In the summer of 2021, villagers of northern Mozambique’s remote and troubled Afungi peninsula sought refuge with government soldiers operating out of a nearby TotalEnergies’ gas plant. Instead, they found brutality. Read our full investigation: www.politico.eu/article/tota...
The Indian govt is currently pushing through a mega project in the lush rainforests of Great Nicobar island that is home to two tribal communities: the Nicobarese & the Shompen. A Nicobarese anthropologist speaks at length, criticising multiple aspects of the project article-14.com/post/nicobar...
As the union government calls for proposals to cut nearly a million trees in a pristine rainforest in Great Nicobar island in the Andaman Sea to build a port, international airport, town, tourism reso...
I wrote some 7,000 words about #Hezbollahwww.hauntologies.net/p/hezbollah-...#Lebanon#Israel#Palestine
Possible antidote to toxic positivity www.abc.net.au/religion/rob...
Hope has never been part of my motivation to act in the world. I know that hope is important for most people, but it is not necessary for everyone — and it has never been relevant to my life.
I’m not alone noticing the exorbitant elevation of positivity as the single permissible feeling at this year’s climate week. @amywestervelt.bsky.socialdrilled.ghost.io/on-climate-w...
Last week was New York Climate Week, which happens alongside the UN General Assembly every year, or as I overheard one person describe it: the UNGA games. I've never participated in Climate Week, but ...
"Kathmandu is situated in a bowl-shaped valley surrounded by five mountain ranges." Highest daily rainfall in more than 40 years causes deadly & devastating floods & landslides in Kathmandu😢 www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
More than 400,000 homes and shops overwhelmed in low-lying areas in Kathmandu
This is a post I wrote this time last year, about how the instinct for those of us in the keyboardy professional climate spaces to immediately hand-wring about "optics" around climate protest results in us hugely helping right-wing authoritarian pro-fossil forces
Australian state governments are cracking down on climate protest. They need your solidarity and your voice now more than ever
British-Egyptian blogger, coder, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah should be released tomorrow, but Egyptian authorities do not plan to release him until 2027. EFF joined 58 digital and human rights organizations calling for his immediate release timep.org/2024/09/25/a...
The Egyptian-British writer and activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, must be released on Sunday September 29 at the end of his five year prison sentence, in accordance with Egyptian law, a coalition of 59 Eg...