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Drier summers mean the ground in vulnerable areas will be more prone to shrink and crack, scientists say The climate crisis is very likely to put millions of homes at increased risk of subsidence, according to new data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). The hotter and drier summers being driven by global heating mean
19 May 2021
Doing more with less: Provisioning systems and the transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus
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Publication date: September 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 187 Author(s): Christina Plank, Stefan Liehr, Diana Hummel, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, Christoph Görg
18 May 2021
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
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Urban water managers face numerous challenges, including limited natural resources for maintenance of technical infrastructure, changing demography, and dramatic environmental degradation. Although the vision of the “water-sensitive city” helps to develop tools and strategies toward more sustainable urban water systems, it does not consider biodiversity effects. We therefore aimed to determine habitat provision or habitat
18 May 2021
Large Corporations Cash in on COVID-19 Relief Funds
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The large part of COVID-19 relief funds is going to big corporation. People who are likely to have been impacted the most by the pandemic in the Global South, such as smaller businesses, marginalised communities, women, and those in poverty, have been left out. Credit: Dionny Matos/IPS By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA , May 18 2021 (IPS)
18 May 2021
UK climate champion ‘stubbornly optimistic’ about net zero deal at UN talks
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Nigel Topping acknowledges world is running out of time as he lobbies businesses and lawmakers in lead-up to Cop26 summit The UK’s climate champion, Nigel Topping, says he is stubbornly optimistic that the world will converge on an agreement to forge a transition to a net zero future at the UN climate talks later this