18 August 2010
Russia's raging wildfires - a crisis of government policies
DOZENS HAVE died in fires, thousands have drowned, hundreds have been arrested in the last month as the environmental crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicentre in Moscow, writes Rob Jones, Moscow.
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17 August 2010
Pakistan Flood disaster: Appeal for workers' solidarity
The Progressive Workers Federation (PWF) and Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) urge all our brothers, sisters and comrades in the international trade union movement to show their solidarity...
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4 August 2010
Stop the Cardiff incinerator
Nearly 100 local residents and campaigners turned out at the end of July to lobby the Environment Agency (EA) against granting environmental permission to waste management company Viridor's proposed Cardiff incinerator, writes Edmund Schluessel.
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4 August 2010
Profiting from wrecking the environment
AN OIL trading company has been fined £840,000 after being convicted for concealing the dangerous nature of toxic waste which was subsequently dumped in the Ivory Coast in 2006, causing thousands of people to fall ill, writes John Sharpe.
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume chart from PIOMAS |
30 June 2010
Challenging the global warming sceptics
"The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans", the Guardian reported on 22 June, writes Pete Mason.
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24 June 2010
Global warming - do you want the good news or the bad news?
"The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans" the Guardian reports (22 June 2010)...
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9 June 2010
Oil spill shows hazards of the profit system
IT IS still difficult to assess the scale of the disaster that followed the explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on 22 April, which killed eleven workers, writes Pete Dickenson.
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Extent of surface oil slick on May 24 2010, photo NASA |
2 June 2010
Oil spill is 'worst environmental disaster' to hit US
THE OIL spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the fatal explosion on the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig has exceeded the Exxon Valdez catastrophe of 1989, when eleven million gallons of crude oil devastated the pristine Alaskan coastline...
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19 May 2010
Fast news
New records: AS 'NICE' Dave Cameron and 'corporal' Clegg cheerfully announced the immediate slashing of £6 billion in public spending (involving thousands of public sector job losses), the latest employment figures showed that unemployment is now at its highest level since 1994...
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Gulf of Mexico oil spill spirals towards New Orleans, photo NASA Earth Observatory image |
12 May 2010
Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants
AFTER THE explosion which sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causing eleven deaths and threatening an environmental catastrophe, many people must be wondering what is to be done with the oil companies - not least the relatives of the workers killed in the explosion, writes Pete Mason.
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