Water, Climate, Conflict & Migration: Coping with 1 Billion People on the Move by 2050

HAMILTON, Canada, Jun 8 2020 (IPS) – Do migrants willingly choose to flee their homes, or is migration the only option available?

There is no clear, one-size-fits-all explanation for a decision to migrate — a choice that will be made […]

Source: With Much of the World’s Economy Slowed Down, Green Energy Powers On – The New York Times

Electricity from the East Anglia One turbines flows through a Scottish Power substation and then onto land. Credit…Suzie Howell for The New York Times

After a two-hour boat trip from Lowestoft, a seaside town on the east […]

Source: Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time

On June 20, in the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle, a heat wave baking the region peaked at 38 degrees Celsius — just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. In a world without climate change, […]

Source: Five U.S. Communities in Search of Environmental Justice – EcoWatch

Across America, Five Communities in Search of Environmental Justice

 Inside Climate NewsJun. 23, 2020 08:54AM ESTCLIMATEA house in “Cancer Alley,” which stretches from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants and other chemical industries reside alongside […]

Source: These Louisiana activists are facing ‘terrorizing’ charges for a stunt they pulled 6 months ago | Grist

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Early Thursday morning, two activists who have opposed a planned $9.4 billion petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, were arrested for “terrorizing” an oil and gas lobbyist connected to the Taiwanese […]