At least 169 people have been killed after a powerful Super Typhoon Rai struck the Philippines on Thursday with winds about 120 mph ( 195km/h) made 300, 000 people on the run for safety. There were fears widespread landslides and flooding may have claimed more lives. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…
Rescue workers from the National Guards from six states Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missoroi, Mississippi and Tennessee, are desperately searching for survivors scouring through the rubbles in Kentucky. 100-year-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church in Kentucky was destroyed in seconds by the tornado. Over hundred people have died in Kentucky including dozens in a candle factory,…
Rescuers in the district of Lumajang are searching for survivors amid devastation of the Semeru volcano eruption killing 14 and several dozens injured. Indonesia: Eastern Java villages engulfed in hot ash as Mount Semeru erupted.
Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…
Brazil, China, Canada, Russia, Indonesia, the US, the UK and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was among the signatories on Tuesday to reverse deforestation by 2030. The pledge includes almost £14.4 bn ($19.2bn) of public and private funds, although the previous deal in 2014 had “failed to slow deforestation at all”, and in fact deforestation…
COP26 in Glasgow begins today with delegates from 200 countries attending to heed the warnings for the future if urgent climate action is not taken. With the effects of global warming due to fossil fuel emissions caused by humans scientists warn urgent action is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe. Boris Johnson, the UK Prime…
Back in 1800s the human race have worked out more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the more the Earth’s temperature will rise, as the global warming had begun and there should be striking changes in the climate unless it burned less carbon releasing fossil fuels. Its use of coal, oil and gas continued to boom,…
At least one person has died as tree fell over his home in Ascension Parish, in the Baton Rouge area. Ida is testing flood defences strengthened after Hurricane Katrina killed 1, 800 people in 2005, on the 16th anniversary of Katrina a category three storm. Over 1 million loses power in New Orleans as Hurricane…
This is the story of jeans from cotton plant nested in the soil to the flares hanging in your wardrobes. A revealing book about the birth and death of jeans that exposes the fractures of our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves and the planet. Did you buy your jeans on…