Coastal Cities Sinking Faster than Predicted
Facing a flooded future, the world’s vulnerable coastal cities will undergo sea-level rise worse than previously understood, according to a new corrective report by Climate Central. As a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising
Published : 29 October 2019
Israel Turns Palestinian Village into Settler Park
Israel Is turning an ancient Palestinian village into a national park for settlers The unbelievable story of a village outside Jerusalem: from its destruction in 1948 to the ticket issued last week by a parks ranger
Published : 25 October 2019
Israel-destroyed Palestinian J’lem Homes in 2019
Israel has demolished a record number of homes in occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, the most in the past 15 years, Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday. More than 140 Palestinian homes were demolished, resulting in
Published : 25 October 2019
USA: Island Returned to Indigenous Owners
Eureka returns an island to a tribe nearly 160 years after a massacre California is in a moment of long overdue reckoning with the state’s original sin: the blood-soaked treatment of the people who inhabited
Published : 22 October 2019
20 Firms Emit a Third of All Carbon
New data show how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can
Published : 09 October 2019
Palestine/Israel: Forest Arises from Desert?!
Questions are raised about a forest that rises from the desert Israel has cultivated Yatir Forest, which has been hailed as a green refuge in the Naqab, helping to fight climate change. Scientists worldwide are calculating
Published : 30 September 2019
Israeli ‘Reforestation’ as Settlement Policy
Munich’s Jewish Museum calls Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry State-run institution uses loaded term to describe afforestation near Beersheba; employee protests the use of ‘anti-Semitic imagery’; JNF Germany: Display ‘painful, intolerable’ Following an Israel-related controversy that forced
Published : 30 September 2019
Quiet, Cruel Population Transfer in Hebron Hills
Demolition of Palestinian homes – last week’s excuse was to create Israeli “nature reserves,” this week a “firing zone” – causes now-homeless Mahmoud Hamamdi to ask, “Who is the terrorist: the one who builds a
Published : 27 September 2019
Call to Annex Jordan Valley Spurs Ruinous Rampage
Down in the Jordan Valley, the cruel wheels of the Israeli occupation keep on turning. Shortly after Netanyahu announced his plan to annex the Jordan Valley, the Israeli authorities arrived at hilltop olive groves owned
Published : 20 September 2019
